Hey, you're listening to Outside Inn. I'm Nate Hedgy. I am happily married now, but I remember

almost a decade ago when I was single. And man, it is hard to find a partner. I mean,

you might spend hours at a bar every week, maybe go on a couple of blind dates, then you spend

your nights flipping endlessly through Tinder, hinge, bumble.

And maybe, if you are particularly desperate, you might reach out to a refrigerator dating

guide.

His stick is to match people based on the contents of their fridges.

That's Nicola Twilly.

She's co-host of the podcast, Gastropod.

You can either submit pictures of the fridges of someone you've just started dating and say, listen, any red flags.

Or if you submit your fridge, he can suggest a match.

Niccolo wasn't looking for a partner. She's married. She was actually doing research for a book about

refrigeration. So does he give you like a score on your fridge? Well, you don't get a score, but you do get feedback.

And I will say the first words out of his mouth were,

this chick is awesome when he saw my fridge.

So again, you can tell how hungry I was for this.

But yes, he I think was being, well, more generous than I would be.

I have a lot of Tupperware.

I have an unseemly amount of alcohol.

I have a lot of condiments.

This matchmaker, he started his refrigerator dating service as a kind of joke.

But the truth is, fridges really do tell you a lot about a person.

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