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

I have 2 drawers at the bottom of the fridge and use one for lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and cabbage and the other has opened jars of pesto, mayonnaise, chutney etc. I put eggs, cheeses, cold meats, bacon, yoghurts, spreads, cooking margarine, chilled snacks etc on the shelves. The current container of milk and spray cream go in the door, along with jars of apple, tartare, horseradish and cranberry sauce. Ketchup, salad cream, brown and barbecue sauces lie in the bottle rack.
Raw meat is frozen, as is bread. We use frozen veg and berries, fresh fruit goes straight into the fruit bowl and potatoes and garlic into the vegetable rack. We freeze extra containers of milk.
DH has a fridge in his bar where he keeps beer, wine, tonic and soft drinks.

Never put tomatoes in, it damages their cancer fighting properties and their flavour. I only keep milk, cheese, eggs, salad - & wine in mine

Well twiglet77 that’s because there was usually a housewife in the home for some parts of the day at least and she did the shop daily, from the butchers, greengrocers, general store, plus hard ware and post office store.
Mmmm… Neapolitan between two flimsy wafers and sometimes tinned fruit cocktail if you were lucky😅

I keep eggs on the worktop, the butter dish has half a block at a time, the rest in the fridge. Things I get through very slowly go in the fridge - mayonnaise and hollandaise, jam and marmalade once opened, and lemon juice, get mould after too long in the pantry. I use some straight from the freezer if it has room - bread, ground coffee, flour, and in any case I freeze flour for a couple of weeks even if it will be in the pantry thereafter. Apples, salad, maybe oranges if there’s room (especially if they were reduced or in a Too Good To Go collection). Meat, fish and dairy are in the fridge, and as I cook once for the next 2-3 days, all leftovers are too.

My parents didn’t get a fridge until I was 10, a small fridge with an ice box for the ubiquitous block of Neapolitan ice cream, my grandparents never had one, and none of us ever got tummy troubles!

I don't put eggs nor fruit in the fridge and I wish that it were bigger .
Prior to shopping I have a major tidy .
It's my dream to have a food and a drinks fridge and room to prepare food .

I wish that the kitchen were bigger .
It's a horrid narrow galley one .

Cooking wasn't the thing in my parent's house .

It was a nuisance - done at 10.00 am and left to congeal on a pan of water on top of the hob until eaten or thrown away . It would be solid !

Cake decorating was the thing and done on the dining room table .

I just go by how they are stored in supermarkets.

My SiL keeps coffee in the fridge. I've never dreamt of doing so

Apparently refrigerated eggs are best for poaching but room temp is better for meringues.

Cheese ham carrots salad stuff. Butter milk. Lemonade to go with my port. Jars of jam marmalade etc but never put eggs in.

Foxygloves

The cat - never.
Schrödinger’s Gran

The cat - never.
Schrödinger’s Gran

Talking about fridges and keeping food.

My dad almost 88 would be quite happy stuff being left in the fridge until year dot.

If I happen to say "think this so n so needs throwing" it could be anything.

His words are " It be reeeeeeet, leave it where it is"

He is of old school, flat cap braces, not frightened of a bit of mould on his cheese. I have to secretly throw old out and replace with new.

His is of strong statue, doesn't seem to ail much ,must have a lead stomach

If James Martin 😍 and Delia Smith say dont keep eggs in your fridge that’s good enough for me.

Inside the lid of Waitrose eggs it says Refrigerate after purchase

I never keep either vegetables or fruit in the fridge - the cold is not good for them, nor do I ever made ready made food.

This probably explains why I have more room in the fridge.

Ours is a very warm flat so no cool places any where really

Milk, cheese, yogurt, soft fruit (berries) and open jars of jam and sauces in the fridge.
Bread, batch-cooks of pasta sauce and soups in the freezer.
Eggs, tomatoes and bananas never go in the fridge.

In one of our houses we had a walk-in larder with a marble shelf - loved it and would like to recreate it here somehow one day - a pipe dream though probably!

I don't keep jam or fizzy juice in the fridge. Nor oils, coffee or bread. In my fridge at the moment is butter, yoghurt, cheese, eggs, and a vegetable container with potatoes, celery, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, spring onions and onions. I keep melon once opened in the fridge with all the berries. In the door is milk, white wine, mayonnaise, pickled onions, pickled gherkins and beetroot. My freezer is full of soups and homemade meals. I'm going to rethink the position of the eggs and potatoes, having read this thread

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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.