Water on top of your ketchup: use it or lose it?

[Anonymous]

Now, we all know that when you take a bottle of ketchup out of the refrigerator, you can tell how angry God is at you by the amount of water on top of the ketchup.

This is not precum, but rather, water has appeared there through a process called syneresis, Syneresis is how chemists talk about liquid being expelled from a mixture. So, your ketchup is basically like a big bottle of tomato blood that's clotting and expelling liquid as it tries to get back to its normal state. Yum.

So, do you keep that juicy liquid by first shaking the bottle of ketchup? Or do you pour it out?

tomato blood

Use it - shake the ketchup bottle

Lose it - pour the water out first

[purplepoppy]

A pinch of xanthum gum in your homemade ketchup helps prevent that problem.

I'm impressed you call it ketchup, I thought you people called it red sauce.

[Asker]

Nobody I know makes ketchup. Lack of high fructose corn syrup is a strange taste to Americans.

[Havthrills]

I use it! I'll drink up all that tomatoe blood. Damn thing, trying to trick me with peeing on itself. I'll shake up that bottle and screw up its DNA again. And again.

[jshm2]

It's not "water", but syneresis.

There is good reason why you shake condiments before use.

[Asker]

I would think tomatoes would expel water. Have you done a chemical analysis of it?

[musicbrain5]

I just shake it up before I use it.

[Guy__]

I don't eat ketchup. Only homemade, in which case it never looks pretty anyway.

[rabbitzzz]

No. I have put my dick in ketchup before and learned my lesson.

[TransAm85]

I don’t care much for ketchup

[bubblegunnn]

Ill shake them first then use it togetha

[Wise4myage]

Id use it, water is harmless.

[Anonymous]

Why is this in sexuality?

[Asker]

I ask the questions around here.