How to store food in the refrigerator?

Even the most useful products can harm our body, if they are stale. To avoid this, is to learn how to select and store food.


Women's Magazine will tell you how to deal with the most common types of products that are always present in our kitchen and in the refrigerator.





Bakery

Store bread and bakery products a short time can in bags made of polyethylene or special bread, which they well remain fresh for one to two days.

Rye and wheat bread be stored separately as white bread easily perceives the smell of the black and loses taste.

Bagels, drying and crackers should be stored separately from the bread and bakery products. When joint custody bagels, drying and crackers lose fragility, soften, and the bread get stale faster.

If the bakery is still warm plastic bag and the bread should be kept open, and after cooling to close. Put the bread on the bottom crust, so that it is not deformed and not stale so quickly, because the upper crust is less permeable.

If the bread place the sliced Apple, a slice of peeled potatoes or a little salt, the bread will corstvet slower.

You should not keep the bread in a dark damp place in the refrigerator, as it quickly absorbs moisture and moldy.

Dairy products


Always pay attention to the integrity of the packaging, and of course, the date. Do not buy or use existing dairy products with expired shelf life.




Milk and butter should be kept separately from other dairy products that have a smell, such as cheese and fermented milk products. Storing oil is better in a sealed bag, lined with parchment.

For long-term storage suitable low-fat cottage cheese. It is placed in tubs, grated salt and lined with parchment. In this form, at a temperature of about 0°With cheese you can save up to 2 months.

Cheeses of all varieties are very easy to grow mouldy. One of the best ways to preserve cheese - careful packing it in waxed paper. Storing cheese at temperatures above 10°C, as well as freezing, not Pets. When slime, mold cheese wipe with a cloth moistened with salt water. Store cheese in the home it is recommended that not more than 2-3 months.

The smell of cheese is easily transferred to other food products (eggs, butter, dried products), so it should be stored separately.

Eggs


In the special grooves on the inner panel of the door of the refrigerator it is recommended to store only those eggs that are intended to be eaten in the next 3-7 days. Therefore, the remaining eggs are best stored in the depth of the top shelf of the refrigeration compartment under the freezer, where the retention period may be more than two weeks, if each egg wrapped in paper and once a week to turn. Laying eggs on the door or in the tray, make sure that the tip was pointing down.





Meat and meat products

Fresh meat can be stored without losing freshness in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, and bird - 2 days. Meat vacuum-Packed stay fresh for several weeks, and when opening the package about 4 days. Frozen meat remains fresh up to 6 months.

Fish and seafood


It is better to buy fresh, not frozen fish. Quality fish can be distinguished by the brilliant scales, unclouded eyes and typical marine smell. In addition, a fish is usually fresher than various fillets and steaks, which can be cut from dead or perivaginal fish.




Home fish better to start cooking. If you are not going to do that, then don't keep it long in the freezer, and place in a container with ice.





Fruits and vegetables


Better to buy fruit and vegetables produced locally and not imported: they have more vitamins.




Do not take the goods, if there are soft spots or dark spots, and with wrinkled skin: such vegetables and fruits't last long, and use in their particular no, but rotten Apple or tomato can be easily poisoned.




Most fruits and vegetables can stay fresh for 4 days. Apples - to 3 weeks. Greens, tomatoes, leaf lettuce should be stored in special containers. It is advisable to buy vegetables and fruits in small quantities and not leave them for the future, lest they lose their healthy and taste.




Be careful and attentive, and Bon appetit!

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