What are your food refrigeration practices?

Posted by HeartofGlass, July 29, 2008 at 6:55 AM

I keep most things in the refrigerator--eggs, milk (even unopened 'boxed' almond and soy rather than cow's milk), butter, opened jars of condiments and nut butters and so forth.

However, when I lived in the UK, of course, I happily bought unrefrigerated eggs from Tesco's, and many of my English and European friends laugh and laughed at my American habit of refrigerating eggs, particularly bakers who point out that room temperature eggs yield a better product.

An American friend of mine also doesn't refrigerate her butter--just puts it in a butter holder, and says her family goes through it so quickly there is no point.

I don't eat enough butter really to do that--ditto with eggs and other products, because I'm single they stay around much longer, so I refrigerate them, and even opened condiments, rationalizing that I can always heat up maple syrup and that I like cold jam and so forth--although I will use ketchup and mustard left out at a restaurant. It's just easier for me to refrigerate, so I don't have to worry, though, and I don't lack for fridge space.

So do y'all refrigerate eggs, butter, milk (non-dairy and dairy), mustard, ketchup, jam, peanut butter, maple syrup, and so forth? Any weird things you refrigerate? (I keep flour and sugar in the refrigerator as well).

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