Why do you really need a bottom refrigerator drawer?
You probably store vegetables, fruits, and herbs in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator, believing that this way they will be preserved better and longer. In fact, this department is not intended for these products at all, but on the contrary - they will spoil there much faster. So what should you store in the bottom drawers of the refrigerator if you have been storing vegetables and fruits there all your life?
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Why not for vegetables and fruits?
Storing these foods at the bottom of the refrigerator to keep them fresh is the biggest mistake. If you carefully monitor the “life” of vegetables and fruits in this compartment, you will understand that sooner or later they will become softer, or even completely lose moisture or even become covered with a crust of ice.
The fact is that the cold comes down best. Fresh vegetables and fruits in these compartments freeze and lose all their beneficial properties. Although it is very convenient to store them there, it is better not to do this, because the products will spoil ahead of time.
Many manufacturers even put markings on the bottom drawers that state that they are not intended for vegetables, fruits, or herbs.
So what should you store there?
It turns out that meat, fish and all those products that require intensive refrigeration are stored here. And also, contrary to popular belief, this is the ideal place to store eggs, and not a tray on the door.
You can often see corresponding images in refrigerators of some models, but raw meat and fish must always be kept separate from ready-to-eat foods.Fruits and vegetables should be placed, on the contrary, on the top shelves.
Food that is sensitive to moisture loss should be stored in a high-humidity drawer. For example, unripe bananas, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, eggplants, peas and strawberries can be placed in the bottom compartment of the refrigerator.
This is also an ideal place to store drinks, various cosmetics and medicines.
Of course, each of us decides for ourselves what to put and where. But be sure to study the instructions for the equipment or pay attention to the icons on the shelves and drawers so that your products remain fresh for as long as possible.
The refrigerator is probably 100 years old, and only now people are writing about it.
God, what nonsense. It may or may not be stored there. You can decide for yourself. And really, nothing can freeze there, even at the minimum temperature. Whatever one may say, this is not a freezer.
The article only applies to refrigerators that have a freezer compartment at the bottom. For those with it at the top, everything is just the opposite - the bottom drawer is intended for vegetables and fruits, as stated both in the instructions and with the help of markings. So the rule here is different - we store meat and fish closer to the freezer, further away - vegetables and fruits.
You are all wrong.I have a freezer below, and the openings for cold air access are almost at the top and in the middle, so the drawer for fruits and vegetables is at the bottom, the cold air reaches it through two glass shelves. Where the bottom holes are located, which are not at all from the bottom, there is a special box for cooling raw meat products for a short time and prepared meat products. Focus on these holes. In a special box, if the products are located next to the hole, they freeze (or rather, the side of the products that is closer to the hole) and you have to warm up the sausage and meat products before slicing and eating.
I also believed what was written in the instructions - In a refrigerator with a top freezer, there is a drawer for vegetables on the bottom, and meat should be stored on top. Until I noticed that the soup on the top shelf began to turn sour in 2 days. I measured the temperature - +10 on the top shelf, + 4 below. I had to put the canned food in the vegetable drawer and store the vegetables on the top shelf. Soup and meat are on the bottom shelf. Here are the instructions!
So in your picture with the fish you can see that below it there is a box with vegetables and the pictures are the same))))))))))))) PS. In my refrigerator, the bottom drawer also has pictures of vegetables)
Freezer downstairs. We store vegetables in the bottom drawer. Nothing ever freezes. Some vegetables (depending on the freshness when purchased) can sit there for weeks and feel great.
I was forced to buy a used refrigerator... It works great, but there are no markings on the drawers. The top door - cool temperature, three plastic drawers - fruits, vegetables (separately, of course), a saucepan with first and second courses. The bottom door is a freezer (three drawers - separately meat and fish. The egg is in the cells of the top door.
Everything seems to be correct.
in the refrigerator compartment the temperature is +4 degrees. so nothing will freeze or become covered with ice