We do oldest milk is closest to you as you open the door. Meaning furthest away from hinge.
Reason: convenience and behavior encourages you to grab the closest first.
I use oat ‘milk’ that only needs to go into the fridge when open. So only one at a time and wherever there is a free slot.
People still drink milk?
How are you going through milk fast enough to warrant a system
Milk comes in 1.5 litre bottles, there’s two of us, we have it in coffee, tea, omelets , and occasionally in porridge, we shop once a fortnight, you do the maths.
Neither. The “current” milk is standing, the rest is laid down on the shelves towards the back. This keeps it at a stable temperature, there is no ambiguity about which to grab, and keeps valuable door space free from clutter.
It depends on the user(s). Which position do you naturally reach for first? That’s where the oldest stock goes, with newer stock “behind” that in descending order of age. You always want to rotate stock, such that the oldest stock gets used up first.
I don’t care.
The door suffers from temp fluctuations and is often the warmest part of the fridge. Milk is sensitive to this so it should be at the back of the fridge not the door. The door is just to keep things chilled, or for keeping things from going bad.
This “door is too warm for milk” thing is crazy. I keep milk on a door shelf because it’s the only place with enough height. Also it never goes off there, even past the use-by date.
To be honest I did the same until a few years ago. I don’t know if milk is just more prone to going bad these days or our fridge gets open more often, but I noticed our milk wasn’t lasting. No science behind it, just that we were pouring more milk away. My missus started putting the milk at the back after she did a bit of research and since then it has been fine. I didn’t believe it either at first but I also did some digging and turns out the door is recommended for chilling items not preserving them.
I’d put them oldest further from the hinge. My logic is that they’d be closer to me when I open the door that way (same logic applies whether you store them in the door or fridge). However, of you have a weirdly designed fridge like mine, it makes more sense to keep them on the right side of the body of the fridge because we have double French style doors and it can be sort of cumbersome to try and open the right door and grab the milk if it’s sitting toward the middle away from the hinge due to the left door not being open and my arm bumping it / it being partially in the way. The left side is ruled out completely because there are shelves that are too low and don’t allow enough headroom for the milk.
I feel like most comments here are missing the point. I think you understand the concept of “first in, first out” and are just wondering if the “first” here should be closer to the door hinge or further.
In short, I say that the oldest milk should be placed further from the hinge.
My logic comes from my experience in the restaurant industry and actually arranging coolers. Optimally, you want to make it so that without thinking, in a rush, the first item a user sees is the oldest one. This is usually the item that is closest to the door/opening/user/whatever. In the case of storing items in the door itself, I would say that the further an item is from the hinge, the closer it is to the user.
Literally just throw it wherever. You know the milk you bought most recently, only open it after finishing the older one.
What do you mean you have 3 milks, wtf
My partner and I keep anywhere from 3 to 6 half gallons of milk in our fridge at a time. We’re plant based and the stores don’t sell them in full containers. I don’t actually know the milk I bought most recently because they typically all look the same. We try to keep them organized them by FIFO with the oldest in the front so we can grab and use those first without having to read the tiny “best by” dates.
My girlfriend puts the milk on the door… Ok, not preferred but not worth a fight. The issue is she puts it with handle facing out which barely fits and even flexs the little band of of plastic holding stuff to the door. If it is rotated 90 degrees it fits perfectly but according to her its “harder to pull out” since you need to lift and rotate instead of just lifting…
Is this appropriate grounds to break up?
/s yes it annoys me but not nearly enough to break up.
Consider the amount of strength required to make either movement. It might turn out that one way requires more strength than the other.
It’s takes more the way she does it because it scrapes across the plastic band adding friction…
Did you account for any height difference between you? If she’s shorter then it might still be harder for her to get leverage with the way it’s turned. Just throwing out possible reasons for her convictions idk lol
Milk goes at the back of the fridge
I keep the new, unopened milk in the back of the main part of the fridge until it’s called to action for door duty
You have too much milk.
