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Hi, Christi Ferretti here from Expert Village. Your refrigerator may not be quite as big
as mine, but a lot of the same concepts do apply. What you may not realize is that the
temperature in your refrigerator can vary anywhere from thirty-five degrees all the
way up to 59. Now, a safe handling temperature for food is forty degrees. So fifty-nine can
be a little scary, but it is safe if you put the proper things in the right place in the
refrigerator. So, for that fifty-nine degree area - which is going to be the door of your
fridge. You're going to want to store things like mustards, ketchups, fruit juices, and
things like that. Avoid putting milk or dairy products. Now the one exception here is going
to be your eggs and your butter. If the top part of your refrigerator door has a closing
plastic lid, that's going to hold that temperature in. So that’s ok. Hot air rises. We all
realize that, so the warmest part of your fridge is going to be on top. We're going
to talk in a minute about which things should go where. The coldest part of your fridge
is going to be that bottom shelf, just above your doors and that's going to be for storing
meats. Well, get into that a little bit later as well. One of the key points that many people
may not realize is over stuffing your refrigerator can really cause a lot of problems. In order
to keep things cold in there, it's really based on circulation. If you stuff things
in too compactly, you're not going to be able to get that circulation needed. So the items
kept in the middle of your fridge may not be kept at that forty degree mark or below.
That's going to turn into basically spoilage and a lot of wasted money and a lot of headaches
on your part. So stay with me. We'll talk about where to store things in the fridge.