I was told by a friend that they never refrigerate their ketchup. Skeptical, I turned to Hienz who says this
Apparently non-refrigerating is a thing. A thing I’d never heard of.
Do any dopers here not refrigerate?
We generally refrigerate it, but it does not always get put back in the refrigerator immediately after use and sometimes the kids leave it out for a couple of days, never had an issue.
Never have refrigerated. And I’m the type of person who has always liked a little food under their ketchup.
I refrigerate. Same with mustard.
Refrigerate - mustard too.
How about pancake syrup (not the real maple syrup but like Log Cabin or Mrs Butterworth’s)? I know some people that refrigerate it. I don’t.
I’ve never refrigerated syrup.
I’m happy to expand the scope of this thread to other condiments.
In the fridge although for us ketchup is usually about 1 or more years until the bottles is empty. Almost any food item we take that long to use up ends up in the fridge.
Also, haven’t you ever noticed how diners have squeeze bottles of ketchup and mustard sitting on the table, if not in real life, then in television and movies? (Is that a bottle of ketchup to the right of the napkin dispenser in Nighthawks? And on the thingy in this Rockwell?) Those aren’t refrigerated between shifts, I’m sure.
Ketchup? I’ve seen it in restaurants but don’t actually possess a bottle of my own. :lol
Yep.
We use a ton of catsup/ketchup, and it is always Heinz, because Hunts is for c****.
Yes, but mainly because I like the distinction between hot food and cold condiments.
Refrigerate catsup, mustard, and maple syrup.
Nope. The wife can’t abide cold ketchup/catsup, so it stays in the pantry. Mustard, maple syrup, and hot sauces stay in the pantry prior to opening and fridge after.
The sauces currently in my cupboard, unrefridgerated include, Ketchup, HP, Branston pickle, english and german mustard, sweet chilli sauce, sriracha, golden syrup, maple syrup, jam, homey, marmalade.
Never stored them in the fridge, never had them spoil (other than the occasional fluffy mould on the top of jam but that easily spoons off.)
Yes. I know I don’t have to, but I like it to be cold, and my wife doesn’t use it so I can do whatever I want with it. I like most condiments to be cold.
They might put them in the fridge at night. Or they might just figure the ketchup gets used quickly enough that it doesn’t have time to go bad.
(Although if they just kept topping up the half-empty bottles, they might have some original ketchup still in there from when the diner first opened.)
We refrigerate all opened liquids around Casa Silenus, except hot sauces, which can fend for themselves. This includes not only regular ketchup but my go-to Heinz Caramelized Onion and Bacon ketchup.
In our house, condiments, syrup, etc. go in the fridge. Patterns of use tend to be irregular, and I’m a lot more confident that essentially nothing will grow in a bottle of syrup or a jar of catsup if it’s in the fridge 90% of the time.
I learned my lesson with Sesame Oil and Soy Sauce, though. Best not to refrigerate those. But you probably don’t keep olive oil in the fridge either, do you?
Olive oil, no way cold.