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

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

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!

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

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.

Inside the lid of Waitrose eggs it says Refrigerate after purchase

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

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

The cat - never.
Schrödinger’s Gran

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The cat - never.
Schrödinger’s Gran

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

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

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

I just go by how they are stored in supermarkets.

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 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!

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😅

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

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.

We have 4 fridges and an upright freezer, one fridge holds nothing but bottled water, one fridge holds all other drinks, soft drink, beer etc. the freezer holds frozen stuff and extra bread just incase. The main fridge holds everything else, ham, dairy products, condiments, spreads, vegetables, leftovers, fruit, eggs and anything else that needs cooling.
The 4th fridge is downstairs under the house and only gets turned on at christmas and easter or when we ar having a big gathering.
I have to point out here that we live in Australia so there is very little that doesnt go in the fridge

The key to the back door. So why do I always check in the fridge when it goes missing🙄

Grandmaderby10. Not where we lived. Mother only went to town to shop for material for dressmaking and for haberdashery. Bread was bought from the baker’s van, the vegetable van came weekly, the fish van on Fridays, the meat van also weekly, eggs bought from a farm and anything else like tins or jars, sugar, flour etc, came weekly ordered on the telephone from a grocer’s shop in town. Milk came daily and was stood in a pot in cold water in the larder which wasn’t particularly cool. We had our roast dinner on Saturdays and the leftover leg of lamb or roast beef sat in the larder and was used in sandwiches for tea until what was left on Tuesday went in a stew for Wednesday. I have a very clear memory of waiting until the coast was clear to pick at the meat when I was hungry. I don’t recall any upset tummies either.

henetha

I always thought eggs weren't meant to be in the fridge. And bread neither. I recently discovered that grapes keep better if kept in the fridge part of the time at least.

I take our breakfast eggs out the night before, they keep better in the fridge I think, but cook better at room temperature.
As we only ever eat bread toasted I think it's fine to keep that there too as it stops it going mouldy. Any bread like ciabatta that I won't toast is kept in the freezer as it defrosts quickly.

Eggs and apples. We use a fair amount of eggs so keep them in a dish on the countertop. Apples tend to leave a taste on everything so don’t refrigerate those. I buy the low sugar, high fruit jams so they tend to be kept in the fridge once opened.

Never put eggs or tomatoes, potatoes in fridge.
I didn’t have fridge until 1957 when my son was ten. However there was not much to put in one because rationing didn’t end until 1954.
Cheddar cheese will last for months if well wrapped.
I think that nowadays people refridgerate too many things.

dismembered bodies.....they go in the chest freezer of course.