A refrigerator that’s too warm can cost you up to 75 euros in food waste a month
It’s always annoying when you think you have some delicious leftovers in your fridge only to open the Tupperware container and find out the food definitely isn’t edible any longer. Does this happen to you quite regularly? Then it might have something to do with the temperature of your fridge; you might have set it too high. This causes the food you put in there to go bad more quickly.
A lot of people have their refrigerator set at a temperature that’s too high.
Food waste
We all want to avoid food waste since it’s such a pity, but it happens to all of us sometimes. Want to try to waste as little food as possible? Then you should first check the temperature of your fridge. Research conducted by British food waste organisation WRAP shows that British households throw away 70 pounds (the money kind) worth of food because their fridge is set at the wrong temperature.
Temperature
According to WRAP, half of the households in the United Kingdom have their refrigerators set at a too high temperature, namely at 7 degrees Celsius. A good reason for all of us to check the temperature of our own refrigerators. The food waste organisation explains that you should keep your food at a temperature between 0 and 5 degrees Celsius if you want to be able to keep it fresh for as long as possible.
Too warm
The food we store in our fridge isn’t suitable to be stored at a temperature above 5 degrees Celsius, Helen White from WRAP explains to The Huffing ton Post. “Our fridges are often too hot for our food to handle, which means that milk and other food items are going off too soon and getting thrown away,” she says. The result of this is that households need to throw out a lot of food, the average cost of which is a whopping 70 pounds a month in the UK.
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