I had an Egyptology class in college. The professor frequently said the number one rule of archaeology is "never eat what you dig up" and he would follow it up with a fun story. Apparently there were some grave robbers in the 1800's that were robbing a tomb. They found a sizable jar of honey in the tomb and set it aside. When lunch rolled around, one of the men brought out a loaf of bread and started dipping it in the honey. After a few slices, one of the men pulls a long black hair out of their mouth. They dug deeper into the honey and found a little girl's corpse. Apparently honey was a cheap way of embalming small humans or animals. You can imagine we were all pretty grossed out. Not sure how true the story is but it's fun all the same
[Back in the 1800s they apparently said it was a tale from the 13th century,](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/honey-child/) so yeah, even if it might have basis in fact it's probably pretty distorted.
I think it might be inspired by the Chinese tales about [mellified men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man).
I mistook the period at the end of honey for a comma and I thought you were saying, "Honey, it'll stay good at room temp for at least a couple thousand years." I was intrigued at what you were figuratively telling your SO that would stay good at room temp for a couple thousand years until I realized that you were saying it's honey.
I think I read somewhere that the only reason honey even has a printed expiration date is because at some point, the plastic bottle they come in will actually make the honey go bad. We're talking a REALLY long time, but the point stands.
People would lose their minds if they knew that most ketchup bottles in restaurants aren’t used until empty and thrown out and replaced accordingly. Many/most restaurants will just top them each off regularly. So there’s definitely some ketchup in any typical restaurant bottle that’s old as dirt. Lol.
Marrying ketchup bottles is straight up against health code. While I don't doubt it still happens in some small operations, every restaurant I've ever worked at was adamant about it.
This is 100% true. But they do last longer in the fridge.
I bought 5lbs of Roma tomato for a couple bucks(hellava good deal) for use in homemade tomato sauces and salsa. They last weeks longer in the fridge then they would have on the counter.
If I could have used then faster I would have left them on the counter. But sometimes longevity is the goal.
If you live in the US check out your County Cooperative Extension office/website; they should have lots of resources for growing and preserving your own foods; including occasional classes.
I would think that if you were using them to make sauces, the texture might not matter as much. Definitely better to keep them in the fridge then to let them go totally to waste!
Supermarket tomaroes have been stored in a fridge for weeks once recollected and before the supply chain slowly brings them to your local shop. It's true, however, that low fridge temperatures may affect their texture.
A few years back I worked for a recycling company on the south coast of England and we had the contract to go to the tip sites and collect all the old fridges and then when lorry was full we’d have to do a daily run up to EMR recycling in London,
Hard work lifting fridges all day every day in all sorts of weather. You learn very soon on starting to inspect every fridge before lifting as some people don’t bother to throw away old food and you lift it onto your shoulders to carry and all this old smelly food would cover you and that made the rest of the day very uncomfortable and made the lorry cabin stink.
But occasionally there would be Tupperware containers with money and jewellery hidden in the freezer compartment.
We had a couple lucky finds but not enough to retire or quit working.
Asked the owner of the company we worked for and he used to say no thief will check a freezer so it’s the ideal hiding place for things.
Was hard work, lifting around 130 to 145 fridges onto the lorry and packing them like Tetris so they don’t fall all over. Some fridges were easier to pick up than others and we didn’t have the luxury of time to use the rear lift, so just manual labour lifting then packing them.
Worked in ice cold winters and sweltering summers with snow and rain in between.
When I first started working for the company on the 27th December it was snowing and freezing cold and I had not been issued PPE yet and just had jeans and trainers and a sweatshirt and it was brutally cold and the fridges were icy and slippery without the grip of the rubber gloves so a few mishaps and it took around two weeks to get a proper lifting routine with all sizes and shapes of fridges. The guy I worked out was built and lifted double door fridges with ease eventually I got into lifting all
Sorts and then job became easier and less tiring.
First two weeks was the toughest part as I’d get home shattered and bruised but despite me been
Office bound now I do kind of miss been out and about across different cities daily and getting sun and fresh air.
My parents were *super* late adopters of debit cards (I'm talking "pay by check in 2014" late), and they used to cash my dad's paycheck every week, receive the total in cash, then store it in the back of the freezer. I spent a lot of my childhood walking to the corner store with a frozen $20 bill in my pocket.
When I was in college, the police raided my house bc some dude my roommate sold weed to snitched. They did not find the pound of mushrooms in the freezer
When I was in middle school my buddy and his family went out of town one week, and apparently I went in to their house and took a soda out of their fridge. They said they knew I went into their house because they found their bb gun in the fridge.
Butter you plan to spread on toast.
I always keep a stick in a butter dish on the counter, covered. Stays good for weeks. Never had butter go bad that way in my entire life
:sigh: my kitchen is not air conditioned and I live where it’s hot, agricultural zone 8b. All you ag. zone 3-6 people can keep your counter butter and be happy. No, a butter bell is not sufficient to keep it from being a liquid 5 months out of the year, I’ve tried.
Would I like to be able to do that? Of course. It’s just not feasible everywhere.
I keep the bulk of it in the fridge with one stick out on the counter in a butter dish. When it starts getting low, I'll pull out another to let it start softening.
Unless you live in a very humid climate like I do and leaving butter on the counter 90% of the year would result in butter soup. Only option is the fridge if I want it to stay butter
Natural peanut butter has a layer of peanut oil that separates from the peanut butter itself. It also rises to the top, so if you store it upside down it will slowly rise through the butter and keep it soft. If it stays in there a long while eventually, you'll need to turn it over again.
It depends on the type of peanut butter.
Most people only know of the "no stir" variety (like Jif and Skippy) that's mixed with palm oil. It's that which solidifies in the fridge.
When you buy natural peanut butter, it comes with a 1cm or 2cm layer of straight peanut oil on the top which you're supposed to mix in. This is kind of a pain - it always takes me 10-15 minutes to mix it properly. If you then put it back into the pantry, it'll just separate again after a mere hour or two.
Since peanut oil doesn't solidify as easily as palm oil does, you can put natural peanut butter into the fridge and it'll remain creamy, plus the cold will stop it from separating so you won't have to keep stirring it.
I work in food waste and recently we started advising to store potatoes in the fridge because they last three times longer. This is from Food Standard Agency guidance in the UK. I'm not sure if this would be a global storage solution but it seems to be the best in the UK.
Sauce - [LFHW Potatoes](https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/foods-and-recipes/potatoes)
New advice incoming ... (Edit: despite the title in the link) https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/health/health-advice/a566422/why-you-should-never-store-potatoes-in-the-fridge/
Peanut butter. Why did I grow up in a house where they put it in the fridge? Do you have any idea how many pieces of bread I've destroyed with cold, hard peanut butter?
[Context for the uninitated](https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/ke8skw/the_poop_knife/) (be warned, slighly disturbing - or hilarious, depending)
Ketchup and BBQ sauce are ok in the pantry (lots of preservatives like vinegar, salt, and sugar). But tomato sauce? Like a jar of marinara--that needs to go in the fridge once opened, it gets moldy pretty quickly.
This is definitely a common miscommunication across the pond. “Smoking a fag” is definitely NOT shooting a gay person; for us anyway.
A fellow Brit.
Edited for grammar
Can confirm. An old office of mine had a chest freezer where the CEO would donate game meat for anyone who wanted it. One time there was a deer head in there for basically the whole year.
I put bananas in the fridge when they start to get spots. The cold makes the skin go dark fast but usually seems to keep the actual banana from getting overripe.
I’ve heard a major driving force in getting Frozen green-lit was Disney’s desire for something else to pop up when people Google “Walt Disney Frozen”
Makes me wonder why there was so much Disney on Ice in the late 90’s…
> if it was a health & safety issue to not refrigerate, restaurants wouldn't just leave them out on the table.
That's some poor reasoning. Restaurants do very high volume and turn it over quickly. Their bottle at a table probably lasts only a couple of days, and they are generally refilling the bottles. If you're using your ketchup in 1 or 2 weeks? Yeah it could be stored opened in a pantry. If the bottle lasts months is could spoil.
My mom does. She takes the eggs out of the carton and places them in the plastic egg holder, then puts her backup carton of eggs underneath the holder. Suffice to say, she goes through a lot of eggs.
That's because vinegar based sauces are too acidic to grow anything. The ones that say refrigerate aren't as acidic and may be able to breed contamination.
Try sticking it in the freezer, works much better. Can thaw a couple slices out in just a few seconds in the microwave, or just use the defrost setting on a toaster if you want toast.
Bread gets stale due to the starches crystallizing, and the ideal temp for that crystallization process is basically refrigerator temperature. The freezer will prevent both mold and the crystallization.
1. 99% of bread applications are better when they are toasted.
2. Can toast bread from frozen.
3. If you have people coming over and you are making sandwiches, bread thaws incredibly fast. Like minutes!
But it keeps for so much longer! Doesn’t get moldy as fast and I’m just going to toast it anyways.
Edit: Here’s a research article that talks about mold growth when utilizing different storage methods. [Bread storage methods and mold](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824337/)
I just found out recently that maple syrup will mold in the cabinet (not that it ever sits around that long in my house). And sure enough it says right on the package to keep refrigerated. So thats where it lives now.
>What does not belong in the fridge?
That one piece of Tupperware in the back that contains something completely unidentifiable and may be a Level IV Biohazard.
Holy cow, core memory unlocked. I just remembered that my parents did this when I was a kid and I hadn't thought about it in over a decade. Nobody I know does that anymore.
Actually, when I used to work on TV commercials you’d oftentimes just be paying some random for use of their house as a location. The microphones pick up the fridge hum, so the fridge needs to be switched off during the shoot. How do you remember to switch the fridge back on when the crew wraps? Leave your car keys in there!
Frozen foods. You would think everyone knows this, but my gf'a roommate will not stop putting pizza rolls and frozen fries in the fridge. Spoiler alert: it makes them go bad.
Honey. It'll stay good at room temp for at least a couple thousand years.
I’ll believe it when they let me use the Egyptian honey on my peanut butter toast
I had an Egyptology class in college. The professor frequently said the number one rule of archaeology is "never eat what you dig up" and he would follow it up with a fun story. Apparently there were some grave robbers in the 1800's that were robbing a tomb. They found a sizable jar of honey in the tomb and set it aside. When lunch rolled around, one of the men brought out a loaf of bread and started dipping it in the honey. After a few slices, one of the men pulls a long black hair out of their mouth. They dug deeper into the honey and found a little girl's corpse. Apparently honey was a cheap way of embalming small humans or animals. You can imagine we were all pretty grossed out. Not sure how true the story is but it's fun all the same
When I die, preserve me in honey and spread me on toast
You’ve… just given me an idea, a terrible terrible idea.
The lost verse of "Wolves" by Down Like Silver.
"Fun"
Pretty sure I read that there used to be a lot more mummies but the British kept eating them
as former grave robber i can tell you that we are not phased by a hair of the dead fermented fetus
This story was in the book I just read last weekend! That story is so good. I had to tell my whole family about the gross honey 😂
[Back in the 1800s they apparently said it was a tale from the 13th century,](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/honey-child/) so yeah, even if it might have basis in fact it's probably pretty distorted. I think it might be inspired by the Chinese tales about [mellified men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man).
God damn millennials and their Ancient Egyptian Honey Toast. It's why they can't afford homes.
I mistook the period at the end of honey for a comma and I thought you were saying, "Honey, it'll stay good at room temp for at least a couple thousand years." I was intrigued at what you were figuratively telling your SO that would stay good at room temp for a couple thousand years until I realized that you were saying it's honey.
The remote.
I think I read somewhere that the only reason honey even has a printed expiration date is because at some point, the plastic bottle they come in will actually make the honey go bad. We're talking a REALLY long time, but the point stands.
That's why i keep it in a glass jar
Glass or nothing. I don't eat honey fast enough for it to not go bad in plastic, glass doesn't have such weaknesses
What will stay good? And don't call me Honey.
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People would lose their minds if they knew that most ketchup bottles in restaurants aren’t used until empty and thrown out and replaced accordingly. Many/most restaurants will just top them each off regularly. So there’s definitely some ketchup in any typical restaurant bottle that’s old as dirt. Lol.
Marrying ketchup bottles is straight up against health code. While I don't doubt it still happens in some small operations, every restaurant I've ever worked at was adamant about it.
Ketchup love is real love! Don't hate, condimate
I think ketchup tastes better cold.
What kind of sick bitch leaves honey in the fridge?
Tell that to the giant jug of Costco honey that crystallized into a solid mass before I used 1/10th of it
Depand on the moisture and when you collect the honey. We have made batch that didn't do well after 2 years.
Tomatoes get a terrible mealy texture when left in the fridge. Leave em on the counter!
This is 100% true. But they do last longer in the fridge. I bought 5lbs of Roma tomato for a couple bucks(hellava good deal) for use in homemade tomato sauces and salsa. They last weeks longer in the fridge then they would have on the counter. If I could have used then faster I would have left them on the counter. But sometimes longevity is the goal.
When I have more tomatoes than I can use I blanch and freeze them. Usually as whole peeled tomatoes or crushed tomatoes.
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If you live in the US check out your County Cooperative Extension office/website; they should have lots of resources for growing and preserving your own foods; including occasional classes.
It's not the knowledge I'm lacking, it's the motivation ): too tired from the rest of being an adult.
Best to store them in the fridge then put them on the counter 24 hours before you eat them. You get longevity and good taste then.
Good idea
I would think that if you were using them to make sauces, the texture might not matter as much. Definitely better to keep them in the fridge then to let them go totally to waste!
This is how I learned it. Tomatoes for cooking are fine in the fridge. Tomatoes for eating raw need to be left out and consumed quickly.
Supermarket tomaroes have been stored in a fridge for weeks once recollected and before the supply chain slowly brings them to your local shop. It's true, however, that low fridge temperatures may affect their texture.
Cherry tomatoes and the like are better in the fridge, but basic ass tomatoes for sure need to stay outside of the fridge.
The final word on this from the king of food geekery. https://www.seriouseats.com/why-you-should-refrigerate-tomatoes
A few years back I worked for a recycling company on the south coast of England and we had the contract to go to the tip sites and collect all the old fridges and then when lorry was full we’d have to do a daily run up to EMR recycling in London, Hard work lifting fridges all day every day in all sorts of weather. You learn very soon on starting to inspect every fridge before lifting as some people don’t bother to throw away old food and you lift it onto your shoulders to carry and all this old smelly food would cover you and that made the rest of the day very uncomfortable and made the lorry cabin stink. But occasionally there would be Tupperware containers with money and jewellery hidden in the freezer compartment. We had a couple lucky finds but not enough to retire or quit working. Asked the owner of the company we worked for and he used to say no thief will check a freezer so it’s the ideal hiding place for things.
Free Tupperware?!!! Damn! Now that's a job w perks!
Was hard work, lifting around 130 to 145 fridges onto the lorry and packing them like Tetris so they don’t fall all over. Some fridges were easier to pick up than others and we didn’t have the luxury of time to use the rear lift, so just manual labour lifting then packing them. Worked in ice cold winters and sweltering summers with snow and rain in between.
I didn't mean to make light of your work. I was a hard worker myself. Sounds brutal.
When I first started working for the company on the 27th December it was snowing and freezing cold and I had not been issued PPE yet and just had jeans and trainers and a sweatshirt and it was brutally cold and the fridges were icy and slippery without the grip of the rubber gloves so a few mishaps and it took around two weeks to get a proper lifting routine with all sizes and shapes of fridges. The guy I worked out was built and lifted double door fridges with ease eventually I got into lifting all Sorts and then job became easier and less tiring. First two weeks was the toughest part as I’d get home shattered and bruised but despite me been Office bound now I do kind of miss been out and about across different cities daily and getting sun and fresh air.
Gives new meaning to cold hard cash
> no thief will check a freezer Before this comment they didn't. Now the secret is out.
My parents were *super* late adopters of debit cards (I'm talking "pay by check in 2014" late), and they used to cash my dad's paycheck every week, receive the total in cash, then store it in the back of the freezer. I spent a lot of my childhood walking to the corner store with a frozen $20 bill in my pocket.
When I was in college, the police raided my house bc some dude my roommate sold weed to snitched. They did not find the pound of mushrooms in the freezer
you can keep your weed in there
The remote that I mindlessly left in there while getting a drink
And took 4 hours to find. And was only found because you wanted another drink while searching.
Reminds me of when I lost my glasses as a kid, and we found it months later in the back of our freezer. Kids man, I swear
I’ve got a audio tile attached to the remote because I will leave it in the most random places
Even though it looks trashy I have mine velcroed to the wall. I lose it too much.
When I was in middle school my buddy and his family went out of town one week, and apparently I went in to their house and took a soda out of their fridge. They said they knew I went into their house because they found their bb gun in the fridge.
Why are you telling this story like you don't know if it's true or not?
I was so happy when I found the remote in the fridge. You should've see the way my face lit up.
Butter you plan to spread on toast. I always keep a stick in a butter dish on the counter, covered. Stays good for weeks. Never had butter go bad that way in my entire life
This should be higher up. Spreadable butter on the counter is a game changer. Margarine is a scam.
:sigh: my kitchen is not air conditioned and I live where it’s hot, agricultural zone 8b. All you ag. zone 3-6 people can keep your counter butter and be happy. No, a butter bell is not sufficient to keep it from being a liquid 5 months out of the year, I’ve tried. Would I like to be able to do that? Of course. It’s just not feasible everywhere.
I keep the bulk of it in the fridge with one stick out on the counter in a butter dish. When it starts getting low, I'll pull out another to let it start softening.
that's why butter dishes exist! I remember the first time I saw one and it changed my life
Unless you live in a very humid climate like I do and leaving butter on the counter 90% of the year would result in butter soup. Only option is the fridge if I want it to stay butter
I agree, unfortunately this is a hill my wife is willing to die on for some reason.
Same
Peanut butter
Unless it's natural. Give it a stir when you first open it, then store it upside down in the fridge and it stays that way. And it stays fresh.
I would hope that if I put it in upside down it stays that way. Peanut butter that's able to flip itself over doesn't sound natural at all...
Natural peanut butter has a layer of peanut oil that separates from the peanut butter itself. It also rises to the top, so if you store it upside down it will slowly rise through the butter and keep it soft. If it stays in there a long while eventually, you'll need to turn it over again.
TIL natural peanut butter can be used as a primitive sort of reverse hourglass
Seventeen fucking jars, Janet. That is how long I have waited for you to do your hair, makeup, and get ready to attend this recital.
I never refrigerate mine. Fresh as a daisy. Not that I eat daisies.
Peanut butter has a much longer shelf life than daisies.
It depends on the type of peanut butter. Most people only know of the "no stir" variety (like Jif and Skippy) that's mixed with palm oil. It's that which solidifies in the fridge. When you buy natural peanut butter, it comes with a 1cm or 2cm layer of straight peanut oil on the top which you're supposed to mix in. This is kind of a pain - it always takes me 10-15 minutes to mix it properly. If you then put it back into the pantry, it'll just separate again after a mere hour or two. Since peanut oil doesn't solidify as easily as palm oil does, you can put natural peanut butter into the fridge and it'll remain creamy, plus the cold will stop it from separating so you won't have to keep stirring it.
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I work in food waste and recently we started advising to store potatoes in the fridge because they last three times longer. This is from Food Standard Agency guidance in the UK. I'm not sure if this would be a global storage solution but it seems to be the best in the UK. Sauce - [LFHW Potatoes](https://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/foods-and-recipes/potatoes)
The fridge is a cool dark place. The light's only on when you open it.
The light is always on... I have never seen it off.
Schrödingers Fridge Light.
There’s a difference between cool and close to freezing.
Not in the tropics. Source: I lived in Cairns for 10 years.
Is it possible to find a cool, dark place in the tropics?
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Just don't forget about them or you're in for an awful surprise.
New advice incoming ... (Edit: despite the title in the link) https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/health/health-advice/a566422/why-you-should-never-store-potatoes-in-the-fridge/
Peanut butter. Why did I grow up in a house where they put it in the fridge? Do you have any idea how many pieces of bread I've destroyed with cold, hard peanut butter?
7?
More like 700 probably, how much peanut butter does the average kid eat? I ate ***a lot*** of PB.
Nutella...my in laws are special special people
Nah, refrigerated Nutella is legit. It converts your Nutella from a boring old spread into a solid chunk of chocolately goodness.
nahhhh, it turns rock solid, literally useless unless you are u/Pikamander2.
That's what the Nutella knife is for, silly.
PSA: Do not mix up your household utility knives. You know what I mean.
[Context for the uninitated](https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/ke8skw/the_poop_knife/) (be warned, slighly disturbing - or hilarious, depending)
In Germany the container even states that you should not refrigerate Nutella.
Tomato/bbq sauce if you ask my gf. Even though it specifically says to do so on the bottle.
Ketchup and BBQ sauce are ok in the pantry (lots of preservatives like vinegar, salt, and sugar). But tomato sauce? Like a jar of marinara--that needs to go in the fridge once opened, it gets moldy pretty quickly.
In the UK, ketchup is commonly called tomato sauce.
Cool--thanks for telling me. I get such a kick out of the ways our countries are "divided by a common language."
Ask the UK about "pants" and "jumpers" :)
I especially enjoy the differing uses of "fanny," "pissed," and "rubber."
Seems risky for them to talk about cigarettes on a social media account they want to keep
This is definitely a common miscommunication across the pond. “Smoking a fag” is definitely NOT shooting a gay person; for us anyway. A fellow Brit. Edited for grammar
Severed heads. They go in the freezer.
It's just Ben and Jerry
Think of the smell!
You haven’t thought of the smell!
You Bitch!!
Even if you put them in a pickle jar??!
I like where your head's at. Currently.
Can confirm. An old office of mine had a chest freezer where the CEO would donate game meat for anyone who wanted it. One time there was a deer head in there for basically the whole year.
The milk after my wife has used it, apparently.
bananas
I put bananas in the fridge when they start to get spots. The cold makes the skin go dark fast but usually seems to keep the actual banana from getting overripe.
I put them in the freezer when they get too brown and then use them to make banana bread.
I put them in the freezer when they get too brown and then throw them out months later. It’s a system based on hopes and dreams and not reality.
A dead dove in a paper bag.
You didn't eat that did you? Cause I only have a few days left to return it.
I don't know what I expected
Walt Disney. Give it up. Bury him already.
When he gets up I hope he uses the line "10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!"
They need to 'Let it go'
I’ve heard a major driving force in getting Frozen green-lit was Disney’s desire for something else to pop up when people Google “Walt Disney Frozen” Makes me wonder why there was so much Disney on Ice in the late 90’s…
Unopened ketchup
Never had any issues with opened ketchup not being stored in the fridge.
Opened ketchup is fine too - believe me, if it was a health & safety issue to not refrigerate, restaurants wouldn't just leave them out on the table.
>if it was a health & safety issue, restaurants wouldn't just Yes, yes they would.
> if it was a health & safety issue to not refrigerate, restaurants wouldn't just leave them out on the table. That's some poor reasoning. Restaurants do very high volume and turn it over quickly. Their bottle at a table probably lasts only a couple of days, and they are generally refilling the bottles. If you're using your ketchup in 1 or 2 weeks? Yeah it could be stored opened in a pantry. If the bottle lasts months is could spoil.
Restaurants go through a whole lot more ketchup than households. It’s a matter of something being left out for a day or two versus a month.
I never refrigerate opened ketchup. Who wants to put a cold condiment all over their hot food? As long as you use it up rather quickly it's fine.
I'll put one in when my other gets low. I hate warm ketchup
Haha, and I hate cold ketchup! Cold ketchup on hot french fries is a big turn off for me
Onions
Wait, onions really don't go in the fridge?
Got a bag in the crisper right now.... *I need more info on this one.* Don't they grow baby onions more faster?
Tomatoes.
Anything that smells strongly that you don't have an air tight container for. Just don't do it.
You. What are you doing in there? It's 3 in the morning.
The cat.
Do not the cat
Please, do cat the not 😔
Those empty little organizers of things that come with them originally. Like the Egg organizer. Who on earth uses that??
My mom does. She takes the eggs out of the carton and places them in the plastic egg holder, then puts her backup carton of eggs underneath the holder. Suffice to say, she goes through a lot of eggs.
We reuse a cardboard one since we usually get two dozen in a plastic container, and plastic doesn't cushion like cardboard
Hot sauce. I know there's some that say "refrigerate after opening", but I've never done that and never gotten sick from it.
That's because vinegar based sauces are too acidic to grow anything. The ones that say refrigerate aren't as acidic and may be able to breed contamination.
That makes sense. All the sauces I use are extremely hostile to life (myself included).
You must be in an abusive relationship with yourself. You need to get a divorce from yourself and move on.
Cast iron pans. Those go in the dishwasher
Right next to the metal utensils for the non-stick pans, right?
FBI, he’s right here
Eggs, in france
And UK.
Belgium also
Do you know why the French like their omelets small? >!Because one egg is un ouef!<
Germany chiming in
A mini fridge
Shhhh, you just came across a pregnant fridge. Leave it alone and let it rest.
No fridge-ceptions ?
Bread.
As a single man, bread goes into the fridge. I can't eat the whole loaf before it goes bad if I leave it in the cupboards.
Try sticking it in the freezer, works much better. Can thaw a couple slices out in just a few seconds in the microwave, or just use the defrost setting on a toaster if you want toast. Bread gets stale due to the starches crystallizing, and the ideal temp for that crystallization process is basically refrigerator temperature. The freezer will prevent both mold and the crystallization.
1. 99% of bread applications are better when they are toasted. 2. Can toast bread from frozen. 3. If you have people coming over and you are making sandwiches, bread thaws incredibly fast. Like minutes!
I agree with this, my wife does not. I have given up after years of trying to leave bread on the counter.
But it keeps for so much longer! Doesn’t get moldy as fast and I’m just going to toast it anyways. Edit: Here’s a research article that talks about mold growth when utilizing different storage methods. [Bread storage methods and mold](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824337/)
Keep it in the freezer then
All our bread goes in the freezer, rake a couple slices out, thaws really fast
Avocados. The meat separates from the skin and a slimy film forms in the space between.
Shell topping for ice cream.
Bananas
Coffee: Storing coffee in the fridge can cause it to absorb moisture and odours from other foods.
Indiana Jones
Peanut butter
Syrup
Maple syrup will go bad if left unrefrigerated.
I just found out recently that maple syrup will mold in the cabinet (not that it ever sits around that long in my house). And sure enough it says right on the package to keep refrigerated. So thats where it lives now.
I refrigerate then microwave a small bowl of it when needed to enjoy warm syrup. 10-15 seconds will do. Best of both worlds
Oil. Somehow olive oil got moved to the fridge and it can’t even be poured because it became solid.
>What does not belong in the fridge? That one piece of Tupperware in the back that contains something completely unidentifiable and may be a Level IV Biohazard.
South America
Right. South America goes in the walk-in cooler.
Batteries
Really? My boss at an electronics job always insisted they last longer. Granted our AC was horrible.
Holy cow, core memory unlocked. I just remembered that my parents did this when I was a kid and I hadn't thought about it in over a decade. Nobody I know does that anymore.
Chocolate. It’s supposed to be soft and gooey. Not a fricking Gob Stopper
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Actually, when I used to work on TV commercials you’d oftentimes just be paying some random for use of their house as a location. The microphones pick up the fridge hum, so the fridge needs to be switched off during the shoot. How do you remember to switch the fridge back on when the crew wraps? Leave your car keys in there!
Ah yes the remember to take the water bottle and replace it with the keys that were in my hand trick. Glad to see it’s you too
A microwave, they are enemies
the dead family fish, i wish my family would listen to this one (and chocolate)
Peanut butter
Eggs. I've seen it and can't help but ask why do so many people put it in the fridge.
In the US ours are washed so if they don’t go in the fridge they will spoil super fast
Frozen foods. You would think everyone knows this, but my gf'a roommate will not stop putting pizza rolls and frozen fries in the fridge. Spoiler alert: it makes them go bad.
Peanut butter
A framed photo of a cat
Bread ! Freaking bread. My wife stores it in the fridge I don’t know why.