Yet Another Reason We Love Tabasco Sauce

Why's that, you might ask? Because it lasts for five years when stored in a cool, dry place. Five. Years. The next time you decide to clean out the crap in the back of your cabinets and the stuff that's been lurking in your fridge since who-knows-when, check out this handy guide from the folks at Real Simple. It provides expiration dates for your beer (unopened: four months), dried pasta (one year), vinegar (42 months), or those marshmallows you bought for last winter's hot chocolate (unopened: 40 weeks; opened: 3 months). But don't worry, the Tabasco's won't go for a while -- even more reason to buy the big bottle.

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By Laren Spirer in Food on June 24, 2005 9:57 AM

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William Hagan

The judge who put coded messages in his Da Vinci Code plagiarism trial ruling has written another...

FrankM

This one rocks! ew4n3lo46ery.

martha

You need to try a Bloody Mary with Tabasco and Thai hot sauce. Brilliant when you find Tabasco under some magazines on your living room floor.

Captain Midnight

Tabasco doesn't last that long in my home. I'm a Buffalo wing freak and go through several cups of Tabasco a week. It's really not that hot. Now something like Spontaneous Combustion® sauce lasts a lot longer, even though it only comes in a 5oz bottle. I've had a bottle of that stuff in the fridge for the past three years. A couple of dashes in your bowl of soup is enough to melt your tongue. Forget the exploding mosquito commercial, scientifically measured, Spontaneous Combustion is 50-100 times hotter than Tabasco.

Ticketholders

Funny that you should post this..must be a Friday theme...Z100 did an extended bit about hot sauces this morning and promoted http://www.sweatnspice.com/heat.php?heat=3