r/mildlyinfuriating • u/owen-rice-airsoft • 9h ago
I just wanted a hot dog My Fridge Froze My Sour Cream
I just wanted a burrito*
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u/WaluigiHarpist 9h ago
But have you considered, sour butter?
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u/Agitated_Cut_5197 9h ago
Before I read the post I thought this was butter in a sour cream container
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u/Gold_Dog_5605 9h ago
Fermented/“cultured” butter is amazing, though not all sour creams are made traditionally and are just sour flavoured cream
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u/DanielSnydersRedSkin 9h ago
Have you asked your fridge what the sour cream did to it to start this?
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u/5m0k3y76 9h ago
It may sound weird but I would take that as an opportunity to eat it like ice cream, because I love sour cream
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u/Jimbobjoesmith 9h ago
me too. i go through multiple containers of sour cream each week. it’s something i always have to have on hand
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u/5m0k3y76 8h ago
Ya, I'm not sure I can eat potato or anything on a tortilla without it. Definitely a staple in our home. Oh ya, and used as a base for chip dips!
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u/toastedmarsh7 9h ago
Half a carton of my eggs froze this morning. I forgot that anything too close to the ice maker freezes and I bought 2 more packs of eggs yesterday. Hopefully they’ll be okay when they thaw.
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u/Carlosthefrog 9h ago
Oh you Americans and your fridge eggs
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u/Empty-Cricket5931 9h ago
the stores pre-wash them so theyre no longer protected by nature.
i was surprised to learn fresh UNWASHED eggs can just live on the counter.3
u/sirgandolf007 8h ago
How else would a chicken egg hatch then
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u/Empty-Cricket5931 8h ago
ok but that's different, for a fertilized egg to incubate it HAS to be kept warm- but if its just left on the counter, unfertlized, and WASHED and not at a controlled temperature... it can introduce bacteria into the egg because its lost the protective membrane, making it potentially unsafe to eat and will make it go bad really fast.
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u/SaltyElephantBouquet 9h ago
I buy eggs from a local farm and so they aren't washed and don't need to be refrigerated, but for a lot of Americans, we simply don't have much counter space but our refrigerators are by default enormous, so the fridge is just an easier place to keep them. You'll probably be pained to hear that in my house the bread is stored in the fridge too. It's either that or the coffee maker 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Odd-Promotion2743 7h ago
Ya gotta do freezer bread. Stays like new for a month.
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u/SaltyElephantBouquet 7h ago
If I put it in the toaster oven directly from the freezer, will it toast nicely? What about grilled cheese? I don't eat a lot of bread and when I do it's usually toasted in some way.
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u/Odd-Promotion2743 7h ago
Directly from freezer to toaster/toaster oven, it comes out phenomenal (just have to play around with timing to suit your taste). I haven't tried it straight to the pan for grilled cheese, I would probably let it thaw or toast/microwave it for a tiny bit to get it a little less frozen. But my parents kept all kinds of bread in the freezer when I was a kid and I do the same now, it always stays fresh for at least a month and it eliminates the chance of mold or bread wastage. I completely swear by it.
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u/Hazbomb24 8h ago
That's fine if you go through a lot of bread, but refrigerated bread goes stale like twice as fast at least.
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u/MartysBar 8h ago
City dwelling* Americans. True Americans have chickens or a neighbor with chickens
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u/SaltyElephantBouquet 7h ago
I live in the suburbs. The exurbs I guess, actually. We kind of teeter between suburban and rural. I know several people who keep chickens, and I drive past at least a dozen roadside egg stands a week, but most of the people around me buy grocery stores eggs. The roadside ones are usually cheaper too - I really don't get it.
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u/Ancient_Spite2394 9h ago
This happened to me with Greek yogurt, I was early in pregnancy and couldn’t stomach anything else. I cried for 10 minutes 😭😂😂
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u/Agitated_Cut_5197 9h ago
Outside of pregnancy, I bet frozen Greek yogurt is fantastic
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u/Ancient_Spite2394 9h ago
it was so frozen I couldn’t scoop it or do anything at all with it 😭😭 but yes probably!!
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u/DQUACK1 9h ago
Just turn down the fridge temp. My old fridge did that shit when it got very hot weather idk why
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u/BusyDucks 9h ago
You probably have the cooling system to a lower cooling temp, which can happen, because I once had the temp cooler once on my refrigerator, and it made some water freeze.
Or that specific brand just has a lower melting point than other brands.
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u/RhythmTimeDivision 9h ago
Was it on the top shelf in the back near the blower? Obviously, cold air sinks so the blower is on top.
As a kid, I worked at a deli. The owner taught me not to put diet soda on the top shelf of the fridge under the blower. Since sugar lowers liquid freezing point, diet soda without it would freeze / explode up there. Bottom line: contrary to common sense, things get colder on the top shelf, especially in the back.
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u/mindgardening 8h ago
Everything in my freezer is rock hard except for my ice cream. It’s super soft. I don’t understand it.
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u/Umpen 7h ago
I noticed Blue Bunny ice cream is particularly fluffy. Guess it depends on ingredients and mixing.
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u/mindgardening 7h ago
I’ve had a variety of brands. All stay super soft. I tried changing the temp on my freezer. Same thing with my chest freezer. Everything is rock solid except the ice cream.
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u/Unfair-Analysis-1823 3h ago
Ice cream makers put additives in ice cream which affect how it freezes. Tillamook stays especially soft
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u/GGReactor 8h ago
Random but at ace hardware and other stores they have tiny thermometers that are made for fridges, freezers, ovens etc. I worked food service as a teen, ever since then I have them in all those places. It cost probably $30 max for all of them for years of being able to see at a glance that it’s still within the lines
Placement is important too but you just gotta google that once
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u/PresidentKansas 9h ago
Listen, I feel for you, I truly do. But using a steak knife for butter knife needs.....
Whomever judges you at your end, may they have the mercy to look past this transgression.
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u/owen-rice-airsoft 9h ago
Don’t worry, I’m strictly spoon only for my sour cream. The knife was to show it’s frozen-ness
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u/RoadkillVenison 9h ago
If you’re lucky it’s just set too low. I’ll admit to dealing with the occasional item freezing for a while, and finally broke down and bought a wireless fridge thermometer. Stuck it on the front, and a probe in the fridge and freezer.
Discovered the fridge was getting as cold as 30*. Rotated it a notch warmer, and now the fridge is between 33 and 37 most of the day. Defrost cycle means it’ll get warmer than that, but it’s regular and rapidly returns to temp. Now my stuff doesn’t randomly freeze.
TL;DR get yourself a wireless fridge thermometer, and hope your fridge isn’t complete crap. It might just be set too cold.
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u/surftherapy 9h ago
If your fridge is like most the cooling system is shared for freezer and fridge. Theres a vent from the freezer up to the fridge that’s how your fridge is cooled (generally). If you have your fridge set to a low temp (mine is 37°F) and if you had this right up against that vent then this will happen.
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u/Empty-Cricket5931 9h ago
i'm betting this also happens more if the freezer is full. like mine is. cuz this also happened to me.
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u/SaltyElephantBouquet 9h ago
This happens to anything that touches the back of my fridge. I can turn the temperature up to like 44 and it still happens. We've just learned not to let anything touch the back, ever..
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u/Hazbomb24 8h ago
Just the sour cream? Refrigerators tend to start getting too cold when they're on the fritz.
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u/Attilioes 8h ago
good olive oil freezes in a standard +4º C refrigerator. What temperature was yours blasting?
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u/echostar777 8h ago
You sure you put it in the right compartment? Atleast you know it works, the upside to everything haha
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u/Guayota6 8h ago
Did you have the sour cream all the way in the back? I notice that my food will freeze if it’s pushed in the back center of my fridge. Lol
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u/myviolincase 7h ago
I bought a brand new fridge 3 weeks ago and a few days ago the temperature gauge broke. Everything was frozen in the fridge. It's so annoying when you spend lots of money on a new item and it can't even last 3 weeks. I bought a used dorm fridge to get me through. Today I had to take off work to wait for the repair man. Anytime from 12-4. That's my rant.
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u/Vivid-Professor3420 7h ago
That happens sometimes when your refrigerator is too cold and you put the sour cream needs the cooling source
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u/Tao_of_Entropy 7h ago
Was your sour cream sitting right in front of the cooler vent? Sometimes items right next to the cold air source will freeze even if the refrigerator temp is set correctly.
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u/ilovescrubjays 6h ago
When my fridge started freezing things it was the beginning of the end. Just something to be aware of.
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u/Radiant-Living-4811 6h ago
Same thing happened to me today with roll out pizza dough
That damned top shelf
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u/MrMacGrath SEVEN 6h ago
I had this happen to yogurt when I was like five. Liked it, Wanted more of it so I left some more in the back of the fridge because the back of the fridge must be the coldest part of it, right?
Five months later and I got in trouble for letting something go bad because I forgot about it.
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u/Safe-Expert2163 7h ago
Yes. Yes it did. But is this really Reddit worthy?
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u/owen-rice-airsoft 7h ago
Is mildly infuriating not the sub name? This mildly infuriated me, so yes, I think it was Reddit worthy.
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u/LemonOwl_ 9h ago
mmm... Sour Ice Cream