We had to buy a new refrigerator. Ours died. It is one of those purchases that you just LOVE having to buy right before the Holidays. Ah, life, always keeping us on our toes.
Anyhow, other than the fact that I was not happy to have had to buy a new one, I am really obsessed with it. Love it. I give it hugs sometimes. Ryan thinks I am weird. I am not sure if it is the fridge or the fact I have never owned anything so nice and shiny before?
So, when I had to re-stock my fridge it got me thinking, “where the heck do I put everything”? I know there has to be a more functional place to put things in comparison to the way I have been doing it.
I posed the question to my Aunt who has the same fridge and she said she was wondering the same thing so she looked it up. I haven’t looked it up, I just took her word for it. Our new fridge has a place to put milk on the door but I didn’t want to do that because I was used to putting it on a shelf and I wanted to keep my dressings on the shelf (read that sentence with a whiney voice). “That is exactly what you are supposed to do!” she said. Hooray! HaHa.
Apparently this is how you should do things (it makes sense to me!):
The bottom of the fridge is the coldest so things that would spoil should go down there (milk, sour cream, yogurt…). The middle is where you keep your eggs so that little hands can’t reach them. The top shelf you keep your sauces and other things that might need to be refrigerated but might not necessarily go bad if you keep them out. The doors hold dressings, jams, jellies. They aren’t effected by the change in temperature from opening and closing the doors.
The other random refrigerator factoid I happen to remember learning in school is that you should always defrost meat on the bottom shelf because if it leaks and drips down your fridge, you will have to throw everything it touches away in case it has salmonella. If you keep it on the bottom shelf there is less of a chance to ruin your other food (and again, it is coldest down there).
My new fridge has a separate temperature gauge for the drawers. I am excited about this because my fruit and veggies were always freezing up in my other fridge. Weird.
Ok. Well. Now you know. Cuz’ I know you were really wondering about this!
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