You Don’t Need to Refrigerate Your Ketchup

Do you put your ketchup in the fridge? Because according to food safety experts, ketchup is perfectly fine sitting in the pantry after you open it.

Here’s what a professor of food science had to say about it, “I store my tomato ketchup in the cupboard next to the barbecue sauce . . . It’s high in acid, so microbes die off quicker at room temperature compared to in the refrigerator.”

Plus, room temperature ketchup pours out a whole lot easier than the cold stuff. And it’s not just ketchup . . . soy sauce and some hot sauces are pantry-safe too.

And there are a few foods you should NEVER refrigerate. Bread gets stale quicker in the fridge . . . honey crystallizes into a rock-hard mess . . . and coffee can absorb moisture to make some pretty funky fridge odors.

But foods like nuts, whole grain flour, and jarred pesto actually last longer in the fridge because heat and oxygen can make them go bad faster.

(Huff Post)
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