Refrigerate Ketchup?

[The Zook]

The age old question, perhaps... Do you?

I typically do, but prefer it warm... like restaurants who leave theirs on the table.

The bottle doesn't say 'refrigerate after opening' yet most people do... is it a preference or safety issue?

[Timmay]

Keeps the bugs out  lol  i dunno....just a thought..lol

[skiking]

One must have ketchup to know if he refrigerates it or not

[TheSlyBear]

Chilled, by preference.

[GASlick]

Not a ketchup fan, but everybody else in my house is.  So, yes we keep it in the fridge.

Don't know why really now that you bring it up.hhhmmmm

[time2shine]

I prefer it warm.  Don't know if its necessary to keep in the refigerator though.. 

[warhawk]

we keep the ketchup in the fridge.   

WARHAWK

[Razor X]

My grandmother never refrigerated it.

[Tyler]

I put it in the refer'

Though, I don't buy Heinz anymore now that they use High Fructose Corn Syrup.

[MagmaBabe]

Over here on our ketchup it does tell you to refrigerate it, so like the good girl that I am, I do! 

Tyler.. our Heinz tomato ketchup lists the following ingredients..

"tomatoes, spirit vinegar, sugar, salt spice & herb extracts (contains celery) spice."
no artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or thickeners.

Wonder why your ketchup has different ingredients?!!

I always tell my Mum off for not refrigerating her ketchup, sauces and pickles. Her reason being
that they never used to when I was a kid.

[StumpyDave]

Wow, I never noticed that it said to keep refrigerated.
Ours stays in the cupboard.

I don't often touch it, but my sons seem unable to eat anything without obliterating it with the stuff.  I don't think a bottle lasts long enough for anything to go wrong with it.

[dog20]

I refrigerate peanutbutter

[wpruitt]

Over here on our ketchup it does tell you to refrigerate it, so like the good girl that I am, I do! 

Tyler.. our Heinz tomato ketchup lists the following ingredients..

"tomatoes, spirit vinegar, sugar, salt spice & herb extracts (contains celery) spice."
no artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or thickeners.

Wonder why your ketchup has different ingredients?!!

I always tell my Mum off for not refrigerating her ketchup, sauces and pickles. Her reason being
that they never used to when I was a kid.

Magma ... My mom went for MANY years and did not refrigerate it.  Her logic ... we never did in the past (and they also had a smaller refrigerator at the time - circa 1953 Vintage).  It's only been in the last 20 years she started chilling it ... and we all lived to be quite healthy

[Brkeatr]

Have always refrigerated the ketchup.....

[MagmaBabe]

Over here on our ketchup it does tell you to refrigerate it, so like the good girl that I am, I do! 

Tyler.. our Heinz tomato ketchup lists the following ingredients..

"tomatoes, spirit vinegar, sugar, salt spice & herb extracts (contains celery) spice."
no artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or thickeners.

Wonder why your ketchup has different ingredients?!!

I always tell my Mum off for not refrigerating her ketchup, sauces and pickles. Her reason being
that they never used to when I was a kid.

Magma ... My mom went for MANY years and did not refrigerate it.  Her logic ... we never did in the past (and they also had a smaller refrigerator at the time - circa 1953 Vintage).  It's only been in the last 20 years she started chilling it ... and we all lived to be quite healthy

I can see my why my Mum thinks like that... . but I try to explain to her.. that when we were kids, ketchup
had a whole different load of 'extra' ingredients in it, which would have prolonged it's shelf life,
and that's what a lot of people don't seem to realise, we don't have all the crap in it that we did back then,
like a lot of things.