Our Top Tips for Buying and Storing Spices
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When shopping how do I know that they haven’t been siting on the shelf in store for a year?
I lost my sense of smell last year. I love cooking and don’t know when I’ll be able to smell spices again. I threw away a new bottle of Italian seasoning because it didn’t have any smell. (My friend got it out of trash and passed it around so everyone could see it was fine.) for now, I’ll go by the date.
The big rule when cracking spices, don’t think of your ex while doing so. 😎
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and been unable to tip out as the entirety has moved as a block within the "Plastic" … Egads!!
Popped out quick and bought a new "Bottle" of fresh for my sweet Nana …none the wiser- phew!
Have you ever opened a stored jar of, let's use Ground Ginger as the example,
If I did the sniff test like Jack did with the ginger, I'd be sneezing up a storm.
Great advice (as always from ATK). I'm wondering if there is another alternative to the plastic-lidded spice grinder like the Krups that you show in the video. If you're grinding anything hard, these things add some of the plastic your grinds. I don't worry about that for coffee because with a filter or even a press, little if any of it ends up in my cup. But with spices it goes right into the food. A morter and pestle is ideal but just too tedious for weeknight meal prep. Any ideas?
I just use a small natural bristle brush to clean out the grinder and maybe a damp cloth as well… my brush is round in shape.
Love the rice cleaning tip!!!! 😀
if you are using that crappy grinder for coffee… you are doing it wrong. That is a spice grinder.
Love this. Great tip to date your spices! Thank you. If you think your spice grinder is dirty you should see my coffee grinder! Lol
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mortar and pestle are the best assuming you don't mind the physical work
Can you do a video on the difference between all the different chili sauces because theres a lot of them on the market and it’s hard to tell the difference between Thai sweet chili homemade style chili sauce Hines has they’re own sauce brand chili sauce and a million more I would love some help with this! Love y’all’s videos!
Pestle and mortar?
Non pro tip: put the expiration date on the label with “exp” . Then you don’t have to calculate when it’s done.
I always find your videos to be fun and interesting even if they are covering a subject I thought I knew a lot about. This is one of those. I would be very interested in one covering how long foods stay viable in the freezer, always a concern for me. Keep on making videos and I for one will be watching them. Thank you ——
Ever seen a mortar and pestle? Yea, that what you use it for hahaha! Perfect for pepper!
my top tip is to put the lid back on when you're done and put it in the cabinet. The rest is just you being pretentious.
What are your comments regarding how spices have been found to have heavy metals? (see the new issue of Consumer Reports)
Hi jack
Keep all mine in the freezer
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I'm surprised that there was no mention of using a motor and pestle.
That rice trick didn't exactly do the job. For cracking or pulverizing small quantities of spices, wouldn't a mortar and pestle be the best tool, esp. given the ease of cleaning up?
I find granulated sugar works better than rice.
Jack, clean that grinder. It needs more than just some ground rice (although that's a good tip).
Jack enjoyed smashing those peppercorns a little too much
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Useful video.
LOL… Jack, you made my day with that Ginger sniff test. great video, thank you
Here's a tip, especially for herbs: Miron Violetglass jars block a lot of the wavelengths of light that will degrade your herbs and make a noticeable difference in their longer term freshness. They are sold under different brand names in the US. Infinity Jar is one brand and they're available on Amazon and on their own website. Diligent web searches for 'Miron' may help you find a good deal on them under whatever brand as they are somewhat expensive. Bonus tip: I also vacuum seal my herbs and spices in Mason jars for long-term storage when I don't have enough Infinity jars.
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Awesome tips. Thanks for sharing and making us home cooks better.
Perfect timing, I was just going over all my spices as I'm currently moving.