What's Normal? - Do you store opened ketchup in the refrigerator? (1 Viewer)

[Keerock]

Do you store opened ketchup in the refrigerator?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Doing things that restaurants do is not the way you should model your eating and cleanliness habits.

 

[Juxtatarot]

N/A

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Yep

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Doing things that restaurants do is not the way you should model your eating and cleanliness habits.

You mean I shouldn't just keep topping off the ketchup containers and leave the old gunk on the bottom?

 

[Doug B]

I have seen ketchup dry out, but I've never seen it go moldy. Off the cuff, the acid and salt content seem far too high to support microorganisms. I've not researched the matter in depth, however.

That said: ketchup goes in the fridge at home. Still don't mind left-out ketchup in restaurants though -- they go through it fast enough that it never really gets old (even with marrying bottles).

 

[shuke]

We do, but I hate it. The rare times I actually use ketchup, I wish I had room temp.

 

[ChiefD]

In the fridge. As God intended.

 

[Tecumseh]

I worked in restaurants long enough to know what rancid ketchup smells like. It goes in the fridge.

 

[jvdesigns2002]

I don’t refrigerate It the rare times I have a bottle of it. The fridge space is too valuable for something that I hardly use. Most of the times I am in need of ketchup, I go to the small Tupperware bin that I have in my pantry where I put sauce/condiment packets from restaurants in. If you guys don’t have a packet/restaurant condiment bin—I very much recommend it. Between the soy sauce packets, the crushed red pepper packets from pizza places, ketchup, barbeque sauce, Tabasco sauce, various jellies, ..etc—you’d be surprised how much you could utilize it.

 

[Keerock]

In the fridge. As God intended.

And on the 8th day...

 

[belljr]

we would keep our ketchup in the fridge but when it left the fridge and was on the tables we just left that there

 

[Leroy Hoard]

In the fridge. As God intended.

And on the 8th day...

God was the first to marry the ketchups.

 

[Zow]

Yeah it's a perishable food item.

 

[dkp993]

Ketchup in the frig, butter on the counter.

 

[Zow]

I also prefer to spell is "catsup."

 

[MTskibum]

Are we talking about tomato ketchup or other kinds?

 

[Doug B]

I also prefer to spell is "catsup."

Pfui. Spell it 膎汁 or don't bother

 

[MAC_32]

I also prefer to spell is "catsup."

Are you here to solve my ketchup problem?

 

[nirad3]

Wow I'm shocked at the results, actually. Never in the fridge for us.

 

[AAABatteries]

We do, but I hate it. The rare times I actually use ketchup, I wish I had room temp.

I think the only thing I use ketchup for is fries and not even all the time with those. But I actually like the contrast of the cold ketchup with piping hot fries. Otherwise ketchup is worthless.

 

[Keerock]

Ketchup is disgusting, but my wife like it, so in the fridge it sits...

 

[shuke]

In grade school, the 6th graders would sell soft pretzels at recess one day a week for some kind of fundraiser. When I finally got to 6th grade and volunteered to help I found out that the mustard was just stored in a locker. Like a big one gallon container.

 

[FatMax]

Ketchup is disgusting, but my wife like it, so in the fridge it sits...

This, exactly.

 

[dkp993]

Ketchup, BBQ sauce’s boring almost useless brother.

 

[jvdesigns2002]

In grade school, the 6th graders would sell soft pretzels at recess one day a week for some kind of fundraiser. When I finally got to 6th grade and volunteered to help I found out that the mustard was just stored in a locker. Like a big one gallon container.

Regular yellow mustard is non perishable as far as I understand- so that shouldn’t be a problem. Especially in the scope of a school- they will probably go through a gallon in 4 weeks or less. I think that with mustard- it would have to be a few months before it started going bad

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Yes, in the fridge.


French fries and hot dogs only. I probably eat two hot dogs a year.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Ketchup is disgusting, but my wife like it, so in the fridge it sits...

This, exactly.

Same.

Also, for some reason we need to keep every unused condiment from Seamless. They're in a container in the back corner of the middle shelf, as far as I can tell items go in but never leave. Pretty sure there's enough ketchup packs in there for the next 5 or 10 years.

 

[BoltNlava]

Easily the fridge. While I don't use it often, I do add it to recipies now and then. Meatloaf (mix w/ uncooked meat. Top is a spicier mix with tomato paste and spices), and also as a condiment on burgers and dogs. Has to be chilled imho.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Fridge. We don’t use ketchup bottles anywhere near as fast as restaurants do.