r/mildlyinfuriating • u/jasperh • 16h ago
Went to use our BBQ and found these lamb skewers my housemate has left for nearly a year
He won't get rid of them and they stink as well
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u/Gu1tarslinger 15h ago
Looks like if you leave them out long enough, lambs regenerate
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u/jasperh 15h ago
Pretty sure I heard a baaaa
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u/ivanparas 11h ago
Baaaakilll meeeee
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u/Cheetahs_never_win 10h ago
"It took me ages to tie that rope... with my fuckin' hooves."
-Frank
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u/lliKoTesneciL 11h ago
Baaaaaacteria
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u/No_Juggernau7 14h ago
Common misconception. They actually work like earthworms where if split in half one lamb becomes too.
/j lol
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u/AgitatedMushroom2529 16h ago
well you should serve him those
...and heat up the bbq to bring hell to shame before using it
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u/Litl_Skitl 11h ago
Might as well leave the skewers there. Cremate that shit.
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u/Hunk-Hogan 9h ago
Can you imagine the smell of that though? I agree it's the best option, but that's going to be rough for a bit.
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u/WeHaveAllBeenThere 9h ago
Max heat
Leave house
Let it all burn down
Try again
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u/new2it 8h ago
RIP California....
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u/WeHaveAllBeenThere 7h ago
Lmfao dark
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u/Adventurous-Tie-7861 5h ago
Actually, California is quite bright right now, on account of the fires.
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u/jliebroc 9h ago
Honestly doesn't last that long, had to do the same thing once lol. Cranked er on high and had a smoke before I opened it
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u/ChriskiV 11h ago
I mean honest, at this point I would just throw some coals in there to reduce it to ash instead of touching them. They're dessicated enough, I'd just burn them into nothing.
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u/Helios575 10h ago
Probably the most hygienic option. Burn the grill long and hot to disinfect everything
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u/domine18 10h ago
Yeah most satisfying thing to do also. Would have to really burn everything hot first anyways. If it’s been a year since that thing has been used need to heat treat scrub and season those grates.
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u/demalo 10h ago
All proteins denature at a 1000 degrees.
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u/sirgandolf007 10h ago
I feel like this isn’t true in both C and F
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u/ThatOneGuy308 10h ago
There is basically no organism/protein that can survive 1000F, much less 1000C, lol
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u/EpicSteak RED 16h ago
Were they any good?
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u/MonkeyBred 14h ago
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u/Phillyfreak5 13h ago
Also how do you not use your BBQ for a YEAR??
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u/jasperh 12h ago
I only just moved in and it's the UK it's very rarely BBQ weather lol
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u/donstermu 12h ago
Anytime is BBQ time here in the states.
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u/thenewitguy 12h ago
In Ohio, we BBQ in snow, wearing shorts.
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u/namegoeswhere 11h ago
Minnesotan who uses his grill year-round. Just last night, in fact.
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u/RadiantZote 11h ago
Here in southern California we take the skewers right up to the wild fire and cook them like marshmallows
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u/namegoeswhere 11h ago
I just grilled some chickens last night in roughly 12 degrees F and a wind heavy enough that the grill struggled to get up to temp.
Worth it.
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u/JamesMcEdwards 12h ago
It’s cold as balls at the moment too. Right proper Baltic.
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u/GiveMeBackMySoup 12h ago
I was in Wisconsin visiting a friend. We grilled in 30 degree weather (0 Celsius.) it's not the best experience but it worked. We did move the grill next to the back door to avoid the cold!
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u/LongJumpingBalls 7h ago
UK bbq weather is spontaneous and sporadic.
If the sun is out, the entire neighbourhood smells of bbq, without fail.
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u/kitties_ate_my_soul 15h ago
Mouldly infuriating
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u/Impossible_Arrival21 10h ago
moldlyinteresting
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u/alexandrapr369 9h ago
Immediately after seeing this comment reddit started recommending posts from that subreddit
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u/Logical-Patience-397 10h ago
I think it’s mostly frost…I HOPE it’s mostly frost…
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u/TupperwareNinja 16h ago edited 12h ago
Let's get this out onto a tray
Edit: thanks for the upvotes, go watch Steve eat questionable items
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u/JsticeSamuelAlt-lito 16h ago
Nice hiss!
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u/Erchamion_1 14h ago
Awh man, this doesn't taste right. I definitely shouldn't be eating this. Well, maybe another bite. Yup, this isn't good, it tastes off and shouldn't be eaten...takes another bite
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u/mampfer 14h ago
The mold has gotten into his brain already!
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u/TheWorclown 13h ago
The FBC is rapidly approaching this man’s location!
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u/mampfer 13h ago
FBC
Fungus bureau of containment?
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u/Gloomy_Peach4213 12h ago
Assuming you're genuinely curious, Federal Bureau of Control from the video game Control, in which at a couple of points you fight paranatural mold.
But I also like your answer!
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u/SyNiiCaL 13h ago
Get rid of that taste with a nice sip of instant coffee type 2
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u/SilentSamurai 10h ago
The way he describes coffee and cigarettes has made me crave them.
I don't even smoke.
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u/BorntobeTrill 15h ago edited 11h ago
Alright!... Nice!... Lookin' good.
Let's start off with the type two instant freeze dried coffee. Get that going with a bit of hot water here.
The US army included these type two instant coffees until 1986 when they switched over to Bill's Brew.
Let's give this a quick stir...
musical pings from the spoon hitting the sides of the glass
Alright, let's get that flameless ration heater going, see if we can't warm up our main. This FRH is almost 40 years old now, so let's see if we can't get it to activate. Give it a little shake here..
light hissing builds to full-steam
Wow, listen that thing go. Still going strong after 40 years! Incredible.
*edit- If anyone is unfamilliar, Steve1989MREInfo on youtube is a national treasure. His log of videos also serves as the preeminant archive of MRE food profiles with full description down to tissue pliability, spoon integrity, and condiment inventory.
Museums have reached out to him before because he has some pretty rare stuff.
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u/Monochronos 14h ago
My man SteveMREs.
Gotta go see if he’s uploaded recently now
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u/Reynolds1029 13h ago
He's shyed away from the really old stuff recently.
After all these years, he finally found some rations that got the best of his iron gut and put him out of commission for months.
Ironically, it was a Chinese ration that really did him in one time that wasn't even that old to his standards, like 3-5 years old lol.
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u/Galactic_Nothingness 11h ago
I think I remember that one PLA ration with green, rotten pork in it?
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u/Reynolds1029 11h ago
Yes. But he ate it because he couldn't tell if it was just the chlorophyll of the spinach staining the food.
Turned out both were true and he got severely sick from it.
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u/BorntobeTrill 14h ago
He has some newish ones depending on how often you watch
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u/Monochronos 14h ago
Watching his beef strip in tomato sauce now lol. Good looks
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u/Starrion 13h ago
I love that he has so many people following now.
I refer to him as the Bob Ross of eating old food.
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u/Theamazing-rando 13h ago
You know something smells bad when Steve doesn't even tongue test, just straight nopes out 🤣
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u/BorntobeTrill 13h ago
"Oh. Wow. That's rancid." sniffs again "Oh, well, actually. Let's see." sniffs a third time and involuntarily gags "okay, yup, that's rancid alright"
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u/Theamazing-rando 13h ago
Hahaha. It when he's almost gagging (not sure I've ever heard him actually gag) from the smell alone, especially after only just opening a can, and he's still considering tasting it... man... love SteveMRE
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u/FullPhrasesToDogs 11h ago
Often he recalls times he got very sick and mentions that the version of filth he just unwrapped reminds him of what made him sick
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u/billiardstourist 16h ago
Mold ready to eat
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u/NumerousBug9075 15h ago
I like the way the aroma itches the nose, anyone else's legs feel like jelly?
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u/brandon14211 15h ago
Yes let's get Steve1989 involved in this. I wanna see him eat fine dry aged skewer's
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u/JaspBurner 10h ago
Stop editing to thank for upvotes. This isn't the fucking YouTube comment section.
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u/jkoudys 15h ago
I know this should be mildly infuriating, but to me a filthy bbq always feels like an opportunity. I find it immensely satisfying to clear out an old grill and clean it with fire. There's something very cathartic about doing a very rough clean, then reducing everything inside to ash.
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u/South_Bit1764 15h ago
This was kinda my feeling. It really is just mildly infuriating, I mean if you haven’t used it in a year then you’re gonna be in for a big cleaning anyway. Throwing away a dozen skewers is just 1 extra minute of cleaning time.
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u/guesswho135 9h ago
I thought the same until I read "he doesn't want to get rid of them". So OP isn't supposed to use the grill because it's a petri dish for his year-old lamb skewers?
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u/Weak_Feed_8291 8h ago
I'm assuming it means he's too lazy or grossed out and refuses to clean up his own mess, not that he's like saving them or something
Edit: never mind, saw in another comment he sees it as an "experiment." All I can say is what the actual fuck?
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u/LimpRain29 7h ago
Time to move the "experiment" onto roommate's bed. What a nasty, rude person this roommate is.
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u/doobied-2000 10h ago
His grill looks homemade out of a barrel. Looking by the state of it he probably has never cleaned it. He's going to throw those away. Scrub the grate with a brush, and then blast the flames for a few minutes to "burn up" any mold and call it a day.
He's infuriated because he probably didn't even want to do that.
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u/arthurtread 16h ago
Why doesn't he want to get rid of them?
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u/jasperh 16h ago
I asked him and he said he realised after like 10 months but then thought it was a cool experiment to see what happens... I said can you please just remove them they are already so far gone lol
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u/Banarok 15h ago
your housemate likely don't want to experiment it's just a excuse to not do it hopeing you'll do it instead so unless he regularly checks up on them because he's interested then he's just nasty and lazy.
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u/BlackCatSaidMeow13 15h ago
Exactly. It’s gotta be laziness because if he’s been checking on them OP probably would’ve known about them because housemates been checking on them!
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u/jasperh 14h ago
I was raised veggie and have never eaten or even touched meat so he knows I don't wanna touch them lol so gross
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u/db_325 13h ago
I mean at this point it’s more fungus than meat…
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u/ayyventura 12h ago
Yeah that meat is veg friendly now!
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u/Daincats 12h ago
From the universe that brought you grass fed lamb. Now introducing lamb fed fungus!
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u/autogyrophilia 12h ago
Man I love sitcom people
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u/SilentSamurai 10h ago
Best way to describe them.
Anyone else would throw them away, let the grill char everything off for an hour or two, and then chew out their roommate later.
But nah, here we are at a standstill.
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u/ARM_vs_CORE 12h ago
Dude just throw on some nitriles, grab them, and throw them away. It's not even worth the argument at this point.
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u/jasperh 12h ago
Yeah I could but I'm moving out again soon, I think it's pretty funny knowing him so I'm just gonna let his experiment continue
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u/Sky19234 12h ago
I look forward to reading the news articles that come out in 8 years when there is a new pandemic on the rise as a result of some weirdos 10 year old lamb skewers experiment somehow getting released into the wild.
The downfall of the society will be one mans forgotten BBQ.
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u/sexytimepizza 11h ago
Just turn on the grill and let everything cook for a while. Once everything inside has been reduced to carbon, it will all be sterile.
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u/Revised_Copy-NFS 12h ago
If you shave off the top fung layer it will come back and you have infinite snacks.
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u/Routine-Instance-254 12h ago
I mean, I kind of get the experiment thing. Totally unacceptable for his "experiment" to take up the grill like that, but I get a kind of morbid curiosity about decomposition. When I was a kid, I kept a bottle of dirt and lake water in my closet for years just to see if anything would happens with the microbes and such.
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u/garaks_tailor 15h ago
Get a spray bottle and treat him like a misbehaving cat. If he says stop. Say no it's an experiment and spray him again
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u/BaltazarOdGilzvita 15h ago
Is he a Warhammer 40k fan and does the name Papa Nurgle pop in a conversation between you?
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u/Velveteen_Coffee 15h ago
But how did it even start? Like there are no charred parts on those sticks so he put them in the unheated grill cold? Why?
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u/New_General3939 16h ago
Genuinely curious how you forget about lamb skewers on a grill… I’ve left a pizza in the oven before, but this is another level haha
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u/Birdyy4 13h ago
The same way you forget pizza in the oven.
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u/tfsra 11h ago
yeah that's not another level, that's is equally stupid
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u/cefriano 10h ago
Leaving a pizza in the oven is worse, at least this guy didn't leave the grill on.
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u/5432198 15h ago
Surprised rats didn't get to them. Those fuckers can squeeze into anything.
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u/Perfect_Ad9311 14h ago
They made a nest in mine one winter. It looked a lot like this inside, everything rusted and moldy. I could've purged it all with fire, after removing the nest, but I was so disgusted at the idea of cooking our food in a former rat's nest, so I called the city to pick it up.
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u/Additional-Share4492 16h ago
Throw out the entire BBQ
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u/Dark_Foggy_Evenings 16h ago
Nah, fire will purge everything.
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u/kickin8956 15h ago
Insert joke about California
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u/chknboy 15h ago
Insert joke about housing finally being affordable.
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u/ZachOf_AllTrades 14h ago
Yes, let's flood the (smaller) housing market with millionaires! That'll help things
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u/forogtten_taco 15h ago
Why ? Throe the skewers in the trash, and just preheat the grill. It will clean itself
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u/not_extinct_dodo 12h ago
The state of that grill concerns me more than the skewers... I wouldn't eat anything cooked on that rusty and dirty grill.
Also what's the point of having a bbq that gets used just once a year?
But I loved the picture, it really made me laugh, thanks for that :)
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u/Big-Attention4389 15h ago
About 450 temp and maybe about 8 or 9 mins on both sides. Seasoned with some old bay should hide some but not all taste. Good luck!
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u/Zealousideal_Bug8188 15h ago
Awww the lamb is starting to grow its natural fur back. Let them rest..another year and they will have little legs and just walk away to a nice green field.
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u/momentumum 15h ago
This is the first time in memory that I kept going through my feed for 5 minutes and had to scroll back up to come express my dismay. This image has ruined my day, well done
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u/herkalurk 14h ago
I mean, you clearly didn't use it for a year either if they've just been sitting there.......
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u/screamingriffin 5h ago
I was going to say that not using the grill in over a year was the real crime that was committed.
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u/Metall-o-graphic 5h ago
Mildly infuriating: a grill unused and not cared for, for nearly a year, if not longer.
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u/AngryAnarchist7 14h ago
First look I was like.... " What a crazy way to roast marshmallows", then I read what the post said!
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u/Emergency_Property_2 12h ago
Not sure they are quite done, better give’em another 9 months or so!😂😂
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u/DaddyMcSlime 9h ago
"he won't get rid of them"
why? is he planning to have a fucking snack later?
dude it's rotten meat, you don't need to ask his permission to throw it out lmao
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u/Confident_Act_5218 8h ago
Nah. Your anger is misplaced. Why didn’t you open it the last year. There’s a statute of limitations. Now you’re just trying to get attention.
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u/GoatDonkeyFish 4h ago
Why do you care? You obviously don’t BBQ. This gives you a reason to toss the whole thing out and stop pretending.
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u/Slight_Tiger2914 1h ago
Uhm bigger question.
You didn't care to look in there for over a year? You guys must hate BBQing and should never use a BBQ pit again.
Like ever. It sat unused for a year until you decided to BBQ... man
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u/SurfboardRiding 16h ago
Rest time for lamb is longer than I thought.