Your Fridge Is a Place Where Fresh Food Goes to Die. That Doesn’t Have to Happen

The drawer in the fridge is supposed to help keep food fresh longer but it doesn’t help when we forget what we put in it.

We're taught to keep produce and perishables in drawers in the back of the fridge where it's coldest. But those spots are the hardest to see." Igor Sapozhkov/Dreamstime/TNS

By Laura Yuen From Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS—Do you feel ashamed when you toss out rotting food? Maybe it’s a produce bag of slimy green onions decomposing in the bowels of your fridge. Or a forgotten bin of leftovers that would have made a terrific reheated lunch, if only you had noticed it earlier.