To have a whole fridge shelf for condiments/jars?

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DH thinks I have a problem. I think they’re all used fairly often. Moving house and he’s adamant they’re not all coming with us.

mustard - whole grain, Dijon, hot dog
ketchup
chili sauces - Nando’s x2, sweet chilli, chile crisp, gochujang
jams - marmalade, lemon curd, strawberry, seedless raspberry
pickles - Branston, red onion chutney, cornichons, pickled onions, sliced jalapeños, capers, black olives, green olives, picalilli
misc - BBQ sauce, tamarind paste, mint sauce, cranberry sauce, horseradish, mayo

YABU they go off after 4 weeks. Yuk!

😂😂😂😂 no they do not. I have jars in my fridge that I do not remember buying, but they are all grand.

Most of those can go in the cupboard

Condiments rule in my fridge too. I don’t check dates, no harm done 👍🏻

Mustard in the fridge? Are you high?

I’ve got two and most of the inside of the door too - a lot are ingredients vs a pure confinement though like gouchugan and various curry pastes

I've got a whole fridge for condiments. We make jam and pickles and stuff. It's called the pickle fridge

Crikey. I don't keep any of that lot in the fridge. Not bottled sauces, condiments, pickles, jams, chutneys; even mayonnaise is fine. Soy sauce in the fridge? Never heard the like. It doesn't go off any quicker. DH likes jars of olives, which I do keep in the fridge, and those little buggers go mouldy if they're not eaten quickly enough.

On a quick review - 3 of our 4 fridge shelves are opened jam/condiment/sauces/cooking paste. And half a shelf of opened jarred pickled things.
Actual Branston, all the mustards, soy sauce' Worcestershire sauce and chutneys are in a cupboard.

But use by dates / use with 10 mins of opening... no. I'll bin them if mouldy. I finished up some harissa paste yesterday which was use by 2022 (i probably opened the jar 6 months ago) It looked fine - we're not dead yet!

They would be in the bin on day 29 in this house 🤢🤣

I do too. The top shelf - jams, pickles, chutneys…cocktail cherries…

it gets a regular clear out but nothing else goes on that shelf.

Just the one shelf?

I don't refrigerate condiments

Sounds fine to me, especially if they are all items that are being used. We have very similar in our fridge for all the sauces and condiments and it takes up the entirety of all the door shelves.

If you are using them and truly will use them I would get a box and put them in there and move them with the house move.. it will be expensive to replace them and it’s unnecessarily wasteful. If something breaks just wipe the others down and make the best of what moved safely

If they are out of date, or going out of date, then you aren't using them. Although when we moved recently, we were eating just sandwiches/rolls/toasties with soup for a few days (as well as a chippy meal), so I was glad I moved with my condiments.

those you listed but also ground coffee

Surely coffee is not meant to be kept in the fridge!

I don't have much cupboard space but my fridge is quite big.

OP the only thing I would dispute is if the olives are pitted. If they are then the 'black' olives are green olives that have been coloured.

I have:

Dijon and whole grain mustard
Pickled onions
Olives
Capers
Tartar sauce
Apple sauce
Marmalade
Jam x 2
Cherry something, a bit like a jam
Dark soy sauce
Light soy sauce
Mirin
Sweet chilli sauce
Hoisin sauce

I have an entire shelf of cheese

I always have, in sealed Pyrex. I assumed it preserved the aromatic oils?

Yes same here OP and a cupboard full of them as I dont necessarily believe in putting things like that in fridges but I have chutneys, mustards, pastes, jars of things all over the place.

No date checking here either, they never go off.

Horrified by people talking about chucking stuff after so many weeks or so.

most expired in 3-12 weeks are you eating all that before it goes out of date? I’d compromise and chuck anything older than the use by date and keep the rest.
We have-
ketchup
brown sauce
mayo
salad cream
mustard
horse radish
mint
hot sauce
jam

i do throw out after the time given (except the salad cream and hot sauce as I don’t use them. ) But if I know say the mint sauce needs eating I’ll make a lamb dish or a mint yoghurt dip.
it’s only really the brown sauce I struggle to finish.

34 here. I started a thread on it.
I have told my (adult) DC they were allowed to pick three things and then I was going to run them all down.
Wish things like chili crisp or mint sauce were sold in tiny sachets. They would probably cost the same though!
Does everyone have 3/4 of a jar of harissa paste mouldering at the back?!

Condiments fridge shelf here too that is full. I did find 3 part used jars of mint sauce on Sunday and I bet there’s no cranberry sauce when i want some !but I do have tartare sauce

My problem are the condiments that sit there forever and go off because I only use them rarely, like lemon grass.
Radio 4's Kitchen Cabinet had the great suggestion to decant them into ice cube trays, and freeze in plastic bags labelled with a sharpie.

We have an entire fridge shelf dedicated to jars of condiments, an entire cupboard dedicated to bottles of sauce, and an entire cupboard dedicated to bulk bought spices! It drives me nuts (DH!)