Parmesan Cheese - Pantry or Fridge?

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We keep the parm. cheese in the fridge, by the way!

DB's wife

 

Butter was a whole other topic that came up a couple weeks ago. I swear, you'd think we were in our first year of marriage, with some of these things! We've lived together for 12 years!

We use margarine, not butter, but anyways...I buy the country crock light tub, and then blue bonnet light sticks. I use the tub for things like toast, or anything that I need to spread things on. And the sticks for cooking, baking, etc. Well, he doesn't understand why I buy both, why not just buy the sticks, especially since they're so much cheaper? I told him I'm not going to spread hard butter on my toast, I want the tub! He just doesn't get it! Don't most people do the same thing? And no, I can't leave it out on the counter...(I'm a creature of habit, in case you can't tell!)

He says I'm stubborn. I said if I was the only stubborn one in the relationship, things wouldn't be this difficult! :lol:

 

Hasn't any of you been to an old timey store and seen all the blocks of cheese?

Most cheeses doesn't go bad you silly rabbits. :lol: Cut the mold off and eat it up. And even if you miss a piece or two, it's practically the same type of mold you can eat in those yogurts with probiotics in them.

But I do keep mine in the fridge because I ain't a big fan of moldy food.:lol:

 

Unless of course you have allergies to penicillian and other stuff.

:mrgreen:



Craig

 

I have a personal preference for all condiments and sauces to be cold, so everything gets refrigerated, whether it needs it or not. :mrgreen:

 

cheese, ketchup, soy sauce, w. sauce, butter in frig and syrup in the pantry.

When I buy extra cheese, sugar, flour, bread, cereal, I store all these in the freezer until needed. Do the same with cookies and pasta.

 

LOL....good point!! :lol:

 

vomit :ack:

 

You can freeze sugar and flour? Interesting.
I keep condiments in the fridge. Why? Because my parents did. Why did they? Probably the same reason. Never thought about it, but actually I would probably like mus-My Friend and ketchup better at room temp because it usually goes on hot food anyway, and if it keeps at room temp, why not? Syrup goes in the pantry... why would you cool it if you don't have to? Butter I must have in the fridge, if it has been sitting out and melting, it just seems nasty. I know it's fine, but it's a mind thing. Oh and back to the original thought, Parmesan cheese... I keep this in the fridge after opening, as I do all cheese. For me this is the same as butter, I like cold cheese. Warm cheese (with the exception of melted cheese on a cooked dish) is weird. But really all cheese can be set out. It will be fine.

 

The one package statement that befuzzles me is "refrigerate after purchase" I just do not get it! Why is it ok for 6 more months on the grocers shelf but not the pantry shelf at my house?

 

something to do with preservatives I'm sure! or maybe once certain ingredients are exposed to air, they start to spoil?

and I buy both tub and sticks of butter too - men! they just don't get it! :lol:

 

yes, but this says after purchase not after opening

 

Parmesan Cheese(and all other cheeses), catsup, margarine, and syrup in the fridge. Had the sugar ant problem too. Keep the syrup in a Tupperware container that goes in the microwave, and we warm our syrup before we use it. None of these things are used much at our house, last longer in the fridge. And I do buy sticks for baking, tubs for everything else. We only use Smart Balance.
Soy Sauce and Worchester sauce in the cabinet, never occured to me to put them in the fridge, now I have to read the bottles....

 

From Kraft

http://www.kraftcanada.com/en/Products/P-R/Kraft100ParmesanGratedCheese.aspx

Regarding Syrup? Real Maple Syrup goes in the refrigerator, that artificial crap my wife prefers goes in the pantry.

 

If it's been opened here, it BETTER make it to the fridge, I don't give a crap what it is. :boxing:

 

I'm sure it assumes you will open it after purchase and so this statement is essentially the same as "refrigerate after opening".

 

why do you put syrup in the fridge?

 

http://www.maplegrove.com/faq.asp#anchor7

Typically I only eat pancakes at home four or five times a year, so if I don't refrigerate it it goes south in maters of taste.

 

doesnt it take forever to get out of the bottle?

 

Nope, pours right out, typically it is much less viscous than ketchup.