Hi OzB,
I need this settled. My girlfriend keeps wanting to put sauce in the fridge like a crazy person. It clearly belongs in the cupboard.
Where do you keep yours?
Where Do You Keep Your Sauce? (Fridge or Cupboard)
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- 30Fridge
- 23Cupboard
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Agreed. Feels wrong eating something hot and dipping again into warm sauce.
if you're buying sauce that comes in bulk containers, you're being unkind to your taste buds.
Fountain sauces come in 2lt. They are OK. Unless you pay substantially more for gourmet brands, I'm not sure what offers better value.
in the fridge for warmer climates otherwise it will go bad once opened.
I never put it in the fridge when i lived in melb but in Bris I notice the sauce gets a fermenting type odour if left out (even in the cupboard) in summer.
sauce being left out is the biggest source of infectious sores. I saws this on ACA.
I also get my health advice from ACA. Much more convenient than a doctor.
Sauce was literally invented as method of preserving tomatoes without refrigeration, so we don't worry to much about it in the cupboard. I defer to your first hand experience in a warmer climate, however.
Most sauce bottles clearly state on the label to refrigerate after opening. I put mayonnaise and tomato sauce in the fridge, but I leave sweet chilli in the pantry.
And the sweet chilli in my cupboard says refrigerate.
But I think the argument is something like:
"Well, if there was a bacterial growth present, it would proceed much, much slower in a fridge."
"But the sauce is a medium that restricts the availability of water, so bacteria can't grow."
"Yes, but let's put refrigerate on the label, just to be safe."Yeah for most sauces it's probably an over-cautious disclaimer that a lawyer told them to include in case they get sued.
With sweet chilli I figure its sugar content is so high that it has almost no risk of growing mould in the pantry.
Tomato & BBQ in the cupboard, chilli and salad dressings in the fridge. Why? Because our mothers did. Never read the storage requirements on a tomato sauce bottles until today. Probably doesn't get a chance to go off anyway with a generous squeeze in the spag bog each week.
Cupboard when it's still sealed, fridge once opened. I have about 12 bottles of sauce with <5% of the contents left, not wanting to finish them as I'll have to buy some more haha.
Once opened they belong to the fridge.
I do both. The big bulk sauce bottle is in the cupboard, and the small squeeze bottle that we refill is in the fridge.
Reasoning:
large bottle takes up too much space in the fridge and the amount of sugar and preservatives in it keeps it from spoiling
sauce tastes better as a cold sauce on hot food, gives more variety in the mouth. So small bottle in the fridge