I was intrigued by @fentonsteve and his fridge fotografy so I thought I’d take one of ours. I intend to do some shopping today; will this aide memoire help?
We shall see.
There are theories that certain items chocolate etc shouldn’t be kept in the fridge, but rules are made to be broken.
Are there things lurking at the back of the fridge that have been there months? I once found a tub of beetroots lurking with so much mould on them they looked like alien planets from an early episode of Doctor Who.
I just thought I’d share this today before heading out.
As it doesn’t seem to show in the original post.
Chocolate in fridge – it can change the liquid-crystalline structure of the fat molecules. It’s what makes it feel gritty and lose a bit of flavour if stored in the fridge for too long a period.
Chocolate remaining in the fridge for too long has never been a major concern chez Jaygee
The very words from my mouth you have taken.
Not easy to do given the freshly defridged chocolate that was in your mouth at the time
Proper milk bottles with foil lids – is your fridge a TARDIS from the 70s?
Milk delivery every other day, semi-skimmed and skimmed. As I recall sterilised came in tall bottles, I used to buy it to make yogurt.
I mention sterilised as I saw a post about it and now it’s gone.
‘Past your eyes’ before you got a chance to screenshot it….
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“Ernie, I’ll be happy if it comes up to my chest.”
Two-Ton Ted from Tedding-ton
A masterpiece of meter and rhyme
Proper milk bottles here too. 100% recyclable.
Delivered 3 times a week with some greek yogurt included as well on Wednesdays.
Slightly more expensive than getting the placcy things from supermarkets, the delivery carbon cost is shared between our household and every other one on the round, and there’s no placcy recycling involved.
I prefer the next post after your fridge – unblocking a storm drain. Was that you? 🙂
Jars of jam and pickles in the fridge. There’s a paper in that, I reckon.
See also: eggs. Every fridge seems to come with an egg tray, but I keep them at room temperature on the worktop (next to the toaster and the egg steamer thingy).
Both of these.
Preserves: isn’t that the whole point, that they look after themselves, even once opened. Pickles should be fine in a cupboard.
Eggs: packaged efficiently by nature.
What do we think about butter and cheese (apart from ‘mmmmmm’)? I’ll bet our parents didn’t keep butter in the fridge. That said, my paternal grandparents would have done, as they were in the State of Victoria, if only they had had a fridge.
I keep cheese out of the fridge as much as possible, for the sake of flavour and texture.
Does anyone keep butter in the fridge? Even in what passes for a heatwave in the UK I never have and it’s never melted. Well, it did once but that when I discovered that the seal on my fridge had gone.
I mentioned to Mrs F just this morning that the butter might need to go in the fridge, as buttering the toast was just smearing liquid around.
Cheese-wise, I eat mainly Cheddar and Brie. The Brie has to live in the fridge to prevent going runny. I live in a modern house without a cool pantry.
You see, Brie is precisely the kind of cheese I think is best not kept in a fridge, but then I live in an old cold house.
You kept a seal in the fridge?
On his fridge. It barks at him when he tries to put butter inside. When he succeeded, it waddled off in disdain.
This is where I have problems – I know that everywhere says that eggs, tomatoes, chocolate, cheese etc should not be kept in the fridge, but living in a tropical climate (30degC average, 80% humidity) we don’t really have much of a choice. Things would start to go off in a couple of days (and chocolate melts).
I do manage to keep onions, garlic and potatoes out of the fridge, but purchase in small quantities so they don’t go off.
This. We are moving into winter here, so butter has come out of the fridge. The eggs could too, but in the absence of one of those groovy helter-skelter things the National Trust sells we don’t really have anywhere to put them, so they stay in the fridge. Pain in the neck for boiling, but we manage.
The butter not being kept in the fridge must be a British thing. We (that would be Swedes) keep everything in the fridge, the only exception to the rule would be if we went on a cykling/camping holiday. But if we do, we don’t bring butter anyway, so there is no exception actually!
That’s why everyone must have a big upright fridge and a separate big upright freezer in Sweden. Ours are full most of the time anyway.
We have Bregott butter with rapeseed oil so it can be in the fridge. Smör is of course for cooking and baking with. But yes everything in the fridge plus white wine box. How did we manage in the UK with a pokey fridge freezer?
Do we not have larders anymore?
I think Robert Wyatt does…
Mayonnaise, Worcester and Tabasco yes, ketchup and brown, no. I’m a complicated guy.
At the moment we don’t keep anything in our fridge. The compressor on it failed while we were away for a week, so yesterday was very annoying and messy and expensive. And a bit smelly.
If you keep Tabasco in the fridge, is it less hot?