Putting food in the refrigerator, besides wanting our food to be cold and tastier. Food such as ice cream, chocolate, or cakes, its function can also make the food last longer. However, everything has rules, here are some tips to make your life easier.
For foods such as fish and meat, they can be put in the refrigerator, especially in the freezer. The freezer is a small door than the main door. Because with a colder temperature, it can make fish and meat last for 3 to 4 months.
Then there are cheeses that can last for 2 to 4 months, if stored in the refrigerator, by wrapping it first using plastic, or aluminum foil. Because cheese is rat food, by wrapping it in aluminum, foil, the rats will think it is building debris. And I'm just kidding, it has nothing to do with rats.
Then to store vegetables in the refrigerator, you can't just do it carelessly. Before putting it in the refrigerator, the vegetables must be dried first, and avoid storing vegetables that have been cut, because it will also be fresher and better for the vegetable content.
Next, eggs that have been washed and stored in the refrigerator too, or the refrigerator, can last for approximately 5 weeks. Because if stored in a warm place, ducks can come out.
The wrong way to store food will cause food to spoil quickly, even rot, so it is wasteful. Because if you still force yourself to eat food that is rotten or stale, it will cause various diseases, although it can be an excuse not to go to the office, or school.
As we know, refrigerators, or coolers, have become electronics that must always be present in every home in Indonesia. Not only in Indonesia, but also in the world it seems.
Okay, if we talk about function, this is not only a refrigerator, but also a food storage cabinet. Maybe because there are some types of food that last longer if stored in the refrigerator, such as meat, and so on.
So far, most people think that the refrigerator is the safest place to store food and drinks, so that they remain durable and do not spoil quickly. However, it turns out that not all foods and drinks are good to store in the refrigerator. In fact, storing hot food in the refrigerator will not harm our health if we consume the food.
In just two hours, bacteria can contaminate food. Therefore, it is better to store it in the refrigerator as soon as possible, especially foods such as dairy products, meat and eggs. For people who have a fatty immune system, such as pregnant women, children, the elderly.
They have a high risk of food poisoning. That's why you have to be careful when storing food in the refrigerator. The most important thing to remember, keep food hot to 60 degrees Celsius. Or cool it in the refrigerator at a temperature of 4 degrees Celsius, or colder. Not only that, if steemian friends store food that is intended to be reheated, it will actually cause bacteria to grow easily.
So, it is not recommended to put food that will be cooked again, or reheated in the refrigerator. Well, that was the research result that I found in several sources that I read on Google. It turns out that there are types of food that some must be put into the refrigerator immediately. Like milk products, meat, and also eggs.
But actually not all types of food have to go into the refrigerator, what are the products like, which must go into the refrigerator immediately, and also which should not go into the refrigerator, and what are the reasons. Actually, the food that is put in the refrigerator really depends on the type of food. Because there are some types of food that are actually more damaged if they go into the refrigerator. For example, avocado. If it goes into the refrigerator, it will rot quickly. Same as honey, it then crystallizes.
But what is clear is that cold temperatures make food, other than food that was previously damaged by cold temperatures, last longer, like that. If the type is soupy food, or the type is then from meat, if stored in the refrigerator, it can last a day or two. If the room temperature is only about 6-8 hours. Well, the colder the temperature like in the freezer, the longer it lasts.
But do note that there are some types that are not suitable for temperatures that are too cold. And then we also have to pay attention to how to store it, it should not be in an open state. Because if it is open, it can be contaminated with other foods. So there is cross-contamination that occurs, so every food storage in the refrigerator must be in a tightly closed condition.
And it should not be too dense, so that there is air circulation inside. So, there is a distance between one container and another container. And then for foods like bread, it is not good to store it in the refrigerator. Because it dries out very easily on the surface.
For processed foods, such as canned foods, or packaged foods, it must still be determined based on the expiration date. So food in the refrigerator can, does not extend the expiration date, but food in the refrigerator makes the food less at risk of being contaminated by bacteria in the surrounding environment, because of the hot temperature.
Therefore, the role of the refrigerator in our lives is very important. And it is very important to put food in the right place, and in the right way.
Greetings always compact.
By @midiagam