When it comes to cleaning and organising your home, one area often forgotten about is your fridge freezer. However, keeping your fridge freezer tidy is just as important as keeping any other part of your home tidy.
Why organise your fridge freezer?
Organising your integrated fridge freezer has multiple benefits, including minimising your food waste and energy usage.
In the UK, we collectively waste around 6.4 million tonnes of food every year. This can be reduced on a household level if you practise simple organisational tips in your freestanding or integrated fridge freezer.
Keeping your food in allocated sections of your fridge will help you pinpoint exactly what’s in your fridge, and where. This will help you use food before it expires, and spend less time with the fridge door open, trying to find each ingredient.
These organisational benefits extend to your freezer, where it can be easy to store things and forget about them for weeks, or even months. Getting into the habit of labelling when you put items in the freezer can help ensure you’re using the oldest ingredients first, and always eating the freshest food possible.
Where to store your food
Where to store each food item depends on the layout of your integrated fridge freezer. Many fridge freezers, such as those seen at www.wellingtonshomeelectrical.co.uk/refrigeration/fridge-freezers/integrated-built-in.html, will be designed in a way to create storage space especially for jars and bottles. In this case, using the spaces intended for each food group and item is the best way to keep them fresh.
If your fridge freezer doesn’t have dedicated spaces, a good rule of thumb is to work from top to bottom. The top of your fridge freezer will always be the warmest, while the bottom has the coldest temperatures.