Tomato Ketchup - Cupboard or Fridge?

[mrtrebus]

10-15 minutes after removing when it's warm outside

Thank you.

 

[shayd]

But there is more vinegar and salt - both preservatives that sugar. And when was the last time you saw mouldy sugar?

While I don't believe ketchup is perishable unless it's opened and kept out for months, I don't think it'll "go bad" in the sense of molding. I think the primary concern would be degradation of the ingredients leading to an undesired taste.

 

[Kingfisher]

Fridge. And the peanut butter too. Just in case you're interested.

 

[dogbone27]

cupboard here

 

[habo9]

Cupboard.

Putting something that cold on hot food doesn't sound too appealing to me.

This :thumbsup:

 

[HE1FiNEARTiST]

i keep mine in the cupboard, i also keep my peanut butter and jelly in the cupboard. you just can't spread them on bread when they are cold.

 

[Jagger69]

Restaurants leave it out because a continuous stream of patrons typically will use up the entire bottle in a day or 2. Also, restaurants typically refrigerate the opened bottles of ketchup overnight while the establishment is closed to maintain freshness. Once opened, ambient temperatures can affect the taste quality of ketchup over a period of time so if it takes you several weeks or longer to go through a bottle of ketchup, my advice is to refrigerate it.

Trust me....I'm a doctor.

"....they call me Dr. Love!!!" :1orglaugh

 

[ICanHasLogin]

Fridge. Right next to the camera film.

 

[roronoa3000]

Was the title Tomato ketchup needed? Every knows ketchup is tomatoes.
Well fridge is my answer.

 

[cartman24]

The fridge, definitely. Warm ketchup is nasty.

 

[Straight Shooter]

I could be wrong, but does it say on the bottle to refrigerate after opening?

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

 

[Ace Bandage]

^^ Post #23 called. It wanted me to tell you that video was posted on the first page.

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

^^ Post #23 called. It wanted me to tell you that video was posted on the first page.

Sorry whimsy. Should have read the thread from the start.

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Sorry whimsy. Should have read the thread from the start.

Don't worry. Penance will be a gunshot to whichever hand you use. If you are ambidextrous I will be forced to shoot one of your kneecaps. It's ok, though, we all make mistakes in life. Just some cost dearly than others. Yours has crossed the line big time.

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

Don't worry. Penance will be a gunshot to whichever hand you use. If you are ambidextrous I will be forced to shoot one of your kneecaps. It's ok, though, we all make mistakes in life. Just some cost dearly than others. Yours has crossed the line big time.

Lol, that's crazy though. I read page three of this thread only and put that funny King of Queens video in and just before placing it my post I thought for a moment to check the rest of the thread, but never thought for a minute that anyone would have already posted that so went ahead and posted anyway. I bow my head to you whimsy. :bowdown:

 

[~~whimsy~~]

Lol, that's crazy though. I read page three of this thread only and put that funny King of Queens video in and just before placing it my post I thought for a moment to check the rest of the thread, but never thought for a minute that anyone would have already posted that so went ahead and posted anyway. I bow my head to you whimsy. :bowdown:

If I let you off the hook then others would expect me to do the same for them. Sorry. No can do. Now which hand do you use?

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

It's gonna have to be the kneecaps. Not the hands! :eek:

 

[larss]

Was the title Tomato ketchup needed? Every knows ketchup is tomatoes.
Well fridge is my answer.

Actually, yes it was needed. I have in my cupboard, along with tomato ketchup, a mushroom ketchup (more of a liquid and great for flavouring other sauces) and Ketchup Manis which is a sweet Indonesian soy sauce.

 

[mrtrebus]

I could be wrong, but does it say on the bottle to refrigerate after opening?

No, it says. . .

Imagine a cave with a long entrance open to daylight leading away. In the cave there are prisoners who have been there since birth. The are chained to a wall so that they can only see the back of the cave and not the light from the entrance.

Higher up and behind them there is a fire, kept lit by guards. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a path, which the guards walk along carrying things such as statues and wooden animals etc. And sometimes the guards talk and sometimes they dont. Imagine then that the shadow of these guards carrying statues and animals is cast onto the back wall of the cave by the firelight. The prisoners below can only see the shadows.

Imagine also that the voices of the guards echoes from the back wall, so to the prisoners it would seem like the voices would be from the shadows of the item, and to them the shadows would be reality. They take great sport in guessing what shadow is next, for that is all they see.

Then, one man is released and brought up from the cave to where the fire is. The light from the fire would surely burn his eyes, and he would see the items and he is told that this is reality and the shadows were false. He is then forcibly dragged up the long entrance and out into daylight. The brightness would surely blind him, temporarily at least.

The man has to watch the dark, which eventually becomes the man looking at shadows of people and items, he then will be able to look at reflections of reality in water, and eventually he will be able to gaze at the sky at night. Finally after years, the man can look at the sun and daylight, and learns mathematics and sciences and arts. He is then taken back to the cave and chained to the wall with his old prisoners. His eyes are unaccustomed to the dark so he is once again temporarily blinded. His friends ask him to predict the next shadow but he cannot see them yet and is ridiculed.

The man tries to explain that they are wrong, that reality is outside the cave, but the other prisoners continue to ridicule him and say that his venture out the cave left him blind and dumb. If the man then attempts to force the other prisoners to ascend the cave, they would surely kill him is they could lay their hands on him.