Butter, marmite, honey, nutella in the fridge or not?

[legohamster]

I keep getting in trouble with the family for putting these 4 things back in the fridge, it's annoying I know when they are rock solid and impossible to spread but with kitchens being warm with heating on, is it really ok? Just wondered what others do.

Marmite is preserved with two tons of salt and is evil anyway, bovril is much nicer.
Bees don't have fringes.
Nutella is chocolate and chocolate is tasteless if you fridge it.

Butter totally dependent on the weather and how fast you use it. I do keep butter in the fridge most of the time as I try to keep it for jaket spuds and use health spread on bread.

Ketchup lives in the fridge, but I'm sure it would be fine out if you used it in a week or so. Ours tends to hang around.

Although, I don't think it matters ketchup is a pain to get out of it's bottle at any normal temp.

Shake oh shake the ketchup bottle, none comes out and then a lot'll!

I don't keep ketchup in the fridge either, or eggs.

Honey and marmite, no need. They are very high in sugar/ salt and won't go off. In fact they will probably be too solid.

Butter, depends how warm your house is and how fast you get through it. We keep ours out but if our house were 24C it might go runny. As it is ours is just about spreadable if left out.

Nutella, I'd say it depends how fast you get through it. The fear with fats is that they will go rancid if left at room temperature- so the same with butter. You should be able to tell immediately if the nutella's gone rancid though. And imo it doesn't take nice refrigerated.

I'm with your family on this one OP.

Ketchup in the fridge?!? Will the madness never end?

From your list, I'd only keep the butter in the fridge. But then our kitchen is so cold that the honey crystallises anyway

it's mad to put honey in the fridge. they dig up jars of ancient honey out of tombs and it is still OK. it's amazing stuff, antibacterial and used as a preservative.
I wooldnt put any of the other things in either - or jam, as dh does

Out of your list, just butter.

But I also keep jam, marmalade, lemon curd and ketchup in the fridge.

Only butter, but that's only kept for baking so can be got out on the days I will need it.

The rest including ketchup are fine in the cupboard. The instructions are ass covering. You will know if it goes off. I've had one bottle of ketchup in the cupboard open for about a year.

None of those things go in the fridge in our house.

If it's really hot (fat chance at the mo!) I put a little butter out in the butter dish and keep rest in fridge.

Honey never goes off, ever ever ever, and has no need to be int' fridge.

ditto marmite, although it might go off eventually I suppose, but it never lasts long enough in our house to find out.

Nutella hmmm...maybe, but it will go like rock.

Butter. Depends. I don't like proper butter to be too sloppy and oily (plus it goes rancid really quickly) but I can't stand it when it's too hard to spread. You need to be exceptionally well organised and get it out half an hour before you need it, then put it straight back.

Or buy spreadable.

I also keep ketchup and jam etc in the fridge, providing there is roo, but I don't worry too much about it if there isn't.

Ketchup shouldn't go mouldy because of the vinegar, but jam will eventually. Mind you, it does in the fridge as well.

Only butter in the fridge, and even that only part-time (if no room in the butter dish).

your granny didn't put jam, ketchup or pickled beetroot in the fridge.

however the modern commercial formulation contains far less sugar/salt/vinegar so will go mouldy if not refrigerated.

She also had no CH so the kitchen was cold more of the time, and an unheated pantry.

We keep marmite in the fridge and jam and ketchup. Also mustards, chutney, pickles etc. Not nutella or honey. Butter - hmm now dh likes it rock hard so we have a butter dish on the side and one in the big outside fridge just for him!!

Oh and deffo not eggs or bread.

Marmite, honey, nutella kept out of the fridge here. The butter is in the fridge, though a few days worth is always kept in a butter dish out of the fridge.

Ketchup in the fridge.

I don't keep any of those in the fridge, my ketchup has never gone mouldy even in summer. Butter still has to be warmed to be spreadable, shows how cold my kitchen must be unless I'm cooking.

What does it say on the Jars / tubs? read it and do that.

The usual reason that jams etc go mouldy is that a dirty spoon with butter/breadcrumbs on has been in contact with the jam in the pot. Ditto for chutney and other preserves. I've never put ketchup in the fridge - after a year or two it does darken in colour, though!

only if you live in a clean-room with no yeasts or bacteria in the air. Louis Pasteur went through this about 150 years ago.

Butter and ketchup in fridge here. Honey, nutella, and marmite all in cupboard.

I don't put butter, jam, marmite (although i don't actually have marmite bleh!) ketchup, mayonniase, honey, margarine/spreads, eggs or nutella in the fridge.

If it was really warm i might put eggs and butter in the fridge, but only if they weren't going to be eaten soon.

I hate butter thats been refrigerated it's impossible to spread.

I like to give mine and my family's immune system a challenge clearly.

Also pet hate, people who put bread in the fridge, that's just strange.