Avocado
How to store your avocados depends a lot on whether they are ripe or not. What does a ripe avocado look like? The color of its peel is darker than that of an unripe one. Be careful, though; if your avocado feels mushy and has deep indentations, it means that it is past ripe.
If you bought an unripe avocado, you can store it on your counter for a couple of days without worrying about it. But if it is a ripe, ready-to-eat one, you should put it in the fridge if you don’t plan to eat it that day. This can help to slow down the process and keep it fresher for longer.
If you want to keep avocados for longer than a week, you can always freeze them. In this way, you will have food ready to eat anytime you want. The only inconvenience would be that you would have to defrost them.
You should also check out: 12 Foods You Can Still Safely Consume Past the Expiration Date
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.