Opened jar of tomato paste I shut and put in the cold

The spoon is already in the paste — and the jar stands by the hob without a lid “easier that way”. Easy to leave it till tomorrow on the ring: by morning a skin on top, the edge dark, and the hand takes a red that isn’t right. I level the surface, shut the lid and put it in the cold — so the next spoon still smells of tomato, not of tin.

Opened jar of tomato paste I shut and put in the cold. A puree tube is another note; paste a minute in the oil its own; a tin of tomatoes another story. Here it’s the opened jar: lid on, cold — not a dry top by the hob.

If the top has dried — I lift a thin layer, the rest under the lid again; I don’t pour water “for show”. A clean spoon, not the one that was in the cream. I’m not choosing a new brand with a review in this note — it’s about the jar that already stands in the fridge.

I don’t need a jar that quietly dries by the hob. I need a spoon of paste that still smells of tomato. At yours does opened paste live under a lid in the cold — or already with a dry top on the ring?