Guide
Where fruit should go in your fridge
Most of it is in the wrong place, and it’s costing you a week.
The door is for nothing that matters
It’s the warmest shelf you own and it moves every time somebody wants water. Put nothing there you’d mind throwing away.
The crisper drawer is a humidity box
That little sliding vent is the whole point of it. Closed keeps moisture in, which is what apples, grapes and citrus want. Open lets it out, for anything that rots when it sweats.
The back of the bottom shelf is coldest
Berries and cherries go there, in the punnet they came in, lid off or resting loosely on top.
Don’t wash it until you eat it
Water sitting on the skin of a berry is where mould starts. Wash a handful at a time, never the whole box on Saturday.
Some fruit shouldn’t go in at all
Bananas go black. Anything not yet ripe stalls in the cold and never picks up properly afterwards. Let those finish on the counter first.
Where we come into it.
A box lands on Saturday morning. Five minutes putting it away properly is the difference between it lasting until Wednesday and lasting until the next one turns up.
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