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Your question is answered, but I just wanted to say; good on you for being food preservation conscious. When I first started dating my now wife she thought that you needed to store syrup in the refrigerator, and things like mayonnaise and unwaxed cheese could sit in the open. I had to go through her whole pantry 🤢
My partner's family from Philippines grew up in a home without appliances like refrigerators, like many, many people in developing countries.
So while now they have every modern convenience, old habits die hard and stomachs seem to adapt to even the most adverse conditions of foodstuffs.
Not mine. I love their cooking but can only eat food that I've seen opened or cooked in front of me. They will legitimately leave meat dishes out on the table for two days or more and then simply "reheat" and consider it good to serve. The cabinets are full of things like mayo, cheese dips, opened gravies and open bottles of fruit juice.
I have had some of the very worst food poisoning in my life from inadvertently eating something there like chicken salad that I thought was fresh, but made with hard-boiled eggs that had been sitting on a counter in summer heat for several days that a "friend" brought over so they "wouldn't waste."
Of course I'm the only one that gets sick, so I'm the "special one" that everyone now thinks has some terminal illness and treats me like a hospice patient.
Yikes, I am not sure I have found a bottle like this that doesn't say, "Refrigerate after opening" on the side of it was required. I assumed it was a FDA rule, never looked into it.
Some syrups do require that, yes. The 100% natural syrups absolutely do require refrigeration, but the ones with preservatives do not need to be refrigerated. And just to be clear, I make a dish that requires syrup an estimated 2 weeks
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I don't find this article compelling. Obviously it's not going to last as long unrefrigerated. That seems to be their criteria.
No. The criteria is to avoid food borne illnesses. Mayonnaise is made with eggs which is poultry. What happens to poultry if it sits out raw for too long you ask? Well, it starts develop this bacteria know as salmonella which can and will cause death or very serious illness. If you want to consume mayonnaise hot, then that's on you and best of luck, but I'm not going to let people I ACTUALLY care about do it
That makes a lot of sense and I see the error of my reasoning. You've convinced me.