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But IIRC you're supposed to keep it refrigerated.

That's why I don't have any.

The best place for it is the trash can.

...but i developed a more refined taste for it during lock down..now I actually use it on...gasp...hamburgers!

so I like cold ketchup so I don't have to wait.

I'm not a barbarian, and I don't care how much my wife would say to the contrary.

Weak-hearted individuals can always pop it in the microwave.

Because I use it so rarely that it goes bad before I'm done with the bottle.

But I leave my butter out to get nice and soft. I go thru butter so quickly that it doesn't have time to go bad.

But I must also admit that a little rancid taste doesn't bother me a bit.

A stick of butter for me may last about 2 days (I cook a lot). That's not long enough for it to go rancid in 70 degrees F.

But if you like it that way, to each their own.

I would come home and find some of it missing, with cat tongue prints on it.

My daughter puts her peanut butter in the fridge, which I think is weird 😄

Unopened - cabinet. Opened - fridge.

Exceptions are things like vinegar, peanut butter, oils, stuff that obviously won't go bad.

Yeah, ketchup has more preservatives than a twinkie, but it still goes in the fridge because it has stuff in it that would normally spoil.

They will grow hair....

Plus I like them cold.

I get at McDonalds. I keep them in fridge.

Nice to know I'm compliant.

I have a job where I move seniors from their homes to senior communities or assisted living and we go in after we move them and clear out their residences. I have seen some gross open bottlers of ketchup and other things ! And don’t get me started on the smell when I have to clean out a recyclable bottle to recycle! UGH🤮🤢

We used to keep it in the refrigerator, once upon a time.

I got turned off by all that high-fructose corn syrup in it.

Granted, I barely use ketchup, but it doesn't seem to go bad. Restaurants don't. They leave it on the table.

Food safety experts say that while ketchup is shelf-stable, it generally tastes better when kept cold. “I'm shocked there's a controversy,” said Martin Bucknavage, a food safety specialist at Penn State University. “If you want to maximize the quality of your ketchup, you keep it in the fridge.”

Someone told me to store it on the counter so I did and it molded

Both on their labels and their websites and always after opening. If there is dairy or oil in any of those products they will turn rancid and will mold and make you sick. I don't like taking chances with my food.

I never leave it out. Most non organic ketchups contain lots of corn syrup - not really healthy.

Many people never even check ingredients. You can buy ice cream with 3 or 4 ingredients or with over 20 ingredients. Rarely do people check. Check your ketchup ingredients before buying it. Avoid corn syrup!!

n/t

Just for the hell of it.

Refrigerator

But probably well beyond average. The person who opened it to have the ketchup go off like shaken champagne wasn’t best pleased. Funny now, decades later, but my ketchup now remains in the fridge!

This or that question.

I didn’t know that was optional. I only use ketchup on French fries though, so a bottle lasts a long time at my house.

in a tiny nonstick pan.

I'll add some Yucateca or Valentina hot sauce to mine now and then.

Ketchup, mustard and butter to fridge.
Honey outside.
Fred Red Hot outside.
Molasses outside

No cold ketchup for us. Besides, it doesn’t last long in our house. We put that sh** on everything!🤠

But as a young adult on my own I thought: open a jar or bottle, store in fridge. There’s exceptions, like peanut butter and oil, but condiments definitely go in the fridge.

I could never figure that out.

…so any butter left out would be a puddle.

In Hawai’i the ambient temp is more comfortable as long as the trade-winds are blowing, but the ambient temp is still warm enough to make butter very soft to melted.
Since it’s subtropical there is also the problem of bugs, so as long as I lived there nearly every food item got stashed in the hermetically sealed refrigerator. Every woman I knew was devoted to Tupperware for dry goods like rice and flour.

Toss a bottle and you have an instant Jackson Polluck...

Or if you are a maga you have an original trump.

The packets sit in the junk draw for a while until I uncover them and throw them out.

We do put the brown mustard in the refrigerator after opening, though.

The Tikkis