Fridge or cupboard?

[Rachell1]

Where do you keep….

1. Bread
2. Potatoes
3. Fruit (oranges, bananas, apples)

Debate with MIL (don’t even ask)… 🤣

On the worktop, fruit bowl bread bin

This. Except little berry fruits like blueberries or strawberries, they are fridge.

bread bin, veg basket, Salad drawer fridge

Bread lives on top of my toaster
Potatoes in fridge
All fruit apart from bananas in fridge

Bread bin
Veg Basket in cupboard
Fruit bowl on kitchen worktop

Bread shouldn't be kept in the fridge as it promotes mould growth and goes stale more quickly it's kept in a bread bin here

Potatoes should be kept in a cool dark place (not the fridge) as starch turns to sugar www.thekitchn.com/never-store-potatoes-in-fridge-263779

Fruit is kept in the fruit bowl with bananas separate as they cause other fruit to ripen more quickly

Ok good, it’s in my favour so far! MIL keeps all 3 in fridge, bread being the weirdest in my opinion…. But she is adamant it lasts longer!

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Fruit Bowl

Fruits kept in fridge - strawberries, grapes, other soft fruits. Fruits like apples and bananas kept in a cupboard
Bread - cupboard
Potatoes- cupboard

Bread goes stale faster in the fridge. Potatoes aren't supposed to be put in the fridge - something to do with starches turning to sugars in them

Bread - cupboard or worktop
potatoes - veg drawer
fruit - fruit bowl unless very ripe and attracting flies when I move it to the fridge

Bread basket
Veg basket
Fruit bowl

As per PP berries/grapes in the fridge.

Bread - kitchen cupboard
Fruit - fruit bowl in utility
Potatoes - veg basket in utility.

Bread in basket on pantry shelf
Potatoes in pantry cupboard
Fruit in fruit bowl on dining table

Berries, melon and grapes in the fridge though

Bread in the bread bin.
Potatoes in a canvas bag under the stairs.
Soft fruit in the fridge or in the freezer. Apples, bananas, satsumas in the fruit bowl on the table.

Your MIL is wrong

If you keep bread in the fridge it goes stale faster as it speeds up the crystallisation of the starch molecules.

All those items should NOT be kept in the fridge in a country like the UK where room temperature is around 20 degrees.

Bread - bread bin
Potatoes - basket in cupboard
Fruit - fruit bowl but apples in fridge as prefer them cold and keep better.

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Fruit bowl on worktop ( berries grapes in fridge)

Bread and potatoes in same cupboard - different pull-out drawers.
Fruit in fruit bowl except berries and lemons and limes.

Bread - freezer
Potatoes - fridge drawer
Oranges/berries - fridge
Apples - bowl
Bananas - monkey's stomach.

Bread in the freezer or bread bin.
Potatoes in dark cool cupboard.
Apples and oranges in the same cupboard.
If I have soft fruits ( in the summer) I keep them in the fridge if they are ripe.

Is your MIL gluten free as GF bread definitely lasts longer in the fridge .

1. Bread - cupboard (did try the fridge but decided cupboard best)
2. Potatoes - fridge (just simply have the space here)
3. Fruit - in fruit bowl (might keep some in fridge if in danger of all ripening too fast before we can eat it)

Bread - by toaster

potatoes - on worktop

fruit - fruit bowl. I only put berries, grapes etc in fridge.

Bread - cupboard/pantry (or freezer)
Spuds - veg basket, with onions (also in pantry)
Apples and bananas - fruit baskets (separate)
Oranges in the fridge