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AIBU?

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Original poster

To say that people who put their tomato sauce/ketchup in the fridge are plain wrong.

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Salmotrutta · 01/03/2015 00:13

They just are.

There is no need.

Similarly, the deluded people who put eggs in the fridge are wrong.

Eggs are best left at room temperature.

Fact.

And don't get me started on butter...

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Mehitabel6 · 01/03/2015 07:54

And butter definitely goes in the fridge.

SoupDragon · 01/03/2015 07:55

I put stuff like that in the fridge because it is convenient storage space. There's room in there and less room in the cupboards.

I couldn't give a stuff what anyone else thinks.

UsedToBeAPaxmanFan · 01/03/2015 07:56

I read once that, with eggs, the important thing is that they are kept at a constant temperature. So if they're left out in the kitchen and the kitchen is cold in the mornings but very warm by mid afternoon, then that's not good, and they would be better off in the fridge. It's fine for them to be out in a supermarket because supermarkets tend to have a fairly constant temperature.

We keep our eggs in the kitchen cupbaord. Ketchup is in the fridge, not because I'm paranoid about food poisoning but because there's not much room in the cupboard (probably because it's full of eggs ).

Mehitabel6 · 01/03/2015 07:56

And I am not deluded! Luckily, given the same information, we are free to make our own choices.

bigbluestars · 01/03/2015 07:56

But ketchup, sauces, pickles are preserves.

THey don't need to go in the fridge. The clue is in the name.

SoupDragon · 01/03/2015 07:59

No, they don't need to but there is no reason they can't.

thanksamillion · 01/03/2015 08:01

What you really need is a nice cool larder.

Both eggs and ketchup can stay in there in limbo heaven, neither refridgerated nor warm in the kitchen.

Shockers · 01/03/2015 08:03

The storage of condiments is now a class issue.

SummerHouse · 01/03/2015 08:04

If I put my 1.35 kg vat of ketchup in the fridge, where would I put all my out of date fridge stuff?

PiratePanda · 01/03/2015 08:05

Anyone else ever notice that supermarkets are freaking freezing?!?!

I grew up in a hot country that also had house insect invasions. We kept EVERYTHING in the fridge, including bread, or in the pantry in sealed plastic boxes/tins.

In the UK we keep butter out. We don't keep eggs out but that's mainly because we take ages to eat them and they do keep longer in the fridge. Ketchup in the cupboard.

It drives me absolutely wild when anyone leaves milk out of the fridge even for a second, or fails to immediately wipe up crumbs from surfaces. Legacy of an Australian childhood. :)

gamerchick · 01/03/2015 08:07

Na I like my ketchup cold so keep mine in the fridge, nothing like a red hot chip dipped into cold sauce. Husband keeps a bottle in the cupboard because he doesn't like it cold and my cooking ketchup is kept out.

Think its all covered there

PiratePanda · 01/03/2015 08:07

Only for the petty bourgeoisie, Shockers.

Moln · 01/03/2015 08:10

Ketchup is a class issue?

I think it's wrong one though, surely the working class leave it out the fridge, probably on the table, because the have it on everything (including their cornflakes) so use it quickly (a bottle a day, possibly, depending how many cups of tea drank)

CakeUpWall · 01/03/2015 08:11

MIL buys BIL the big square catering bottles of ketchup. and everything else he ever wants inc house, car etc but that's another thread

He keeps it on top of the fridge, thus keeping it nicely slightly warmed. Bleurgh.

Mehitabel6 · 01/03/2015 08:13

At the risk of upsetting more people, I don't eat chocolate unless it has just come out of the fridge.

Roussette · 01/03/2015 08:15

Ketchup in fridge, never! Why? Also the 'consume within 8 weeks' nonsense on stuff. I totally ignore. If it tastes funny I chuck it out. The only thing that doesn't last is jam and marmalade which I refuse to put in the fridge. If it has mould on it, I chuck it out, I use my eyes!

If we followed all the guidelines we'd be forever replacing perfectly fine products. Face powder, eye shadow, moisturisers etc - they all have a silly litle picture showing an opened lid and 6M or 12M or whatever on it. No, I am not throwing out my favourite eyeshadow after a year because you tell me to, sod off

SanityClause · 01/03/2015 08:17

My mother used to make her own jam. Quite often her recipes were quite eccentric (Apple marmalade, anyone?) It was always stored in the cupboard. If it was a particularly ghastly batch, it was not eaten, and would grow mould. This would be scooped off, and the remainder put back in the cupboard. If not eaten, (as if!) it would be used up in a pudding.

Suffice it to say, I am very keen never to eat mouldy jam in the future, and keep mine in the fridge. (And I only buy yummy jam that my family will, you know, actually eat.)

Jam is a "preserve", bigblue. Doesn't stop it going mouldy, though, I promise you.

SummerHouse · 01/03/2015 08:20

moln

That's me. I also have a strange habit of creating a ketchup nest and filling it with vinegar then mixing it up. Class on a stick.

Mehitabel6 · 01/03/2015 08:20

If I had an old fashioned, cool, stone floored, larder I would use that- but I have kitchen cupboards or the fridge.

lurkerspeaks · 01/03/2015 08:22

koala a few years ago I'd have laughed too. But after watching several nonogenarians really struggle with food - dodgy eyesight and a diminished sense of smell aren't your friend for working out what is off or not. I'd actually be very relieved if mine were so rigorous.

I also recently gave myself terrible D&V through being lax about a broken freezer. I was really ill - if I'd been frail and 90 it might have killed me...
Food hygiene matters.

Sagethyme · 01/03/2015 08:24

Does it make any difference if its in a glass/ plastic bottle? I sometimes wonder if vinegar and plastic are a happy combination!

themummyonthebus · 01/03/2015 08:31

When I flat shared with a German guy he kept putting my marmite in the fridge. Now THAT is wrong.

Although I should be grateful he didn't throw it out when he discovered it was 5 years past the bb date. In my defence it was one of those HUGE jars and I'd lost it at the back of the cupboard for about 4 of those years. Tasted fine.

nagynolonger · 01/03/2015 08:32

We put ketchup and brown sauce in the fridge because DH has added extra shelving to the kitchen cupboards so the bottle won't fit anywhere else.

There is a bottle of salad cream lurking in the fridge too.....not sure how long it's been there. I always put mayo in the fridge and would throw it out if someone left it out for any length of time.

Jams and pickles etc. I make myself so they just go in the cupboards and are fine. They store well for years.

Eggs are kept in the fridge and I try to get them to room temperature before using them. I would use yogurts and other similar stuff if out of date. You can tell if food is off by looking at it and smelling it.

themummyonthebus · 01/03/2015 08:39

I saw a programme a while back that discussed bb dates. They visited a yoghurt producer that exports to island nations and pointed out that they didn't make different yogurts to survive the long shopping times, they just printed a longer bb date on the lid. I'm another sniffer rather than bb date follower.

MumToFourCats · 01/03/2015 08:40

Ketchup mayo and pickles in the fridge.
Eggs, bread and tomatoes out.
Lemon slices in freezer ready for G&T

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