Citrus
Lemons, oranges, and grapefruit: these all smell amazing and taste great. You can use them for cooking or you can eat them as they are. But do you know how to store them properly?
Lemons, oranges, and other citrus fruits like limes and grapefruit can be kept on your counter or in a basket for a short time. There is no problem with that if you keep them at room temperature for no longer than a week.
But if you plan to prolong their life and preserve their aroma, you should store these fruits in a cooler place like your fridge or freezer. All you need is a zip-top bag. Keep them in slices, wedges, or whole, and you will always have them if you want to eat them, cook with them, or just drink some juice.
4 thoughts on “7 Things You Should ALWAYS Refrigerate (But Probably Don’t)”
I never refrigerate my ketchup, as I don’t want cold condiment on a warm hamburger! I’m fortunate to have a pantry on an outside wall with no insulation so it’s very cool in there!
I’m glad to learn things I always refrigerate is the right thing to do.
Also glad to learn the things I don’t refrigerate is also the right way to go!
I have worked many restaurants as waitstaff and have NEVER dumped ketchup at the end of a shift and refilled bottles with fresh. I HAVE always topped off the bottle so that it APPEARS to be a fresh bottle. Not my idea of fresh but an industry standard and policy of most restaurant parent companies. You can bet that the bottles are not washed between fills even if the policy is to dump at the end of day.
Yep, it’s cross contamination and super gross. I watched a patron use his knife to run up in the ketchup bottle, after using it on his plate. Putting fresh product on top of old product is always wrong but I know what people do at the table, I always ask for packets. lol.