[net.cooks] Oyster sauce

slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) (07/18/85)

> 
> 	I had a opened but tightly closed bottle of oyster sauce in
> my kitchen cabinet for about 2 weeks. I looked at it yesterday and
> it was getting a case of the white fuzzies. Should oyster sauce be
> refrigerated to stop the growth of mold or did I have a bad bottle 
> of oyster sauce? It was such a pity to throw the whole bottle away.
> I just LOVE oyster sauce!
>            Sharon Badian
> 

You are probably lucky it grew the white stuff.  Oyster sauce does
contain liquid from shellfish, as its name suggests.  (Or at least
it should, if authentic.)  I suspect it could grow some very nasty
bugs that wouldn't show up so easily until they hit your tummy.  I 
was told to always refrigerate it after opening.

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