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#How to properly store your food in the fridge?

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#How to properly store your food in the fridge?

Contrarily to freezers (either integrated in the refrigerator or other frozen storage equipment’s), which allow to keep a constant temperature below 18ºC, fridges present an internal temperature gradient at their different levels. Despite this distribution is beneficial to choose suitable temperatures to storage your food, it can bring doubts and constraints if wrong choices in food distribution are adopted.

#How to properly store your food in the fridge?

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#How to properly store your food in the fridge?

BRIEF EXPLANATION…

Due to the heat transfer mechanisms involved, lower fridge levels are normally colder than the upper ones.

It can be said that usually a refrigerator has an internal temperature that varies between 0ºC and 8ºC, and an average temperature below 4ºC. These values are strongly dependent of several factors: Level of equipment usage, recent placement of items with higher temperature, room temperature, among others.

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Generally thermostat regulation in an average value (for instance, between 2 and 3 for a thermostat numbered from 1 to 5) is enough to obtain an internal average temperature of 4ÂşC. This is considered the wright temperature to reduce bacterial activity and, simultaneously, keeping the food freshness in the advised time for their conservation.

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The aspects that lead to food spoilage are vast; from the lipid degradation that is accelerated at higher temperatures and can occur in meat and many products with fat (phenomena designated by “rancid�), to surficial burn in high humidity content food products and which can occur at low temperatures.

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ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER

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- Upper shelves: Less cold but the more stable shelves in the equipment. They’re ideal to storage dairy and “ready to eat” products. You can also put here cooked food. Remember however to previously cool and pack them.

- Middle shelves: The area that is close to the average fridge temperature. You can place here ham, chorizo and fresh packed salads.

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- Bottom shelf: Area that you should use to store the more sensitive products, such as raw meat or raw fish, which must be kept at low temperatures. In the specific case of fish it’s important to keep temperatures between 0ºC and 2ºC, being very important to storage it in this area.

- Door: The less cold area in the equipment. You can use it for storage of water, juice or eggs. It can also be used to store butter, without the risk of having it too hard. You can also put those products that present the warning “after opened maintain in the fridge for “…” days” as, for instance, that package of tomato sauce that you couldn’t use entirely.

#you want to read this‌ - Lower drawers: These is an independent place that is very useful in fridges to store fruits and vegetables. This area has lower humidity which allow to preserve this type of items for longer periods of time. Vegetables have higher water content, which lead to ice crystals formation that cause burn and dimming of their surface. The same happen with fruits, having these ones the particularly of release ethylene, which will contribute to self and adjacent items deterioration. So, it´s also very important to correctly separate different products in this compartment.

#don’t forget!

- Store adequately your food products and avoid to put them still hot in the fridge.

- Don’t lean food in the bottom wall of the fridge: This can cause burns in the exposed leaned food, and will restrain the free air circulation inside the fridge, which is a crucial condition to maintain the correct temperatures.

- Keep your equipment clean.

- Respect the expiration date of the products.

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#How to properly store your food in the fridge?

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#How to properly store your food in the fridge?

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