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

[Salmotrutta]

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...

We get through a bottle a week. We don't get chance to unscrew the lid to do a risk assessment of the contents. I am happy with my ketchup risk on the whole.

Only one person in our household (of three) uses ketchup and that is quite rarely, therefore we do what it says on the label and refrigerate it after opening. Why on earth you care what other people put in their fridge is beyond me.

I'm not going to tell where I keep my ketchup, so there!

Shall leave you guessing if I have elbow patches or not.

Nothing worse than rock-hard butter when you want a nice sandwich.

Few seconds in the microwave. Job done.

In winter I need to do this even though the butter is in a dish on the worktop.

Where you store ketchup isn't an indicator of class. The fact that you eat ketchup is working class.

I think some people on here really need to get a hobby or something! Why does it even bother you? Is your life that meaningless that you feel the need to poke fun at other peoples' choices? And trivialities at that...

Yes, my life is meaningless AuntieDee

Gosh, quite a few serious folks today.

Unless you eat butter by the pat it's always in the fridge, it would be disgusting, runny and yeasty if not - ie off!!

I knew this would be one of your threads, Salmo

Ketchup lives in the cupboard with the brown sauce and the BBQ sauce.

AuntieDee It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'm Mumsnetting in between laundry & housework. Whiling away a sunny Sunday. That's all. I don't need any more hobbies.

Iamusually you live somewhere much warmer than I do. I think my butter has only melted at room temperature once. Summer of 1995, it was very hot that year

The ILs don't put butter in the fridge. Yuck yuck yuck.

Thankfully that's one of the many things I've trained their son out of now that we live together

The battle over where the ketchup lives goes on, though.

BBQ sauce lives in the cupboard, obviously. We don't do brown sauce or mayo, so that's null and void. BUT KETCHUP BELONGS IN THE FRIDGE DAMNIT!

Why would you want lukewarm ketchup?

Unless you eat butter by the pat it's always in the fridge, it would be disgusting, runny and yeasty if not - ie off!!

Well no, actually. Ours remains hard on the kitchen bench, even in our South-facing kitchen, and it doesn't go off, not ever, not even a little bit, because we keep it in a butter dish and eat it relatively quickly.

Precisely usual.

Glad you agree...

I don't keep butter in the fridge on the rare occasion I buy it.

Our kitchen is south facing and almost all windows, it's like a hotbox, I never leave it out though as my parents had a butter dish on the side and my lasting memories of that are butter yellower than it ought to be that tasted a bit funky

Right now you have gone too far. I love rock hard butter. I like it in slices. Warm butter? NO.

Agree. I keep ketchup (Aldi's own, which is the best!) and salad cream and mustard/pickle out of the fridge. Don't keep eggs in there either, they live on top of the microwave in a basket.

I do put jam in the fridge though, it goes mouldy even if you don't cross-contaminate with a buttered knife.

Oooooh aldi ketchup... Is it vinegary may I enquire?

SummerHouse... What's your usual brand? Ours used to be Heinz and I thought it was the best. I'd never tried another one apart from the red stuff from burger vans, which is thin, vinegary and not nice, it has an aftertaste.

We ran out of Heinz and there was just a bottle of the Aldi (Bramwell) one. It's far less sweet to my palate and just tastes better. It's not a million miles from Heinz but has less sugar-punch and no aftertaste. I much prefer it and wouldn't go back now. I don't think it's at all vinegary (although it has vinegar in it obviously) - and I don't like vinegar.

I'm not entirely sold on the Aldi salad cream because I do actually prefer the Heinz one on a salad but in a sandwich, I wouldn't notice the Aldi one, it's very nice.

I'd suggest trying the ketchup, really, it's lovely.

We have to have two bottles of tomato ketchup on the go at any one time - one marked with a big "F" - so DH can have his in the fridge and I can have mine kept as it should be...in a cupboard.

I consider myself to be working class, and would definitely keep it in the fridge were it not stocked to the brim with champagne.

SummerHouse I use Aldi ketchup. It's not overtly vinegary but more than Heinz. You'd probably still need to make your well.

I'm struggling to remember the brand I used to buy when I was in the UK. Think it was Daddies, but not sure, it was nicely vinegary anyway.

I saw they sell it in Dealz here (Poundland's name here) I shall have to buy a bottle there and try it when no one else in this house is looking.

Remember when Heinz announced they were going to discontinue Salad Cream?

Public outcry soon put a stop to that mad notion.