What did your parents refrigerate? Mine refrigerated bread.

I live in a humid climate (especially in the summer), and if we don't refrigerate our bread and tortillas, or any baked goods, they get moldy in like 4 days.

My SO got a chuckle out of me because I instinctively put chocolate in the fridge. I grew up in a hot climate but I live in Canada now.

Refrigerating bread slows down mold growth...

This increasing the shelf life.

You don't have to refrigerate bread. But you can with clear reason.

If I don't put my bread in the fridge, it's moldy within a week. It's all meant to be toasted anyway.

Mine didn't refrigerate bread when I was growing up, but I do now. There are less people in the house so the bread stays around longer.

Mine refuse to refrigerate cheese (other than cream-cheese) and butter. Infuriates me as it gets super oily and rancid real fast.

Bread outside the fridge spoils fast. Bread in the fridge lasts longer but is less fluffy. In this household we refrigerate our bread and then toast it lightly if we're going to eat it straight. Most of the sandwiches I make are toasted anyway.

Living in the tropics, it's rather common to refrigerate bread, else you run the risk of mould overnight.

Putting boiling water in the freezer is so useful, like you can cook it once and freeze it, then get it out when you need it and just reheat it a little.

I've lived on my own for a while and I freeze everything I can. Nothing lasts long enough unless it's frozen or shelf safe.

This does mean I get a lot of my fruits in smoothie form.

I'm lucky most vegan things last longer than the non-vegan things I grew up with.

I basically just go by whether or not it was refrigerated in the supermarket. However, once it's opened I mostly throw everything in there except for dry stuff.

Bread absolutely lasts longer when refrigerated

I have an slightly odd one that I do myself: Carrots in a water filled container (in the fridge). That way they last really long and you don't get that limpy half-dried version after a while that is hard to remove the peel off. They basically stay as if fresh from the store or garden.

"Only white people put ketchup in the fridge." - my Mexican roommate

Batteries.

Americans: Eggs
Europeans: WTF?

My mother, for years, has frozen bread and then defrosted it two pieces at a time in the microwave.

If you've ever seen the Albert Brooks movie Mother, that's her. She even said it was her when she saw it. She's even started writing novels in her old age after wanting to be a writer when she was a kid.

Try living with a French room mate and find out what doesn't go in the fridge. Hint: everything.

I put hot sauce in the fridge. I know I don't need to, but it just feels right.

I refrigerate bread. It's much better and more effective than a bread box. My parents did not refrigerate bread because they live in a different part of the country where it would not mold over as quickly.

Peanut butter does NOT go in the fridge. 🤬

Not parents but I have a half gallon of milk that expired in 2015. It came with me when I moved from an apartment to my house in 2018.

Never been opened.. yet.

Chocolate is much better refrigerated

I’m more annoyed my mom keeps the oat milk out of the fridge for most of the day and wonders why it goes bad so quick. I usually bring my own when I visit.

Wait you guys don't refrigerate your bread?

I put bread in the freezer because ot goes moldy fast in this climate

Yeah because you should refrigerate bread

Jars of stuff which expired years or even decades ago. They still do.

Batteries. Paintbrushes.

Not my Patents but my grandparents, batteries.

Super glue

I'm the first generation that decided to keep bread in fridge. My parents used wooden box.

Peanut butter.

Why.

Bananas. You shouldn't.

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Fruit, except for bananas

But my fridge has smells of other foods

My parents didn't just refrigerate bread. They stuck excess bread in the fucking freezer.

Edit: guess I've been sleeping on the freezer bread thing. Y'all seem pretty sold on the concept.

Not my parents, me. Brown sugar goes in the freezer so it doesn't dry out and become a piece of granite.

Lotions and meds

My parents (and grandparents, I think) used to put batteries in the fridge. I did too, until I learned that it’s not a good thing to do. Something about the humidity.

I do freeze bread. Mainly because the bread I can eat (gluten free) is expensive and not easy to get in the size I like (there are sizes!), so I buy multiple and freeze the excess. I also freeze my ground coffee (I really should start grinding my own; with the horror stories I’ve heard about pre ground…). I do refrigerate butter, jelly, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and hot sauce.

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Vanilla extract.

How long does it take you to eat the bread that mold starts to appear ??? In my house bread is pretty much gone in two days, most times less than that.

Paint brushes and rollers.

Someone I lived with temporarily kept the processed parmesan cheese (the dusty stuff in a jar) in the cupboard instead of the fridge. It baffled me.

Cum socks

I put my bread in the microwave as I never use it. I might as well call my microwave a bread box. However, if it gets really humid I may put the bread in the fridge for a day or two.

I love cold condiments and fruit. My dad put Pepto Bismol and eye drops in the fridge.

Eggs. Hot sauce. Ketchup. Soy sauce. Pickles. Kimchi. Mustard. Sriracha. Olives.

We kept milk in the freezer.

I'm fine with refrigirating bread just to not let it try

ketchup, apparently it's weird?

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Well... a lot but we live in the desert so peanutbutter isn't shelf stable otherwise

pine nuts, chinese tiger balm, batteries, ketchup/mayonnaise packs from McDonalds

I heard Australians put cereal in the fridge because of bugs

My father taught me to put LSD bloaters in the fridge.

Butter, so do, some don’t.

Believe it or not: milk.

That sounds like a great way to make stale bread…

Things we refrigerated that I’ve seen others not refrigerate:

• jelly(US)
• ketchup
• mustard

Things we didn’t refrigerate that I’ve seen others do:

• peanut butter
• honey
• oil
• soy sauce
• oyster sauce

Edit: Just to clarify this is what my parents did and doesn’t reflect my adult opinions.

Pralines and dick

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Batteries

Apparently some people refrigerate butter

I just wait the 20 seconds for it to become spreadable. Though, you do have to only get a little bit at a time. You can pull out a hunk and expect it heat up that quickly.

Who doesn't refrigerate bread?

When I see bread in the fridge I assume the people have mice

I've had roommates where we just ended up buying our own ketchup, mustard, soy sauce, fish sauce, Sriracha, and probably other things I can't remember because they were weirdos that refrigerated those things. I kept mine in the cupboard, they kept theirs in the fridge.