Tuesday, November 25, 2008

stick a fork in it















This is the fridge fork. The idea, if you haven't quite figured it out, is that you strap the fridge fork onto your jar of pickles/olives/beets/peppadews and then, when you want to fish one out, you have a fork handy to do just that.

And then you stick it back into the holster.

At first glance, this seems like a pretty good idea. Then I start to think about putting a dirty utensil back into the holster (which has how many weeks of dried pickle juice on it?) and I shudder just a bit. (Just a bit though, it's not that upsetting/unsanitary.)
I start to laugh at the thought of spending $6 on one of these and then, I realize, I actually do own something specifically for getting olives out of the jar:















Now, the one I own isn't quite so ornate but the idea is the same. The holes allow the brine to drain out.
Seemed like a good idea at the time since a fair number of olives do get consumed in our household (martinis don't garnish themselves). The reality is that we use the spoon about 10% of the time. The other instances I just can't be bothered to rifle through the drawers to find the thing and using a teaspoon (the kind you stir your coffee with) is much easier.
If I'm feeling really lazy I might just stick my fingers in the jar.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wait, what? Do you garnish your coffee with an olive? That's more disgusting than old pickle juice.

Which reminds me: I just read a "helpful hint" that suggests using pickle juice to make barbecue sauce - once the pickles are gone, of course.

David said...

Pickle juice for barbecue sauce? Sounds like a good idea to me! I wish there were more uses (can it be reused to make more pickles?).

Someone once told me that a shot of pickle juice cures hiccups but that, despite a test, remains unproven.