Ketchup

[Jazzy]

Do you store your ketchup in the refrigerator or the cupboard?

 

[Lamb]

We put our ketchup in the fridge. I thought we had to do it?

 

[Ammi]

I store opened ketchup in the fridge.

 

[Stravinsk]

I learned from some of my retail/service jobs that ketchup doesn't need to be refrigerated. Opened and partially used containers of tomato sauce/paste does, but the extra sugar in ketchup combined with the acidity of tomato sauce keeps it unspoiled for a long time. I use enough of it that the larger containers never go bad/contain mold by the time I'm finished with them, but un-sweetened tomato sauce has to be used within a shorter time or else mold will grow.

 

[Jazzy]

Unopened - In the pantry

Opened - In the fridge