Quick Straw Poll - do you all keep raw meat on a separate, lower, shelf than cooked meat in your fridge?

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Dh thinks I'm being petty and gets annoyed when I ask him to put cooked meats on the cooked meats/cheese shelf in the fridge (eye level), and raw meat on the bottom shelf. It was something I learned in food hygiene years ago.

So, do you all keep your cooked and raw meat separate? Yes or no...

Yes. Basic food hygiene practice.

No.

I try to keep them separate but I have a tiny undercounter fridge with only two shelves and a drawer so if the still sealed package of raw chicken has to share space on the bottom shelf with the tupperware box of roast chicken leftovers because the top shelf is full of butter/cheese/yoghurts/miscellaneous fridge stuff, then so be it.

No.
Solid shelves so no dripping. And lots of packaging

Yes. Bonkers if you don't.

Sorry I disappeared! Forgot I started the thread

Good to see most people agree with me. I'm not getting worked up about it, I'm just in the camp where it's automatic, so seems odd to me to plonk raw chicken or bacon on a high shelf with the packs of cooked ham/chicken. We have a fairly big fridge, and there's always enough room to separate them, so that's not why he does it.

We've lived together for 8 years now, and I've always said "would you mind..." and explained about keeping them separate, but he still insists on flouting the rule

No. Glass shelves. Sealed packets.

If you put raw meat on the bottom shelf surely it would drip into the veg box underneath?

Yes but another DH who doesn't really get it. Also agree that now everything is vac packed from supermarkets and fridge shelves are solid it's probably not so important.

Ok, I'll stop moaning about it then. Not giving up with moaning about him leaving filthy dish water in the washing up bowl all night, or never wiping the table down (we have two small kids who make a mess), or never remembering to put the little pot for used tea bags in the dishwasher...I could go on !

Yes but the bottom shelf is directly above the salad drawer which never makes much sense as if it leaks it'll be all over the salad!

Yes. Basic food hygiene.

If I can. But not if it's a whole chicken as no room.

Still alive allllll these years later.

Yes, though we have a meat box that came with the fridge

Yes

P.S. And I also get annoyed w my husband for breaking the rules.

Yes, in the meat drawer.

No, we get meat that in sealed packs. Not come across drippy meat other than when it's defrosting. I defrost meat on the kitchen worktop before cooking it so it doesn't leak in the fridge.

I was taught that too, but don't bother theses days due to raw meat being so well wrapped. I think it harks back to the days when both cooked and fresh meats came from the butcher's casually wrapped in greaseproof paper, and fridge shelves were wire.
Sometimes I need to attack a package with scissors just to get the bloody thing open, so no, don't worry about drips.
If I'm feeling particularly naughty I stack the cooked meat on top on the raw meat packet.

Yes

Yes. DH and ILs don't and it makes me .

Yep - separate bag for raw meat when shopping.
Separate shelf in the fridge.

Nope - but there's rarely raw meat in my fridge anyway, only 2 of the 4 of us eat it and I don't and I do the shopping and cooking, so...

No.

Solid shelves.
Packaged meat.
Cooked meat would be in a plastic box anyway if leftover.

Yes

No, as everything is packaged/contained so can't drip

Yes