The refrigerator is an essential appliance in our homes, but many times we forget what its real use is. The refrigerator is not a cupboard where we keep food, is an appliance that allows us to better preserve certain foods, since thanks to the low temperatures we delay the development of microorganisms, preventing fermentation from appearing.
Although it seems obvious, many times it is not. Have you ever put food in the fridge that doesn't need it? For example sliced bread, cans or rice ...
To ensure the maximum shelf life of a food in the refrigerator, it is essential to know what food can be frozen and how to do it.
How should we keep food in the refrigerator?
- Meat and fish. They are the most perishable foods, so the essential thing is that to refrigerate themPut them in the lowest part of the refrigerator, whose temperature is about 2ºC, just above the vegetable drawers. Also, if they leak, they will not contaminate other foods. The minced meat, for example, should not be more than a day; chicken, fish and veal maximum 2 days and cooked for 3 days. Sausages and foods that are cooked must go to the central part of the refrigerator, since they do not need as much cold. At the time of freeze themTry to keep food as dry as possible, and in a suitable container such as film, tuppers, aluminum foil, or freezer bags.
- Fruits and vegetables. To preserve them better refrigerated and that they do not deteriorate, keep them in the drawers that are intended for them. There are fruits and vegetables such as potatoes, onions or garlic that should never be put in the refrigerator, or foods such as tomatoes, aubergines and zucchini, which worsen their flavor. Always try to leave out bananas, melons, avocados, kiwis, apples, and pears. If you want freeze fruit, remove the excess water, so that frost does not form, and chop them.
- Dairy and eggs. Keep them always refrigerated in the central part of the refrigerator or on the door, since they do not need as much cold. If you want to freeze them, save for example the milk in a large container, and the eggs, freeze them without shell.
And is that when we start cooking, we have to take into account that the ingredients we use are fresh and tasty. In addition, to have the perfect texture before being prepared, that is why the kitchen always begins in our refrigerator and in the way we keep the food inside it.
There are refrigerators that throw us a cable like the RB8000 and the RB7000 from the new range of Samsung Chef Collection,, are a new concept of household appliance that takes into account this premise: that of preserving food to leave it at its optimum point. Did you know that the temperature inside a conventional refrigerator fluctuates an average of 2ºC up or down? And did you know that the success or failure of preparing a dish can depend on it? For this reason, the ideal is that the refrigerators have a fluctuation not exceeding 0-5ºC, and another thing that is super important, that the odors do not mix.
These new Samsung chef Collection refrigerators have a sophisticated design technology called SpaceMax that reduces the thickness of the walls by increasing their storage capacity by up to 401 net liters of capacity more, than in conventional refrigerators.
And always remember whatever your refrigerator is, never has to be too crowded, since if there is no space between the food, the air does not circulate well, and the temperature of the same can be affected, however, the freezer should be as full as possible, because only in this way, it will need less energy to function, and the cold will be greater.
And always remember, the objective of a good refrigerator is to pamper food and save all its properties so that recipes are much tastier.