What is the longest you've left fish in the fridge?
1So, the night before we left for vacation we had sushi. Threw the leftovers in the fridge thinking we'd throw them out the next morning. We forgot. We've been gone since July 7. We're headed home as we speak.
Trying to get a grasp on how terrible it might smell. I was thinking/hoping it might just dry out but now I'm not so sure...
Scale of 1 to 10: One being baby powder, ten being baby diaper, how bad is it going to stink?
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don't open it don't open it don't open it
actually maybe you can flip this into a good situation and make some funazushi (note: that may not actually be a good situation)
It has legs now.
Burn down the house and move.
You totally just brought back this memory of the time I inadvertently infested my entire room with ants!
When I was a young kid my family went out to Red Lobster and it was the first time I had really had grown-up seafood. I remember my aunt ordered the crab legs and I had one and loved it. I thought it was so cool that you had this weird exoskeleton and sweet, delicious crab meat on the inside. I felt so adult and really wanted something to commemorate the occasion so I asked my mom if I could take the crab claw home with me. She probably thought it was a weird request but let me for whatever reason. Being a weird kid I decided to keep it in my room on a bookcase or something and we promptly left on vacation for a few days.
The thing about crab claws is that it's really hard to get all of the meat out of them. Unsurprisingly I walked into a nightmarish infested hellscape. My poor claw trophy was festering with ants as well as most of the rest of my room.
Hope things work out better for you.
@JonT That reminds me of this morning actually -- wife made chicken & dumplings, and one of my dumplings fell onto my plate. I was lazy and fell asleep instead of rinsing it off. Woke up... ANTS!!! I spent a few minutes playing whack-an-ant with the side of my fist, which was fun... but now I'm gonna go home and make sure they are exterminated for good!
Please Periscope this!
Ooohhhh.... sssshhhhiiiiiiii--
You really, really do not want to know...
Just to give you all a quick update. I expected it to smell like this:
When it actually smelled like this:
That's right, it smelled like nothing. It had been in there so long I think it dried out.
@patti Well, that's good news for you, but rather anticlimactic for the rest of us.
@pitamuffin Sorry. :-( Now you all know though. Don't fear the month old sushi.
@patti well I guess I'm happy for you that it didn't smell like Zuul
@patti I feel slightly cheated now and I think you need to let something else nightmarish grow in your fridge for a while.
@JonT Next summer, when I go on a long vacation again. We can even set up a poll if you'd like.
@patti I vote for leaving fish on the counter, not in the fridge, next year.
@patti Maybe it wasn't real sushi. Maybe the protein part was made from soybeans processed in a caustic solution, then formed into a fishlike substance.
No fish, no foul.
@patti This is just a lie from the fishmoldmonster that killed Patti and is now impersonating them on meh.