Stack your fridge like a warrior
Within your fridge the temperature varies. Stacking the wrong food in the wrong area can lead to premature food degradation. Learn how to stack your refrigerator to reduce food waste.
Fridge stacking tips to remember...
Raw meat and fish
These should be kept away from cooked foods wherever possible and stored in the coolest and more consistent part of the refrigerator.
Fruits and vegetables
Some fruits and vegetables are sensitive to the cold and are best stored about 8°C, outside of the refrigerator.
Seal foods before refrigeration
Seal foods before refrigerating them to reduce the risk of your cheese smelling like onions, or your bread stinking of fish.
The problem
Most of us have a salad crisper in the bottom of our fridge but how many actually use it for salad? Does it really matter?
Food tastes better and is more nutritious when it’s fresh. Storing food at the right temperature helps to lock in that goodness for longer.
As the temperature inside your fridge can vary by as much as 8 degrees, there really is a correct was to stack your refrigerator to reduce food waste.
Refrigerator zones and how to stack them
Top Shelf
5-8°
Cooked meats, ready meals, baked items and leftovers.
On average a fridge’s typical temperature on the top shelf will be somewhere between 5° and 8°. This is a perfect temperature for food that has already been cooked, and is also a safe distance from uncooked meats.
Middle Shelf
5°
Milk, cheese, yoghurt, and butter.
Lower Shelf
0°
If you don’t have a dedicated fresh food drawer for your meats and fishes, this is the best place to be keeping your raw meat and fish.
Humidity drawer or Crisper drawer
Once picked your fruit and vegetables continue to live. Storing them correctly helps to preserve the nutrients. Milk, cheese, yoghurt, and butter. Some fridges enable you to change the settings and control the airflow in a humidity drawer to accommodate the specific needs of its contents. When set to ‘high’ the products will sit in the gasses they’ve emitted as they ripen, and when set to ‘low’ a small vent is opened allowing the gasses and moisture to escape and decreasing the humidity within the drawer. Be careful though, not all fruit and vegetables are best kept in the refrigerator!
The fridge door
The fridge door is the area of your fridge where the temperature is most variable so use it to store the items less sensitive to temperature change. Some refrigerator manufacturers make recommendations about where to store different types of food.
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