So this bottle of stir fry sauce says to refrigerate after opening. We forgot about it on the counter and it’s been out since we opened it for about a week. It still smells good, but then again it’s delicious and all it’s asiany seasonings could hide any foul smell….. do you think it’s safe to refrigerate now and use in the future?
This might not be the *best* answer from a food safety point of view, but I’m in college and therefore poor. So…
What are the ingredients? Like, soy sauce and spices and crap? Soy sauce sits out on tables in Chinese restaurants for literally weeks. If there’s no eggs or dairy, I’d go for it. Even if there’s oyster sauce, I’d probably still go for it. And it’s stir fry sauce, right? So, you’re going to cook it at a ridiculously high temperature anyway, right? Killing germs…
Half the crap that bottles say to refrigerate somehow seems fine without it. Juicy Juice, hot sauce, some Italian dressing…I just don’t worry about it.
I never refrigerate my stir fry sauce abut it generally never lasts in my house for longer than 2 weeks.
if it was closed it should be okay, if u think about it at grocery stores it is never in the cold section and always out on the shelf for however long. just pop it in the fridge from now on and it should be fine.
Some stir fry sauce contain fish sauce therefore you shouldn’t take chances, throw it away.
Make your own sauce, mix soysauce, honey, garlic, black pepper, sesame oil, sugar.