To think ketchup lives in the cupboard??

[puds11]

Not the bloody fridge! Just had to hunt it down in the kitchen for my turkey dinosaurs and it’s in the fridge!

YABU: should be in the fridge
YANBU: someone in your house needs talking to

Cupboard. I’ve never had mouldy ketchup in my entire life.

Cupboard. It's horrible when you put cold ketchup on hot food. Yuk. A bottle doesn't last long enough in my house to get mouldy!

I have to say I’ve never read the bottle. Is it good?

A page-turner.

Fridge after opening.

You're actually not supposed to keep eggs in the fridge are you?

Only American eggs. Decent, patriotic, British eggs are fine in the cupboard.

All of my life I've kept ketchup in the cupboard. A bottle lasts several weeks

In our house a bottle of ketchup lasts for years because only I eat it and only on fish and chips sometimes so it takes me 3/4 years to get through a bottle - last one was two years out of date when I'd finished it. Therefore I keep it in the fridge.

We do however, use a bottle of brown sauce in about a month, so that lives in the sauce caddy on the kitchen island.

I do have some jam in the fridge that had mould in it last time I looked, we use about one jar of jam a year if that and I'm currently deciding whether to chuck it, or scrape the mould off the top. We get the high fruit preserve, so it probably doesn't last as long as proper jam but I was surprised to see that it had gone mouldy because it had only been open a few months and we're careful about only using a clean spoon to take out the jam.

The Americans do weird things to their eggs which means they don't last as long, which is why you're supposed to keep them in the fridge.

Fridge! Obviously

The fridge definitely.

Should be stored in the fridge once opened - same with jam, marmalade, chutneys etc. the thought of half used jars of opened sauces etc left in warm cupboards knocks me sick!

Team Cupboard here. :)

I do like a nice turkey dinosaur myself, too. Not the unicorns though, they were pointy bits of nothing.

Common source of food poisoning! Badly kept ketchup I mean...

Fridge, along with jam.

cupboard!

Fridge

Oh I only put jam in fridge if I know it's not going to get used up fairly quickly a few weeks), but I hate it cold, and I usually forget to get a bit out in advance.

So I'm sticking to my way, thanks all the same.

You're welcome. My grandma also just scraped the mold off of everything and soaked slightly stinky meat in vinegar and to be fair, rarely had any issues due to that, probably builds up the immune system.

Why would manufacturers put storage instructions on bottles if they were actually useless? Is it some kind of ketchup and fridge manufacturer conspiracy?

Common source of food poisoning! Badly kept ketchup I mean...

Fridge - ‘cause that’s where it says to put it!

Which? had an article about this this month and they reckon the cupboard for ketchup, jam plus a few other things. However we use lower sugar/salt ketchup so I'm a bit more cautious and keep it in the fridge.

Common source of food poisoning! Badly kept ketchup I mean...

Source?

It's a good job fridges were invented before ketchup - otherwise we'd be in a right old pickle.

Fridge. Not because of food safety (always had it in the cupboard growing up and never had a problem) but because I like it fridge-y cold on chips!

*Common source of food poisoning! Badly kept ketchup I mean...

Source?*

Do you mean sauce?

I keep it in the fridge because I love hot chips and cold Ketchup. I'm sure it'd be fine in the cupboard though.

Cupboard. Have never put ketchup in the fridge in my life. A bottle lasts about 4 weeks in our house, never seen any mould yet.

Cold ketchup on hot food - yuck!