You have too much 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.
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.
Aligned oldest to newest in the back farthest from the door.
anything else invites ruin
Civilization depends on order and shared values.
It’s yo’ fridge
Do what you wanna do.
I ain’t gonna tell you
How to stock it, too.
You gotta live your life,
Cereal if you want it too
Well look at this fat cat here that can afford multiple milks…
Nah, for real, put the newest milk in the back, use up the oldest milk first.
Yep. FIFO. First in first out.
one milk at a time. Replace after the old one is used up
If today is shopping day and you have a days worth of milk left you’re not going to buy a new milk?
Why would it matter, then? Buy new milk, put it in the fridge wherever you want, finish the previous container, move new container to its proper spot.
This isn’t that difficult to solve.
Then use the already open one? If I see multiple milk in my fridge, I find the one someone else opened already
Me too.
I usually forget, but if I remember I just chug the remaining milk.
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
Would the order be different in an imported fridge?
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.
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.
I’m sorry, but WHAT?? What in the OCD hell is this? Who stacks milk in an order away or towards a hinge of a fridge door? Since when is either of these things an actual THING?
We buy milk every fortnight and the date ranges vary wildly, which results in expired milk if we’re not careful.
Are the expiry dates not too visible on the milk?
Sometimes they’re visible from the other side of the room, other times you need either a magnifying glass and a bright light whilst holding the bottle upside down.
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
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.
Milk goes at the back of the fridge
