• @vic_rattlehead
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      183 months ago

      Ketchup needs to be refrigerated because it’s a cooling fluid for boiling lava hot potatoes.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      93 months ago

      Wait people leave kimchi out of the fridge?

      Putting it in the fridge slows the fermentation process to trap the right flavor. Otherwise it’s a bit TOO kimchi-y and not so tasty.

    • @[email protected]
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      93 months ago

      Hot sauce collector here, heaps of sauces specify they need to be refrigerated after opening.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        Tell it to all South of border restaurants. Hot sauce on table, all day, every day.

        ‘They specify’ doesn’t mean it ever happened before refrigeration.

        Pickles, too, were made because there was no refrigeration (not how most are made now, but originally).

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          That’s mainly cuz they go through bottles very quickly! We have so many sauces at my house, it takes a year+ to go through some of the most spicy bois. Definitely need to fridge ’em. There’s only one kind that can stay out cuz i slam through tons of it every time we pizza. Some mango habanero sauce with a… Yorker cap? Whatever you call the twisty pointy cap.

    • @Veritrax
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      63 months ago

      I can see it with eggs, if you don’t wash eggs they’re shelf stable for a couple weeks because of a natural coating. I was super confused when I went to the UK and all the eggs were on a shelf at the supermarket instead of in a cooler.

      • Flying Squid
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        33 months ago

        Yep. Definitely refrigerate eggs in the U.S.

    • poVoq
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      63 months ago

      If it is not salt fermented pickles but rather those pickled in vinegar, it is good to put them in the fridge after opening the glass.

    • @bitchkat
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      53 months ago

      Those are all normal things to refrigerste. Except kimchi possibly as I’ve never had it in my house.