Melba's wrote on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:48:41 -0600:

>> How long can a bottle of ketchup stay in your fridge before
>> it goes bad? I'm thinking 5 or 10 years, but if you want an
>> expert opinion, go to

> <grin> I keep both ketchup and mustard in the cupboard and
> have never had a problem with either. Because I mark my stuff
> when I buy it, I know hold old pretty much everything is.
> Both ketchup and mustard in the cupboard have been open for at
> least 3 months‹we don't use much of either. The only mustard
> I refrigerate is some excellent Duesseldorf mustard from a
> friend. It keeps a long time there, too ‹ more than a year,
> easily.

> I don't refrigerate soy sauce, either. :-) Or Tabasco. Or
>Worcestershire. Oddly, I do refrigerate homemade hot sauce ‹ I have a
>couple bottles from Jorge that have been in there since February 2004.

Store-bought salsa seems to keep well unopened but, once opened, only
for a week or so in the fridge before it grows mold. It seems to freeze
quite well and defrost by nuking.


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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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