Parmesan Cheese - Pantry or Fridge?

OK, here's a very serious topic for us to discuss today:

Do you keep your parmesan cheese in the pantry or fridge? It does state on the container to refrigerate after opening, but I have never in my life done this. I always put it back in the pantry, I don't like it cold. Some people who live with me, however, have stated that this is very wrong, and I am putting my family at risk! :chillpill: I say we've gone 12 years doing it this way, and I'm not changing!

So I was just wondering what everyone else does? I don't refrigerate my syrup either.

 

mine goes in the fridge. so does my syrup and catsup.

 

Mine also goes in the fridge, although I try most often to buy the block and not the cheap stuff in the plastic container. I also put ketsup into the refrigerator after opening, but syrup goes back into the pantry. Hmm, I may reconsider the syrup now.

 

cheese and ketchup in the fridge, syrup in the cabinet 8)

 

mmmm...

If it was unopened real Parmesan cheese I would say pantry.

I keep the opened real Parmesan cheese in the fridge because it cost so much. I once had a guest complain that the cheese had gone bad. I said "that's the inspection stamp."

If you're eating the Kraft stuff, eating Italian once a week w/ four kids, probably won't hurt to keep it unrefrigerated.

Really doesn't matter. Just scrape/pick off the moldy stuff.

Syrup doesn't need to go in the fridge. It has such a high sugar content bacteria can't live in it. They will 'asplode.' Parmesan has a low moisture content and high salt content which also makes it keep well.

 

Same here............I use to put syrup back in the pantry until we had a bad case of sugar ants.......Ewww

 

What does the pkg say?

 

fridge

 

unopened-pantry opened-fridge

 

thats me

 

Pantry with the cheese

Fridge with ketchup and syrup

Another bizarre one and you maybe surprised but my mom always put butter in the pantry, I had it that way for 25 years or so...never hurt us.

I use that Country Crock stuff and I put it in the fridge.

 

parmesan cheese = toe jam smell :ack: :ack: :ack:

 

I've always kept ketchup in the fridge, the other two in the pantry. I don't like putting cold things on hot food, is my reasoning. Our parm cheese probably lasts about 3-4 months in my house, 2/3 of my kids love it, and we eat a lot of pasta/italian food. I've never had it go bad yet! I buy the big container of syrup at BJ's, and that's never gone bad either, not sure if it's supposed to be refrigerated, never looked. But that gets eaten on a daily basis around here, kids eat waffles like there's no tomorrow!

 

I have something called a "french butter keeper" and its meant for keeping butter at room temp on the counter.

If you look at this link, it shows a picture and describes how it works.

http://store.leedanielspottery.com/...ode=LDP&Product_Code=FBD&Category_Code=Butter


As for the rest, we keep Parm. cheese in the frig after its opened. Syrup on the shelf, and ketchup in the frig too.

Here's a wierd one..... What about Soy sauce? I keep my soy sauce on the shelf after its opened, but I refrigerate my Worcestershire Sauce after its been opened. I never really thought about it before, until this thread... they are kind of the same thing.

 

I do too. :?

 

That's funny! I keep my soy sauce in the fridge and w sauce on the shelf too, not sure why. But I think sometimes the w sauce gets put back in the fridge too.

 

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parm cheese....always refrigerated....

syrup.....pantry

ketchup.....in the fridge


soy sauce......in the pantry

 

Everything in the fridge except syrup. Can't think of a single other thing I keep in the pantry besides dry stuff and olive oil.

 

block cheese I store in the fridge, but when I want to eat it, I let it sit out for a bit to get room temp.....

mmmmm.....


and hoop cheese must be room temp too.