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Chilled bread and ketchup
The Wizard
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My in-laws keep their bread and tomato/brown sauce in the refrigerator and wondered if anyone else found this just plain wrong or are we in the minority by not doing this?
I know it says keep refrigerated but chilled bread is hard and tastes stale and what's the point in going to all the trouble of rustling up a nice hot bacon sarney then slapping it between two slices of chilled bread and covering it in ice cold sauce.
I know it says keep refrigerated but chilled bread is hard and tastes stale and what's the point in going to all the trouble of rustling up a nice hot bacon sarney then slapping it between two slices of chilled bread and covering it in ice cold sauce.
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Tomato sauce and salad cream get kept in the fridge, though I doubt it makes much difference really.
If you go by what the bottles say, ketchup should be stored in the fridge, and brown sauce in the cupboard, which is what we do, because we are sheep.:D
Bread, should NEVER be stored in the fridge. As Utopian Girl says, it goes stale much faster (because it dries out much faster in the cool air). It does, however, freeze very well.
Keeping it in the fridge makes it go stale much quicker than at room temperature. If you want to keep it longer put it in the freezer - slice it first if needed.
Mould will grow faster though at room temperature so the best place to store it does depend upon the type of bread.
Don't know how I survived my childhood though as my Mum never stored the sauces in the fridge and still doesn't to this day and no harm came to us then.
The opposite is true. Fresh hand made loaves often last far less time than mass produced because they simply don't ha e the same preservatives in them.
Hinze Ketchup had all the artificial stuff taken out a few years back, so they now recommend it 's kept in the fridge
Ketchup in my house stays in the fridge once opened.
You don't really need a bread bin. Wrapping the loaf in a paper bag and putting it in a cupboard works just as well. Better than storing in the fridge!
Bread's fine in the fridge if it's just for toast as it keeps longer.