Expert warns you should take these five things out of your fridge now
An expert has warned people should stop storing five common foods in the fridge, because they actually don't belong in there. The reminder comes from consumer champion platform Which?, which has revealed a list of “surprising things you should not keep in your fridge."
If you want your food to last, you may need to act now or risk ruining them. To begin with, Which?'s expert says: "It’s best not to keep your cucumbers in the fridge."
This is because "cold conditions can cause the skin to shrivel up on the end inside to become soft instead to store them in a cupboard or in a bowl on the counter top."
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Secondly tomatoes, just like cucumbers, are affected by the low temperatures which "can change the texture and most importantly, the taste of the tomato."
If you pop your onions away in the same place, you will also want to stop this. The expert continues: "When you keep them in the fridge that’s caused by moisture in your fridge instead store somewhere cool and dry."
And adds: "You can keep sliced or cut onions in the fridge though just make sure they’re kept in a sealed container. Keeping bread in the fridge can dehydrate your loaf leaving you with stale testing slices.
"Keep it in a bread bin and instead any bread you will not use can be sliced and stored in your freezer and brought back to life in the toaster or under the grill."
In their fifth and final point, you need to be careful with which fruits go in your fridge and which go in your bowl. "Some fruit is fine to keep in the fridge like small berries or citrus fruit fruits but don’t waste the space on keeping bananas in there.
"Bananas will turn black if you store them in the fridge. Instead keep your bananas somewhere nice and cool in a cupboard or in your usual fruit bowl."
According to marthastewart.com, Matthew Yee, chef at Farm to the People, has said that storing an onion in the fridge causes the onion to convert starch to sugar which can make your onions soft or soggy.
Talking about storing and freezing food safely, Food Standards Agency add that you need to ensure "your fridges and freezers are set to the recommended temperatures. Fridges and chilled display equipment should be set at 8˚C or below as a legal requirement. A freezer should be -18°C."
