Tortillas
This is a never-ending debate: should we refrigerate tortillas or not? The answer is here, and you don’t need to wait anymore. Drum rolls… The answer is no. But then why are tortillas on this list?
Even if it is not a must to keep them in the fridge, tortillas that are stored in a cool place will always taste better and last longer than those that are kept at room temperature.
While refrigerating bread can make it dry and stale faster, this is not the case for tortillas. Actually, the cooler temperature of the fridge will make them less dry. This happens because since they are so thin, it is harder for the air to infiltrate them and dry them out.
The best thing to do is to refrigerate the tortillas once the package is opened. In this way, you will keep them fresh for a longer period of time.
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.