(rousing soft music)
- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone, and in today's video
I'm gonna show you how to stock your pantry
with pretty much the basics.
So these are the things that you need
just to like always have on hand
for whatever you're gonna be cooking or baking.
Let's get to it.
(rousing soft music)
So as I mentioned, these are just the staples
that you need in your pantry
for whatever you're cooking or baking.
The first thing is salt.
I prefer sea salt because sea salt lasts indefinitely.
You can have iodized salt,
the problem with that is it only lasts for about five years.
So just keep that in mind
when you have that salt in your pantry.
The next pantry staple that you need is pepper.
Now if it's ground pepper, it's gonna keep fresh
for about two years, but if you buy
the peppercorns themselves and grind them on your own,
they'll actually lasts for about four years and stay fresh.
After salt and pepper, it's that extra virgin olive oil,
the total staple, right?
For cooking salads, lots of different things.
It stays and keeps fresh for about two years.
One thing that's really important
when it comes to olive oil,
is don't store it anywhere near a heat source.
Okay, another great ingredient to have on hand
is vegetable oil.
Vegetable oil will actually keep for about a year
in your pantry if stored properly.
And what's olive oil without some vinegar, right?
So if you have white vinegar or apple cider vinegar,
those will last indefinitely.
Obviously you can't have just white vinegar
and apple cider vinegar, so there's also balsamic vinegar.
So, it really depends on how the balsamic vinegar is made.
If it's a traditional balsamic vinegar,
which is a little bit on the pricier side,
and not what most people buy,
that'll last about 20 years.
It'll stay fresh that whole time.
But if you have the cheaper stuff, the more commercial grade
balsamic vinegar, that's only gonna last a couple years
past the expiration date.
So just make sure that you know what kind of balsamic
that you're purchasing.
And our last vinegar, rice vinegar.
So I'm talking about rice vinegar that's unseasoned.
So if it's unseasoned, it'll keep for about five years
in the pantry, but actually 10 years
if you keep it in the fridge.
Getting out of the liquids and into those dry goods,
next up is our all purpose flour.
So all purpose flour is obviously used
for a lot of baking recipes, but also for cooking.
Now, if you store all purpose flour in the pantry,
it'll keep for about a year past the best buy date,
but if you store it in the fridge or in the freezer,
it'll actually last up for two more years
past that best buy date.
And lastly granulated sugar, another pantry staple.
So if you have granulated sugar,
that will actually also last indefinitely.
All of these items prefer to be stored
and for the most part a dark, cool place,
really light is their enemy.
Their other enemy is moisture.
So having an airtight container for those dry goods
is really, really important.
Making sure that you're storing the liquids properly
in an air, they're sealed, those caps are sealed on
is also really, really important.
And just as a general rule, no matter what,
if something, the color seems off, the flavor seems off,
you see any signs of mold, anything like that, toss it out.
That means it's no longer good.
If you like this video, hey, give me a thumbs up.
There's something you wanna see, drop a comment below.
And if you'd like to cook like I do, subscribe.
I release new videos every single week.
See you next time.
(soft music)
But if you have iodized salt, then just take no...
(beep)
Let me go turn off my computer sound.