/ck/ - Food & Cooking

So I heard you guys like to eat your steak with ketchup.

fuck you

Alright /ck/, serious question. I've always kept my ketchup in the fridge simply because I like having cold ketchup with a hot meal. However, today I let my ketchup bottle spend half the day at room temperature before refrigerating it again. Then after another half day I had it with a meal, however it tastes completely different. I wouldn't say it tastes spoiled, just very different.

Anyone know what could have happened? I can't imagine letting it sit out for a few hours could have done anything to it. The only thing I can think of is that the process of cooling it, letting it get warm, then cooling it again may have altered the composition somehow, and even that seems like a stretch of the imagination. It just seems like a really peculiar occurrence.