Your refrigerator is not always at the same temperature.
To ensure that your food stays as fresh as possible, the appliance should be properly loaded.
Cool is not always cool: if you store your food haphazardly, you risk losing its taste or spoiling quickly.
Find out with our tips how to put your refrigerator in the right place and how to keep your food long-lasting.
Arrange the refrigerator properly: this is how it works
Refrigerators, especially older models, consist of different climate zones.
This means that if you optimally set the device to 7 ° C, the actual temperature will vary between 4 ° C and 12 ° C.
The coldest area is at the bottom above the glass plate.
From there, the warm air rises so that the refrigerator is warmest at the top.
The vegetable drawer and door drawer also have a milder temperature.
You should therefore store perishable foods at the bottom, while more robust foods can be stored in the upper area.
This is how you optimally store the refrigerator:
Upper compartment
: Food that will last a long time even with little refrigeration, such as jam, cakes *, sauces, but also packaged cheese
Middle compartment
: dairy products such as quark, cream, yoghurt or opened cheese packages, but also milk cartons
Lower compartment
: meat, sausage and fish
Vegetable compartment
: certain types of fruit and vegetables, for example lettuce, carrots, mushrooms, berries or cherries
Door
: eggs, butter, opened jars, juice, beer
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The middle refrigerator compartment is the perfect temperature for milk and dairy products.
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Even in the refrigerator: the right way to store food
It is not only important to put food in the right place, but also to store it correctly.
Butter stays fresh and tasty for a long time in the butter dish.
Otherwise, it can pick up the smell from the refrigerator.
Cheese and sausage can form condensation in their original packaging and thus spoil more easily
.
You are better off in a storage box.
Food from opened cans or prepared meals should be stowed in an airtight can.
This will prevent odors from spreading in the refrigerator.
From bread to tomato: it doesn't belong in the refrigerator
Not all foods get better when refrigerated well
.
Bread dries out in the refrigerator, honey or nut nougat creams become hard.
It is also better to store many types of fruit and vegetables at room temperature.
Fruits and vegetables that spoil or lose their taste in the refrigerator:
avocado
Bananas
Cucumber
Potatoes
Kiwi fruit
garlic
Melons
Plums
Southern and citrus fruits
tomatoes
zucchini
Onions
Also read:
Clean the refrigerator and remove odors for months - thanks to these home remedies. *
by Larissa Strohbusch * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
Take a quick look in your fridge: these foods need to go out
Take a quick look in your fridge: these foods need to go out
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