Do you store condiments in the fridge?

[littledawley]

I am always moaning about the size of our fridge but I have realised that a whole shelf is full of condiments! My mum never kept these things in the fridge so I don't know why I do (think it's DH's thing) - so, do you?
Specifically:
Jam
Mayonaise
Ketchup
Chutneys (mango, chilli etc)
Mustard
Salad dressings
mint, redcurrant, cranberry sauce/ jelly
horseradish

(God, I've got a lot of condiments!!)

That is interesting notagranny - I would have thought it would be the other way around with the shop bought stuff full of preservatives.

But the home made stuff is done the old fashioned way. From a time before fridges and freezers. It was ment to be kept from one year to the next.....often longer. My GM never had a fridge everything was kept dark and cool in the pantry or the cellar.

Sugar and vinegar are preseratives. As is salting and drying. I've tried these but never had much luck......apart from drying herbs.

Virtually everything these days says store in a fridge after opening.
I'm sure it didn't used to say that in the olden days - are we using less preservatives maybe?.

Soy sauce can be kept out of the fridge but the taste deterioates more quickly than if kept in the fridge.(Kikkomen website)
I suspect it is the case with alot of the other rather than the health hazard aspect.

Jam? goodness, I would think it only goes off once you've introduced crumbs and butter and stuff into it.
But it does say so on the label.

My fridge is full and so's the door these days

Not in - ketchup, brown sauce, Branston, chutney, mustard, peanut butter Marmite, honey, choc spread; pickled onions.

In - jams (too many because people keep opening them); soy/oyster sauce, mayo, cranberry/apple sauce, pesto, sun-dried toms, salad dressings, beetroot if open like most here, I have a whole shelf full and wish I didn't.

All mine are in fridge too- a whole shelf of my huge american side by side fridge over to them
I heard the same as darcymum you have more need to refrigerate nowawdys as they took all the addetives and preservatives out.

In fridge:

Mayo
Salad Cream
Ceasar dressing
Apple sauce
Jam

In Cupboard:

Ketchup
Hp Sauce
BBQ Sauce
Wholegrain Mustard
English Mustard
Soy Sauce
Worcstershire Sauce
Tobasco Sauce
Honey
Marmite
Everything else!

Once I get my big american fridge freezer I will probably put everything in the fridge! Just because we have limited cupboard space and all the condiments take up a full half cupboard but they won't fit in the tiny fridge either.

I too have a shelf in my fridge almost entirely devoted to condiments/preserves of various kinds. At the moment I probably have cranberry sauce, mustard, salad cream, tomato sauce, plum sauce, crabapple jelly, marmalade, lemon curd, bramble jelly and probably all sorts of other things I have temporarily forgotten about. I also have have a shelf devoted to bottles of water. As in small bottles which have been refilled from the tap. My nearest and dearest says he doesn't like water from the tap, but when it is cold he doesn't even notice. I don't keep individual bottles for more than about 6 months though and I do sterilise them occasionally as well.

Yes! I store all of my condiments in the fridge.

Apart from chocolate spread, honey, golden syrup.