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Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> "Bigbazza" > wrote:
>
>> 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.


And you trained me well. Yes, it's true, I never did it before (apart
from baking powder which I always date-marked). I keep my sharpie
marker in the kitchen spice drawer, and one in the "pantry". I no
longer keep stuff in the garage in the months of June-September thanks
to your advice (it gets roof-meltingly hot here in Sacto in the summer!)

> 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.


<pout> He never gave ME mustard! Oh wait a minute. I detest mustard!
Nevermind....

> 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.


How long do you keep these items? Living alone, tabasco, worcester
sauce (as we call it in my fam) and soy sauce tend to hang out here for
a loooooong time.

TammyM