Marmite question
 

Does Marmite need refrigeration after opening? I have always kept it in the fridge but that makes it difficult to spread. It seems people either love it or hate it - but for me, Marmite on buttered toast is delicious.

Personally, I think it ought to be incinerated well before opening.

But, no. It's been in use since the days fridges were an undreamt-of luxury. And no-one would frigerate these days.

No more than they'd put an Oxo jar in the fridge.

Don't think do....what does it say on the jar? With all that salt you should be fine...

It is not mentioned on the jar and in the small amount used, does not add much salt to your daily intake.

As flanner says, no need to refrigerate.

You must also be missing out on an integral part of Marmite on toast; managing the hanging tendrils of runny Marmite on your knife and trying to avoid coating the outside of the jar as you make a last-ditch dive for your rapidly cooling toast.

No butter for me thanks.

no, if you refrigerate it, it goes all hard and granular.

It'll keep in a cupboard for years.

Good heavens no, don't put it in the fridge, as nona says it will keep for ages in a cupboard.

We just finished a 3yo jar of Guinness flavoured Marmite which we found lurking at the back of the larder shelf.

It's also yummy on crumpets or English muffins toasted for breakfast or afternoon tea. (Though recently we have re-discovered the intriguing delights of Patum Peperium)

I'm sitting here drooling over the thought of thick hot dripping buttered white toast with marmite.

Sadly, I'm on a diet.
It isn't the same without dollops of butter.

I can't stand Marmite (the vegetarian version of Bovril) Now Bovril..........that is absolutely the best thing on hot buttered toast! Never white - only wholewheat will do.

YES!

Someone else who likes Bovril on toast!

Now when dear Chumley Warner sees these posts he will have a fit, he believes Bovril is only good for drinking on football terraces.

Bovril also works on muffins, but is not so good on crumpets.

and in the small amount used, does not add much salt to your daily intake.

I didn't mean it form a health point of view, just a preserving point of view!

>>Bovril also works on muffins, but is not so good on crumpets.<<

Ever so slightly dreading CW's take on both muffin and crumpet.

It'll certainly be mulish.

Or is he too young to remember?

Satan invented Marmite to make little boys cry at the breakfast table.

Thin

LOL flanner.

For those others too young to remember...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cX07V4iwBM

I think the thing with Marmite is you have to grow up eating it, from the age of around 6-7 months when you can just about hold a toast soldier in your fat little fist and shove a bit of it in your mouth.

All my 4 children have grown up as Marmite lovers, as both their father and I are.

My little boys (now 17) have never cried at the breakfast table because of Marmite!

Marmite is a way of life.

And with all those B vitamins it's also good for hangovers. (Actually all this talk of Marmite is making me salivate - but a teaspoonful straight from the jar will sort that out!)

>>It'll certainly be mulish.<<

They can't touch you for it.

Personally I love Marmite. Never had it for breakfast though, as far as I can recall.

Now when dear Chumley Warner sees these posts he will have a fit, he believes Bovril is only good for drinking on football terraces.

Bovril also works on muffins, but is not so good on crumpets.>>>

You do NOT put bloody Bovril on baked goods. It's Beef TEA innit you heathens.

There are two places in the world where a cup of hot Bovril is Ambrosia beyind words.

The first is the terrace of an old northern footy ground at half time having watched halfwits kick each other.

And the second (and this may just be me) is after a long swimming class in chlorine water, after a shower etc. With your Dad (the Bovril not the shower). In the caff.

Then walking out into bright sunlight and being blinded.

And now to the main thing: Chilling marmite serves the same puropse as chilling Brandy - none - it's indestructable. You may as well chill gravel.

>>It'll certainly be mulish.<<

They can't touch you for it.>>>

No but you don't want to miss out on the kissing.

Ach, C-W! You have just brought back my swimming club days in a pool with so much chlorine there was a vapour above the it, which gave us all red eyes....but sadly no Bovril for me; sweet hot milk (yuck!) while sitting under the hair dryer when I got home...

The municipal swimming pool where I came from (and JRJ will know well) had a small cafe that only appeared to sell Bovril accomponied with prawn cocktail crisps.

BTW it burned down. How the **** does a building made of water and tile burn down?

(Though recently we have re-discovered the intriguing delights of Patum Peperium)>>>

Shipphams in a posh pot.

Well if the many B&Bs i've eaten breakfast at are any indicator No - does not have to be refrigerated - indeed some Marmite jars seem to have been first opened years ago by the crust on their lids - this also testifies that very few folks care for the stuff.

"And the second (and this may just be me) is after a long swimming class"

Nah.

The REAL place where hot Bovril works is in an open-air swimming pool (like New Brighton or West Kirby) just after Easter. Where you got blue just by going in - but it was a lot warmer in than the 30-yards sprint to the caff once you got out.

Problem was: would a cup of Bovril warm you up enough to survive the 50-yd run, around the pool, through the teeming rain/sleet, to the changing rooms?

And you only hear the survivors' version.

"For those others too young to remember..."

Can you seriously imagine the Beeb these days allowing cut-glass crumpet like Sylvia Peters to advocate so gross a sexual perversion? While children are watching?

Talking of which: who's heard Fascinating Aida sing "Dogging"?

It lasts forever, unrefrigerated, even with crumbs and bits of butter in it.

When the human race comes to an end, and buildings fall down, and plants grow over everything (like that depressing documentary), marmite will still remain edible for millenia.

Winchester had an open air Lido when I was a puppy.

It was beyond even the reach of Bovril.

CW - Unashamedly southern. Is naturally blond. Looked wonderful after a few dips in Winchester College's pool - in fact looked like I'd spent my life on Malibu beach. In a burkha.

No wonder we invaded every other bugger.

Fascinating Aida? Shame on you. The real thing:

http://tinyurl.com/yezpdxq

BTW in an election year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMMSSseKCmMI

I have to say I love this stuff more than almost anything else.

I used to swim in the open air pool at Wallingford.....

"When the human race comes to an end...marmite will still remain edible for millenia."

5/10

When the human race ends, every opened jar of Marmite will indeed stay round for millennia, and be totally unchanged. However many millions of degrees C it's warmed up to outside.

Every single one will just as inedible as it was when it came off the first petrie dish.

You must be part Johnny Foreigner, Flanner - all true Brits have the marmite-loving gene......

I don't think I've ever tasted marmite. Do I have to hand back my passport?

Bovril is best at the footie with loads of pepper and a pie to dunk in it.

Scouser innit - Borderline paddy.

No that I have learned that it cannot be destroyed and will outlive me, and all of the generations of my line, it is interesting that the jar has a "best before" date. I wonder what happens after?

>>I wonder what happens after?<<

It turns back into mice, or a pumpkin.

>>I think the thing with Marmite is you have to grow up eating it, from the age of around 6-7 months when you can just about hold a toast soldier in your fat little fist and shove a bit of it in your mouth.<<

However, foreigners can be converted when they try it as part of a turkey sandwich on whole wheat with butter and a bit of cranberry sauce. :-D

Lee Ann

When I read this (and am sent scurrying to Google to figure out what in the heck you're talking about) I can't help but think of the supermarkets thread.

'Tis true that Marmite is a taste best acquired at a young age - 7 yo in my case, at boarding school. We also had an outdoor pool (this was Africa) but still very cold for 10.00am swimming classes in April. After 40 mins in freezing water, we were given marmite sammies and hot milk with Nesquik for elevenses, served on a covered table under a tree outside the school dining room. Yuck to the nesquik but yum to the sammies (sometimes substituted with bovril on buttered bread). Mem'ries.

I'm surprised nobody has even dared mention that Marmite twin called Veggiemite or maybe Vegimite?
I know Aussies can't live without it but one teensy little taste and I was back on the plonk.

Twin? There's no comparison, vegemite is much better than marmite.

Note that Walkinaround has not made a contribution to this thread. Ergo, he has never had Marmite. Ergo, he is not a true Brit.

We always mixed the Marmite with the butter before spreading it on the bread. You get a more even distribution that way.