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Post# 1128763 , Reply# 1   9/15/2021 at 17:39 (925 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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I keep my lettuce in a large rectangular Rubbermaid storage container, along with other salad vegetables that I will use in a day or two. In another Rubbermaid storage container of the same size I keep carrots, celery and green onions. I only buy what I can use in a week or 10 days and rotate the produce keeping the freshest on the bottom the oldest on the top and use that first.
In the crispers I keep apples and other fruits and tomatoes, bell peppers and avocados in the other, if I have a partially used onion I’ll keep it wrapped in plastic wrap in this crisper too, If I have a 1/2 tomato or avocado they get wrapped in plastic wrap and kept on a upper shelf in plain sight so they get used the next day. We have either salad or carrot and celery sticks with every dinner and having those two dedicated Rubbermaid containers make the preparation of both easy. I just pull them out and put them on the counter and prepare the salads or raw carrot and celery sticks from these storage containers and put them right back into the fridge when I’m done. I keep our fridge like a file cabinet. Everything has its place and gets returned to the same place when I’m done with these items. It’s kind of like a braille fridge, I can find anything I want practically blind folded. Nothing goes to waste. We only have a 15.5 cu ft. top freezer fridge and its plenty big enough for a weeks worth of groceries and can accommodate 10 days worth if need be. I prefer this smaller fridge because we have a small kitchen and I don’t want it to be wall to wall refrigerator. We could afford any of the huge french door or side by side models, but we like our small top freeze fridge because its esthetically appealing it the space we have for a refrigerator. Any leftovers are used in a planned fashion either within the next day or two or frozen for future use. I think most people are very unorganized with the way they keep their refrigerators and freezers, which leads to a lot of waste. I take pride in keeping an organized fridge and freezer. I wipe up any spills right away, wipe off any drips on jars and bottles before they go back in the fridge and because of this I never have to drag everything out of the fridge for a major cleaning and throw away of spoiled food. I clean as I go and rotate the food so its always fresh. To me this is a lot easier than having to spend an hour doing a major fridge clean out. Eddie |
Post# 1128790 , Reply# 2   9/15/2021 at 22:39 (925 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Crisper, meat, fruit/veggie and few other drawers in fridges were invented for a reason. We touched on this discussion in a thread about "cold wall" and "moist cool" fridges...
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Post# 1129066 , Reply# 6   9/19/2021 at 00:00 (922 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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I have always kept the milk in the door too whenever the shelves were deep enough to accommodate the containers and the only time I ever had an issue with milk spoiling quickly was in an 19 cu ft Amana bottom freezer refrigerator we bought in 2001.
That was the most expensive refrigerator we ever bought and the WORST! In addition to the milk spoiling quickly the lettuce and produce frequently was frozen, plus it was black and showed every finger print. I was more than happy to see it go out the door forever 4 years after we bought it.. After that we got a white GE 18 cu ft top freezer fridge with wire shelves it was great. The we replaced it in 2016 with our current 15.5 cu ft white GE top freezer fridge again with wire shelves. There was nothing wrong with the 18 cu ft model, we just wanted a smaller footprint model with recessed handles. To me simple is better, less to go wrong. Eddie This post was last edited 09/19/2021 at 00:20 |