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Do you refridgerate your peanut butter?!
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:03 pm
by Sirensa
This debate came up and now I'm curious!
If we had a food forum for like recipes and stuff I would have posted this there! =D
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:06 pm
by Jaxomer
My wife buys that all natural PB so we have to refridgerate it

Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:07 pm
by Pherr the Dorf
Same here, real peanut butter has to be refrigerated
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:15 pm
by Ajran
Refridgerated peanut butter = mangled bread
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:18 pm
by Pherr the Dorf
Also for those that use real peanut butter, before you open it or refrigerate it, turn it upsidedown for a day, it makes it easy to stir in the oils that seperate
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:24 pm
by Sirensa
I haven't had real peanut butter since I was a kid and my mom was into natural/organic foods, so I can't really remember if it is that much tastier. So is it?
I love peanut butter. If it was calorie free I would eat it by the spoonful! (ok well I do that sometimes anyways but usually just one spoonful). Peanut sauce on thai food is the yum.
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:28 pm
by Pherr the Dorf
Real peanut butter isn't sweetened with sugar, it tastes like, peanuts oddly enough, that other stuff tastes horrible after you eat the real stuff for awhile
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:30 pm
by Voronwë
shit like this is a point of marital friction in our house.
i cant stand when syrup, peanut butter, ketchup, or soy sauce winds up in the fridge.
that shit does not need to be refrigerated.
Does it say "REFRIDGERATE AFTER OPENING" on the label?
FUCK NO IT DOESNT.
I have hot fucking waffles, why do i want COLD FUCKING SYRUP on them?
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WOMAN!!!!!!
-*crackle* "911 operator is there an emergency?"
-"my husband said he was going to kill me if i put the syrup in the refridgerator again"
-*crackle* "wtf? who puts that in the fridge?" *crackle-hiss-pop*
i feel better now, thanks )
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:31 pm
by Ennia
hmm I keep my ketchup in the fridge
peanut butter no, but I don't eat it, my kid does
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:35 pm
by Pherr the Dorf
/em looks at the top of his Adams Natural Peanut Butter jar
/em reads the whole thing
/em sees the part that says "Store in the refrigerator after opening"
/em whistles
Re: Do you refridgerate your peanut butter?!
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:47 pm
by Ramius
Sirensa wrote:This debate came up and now I'm curious!
If we had a food forum for like recipes and stuff I would have posted this there! =D
My question is how in the world did this come up in conversation?
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:54 pm
by Rojer
I love peanut butter. If it was calorie free I would eat it by the spoonful! (ok well I do that sometimes anyways but usually just one spoonful). Peanut sauce on thai food is the yum.
Yea right, who takes just 1 spoonful.. I WANT THE TRUTH!
Posted: August 15, 2003, 3:59 pm
by kyoukan
I'm with voronwe. I don't put any of that shit in the fridge, least of all the peanut butter.
All my condiments are room temperature baby.

Posted: August 15, 2003, 4:00 pm
by Acies
I like Peanut Butter on my waffles in the morning

Posted: August 15, 2003, 4:07 pm
by masteen
PB: no.
Jelly: yes, even before I open it. Cold preserves are the win.
Posted: August 15, 2003, 4:36 pm
by noel
Soy Sauce and Ketchup require refridgeration. TT Voro!
Re: Do you refridgerate your peanut butter?!
Posted: August 15, 2003, 4:49 pm
by Sirensa
Ramius wrote:Sirensa wrote:This debate came up and now I'm curious!
If we had a food forum for like recipes and stuff I would have posted this there! =D
My question is how in the world did this come up in conversation?
I live with someone who thinks I am weird for not refridgerating my peanut butter (skippy or some other non-natural brand).
I do put ketchup, syrup and soy sauce in the fridge though.
*edit* - I usually warm syrup in the microwave before putting using it so makes no difference to me that it was cold from the fridge!
And yes, peanut butter on waffles is the yum!
Posted: August 15, 2003, 4:54 pm
by rhyae
Nope, not in fridge, and I dont keep my soy sauce or hot sauce in fridge either.
I do keep my mustard in the fridge though.
Posted: August 15, 2003, 4:58 pm
by Zygar_ Cthulhukin
Much

for teh peanut butter.... goes well on bread, crackers, celery, waffles, potato chips, pancakes, bananas, etc.... I like putting it on really hot toast and watch it start to glisten moistly as it begins to melt ......<shudder>....whew, ok I'm fine now. And no I don't chillz it.
Posted: August 15, 2003, 5:02 pm
by Lynks
Zygar_ Cthulhukin wrote:Much

for teh peanut butter.... goes well on bread, crackers, celery, waffles, potato chips, pancakes, bananas, etc.... I like putting it on really hot toast and watch it start to glisten moistly as it begins to melt ......<shudder>....whew, ok I'm fine now. And no I don't chillz it.
Waffles and chips?? Never tried that before.
Re: Do you refridgerate your peanut butter?!
Posted: August 15, 2003, 5:16 pm
by Acies
Sirensa wrote:
And yes, peanut butter on waffles is the yum!
But only with a really big glass of ice cold milk

Posted: August 15, 2003, 5:31 pm
by Sabek
My 4 year old daughter is a peanut butter maniac. She would eat peanut butter morning noon and night if I let her.
Her favorite breakfast is "gooey peanutbutter". Toast with peanut butter and a glass of milk.
Posted: August 15, 2003, 5:48 pm
by Abelard
i've been brought up in a room temperature friendly condiment house. i've been conditioned to believe this is the only way, the correct way. the abelard way.
Posted: August 15, 2003, 6:07 pm
by Voronwë
Aranuil wrote:Soy Sauce and Ketchup require refridgeration. TT Voro!
what existed to keep food from spoiling before electricity?
salt.
what is soy sauce? water and salt
Heinz wrote:Should ketchup be refrigerated?
Because it is a very acidic product, ketchup does not spoil easily. Once opened, in order to maintain the product's quality more effectively, we do suggest that ketchup (and any other processed food) be refrigerated after opening because refrigeration retards spoilage.
So i will concede that Heinz recommends it be refrigerated. But it is not REQUIRED in order to ensure your health.
i dont think there are any organisms that can live in BOTH soy sauce and the human body; therefore, there is little risk of any pathogen. The osmolrity of soy sauce is about 200X that of human blood or interstitual fluid*.
YOU WILL NOT REFRIGERATE MAH SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* - fabricated statistic to support my case
Posted: August 15, 2003, 6:14 pm
by noel
Dude... the only reason I even knew about the Soy sauce thing is because I was having ilke a 168 hour sushi bender (I ate Sushi for dinner for like a week), and I had some soy sauce conveniently located on my coffee table. I was wathing a movie on about the fifth day, and my eyes wandered to the back of the Soy Sauce container where I noticed clearly printed in capital letters, 'Refridgerate After Opening'. I was at the same time both shocked and horrified. So now I keep my soy sauce in the 'fridge.
Kikkoman's site says the following:
Remember that all soy sauces should be stored in a cool place.
/shrug
Posted: August 15, 2003, 6:16 pm
by Voronwë
i think a bottle of soy sauce can outlive a human. that is my completely off-base hairbrained opinion, and i am 100% inflexible on the matter.
Posted: August 15, 2003, 6:18 pm
by masteen
Remember, if you put peanut butter on your balls, and have your dog lick it off, it's not cheating. Beacuse it's YOUR dog!
Posted: August 15, 2003, 6:19 pm
by Revs
Ajran wrote:Refridgerated peanut butter = mangled bread
Ain't that the truth?
Say no to refridgerated PB

Posted: August 15, 2003, 6:54 pm
by noel
Haha Voro, you're probably right!
masteen wrote:Remember, if you put peanut butter on your balls, and have your dog lick it off, it's not cheating. Beacuse it's YOUR dog!
Would you believe this is the first thought that popped into my head when I saw the subject, and I had been debating posting it all day.

Posted: August 15, 2003, 7:10 pm
by Moongrinn
No condiments Refridgerated, save icecream condiments.
Posted: August 15, 2003, 7:45 pm
by Bubba Grizz
masteen wrote:Remember, if you put peanut butter on your balls, and have your dog lick it off, it's not cheating. Beacuse it's YOUR dog!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted: August 15, 2003, 10:46 pm
by Deneve
ditto on Jaxo
Posted: August 15, 2003, 11:39 pm
by aZ
wtf!? Whoever keeps soy sauce in the fridge should be hurt.... All my life the soy sauce has been kept out of the damn fridge!
And... cold peanut butter is teh gross.

Posted: August 15, 2003, 11:58 pm
by Bubba Grizz
Just looked in my fridge.
No ketchup.
No mustard.
No peanut butter.
No soy sauce.
No Jelly.
No syrup.
Looked in cupboard.
No ketchup.
No mustard.
No peanut butter.
No soy sauce.
No Jelly.
No syrup.
I think I need to go shopping.
Posted: August 16, 2003, 12:47 am
by *~*stragi*~*
Aranuil wrote:Soy Sauce and Ketchup require refridgeration. TT Voro!
concur, about the ketchup anyway. warm ketchup is gross :<
Posted: August 16, 2003, 1:23 am
by Asheran Mojomaster
I never have been a giant fan of peanut butter anyway, and really not now that I have found out that it is allowed the MOST rat shit \ bug shit \ bugs \ rats of any food without being rejected. That shit can pretty much be half dead rat and they would let it through

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Posted: August 16, 2003, 3:12 am
by Kguku
Peanutbutter and Banana sammiches are where it's at, hands down!
Posted: August 16, 2003, 5:54 am
by Tegellan
No on the peanut butter.
I keep my soy sauce, hot sauce and whatever else in the fridge though.
Ketchup too, cold ketchup is teh win.
Posted: August 16, 2003, 8:22 am
by Knibble
peanut butter hell no.
syrup,ketchup,mustard,soy sauce,hot sauce,steak sauce are all in the fridge.

Posted: August 16, 2003, 10:33 am
by Vaemas
Ketchup - cupboard
Soy Sauce - cupboard
Jelly - Fridge
Syrup - cupboard unless it's natural maple, then fridge...don't ask me why
Peanut Butter - cupboard
Honey - cupboard
Mustard - cupboard
Butter - (it says keep refridgerated m'fers...my family is the worst at not keeping it in the fridge. drives me nuts)
Posted: August 16, 2003, 11:03 am
by Coatlicue [KoE]
Peanut butter sits on our kitchen counter... So does sesame seed oil, soy sauce, olive oil (my mom refridgerates it), and vegetable oil. They're all in neat little oil containters, cept the peanut butter of course
I refridgerate my steak sauces, ketchup, mustard, hot sauce, salsas. I don't refridgerate worchestershire sauce or hollandaise.
Syrup stays in the pantry... who the hell wants cold syrup anyway?!!?
Posted: August 16, 2003, 12:26 pm
by Taly
i dont each much PB but the can is always in the fridge.
Posted: August 16, 2003, 1:05 pm
by Drasta
i work at a grocery store ... the whole organic/natural food thing i think is funny ... because the only way you know if some kind fruit is organic ... is if we put a sticker on it (or its pre-packaged) and its a hell of a lot more expensive
Posted: August 16, 2003, 3:32 pm
by murr
damn, when i read the title i was going to reply "you need a hell no option" figuring you'd just have yes/no/what? options, but you foiled me:( h8
peanut butter is not refrigerated, ever. jelly, yes, ketchup, maybe, soy sauce, hell no. btw jif is the win.
on a side note, I don't think I've ever called it the "cupboard." That makes me think of those stupid kids books The Indian in the Cupboard. Or English people.
Posted: August 16, 2003, 4:07 pm
by Sylvus
wait, what do you call a cupboard then?
Posted: August 16, 2003, 5:23 pm
by kyoukan
Jif is great peanut butter. It's like 98% sugar. Mmm, sugar.
Posted: August 16, 2003, 5:51 pm
by emmer
I've discovered one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone puts my cholula in the frige. Why would anyone want cold hot sauce? I know I sure don't!
Let's say in 100,000 years from now when we've mapped the heavens, we discover an alien form of bacteria living inside a pool of lava on the surface of a planet hanging stationary inside a star. Even that stuff would certainly die within a yard of an unopened bottle of cholula. SO WHAT THE FUCK IS A REFRIGERATOR GOING TO DO???
Posted: August 16, 2003, 6:20 pm
by Voronwë
mmm cholula
Posted: August 16, 2003, 9:41 pm
by Keverian FireCry
I really cannot stand 'fake' peanut butter like jiff, etc. I have always loved Adam's chunky peanut butter and usually I go for the organic stuff 'cause its just so damned good.
Posted: August 17, 2003, 2:59 am
by Pherr the Dorf
Drasta wrote:i work at a grocery store ... the whole organic/natural food thing i think is funny ... because the only way you know if some kind fruit is organic ... is if we put a sticker on it (or its pre-packaged) and its a hell of a lot more expensive
Yah cause the petroleum wax isn't a dead giveaway on conventional produce, ohhh and the taste of cardboard. I challenge anyone to take a normal tomato and an organic tomato, and taste them, not cook them, eat them like a fucking apple with alil salt and pepper, tell me if you can't tell the difference, same with fruit or anything you eat directly. The go to 2 farms, one conventional and one organic, tell me which one you'd let your kids walk around in, the one with no life because it so heavily ladened with pesticides or the one that has bugs and stuff kids dig. Then say to yourself, which farms drainoff do you want in your groundwater.