What do you keep/ never ever put in your fridge?

I don't refrigerate any of those things, Granmarderby10.

Elegran I use Sainsbury's Taste the Difference jam and marmalade. Storage instructions are on the jars.
After opening refrigerate, eat within six weeks I've never had mould on jam or marmalade stored this way.

I live alone and have the tallest possible miele freestanding fridge, also the identical freezer. Both are always full. I keep hm bread sliced and bagged, in the freezer, which is also used for grass fed meat, fish, vac packed organic coffee beans, large amount of home grown berries, salmon portions, home cooked ready meals etc. Freezer is also good for portioning and freezing my organic milk.

I keep my eggs and all fruits apart from bananas in the fridge. I need that size fridge as I eat 10-14 a day of fresh veg/fruit or I will juice eg carrots and celery and pour into small bottles to keep in the fridge.for a few days I make my own jams and marmalades and being made properly, they keep for a very long time, once opened then they go into the fridge as do all types of sauces and spreads and cooking oils, apart from olive oil

I don`t use commercial sliced hams or corned beef, any meat I do use comes out of the freezer for cooking. There are plenty of goats cheeses in my fridge and several different jars of nuts and seeds

The tall fridge and freezer were the first things I bought for my new house. I use the unused fixed fridge/freezer as a very good storage device. It has never been on and is ideal for spices, herbs, cooking ingredients etc. The smaller shelves are ideal for me as I can reach easily to the back of the lower shelves

I have 50/50 fridge freezer the freezer is pretty full with bread, meat, some frozen vegs and portioned meals I've made myself. The door has jams, mayo and various sauces, my fridge is only fullish on shopping days with veg and salad drawers full. Coleslaw, cheeses, cooked chicken and whatever I'm defrosting for dinner on the other shelves and a bottle of fizzy water. Doesnt sound much but I'm trying not to snack unless its fruit, apples satsumas and grapes.

Never kept bread water fruit jams etc in fridge
I don’t have things like chutneys olives gherkins in a fridge
I dont eat meat or fish so nothing in that line

Milk cheese butter eggs, drink and yogurt is about all I have in mine
I shop once a week so don’t ever have much not used up

I've an undercounter fridge 25\75. These days I've very little in it (only me) and fill the spare capacity with polystyrene blocks to save the energy consumption. Works wonderfully well for me.

Aldom

Elegran I use Sainsbury's Taste the Difference jam and marmalade. Storage instructions are on the jars.
After opening refrigerate, eat within six weeks I've never had mould on jam or marmalade stored this way.

What is the percentage of sugar in the finished Taste the Difference jam? 60% should keep. It starts with equal quantities of fruit and sugar and is boiled down to setting point, which is usually when the sugar content is 60%. Recently jam is often made with less, as the jam-eaters want to avoid eating as much sugar.
Preserved fruits in boxes don't mould unless they get damp.

The problem is not the jam itself going off, it is the entry of mould spores from the air taking root and growing. The longer it is opened, the more chance of a rogue spore getting in, and mould prefers dampness . Mine kept singly in the cupboard keeps for weeks (I've not measured exactly how long) without going mouldy, but if I have several opened jars on the go, they can be standing around forgotten for longer.

We keep ours quite full with bottles of fizz water and beer, coffee beans to grind, oranges to juice and a large variety of nuts. I think nuts last better in the fridge, we use many varieties in large quantities.

shysal

If you think about the conditions the shops use for eggs and bread, it is obvious that they don't need refrigeration.

Shops/stores work on getting things OFF their shelves daily. I shop weekly and require things to last at least that long. So, I do not try to copy how supermarkets store things (in view), to how I do at home.
I use a lot of eggs, have a couple for lunch most days. Purchase a dozen each week. Have a container that in which these store flat - do not like the idea of eggs living on top of eggs, (I would definitely be too lazy to sort out the bottom ones), Each week, I just move the remaining eggs forward and put the new lot behind. This container has a lid, so I can keep other items on top.

With regard to bread, I have tried, in the past, to keep this out of the fridge - never lasts very long. Only use two slices a day, in the fridge my Nimble loaf easily lasts up to ten days, outside it is five days. Tried having bread frozen, but find that does change the flavour of it - even when I remembered to take it out in good time to defrost.

Butter is kept in the fridge - stored, but once it is put into the butter dish it stays on my worktop. The three or four cola cans that I keep there for g.children visits (okay - not good for them, but the whole point of visiting g.mother is to be a little spoiled). takes up very little room. Rarely purchase fruit drinks, I drink tea of water. Do not have alcohol. I do find that keeping opened jams etc in the fridge does give them a very much extended life, and I like a good choice of those. I keep opened peanut butter in the fridge (it is butter and only used occasionally), lemon and orange curd, marmalades. Not honey, that lives in a cupboard.

I do not mind my well-stocked fridge - I very rarely actually need to thrown any foods away - so must be doing something right.

My children have told me for years that I have a 'siege mentality) - which actually does well for me as we go through intermittent shortages.

I keep eggs in a cupboard, fruit in a fruit bowl. In my 'fridge, at the moment -

milk, bacon, cheese, ham, chicken, salad stuff, yogurts, fruit juice, butter, vegetables, sauces (mayonnaise, stir-fry sauce, ketchup), fish (for tonight), and Quark.

and several different jars of nuts and seeds

Should I keep nuts in the fridge?
It's not something I thought of, they're in storage jars in the cupboard.
The oils (olive and organic rapeseed) are in the cupboard too.

Bread is in the freezer, we just take out what is required usually.

The only thing I would say is to make sure you have no waste... waste is well, a waste of space lol

If it all gets used you should just be proud of yourself for having such a fresh healthy diet

The way I think is.

Think of where you have bought it in the shop?

Was it in the chilled section or on a shelf.

Obviously with some things they are ok on a shelf until they have been opened, then need to be in the fridge.

Eggs for example are on shelves in the supermarket not in the chiller.

I don't put fruit in the fridge as I like it to ripen.

I have been known to put carrots/potatoes in the fridge as they do keep longer.

“The most important food not to keep in the fridge are potatoes … ” the Food Standards Agency, says. “When these are stored in the fridge, the starch in the potato is converted to sugar. When baked or fried, these sugars combine with the amino acid asparagine and produce the chemical acrylamide, which is thought to be harmful.”

I never put bread in the fridge as I think it spoils it. I do keep all pickles, sauces, chutneys etc in the fridge although we never did years ago, we had a sauce cupboard. Eggs are also in the fridge although I know they’re supposed to be better used at room temperature.
I didn’t know that about potatoes Blondiescot I do sometimes put bags of new potatoes in the salad draw so will stop doing that.

I keep potatoes and onions in the garage (it's always cool in there). I'm vegan, so, unless I have visitors, there's just salad, loads of vegetables, smoked tofu, apples - all the opened sauces etc. and oat milk in there. I keep some bread in the freezer part but there's another freezer in the garage.

It's half empty, usually, so the spare space is filled with lots of sandwich boxes, food containers - even empty sauce pans - to stop all the cold air escaping when I open the door. Really, I wanted fridge and freezer drawers (much more convenient and efficient) but couldn't find the space, width-wise. They're still on my wish list for my next place, though.

I haven’t put eggs in the fridge for about 20 years or more, but do remember buying fridges which all came with little egg containers

NotSpaghetti

I don't put eggs in the fridge because they are sealed units and not washed (as I live in the UK).
I don't put apples/oranges in the fridge unless I have loads of them.
Likewise Avocados.

I don't put coffee in the fridge as I use it regularly and it doesn't have time to go off. I have some of a particular sort in the freezer though.

I don't put bread in the fridge and don't buy coke etc.
I have a 70/30 fridge/freezer

Much the same as above.
Eggs go in larder as does coffee, potatoes and other veg.
Fruit goes in fruit bowl and bread in bread bin.
Our fridge is always half empty but contains yoghurts mayo
Salad dressings, salad stuff cheesebox any cold meat and marge and butter. Also a few days in advance meat or fish products and bacon.
Something I never put in fridge? Trainers 😄

I think if people don’t live near shops they tend to hoard food more for convenience.We have shops a short stroll away so never bother to do that.

We have a 50/50 fridge freezer in our kitchen, another one in the garage and a small under counter freezer in the utility room. The freezers are always full as I do lots of batch cooking. The fridges have eggs, milk, veg and fruit, bottled water, fruit juice, milk, butter, cheeses, the odd ready meal, things like tartare sauce and pickles or chutney. We use them all to capacity.

Regarding eggs...

I was told to put eggs in the fridge when I lived in America.

In America eggs must be washed in hot water (which removes the natural protective coating) then they are rinsed (or sprayed) in a chlorine solution. They then need to stay in the fridge after this apparently.

In Europe we leave the cuticle coating on the egg intact and then store out of the fridge. Condensation or damp in the fridge can break through the natural protective barrier and can let in salmonella etc.

Apparently, our as fridges are more stable these days we are storing more eggs in the fridge - but if we do this we shouldn't bring out more than we need at any time as that can cause condensation and break the barrier.

No idea what they do in other countries.
Would be interested to hear from Australian grans.

Elegran I've checked my Taste the Difference Strawberry Conserve. The total sugar content is 61g per 100g. Fruit 55g per 100g.

Definitely not eggs, inspite of fridges always providing a receptacle for that purpose, or bread it wouldn't occur to me to keep bread in the fridge. I don't put onions, garlic, raw ginger or sweet potatoes in the fridge those are in a basket in the utility room. Fruit in a platter on a kitchen counter. Nor do I put any of the various olive oils in use, or soy or Worcestireshire type sauces, they're in a cupboard. As is Nutella, peanut butter (as requested by grandchildren as well as Marmite. I do tend to put other veg in fridge though.

Grapes, berries and nectarines I'd keep in the fridge and lemons once I've sliced into one. Also jams, marmalade, chutneys, olives, pestos, my grandchildren's ketchup, but I have to have chucking out sessions when jars have been languishing there too long. I generally make soup at the beginning of the week, so there is usually a tureen in one of our fridges taking up a lot of room. Two big drawers in our main fridge/freezer in utility room is where I keep salad/veg, meat and fish, cheeses, anything perishable. Smaller integrated fridge in kitchen, milk and Flora or butter and other day to day stuff. I have a further big upright freezer in garage for bulk buys of meat and fish, ice cream (for grandchildren)

I don't put tomatoes in the fridge, or celery, or asparagus. The two latter I stand in a mug/jug of water. Celery keep growing and stays fresh for ages that way.

Never put Camembert in the fridge, or onions or leeks becuase they make the whole fridge stink. Our kitchen is cool enough and possitively cold for half the year.

I do recall my mother, once widowed so only her, keeping bread in the fridge, which I thought was odd, but she swore it kept longer and she didn't eat much of it anyway, small appetite so a smallish load would last her a week.