Re: [CH] old sauces

Mary-Anne Durkee (durkee.ch.list@gmail.com)
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:58:59 -0700

Alex

Buy a good brand of nam pla/fish sauce like Golden Boy.  The cheap
stuff like Toparos is dreadful.  Fish Sauce is not stinky like
kapi/shrimp paste.

Mary-Anne
Thai Food Editor
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On 8/16/06, Alex Silbajoris <asilbajo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> In my experience sauces tend to eventually turn brown and go stale, but not
> actually bad.  I'm currently working my way through a bottle of Ralph's
> Righteous that Jim gave me ... um ... I don't know, mayve five or six years
> ago.  It is not as fresh-tasting or bright orange as it used to be, but it's
> still OK to use.
>
> Then, there was that bottle of fish sauce I bought recently, let's just say
> there were still bubbles in the ocean.  Pretty scary when that stuff comes
> up out of the bottle to prowl the cabinet shelf, and the kitchen smells like
> low tide...
>
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