Anonymous wrote:If you buy a pie at the store, like in the store's bakery section, it's not refrigerated.

Preservatives.

Anonymous wrote:If you buy a pie at the store, like in the store's bakery section, it's not refrigerated.

I think that's because they expect they will sell and be taken home to be refrigerated. I doubt they sit in the bakery for 5 days at a time unrefrigerated. Pumpkin pies have milk and egg so they should be refrigerated IMO. I do not refrigerate my pecan pies but any kind of custardy pie like sweet potato or pumpkin needs refrigeration at least until Thanksgiving day, when you could take it out and let it sit at room temp if you wanted to serve it that way.

Anonymous wrote:If you buy a pie at the store, like in the store's bakery section, it's not refrigerated.

Read the list of ingredients and you will understand why.



OP...put a cookie sheet on top of your stuff in the fridge. Put pie on cookie sheet. Voila. It's fairly is light. You aren't going to crush anything.

If you buy a pie at the store, like in the store's bakery section, it's not refrigerated.

I have always made them the night before and left them out. Never been a problem!

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all, despite the fact that you all gave me the WRONG answer -- I don't have room in the fridge!

There's only one solution: eat it, and make a new one on Thursday!

Anonymous wrote:Thanks all, despite the fact that you all gave me the WRONG answer -- I don't have room in the fridge!

Do you have a cooler and ice?

Thanks all, despite the fact that you all gave me the WRONG answer -- I don't have room in the fridge!

It's a custard, it should be cold. Apple pie, on the other hand, can sit out for a day (although I like that cold, too).

It's not going to go bad, but room temp pumpkin pie is gross. It's meant to be served cold.

Anonymous wrote:I would refrigerate a pumpkin pie.

+1

It is a custard pie and should be refrigerated once it cools.

I would refrigerate a pumpkin pie.

Growing up my mother kept everything in the fridge. This included any kind of pie or cake or baked good. She said they would go bad if left out. Is this true for pumpkin pie? If I make it tomorrow night can I let it sit out until dinner Thursday?