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My DW and I just fin­ished clean­ing the fridge. It had been accu­mu­lat­ing left­overs and almost-empty condi­ment bot­tles since before Christ­mas, and because it was burp­ing out broc­coli gases every time we opened the door, it was time.

DW took Job A, which included decid­ing what to keep and what to toss, as well as wip­ing all bot­tles of drips and stream­ers and rethread­ing all of the cross-threaded lids.

I got Job B, which included dump­ing all off the left­overs into the dis­posal and hos­ing down the shelves and draw­ers. Mine was the fun job. It’s like get­ting to do sci­ence exper­i­ments, run machines, and play with my food all at once.

Along the way, I made the fol­low­ing obser­va­tions:
1. Grind­ing onions in the dis­posal is a bad idea.
2. Grind­ing cit­rus fruits in the dis­posal is a good idea that almost com­pen­sates for #1.
3. Moldy cheese is indis­tin­guish­able from moldy refried beans.
4. It is pos­si­ble to have five open con­tain­ers of sour cream in the fridge at once–and not be able to find any of them.
5. When your DW says, “Ugh, this is the foulest thing I’ve ever smelled: Here, smell it”.…don’t.