# How many jars of Jelly, Jam or Preserves is in your Fridge? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438 "2017-06-20T15:02:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/1 "2017-06-20T15:02:06Z")
Buttered Toast & jelly is part of my breakfast every morning. If we cook biscuits for dinner then I want butter & jelly with them. My dad was the same way. I keep three varieties in the fridge, Grape & Plum jelly and Strawberry Preserves. I’ll usually alternate each morning. Sometimes I buy Apple instead of Plum jelly. But there’s always three kinds of jelly in my fridge. My grandmother made wonderful jelly. Fig preserves from her backyard tree. Several wild berry jellies. I miss those homemade jellies. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/2 "2017-06-20T15:24:44Z")
I voted two, but I’m guess neither are really edible at this point and will be tossed next time we clean the fridge. I like jam in general, and raspberry preserves in particular, but never (less than once a year) consume any. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/3 "2017-06-20T15:28:26Z")
The one that’s open. Keeping it there isn’t even necessary (they’re called “preserves” for a reason), it’s just that the fridge is in the incredibly-tiny kitchen and the pantry is not. An advantage of an incredibly-tiny kitchen is that you can pop the toast, prep it, eat it, leave the knives in the wash and put the ingredients back in place without walking more than one step at a time… there isn’t room for more than one step at a time 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/4 "2017-06-20T15:36:23Z")
I’m a jammin’ fool. Any time I have a handful of “extra” fruit, be it over- or underripe, sour, superfluous to requirement for another recipe, etc., it gets jammed. Yesterday I made whisky peach jam with about nine peaches from the supermarket that were ripening up too sour to enjoy eating out of hand. Oh, and I put in a few handfuls of tiny yellow plums that I scrumped off the Stanford campus. For pectin 🙂 So there’s two jars of that, a jar of cherry rhubarb, a jar of orange-Meyer lemon-marjoram marmalade, a few jars of last year’s tomato onion relish… Despite the current riches of jams, I am out of bread. So I had cheesecake for breakfast 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/5 "2017-06-20T15:47:53Z")
I used to have one or two at all times, but I rarely have bread in the house anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/6 "2017-06-20T16:05:04Z")
There are three in the fridge, but a shelf full in the basement. The ones in the fridge are raspberry/lemon/mint, marionberry, and blueberry/apricot. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/7 "2017-06-20T17:18:26Z")
Does duck sauce count? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/8 "2017-06-20T17:19:53Z")
One. Blenheim apricot preserves from our local stone fruit orchard. Once I ran out of them, and tried some supermarket apricot preserves, but they tasted like orange colored jello with a faint hint of apricot in the background. Maybe I’ll have to try making some of my own this year, if the apricot crop is good. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/9 "2017-06-20T17:31:41Z")
None. Jam is on the shopping list on the fridge. ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/10 "2017-06-20T17:32:40Z")
I have never liked jam, or anything fruity like that, but somehow I acquired a taste for red pepper jelly. So much so, that I make my own now, and there is at least one in the fridge, possibly two because the opened one got shoved to the back and I just grabbed a new one out of the pantry rather than dig for it. There may be a tiny jar of some kind of jam that someone gave me as a gift many years ago in the door of the fridge. If I think about it, it’s going on twenty years, and it may be time to toss that one. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/11 "2017-06-20T17:35:47Z")
Zero–I’d rather just have butter on my toast. Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches are OK if you leave off the jelly (at least that nasty grape crap). ---
**Author:** ![Taco\_the\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@Taco\_the\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taco_the_cat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/12 "2017-06-20T17:37:51Z")
Jam and preserves (I’m going to throw in marmalades and chutneys too) are great. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/13 "2017-06-20T17:45:53Z")
Looks like we have three right now. Last week, it would have been four. I’m not entirely sure where they’re all from, as I don’t really eat preserves, but with a couple kids in the house, always good to have around, I guess. We have strawberry, rose hip, and apricot preserves. (We usually also have grape, but I guess that ran out.) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/14 "2017-06-20T17:48:04Z")
One jar of sour cherry preserves. I use it with Greek yogurt. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/15 "2017-06-20T18:17:07Z")
1. Strawberry, huckleberry and orange marmalade. The only time they ever get used is when we have toast at breakfast, and that is only when we do a full fry-up. Once every couple of months, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/16 "2017-06-20T18:23:15Z")
Fig and blackberry ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/17 "2017-06-20T18:38:40Z")
One. Guava jam, homemade by my wife’s ‘aunt’ who isn’t actually family, but might as well be. Once or twice a year, when we go down to Florida, she sends us back with a 12-pack of homemade preserves. Usually some strawberry jam, some guava jam, and some strawberry-guava jam, which is the best jam ever. Even better than those kumquat-calamondin preserves that my wife’s grandmother used to make. I have distant memories of buying jelly and jam in the grocery store, but we haven’t had to resort to that in time out of mind. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/18 "2017-06-20T19:18:20Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > The one that’s open. > > Keeping it [in the fridge] isn’t even necessary (they’re called “preserves” for a reason) I thought they were called ‘preserves’ because the canning process both sealed the jar, and was hot enough to kill any bacteria inside the jar. So they would stay good for many years, as long as you didn’t open the jar. But once you open it, all bets are off. Stuff can get in, and jam is a wonderful medium for stuff to grow on. Unless you go through a jar of jam in a matter of days, ‘refrigerate after opening’ is good advice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/19 "2017-06-20T19:38:16Z")
3 in the fridge right now. Blackberry, Strawberry, and orange marmalade. I love to make jelly/jam/preserves. I mostly eat blackberry. I just heard that black raspberries are ripe so I’ll be picking this weekend. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-jars-of-jelly-jam-or-preserves-is-in-your-fridge/789438/20 "2017-06-20T19:38:56Z")
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