Those things are kept warm better
Is your fridge overflowing with its seams? Are the shelves all cluttered? If that's the case, you'll be delighted to know that some of the foods that take up precious fridge space are amongst the groceries that you're storing all wrong. Currently, everything is best left right on the counter or in the pantry.
Bread
If you make home-made bread or buy a sliced loaf from the grocery store, placing it in the refrigerator would make it stale quicker.
How to store bread
Grocery store loaves should be kept at room temperature in their plastic loaf enclosures. And bakery breads commonly packaged in brown paper bags should be separated from the bag and loosely covered in plastic cling wrap and held at room temperature as well. The very best way to store all your loaves is right in your kitchen, in a bread basket. And if you don't get through your sandwich, then you know how to freeze and thaw bread.
Bananas
Bananas are perfect for a quick snack, or as a muffin ingredient, or simple 5-ingredient desserts. Cooling bananas can turn the peels brown much quicker and you don't want that because you want to over-mature them. Even the fridge will change the texture of a banana.
How to store bananas
The best place to store bananas is on the fridge, obviously. If you don't know what to do with extra ripe bananas, make banana bread or peel and freeze them for smoothies.
Potatoes
If you place your potatoes in the refrigerator, you are wrong to do so. The cold air will influence the spud's flavor and texture and ruin the makings of any carb-laden comfort food.
How to store potatoes
Tomatoes
New tomatoes are something you'd never want to pop in the fridge. Otherwise, when stored in the fridge, seasonal juicy tomatoes tend to lose their flavor and texture, and may turn mushy and lose some of their strength.
How to store tomatoes
Leave the tomatoes out in a glass bowl on the fridge. Pretty peasy.
Onions
Onions are probably one of the things you store all wrong on the supermarket. Hold them outside the fridge if you want to hold your unpeeled onions fresh for as long as possible.
How to store onions
Use it to store your onions, if you have a straw basket lying around. Baskets are well ventilated and are suitable for storing onions, garlic, and potatoes. And please make sure you know how to cut onions without crying when you need to chop your onions.
Garlic
Speaking of garlic, putting garlic bulbs in the fridge will cause them to sprout more quickly. Cooled garlic can also become moldy, rubbery and less flavourful. And you are going to want them to whip up some zesty garlic pesto in solid form.
How to store garlic
For best results, store your unpeeled garlic bulbs in the counter. You can also store these in a straw basket with your onions.
Sweet potatoes
There's really no need to use invaluable fridge space to store sweet potatoes. They may also take longer to cook after being in the cold, than normal.
How to store sweet potatoes
Sweet potatoes, which are perfect for making a lazy breakfast hash, stay on the counter for a long time.
Apples
You can refrigerate your fruits if you like cold, but heart-healthy apples tend to do better at room temperature. The fridge cold air will break down the fruit's crisp texture.
How to store apples
To hold your apples on the counter you can use a fruit basket or a large cup.
Watermelons
Never can it refrigerate uncut watermelons. While in the cold, watermelons will become mushy and lose their sweet taste and vibrant colour.
How to store watermelons
For full flavor keep watermelons and other melons such as honeydew and cantaloupe on the table. In fact, watermelons can maintain just fine at room temperature for seven to 10 days. But after you've sliced the melon, you can pop it up for a few days in the fridge. And knowing how long the cut fruit and other foods last in the fridge is essential.
Honey
Never put the honey in the refrigerator — there is no reason to do so. The golden natural sweetener will crystallize and harden in cold temperatures , making drizzling on a certain breakfast oatmeal even more difficult.
How to store honey
The pantry or cabinet room temperature is suitable for keeping the honey gooey and perfectly silky.
Coffee beans
There's no room for coffee beans in the refrigerator-unless you want to spoil your brew. Humidity in the refrigerator can cause the beans to develop condensation, which can put a damper on the flavor of both ground and whole beans.
How to store coffee beans
Storing your coffee beans in an airtight bag in the pantry or right on the counter for the perfect cup of coffee at home.
Butternut squash
Butternut squash is wonderful for creamy and flavourful soups when roasted. And the skin is thick enough to hold all the flesh inside, so don't cool whole butternut squash down.
How to store butternut squash
The robust vegetable is kept nicely in a cool and dark position for a month or more. But once sliced, if you're not using the whole thing you can refrigerate it in airtight containers.
No need to fill up space with the cucumbers in your vegetable fridge. And the fridge will potentially hurt a cucumber's skin , causing it much faster to go bad.
How to store cucumbers
The cucumbers remain cool as they can only sit on the table.
Stone fruit
Peaches, prunes, nectarines, and apricots (which are particularly good in spring) should not be refrigerated if they are unripe — this will cause them not to mature at all.
How to store stone fruit
Store on the counter your stone fruit and make those popular fruit pies once they're matured.
Avocados
Don't store them in the fridge for perfect avocado ripeness. Indeed, refrigerating them could potentially put a damper on the maturation process. There are a couple of tips to prolong the life of cut avocados, plus a clever hack to make guacamole last longer.
The best way to store avocados is at room temperature until they are fully grown, according to avocado producers Love One Today. If you want to save half an avocado cut for later, sprinkle it with some lemon juice, pop it in an airtight jar and put it in the refrigerator afterwards. And those tips can also enable other foods to last longer.