I live in a humid climate (especially in the summer), and if we don’t refrigerate our bread and tortillas, or any baked goods, they get moldy in like 4 days.
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Bread outside the fridge spoils fast. Bread in the fridge lasts longer but is less fluffy. In this household we refrigerate our bread and then toast it lightly if we’re going to eat it straight. Most of the sandwiches I make are toasted anyway.
Mine refuse to refrigerate cheese (other than cream-cheese) and butter. Infuriates me as it gets super oily and rancid real fast.
One of my wife’s friends got persistently sick last year. She just could not get better. Sometimes she’d be fine for a week or two, but then she’d get sick again. Eventually it came down to her needing to document everything she did each day - and they discovered she was getting sick from warm butter.
Turns out her mom had come over at some point and saw that she refrigerated butter and said “you don’t need to do that, it’s so much easier to use when warm and it doesn’t go bad.” Yeah, that’s the case if you eat a stick of butter in a few short days. But you can’t leave it out for more than that or it starts getting filled with all sorts of germs.
Mine didn’t refrigerate bread when I was growing up, but I do now. There are less people in the house so the bread stays around longer.
Putting boiling water in the freezer is so useful, like you can cook it once and freeze it, then get it out when you need it and just reheat it a little.
If I don’t put my bread in the fridge, it’s moldy within a week. It’s all meant to be toasted anyway.
Refrigerating bread slows down mold growth…
This increasing the shelf life.
You don’t have to refrigerate bread. But you can with clear reason.
Living in the tropics, it’s rather common to refrigerate bread, else you run the risk of mould overnight.
Peanut butter does NOT go in the fridge. 🤬
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“Only white people put ketchup in the fridge.” - my Mexican roommate
non refrigerated ketchup always tastes funky unless it’s the kind that’s packed with a large enough buttload of preservatives that they no longer have to put “refrigerate after opening” on the bottle.
Ketchup belongs in the fridge, to cut the heat. Otherwise it’s too spicy.
Personally, I refrigerate anything that says Refrigerate after opening. Even if it’s preceded by For best results. Ketchup falls into that category.
I like the temperature contrast between cold ketchup and hot food so mine is in the fridge.
The best before date is based on it being refrigerated and the reason why we do it is to slow bacteria multiplication to a crawl
