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I think you're somewhat misinformed. Unlike in Europe, American chickens eggs are washed and need to be refrigerated in order to not go bad (it's more common f
by frosted-flakes 6y ago
I think you're somewhat misinformed.
Unlike in Europe, American chickens eggs are washed and need to be refrigerated in order to not go bad (it's more common for American chickens to have salmonella, which is also why you shouldn't eat raw eggs in America).
Some fruits (such as apples or pineapples) simply taste better cold, and some fruits do last longer if refrigerated. That's important if you go grocery shopping every two weeks, which is quite normal in America.
Canned jam is never refrigerated, but once opened it always is, and I'm sure that's the case everywhere.
Cured meats, like jerky? No one refrigerates that.
- morsch 6y agoI usually put jam in the fridge, now, but we never used to when I was a kid. We go through jam fast enough that it's probably unnecessary now, but why risk it... Then again I have like twice as much fridge space as we used to back then.
- tastyfreeze 6y agoOne correction, enviromentally salmonella is just as common in the EU as the US. Chickens in the US are not immunized for salmonella like they are everywhere else that regulates the egg industry. Foreign chicken immunization requirements and US egg washing requirements started around the same time in response to salmonella outbreaks. Both are effective mitigations. However, immunizing and not washing has an added benefit of incentivizing producers to keep eggs clean.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoThat's what I mean, European chickens don't have salmonella because they're vaccinated. Not washing the eggs has the additional advantage that they don't need to be refrigerated.
- tastyfreeze 6y agoI agree. I would like to see the USDA add vaccination as an allowed salmonella mitigation. Then farmers would at least have a choice.
- barry-cotter 6y ago> Canned jam is never refrigerated, but once opened it always is, and I'm sure that's the case everywhere. Not in Ireland. Jam lasts a very long time unrefrigetated. All that sugar is a preservative. Works the same way as salting a ham. Anything that tries to grow on it gets dried out and dies.
- fakedang 6y agoI thought making jams was itself a preservation technique, just as pickling is. You don't need to keep either inside.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoCanning is a preservation technique that is a part of making jam. But once you break the seal on the jar, the food in the jar is exposed to the air and won't last as long. Regarding jam, I think it probably depends on the kind of jam. I usually get the stuff with whole strawberries that I spread with a spoon. I'm sure the typical American jelly will last a long time unrefrigerated, but that seems to be less common in my part of Canada.