Moldy Ragu spaghetti sauce
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Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
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If you read the label it says to use it within 7 days of opening it. (at least this is what my sauce says)
The way you can avoid the mold is to use it quickly. If you do not want to do that, open it and freeze what you do not use in a serving size. |
Anonymous
| Does defrosting sauce that's been frozen give you watery sauce? |
Anonymous
| Since you're going to heat it up, causing evaporation, I don't see why that would be a problem. |
Anonymous
Heating it up? I don't normally heat it up - I just pour it on cooked pasta. |
Anonymous
| Is this a pre-opened jar in the fridge? I'd never use those more than a week after opening - it's recommended to throw them out after a week anyway, because they mold so quickly. Keeping an opened jar for 2-3 months is way, way, way beyond the recommended safekeeping. If you want to save the extra sauce, freeze it. Or if you have time, make a pretty simple sauce at home. |
Anonymous
LOL! Cold Ragu on hot pasta?!?! Yum. |
Anonymous
| Is your spoon clean? Dipping a spoon that has food on it already into the jar might cause mold to form faster. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
I had a roommate who did this. She also made "grilled" cheese in the microwave. Anyway, freeze it in portion sizes. Then just stir it before you put it on your pasta. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
OP Here. Hey, it tastes just fine to me. I'm not a foodie. I just don't want to eat mold. |
Anonymous
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! |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
| OP are you male or female? Doens't sound like something a woman would do lol. |