Moldy Ragu spaghetti sauce

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I have never heard of using an open jar of sauce for 2-3 months. Gross

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Anonymous wrote:How come sometimes I can use a jar of spaghetti sauce for 2-3 months without ever getting mold and other times I can open a jar and two weeks later there's a huge blob of mold?

Is there a difference between getting a glass jar and a plastic jar? The bigger ones are plastic.

What can I do to make them last for 2-3 months consistently? Today I had to throw out an almost full jar that had a huge mold blob.

WTH?

[Anonymous]

I like to eat my pasta room temperature and out of the box with super hot sauce. It's a little crunchy, but I have a texture issue with soft pasta. Bonus I get to spend more time with my loved ones that way.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you male or female? Doens't sound like something a woman would do lol.

Female. You don't even want to KNOW how long I've had the same container of sprinkle cheese!

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of using an open jar of sauce for 2-3 months. Gross

As long as there's no mold, it's not gross. I'm not buying organic sauce here, it's Ragu. Probably tons of preservatives, but it's the only one I like taste-wise.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you male or female? Doens't sound like something a woman would do lol.

Female. You don't even want to KNOW how long I've had the same container of sprinkle cheese!

What is sprinkle cheese? You mean pre shredded parmesan in the green carton? doesn't it just get dried out and dusty tasting after a while? That's even grosser than the moldy Ragu. Even my college age daughter eats better than this.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you male or female? Doens't sound like something a woman would do lol.

Female. You don't even want to KNOW how long I've had the same container of sprinkle cheese!

What is sprinkle cheese? You mean pre shredded parmesan in the green carton? doesn't it just get dried out and dusty tasting after a while? That's even grosser than the moldy Ragu. Even my college age daughter eats better than this.

Yes, parmesan cheese. Food isn't a competition, lady. I do the best I can with the resources I have. You have no idea where I come from or what motivates the way I eat. I am glad you feel your college-age daughter eats better than I do since it seems that is important to you.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never heard of using an open jar of sauce for 2-3 months. Gross

Nasty!

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Anonymous wrote:Since you're going to heat it up, causing evaporation, I don't see why that would be a problem.

Heating it up? I don't normally heat it up - I just pour it on cooked pasta.

LOL! Cold Ragu on hot pasta?!?! Yum.

People who buy jars of pasta do so because their time is precious. They don't have the "time" to "warm up" pasta - this would be robbing the time they would otherwise be using for quality engagement with their children.

What? Microwaving for 30 seconds (pretty much all of which could be spent "engaging" with your kids) is too much time to spare? Just freeze the extra sauce and microwave it. If you have health concerns about using a microwave, you probably should steer clear from the processed spaghetti sauces anyway.

"Quality time with children" is the DCUM standard excuse for being lazy. Pay attention!

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Anonymous wrote:Since you're going to heat it up, causing evaporation, I don't see why that would be a problem.

Heating it up? I don't normally heat it up - I just pour it on cooked pasta.

LOL! Cold Ragu on hot pasta?!?! Yum.

I never warm up pasta sauce either, I just poor it on hot pasts!

[Anonymous]

I pour cold sauce (which I keep as long as I can, since I don't use it often, the jars are big, and i'm not going through the effort of freezing it) over hot pasta. warms up enough to taste fine

You know what else I do - on a much more regular basis? Pour cold syrup straight from the bottle on warm pancakes!!! Can you believe it? And somehow my family still shows up for meals on a daily basis!

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Anonymous wrote:Since you're going to heat it up, causing evaporation, I don't see why that would be a problem.

Heating it up? I don't normally heat it up - I just pour it on cooked pasta.

LOL! Cold Ragu on hot pasta?!?! Yum.

People who buy jars of pasta do so because their time is precious. They don't have the "time" to "warm up" pasta - this would be robbing the time they would otherwise be using for quality engagement with their children.

What? Microwaving for 30 seconds (pretty much all of which could be spent "engaging" with your kids) is too much time to spare? Just freeze the extra sauce and microwave it. If you have health concerns about using a microwave, you probably should steer clear from the processed spaghetti sauces anyway.

The poster was kidding! but on another note-cold tomato sauce yuck!!!!!! It works the opposite way-cold pasta and pour very hot sauce on and the pasta will heat up--doesn't work the other way around-you will just make your hot pasta get cold!

OP here: I've happily been eating cold spaghetti sauce on hot pasta for over 30 years now. If you don't like it you certainly don't have to do it, but there's nothing wrong with it. I do not enjoy "very" hot food anyway, so I would not want very hot sauce that is hot enough to heat cold pasta.

Same here. Hot pasta + cold (room temp) sauce= a temp my 3 year old can eat and no extra dirty pan for me.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you male or female? Doens't sound like something a woman would do lol.

Female. You don't even want to KNOW how long I've had the same container of sprinkle cheese!

What is sprinkle cheese? You mean pre shredded parmesan in the green carton? doesn't it just get dried out and dusty tasting after a while? That's even grosser than the moldy Ragu. Even my college age daughter eats better than this.

Can we please use the right terminology? It's called shake cheese.

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Anonymous wrote:OP are you male or female? Doens't sound like something a woman would do lol.

Female. You don't even want to KNOW how long I've had the same container of sprinkle cheese!

What is sprinkle cheese? You mean pre shredded parmesan in the green carton? doesn't it just get dried out and dusty tasting after a while? That's even grosser than the moldy Ragu. Even my college age daughter eats better than this.

Can we please use the right terminology? It's called shake cheese.

Using the loosest possible definition for the word "cheese."

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Anonymous wrote:Since you're going to heat it up, causing evaporation, I don't see why that would be a problem.

Heating it up? I don't normally heat it up - I just pour it on cooked pasta.

LOL! Cold Ragu on hot pasta?!?! Yum.

People who buy jars of pasta do so because their time is precious. They don't have the "time" to "warm up" pasta - this would be robbing the time they would otherwise be using for quality engagement with their children.

What? Microwaving for 30 seconds (pretty much all of which could be spent "engaging" with your kids) is too much time to spare? Just freeze the extra sauce and microwave it. If you have health concerns about using a microwave, you probably should steer clear from the processed spaghetti sauces anyway.

The poster was kidding! but on another note-cold tomato sauce yuck!!!!!! It works the opposite way-cold pasta and pour very hot sauce on and the pasta will heat up--doesn't work the other way around-you will just make your hot pasta get cold!

Someone who uses Ragu and "sprinkle cheese" is not concerned with the finer points of food temperature.