In the fridge or not in the fridge?

Assuming the stuff in jars has been opened, I'd keep it in the fridge. Unopened, it'd been in the pantry. So that's -
Ketchup and HP
Mayo - not fresh made. PseudoHellmans
Opened jam and marmalade
Pickles and capers in jars
Easy garlic and tomato puree in tubes

Also in the fridge:
Grapes and other casual pick-one-up fruit
Onions
White wine, whenever I plan to drink it, it tastes foul warm
Butter in winter

Never in the fridge:
Eggs
Tomatoes (they have zero chance of spoiling in this house, I eat them like sweeties and they taste better at room temperature)

Eggs, onions and tomatoes in fridge?!! Nooo! Never.

butter - only reserves in fridge in winter. Butter dish of in-use butter, not in fridge.

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Oh, hang on. Not everything. I don't keep onions in the fridge (unless they're spring onions)

All in the fridge. I know that eggs and fruit don't need to be in there, but as I live alone, I don't get through things quickly, and most things last longer if they're kept in the fridge.

Things like tomato ketchup used to live in the cupboard, but since the use of preservatives has been limited (which is a good thing) even ketchup was going mouldy before I was half way down the bottle.

I'd keep all of the things you mentioned in the fridge

Thank you. He even puts bloody shrooms in the cupboard. Drives me mad. I'm gonna read your reply to him

Yes, in fridge. Veg goes bad in a cupboard.

Eggs NO
Ketchup and HP YES
Mayo - not fresh made. PseudoHellmans YES
Grapes and other casual pick-one-up fruit YES
Onions YES
*White wine you don't plan to drink soon NO
Opened jam and marmalade YES
Tomatoes YES
Butter in winter NO
Pickles and capers in jars YES
Easy garlic and tomato puree in tubes NO

exactly this.

Butter - rarely in the fridge, unless boiling hot day. It’s unspreadable f you keep it in fridge.

Great thread. My DP puts veg in the cupboard top left above hob. So sprouts. Purple sprouting broccoli, peppers etc al. Drives me fucking nuts. I say they go in the fridge no? Please someone settle this once and for all

Tomatoes taste better out of the fridge, ditto grapes.

Anything like mayo goes in the fridge once opened.
Jam and marmalade, never.
Eggs don’t need to go in the fridge unless you hardly ever use them, but it seems a shame not to use those little eggy spaces made specially for them.

Tomato purée once opened, fridge.

Onions never go in the fridge here, unless I’ve used only half a big one.

Mind you when I lived in a hot climate, with no AC in the kitchen, just about everything had to go in the fridge - inc. bread, potatoes and onions - or they wouldn’t last 5 minutes.

Except the onions. But spring onions do go in the salad drawer!

NRTFT, but I think we have pretty much all those things in the fridge!

I am weeping for the 🥶🍅

The only thing on your list we don't keep in the fridge is eggs.

If we have white wine, we're planning on drinking it soon!

We disagree massively on only one thing where to refrigerate or not is concerned: chocolate! I put mine in the fridge, he puts his in the cupboard!

Eggs - not in fridge
Ketchup and HP- fridge once opened
Mayo - fridge ice opened
Grapes and other casual pick-one-up fruit- nicer in fridge and stay fresher
Onions - I keep in fridge drawer
*White wine you don't plan to drink soon - fridge- best to be prepared... tough never know when emergency wine is required!!
Opened jam and marmalade - fridge, label even tells you
Tomatoes - definitely not in fridge, however then I eat them all in one go like a bowl of sweets
Butter in winter - butter dish not in fridge
Pickles and capers in jars - usually in fridge
Easy garlic and tomato puree in tubes - fridge

Eggs I keep in fridge for convenience but I know that this is 'wrong'. I don't bake anyway though.

Butter I keep on the counter, which I feel is also 'wrong' but do it so its spreadable.

Everything else in fridge for me...apart from onions. It would never have occurred to me to put an onion in the fridge. I thought they were supposed to live in the dark with the potatoes (although it's only just occurred to me that the fridge light is only on when the door is open!)

Eggs - fridge
Ketchup and HP - fridge but don't have strong feelings about it!
Mayo - not fresh made. PseudoHellmans - fridge because of the egg
Grapes and other casual pick-one-up fruit - mostly fridge but bananas and anything that needs ripening out of fridge
Onions - counter
*White wine you don't plan to drink soon - only in fridge a few hours before drinking
Opened jam and marmalade - fridge
Tomatoes - counter
Butter in winter - counter
Pickles and capers in jars - either
Easy garlic and tomato puree in tubes - fridge once opened

I'm personally a butter on the bench person, it drives people mad. Butter was invented, common and long lasting long before fridges even existed so its fine to live on the bench.

Things designed as preserves where suppose to last and not need to be kept or consumed 'fresh'.

Egg is a straight forward scientific one.

British eggs bench & American eggs fridge.

British eggs (The Lion Standard) are vaccinated and thus are NOT membrane stripped, the membrane protects them at room temperature. However as they are not stripped dried fecal particle can be present in the membrane pores, which when mixed with condensation (as occurs in a fridge) introduces a moist breeding ground and small contaminant risk when cracking.

American eggs are not vaccinate so are stripped of their membrane in a washing process however this is removing the protective layer that would keep the egg fresh and increase the risk of spoiling or new bacteria entering the egg through the now non protected pores. To increase shelf life and decrease bacteria they should be stored in a fridge.

I put all of them in fridge except for eggs or unopened sauces

Where I keep them:

Eggs - fridge (but you don't have to)
Ketchup and HP - not fridge
Mayo - fridge
Grapes - fridge but bigger fruit not fridge
Onions - not fridge
*White wine you don't plan to drink soon - fridge if room, not if not
Opened jam and marmalade - fridge
Tomatoes - not fridge (husband says you aren't supposed to otherwise i probably would)
Butter in winter - not fridge
Pickles and capers in jars - bin!
Easy garlic and tomato puree in tubes - not used easy garlic but I don't keep tomato puree in fridge

I should clarify that all salted and unsalted butter lives in the fridge. It’s only the butter I use for toast etc that lives in a butter dish on the side once in use. I have an older house so it doesn’t need to go in the fridge apart from particularly hot days ( and real butter is a pain straight out the fridge)