To ask you to show me your fridge?

[baldpenguine]

Please!

I'm somewhat fascinated by people's fridges. Whenever I watched MTV cribs when younger I only cared about what was inside the fridges.

Anyone else like me?

I'll start with mine. (Yes I know it's not very well organised but I did a food shop today and had to rush and put it away before doing the school run)

Bottom drawers: fruit and veg
Bottom shelf: fruit and veg that doesn't fit in drawers
Next shelf: yogurts, dairy and desserts.
Next shelf: meat, fish and poultry with fresh pasta as I couldn't fit it anywhere else
Next shelf: miscellaneous stuff

I know it's not very organised. :)

@flexigirl I think I have a much more vintage edition of that book, haha.

I also don't like the idea of storing raw meat directly above salad, but then I guess being in a drawer maybe protects them a bit. My fridge has a raw meat drawer under the salad drawer which I think makes the most sense.

@Vergingontheridiculous is your username inspired by your fridge doors 😅 or is it just a coincidence?

I hated the integrated fridge freezer we had when we moved in, they just aren't fit for a family.
We ended up adding an extra cabinet on the end of our existing ones and buying a full size fridge and full size freezer instead.

Ooh I love to have a good spy in a fridge- it's a bit like reading other people's shopping lists. Here's mine - a bit empty as I need to do a shop.

I don't know how some of you cope with so much stackable food available.

I eat everything instantly.

Snackable*

@Mazuslongtoenail 🤣 it is not! My initial post was going to be about my neighbour's obsession with the grass verges but then that got somewhat resolved.

My main concern from this thread is where everyone is keeping all of their mustards. I have at least 4. Probably more. We love a condiment.

About Worcester sauce I always thought soy sauce was ok then I read the label and it says to refrigerate after opening and it does go
off mine did

You are 3 weeks too late,OP. Mn always has a Christmas fridge thread that is the best thread ever!

Thank you! I'm regretting joining the thread now though cos I'm starving 🤣

Potatoes, apples and limes do not need to be in fridge (potatoes cool dark place). Eggs don't need to be in fridge especially if fridge over full as yours looks. Uncooked meat on bottom and certainly not above cooked meat. (Cooked meat will be sealed but seal on uncooked meat not failsafe and may contaminate packaging below.

@Vergingontheridiculous I absolutely love that book ! Found out my cousin in New Zealand is still using his copy too . I always go back to this book despite having zillions of other cookbooks that I needn't have bought

There's no such thing as left over pizza around my place. 🍕

It always gets finished even if I'm full. Pizza is too nice.

Another messy one here

vegan parmesan, half a tin of mandarins, assorted eye drops
That would make for a particularly challenging episode of Ready Steady Cook

I'd have that pizza in the oven straight away else it'd be on my mind all evening 🍕

@notprincehamlet 🤣

Ahhh eggs in fridge and yes I know nail varnish. Was told years ago to keep it there so I do.

It needs a bloody good clean out on list for tomoro.

@baldpenguine milk is fine in the door if you fridge is set correctly and you're not in & out constantly. My milk never goes off & I don't use a lot, so it has plenty of time to think about it!

but yes, meat at the bottom, you don't want it dripping in other food.

I love pizza. Separate pizza stomach

There was a thread on here about someone being woken up at 3am for pizza and I was "I don't see the problem? Wake me at 3am either for pizza or a lottery win"

Get those bloody spuds out the fridge!

Does the Xmas thread contain quite as many posts telling people that they're doing refridgeration wrong?

Probs

I simply cannot agree about the potatoes! I used to keep mine in the fridge and they were good for ages. Now we've moved, the fridge is too small and the potatoes don't last at all. We put them in the garage in the dark and yet they go green in a matter of moments. It's highly annoying.