Some of these are quite surprising.
The fridge is where we usually put just about everything and anything we buy at the shop, and while we’re well aware of the obvious things that don’t need to be refrigerated this list is full of things we keep in there.
According to various food websites, these 7 foods are much better off out of the fridge.
1. Tomatoes
Temperatures in the fridge are actually too cold for the much debated fruit. In fact, the coldness can stop them from ripening properly which kills the flavour. So if ever you have a tomato which doesn’t taste tomato-ey enough, it’s because it’s been in the fridge.
2. Potatoes
While most people might not store your large roosters or Kerr’s pinks in there, I’ve often kept my baby potatoes in the fridge. This can cause the potatoes to lose their starch, meaning that they taste sweeter. This can affect the taste no matter how you then prepare them.
3. Onions
Similarly to tomatoes onions can become mushy in the fridge and can go mouldy much faster. Onions which have been cut will become dried up in the fridge even if they are wrapped tightly with cling film. A cut onion can also be very overpowering and cause things around it to smell and even taste like onion, so keeping it in the fridge could ruin the other food you keep in there.
4. Garlic
Garlic can be deceiving because the outer skin’s appearance rarely changes. But storing garlic in the fridge causes it to go off much quicker because it invites mould, and you may not even realise until you chop it open.
5. Bread
Putting bread in the fridge as a way of preserving it actually does the opposite. Mould will grow on bread much quicker in the cool temperatures of the fridge. It also causes the starch to crystallise, which means that the bread will become stale and hard.
6. Bananas
This one all depends of the stage at which the fruit is at. If the banana is ripe, it can be kept ripe by putting it in the fridge but if it’s not yet ripe, it will never get there if you place it in there. Basically if you’re banana is looking a little green, keep it in the fruit bowl.
7. Avocado
There has been an enormous surge in popularity of the avocado. Any lover of the food will know that it is tricky to eat it at the right time, it’s either rock-hard or over-ripened. Storing it in the fridge will not help you with that. Like bananas it can cause them to never ripen.
‘A cool dark place’ doesn’t always mean the fridge and sometimes its much better to store these things in a dark cupboard away from sunlight.
