Why is it not recommended to use the refrigerator as a storage room?

Refrigerators are a necessity for almost every household. However, some netizens said that now there are convenience stores everywhere. For single workers, is it still necessary to use a refrigerator?

But even so, for a hard-working young person like me, having convenience stores, wifi, and subways in life is enough. Walking into a convenience store is like opening the door of your own refrigerator.

However, some people, like the previous generation, use the refrigerator as a storage room to store food. In today's society, this is actually completely unnecessary and dangerous. Today, let's talk about why it is not recommended to use the refrigerator as a storage room?

01. There are more bacteria in the refrigerator

Did you know that when you stockpile food in your refrigerator, you also stockpile a lot of disease-causing bacteria:

Listeria - It can survive in a low temperature environment of 0-10 degrees, and multiply in opened milk. Once a person is infected with Listeria, sepsis, meningitis, etc. will occur. Salmonella - This bacteria is usually found on meat and eggs. Low temperature can only inhibit its growth. Once the temperature rises, it will multiply in large numbers. Infection with Salmonella can cause diarrhea. Shigella - The detection rate of Shigella in household refrigerators is 8%. Shigellosis is what we often call bacterial dysentery. Yersinia - The lower the temperature, the faster it multiplies. Its symptoms usually manifest as inflammatory diseases such as acute gastroenteritis and enterocolitis. Many people in cities are infected with this bacteria through refrigerated food, so the medical community calls it "refrigerator enteritis."

Especially Listeria. A survey in the United States showed that 64% of people infected with Listeria can find this bacteria in their refrigerators at home. Listeria is very common in nature and can be found in soil, water and healthy animals. The most easily contaminated foods are: meat and meat products, milk and dairy products (raw milk and soft cheese), aquatic products, ready-to-eat foods (such as cooked meat) and vegetables. Listeria is highly lethal to pregnant women and fetuses, infants, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. At least 1,600 people are infected with Listeria monocytogenes in the United States each year, of which about 260 die.

The longer you hoard food, the more "killers" you will have in your refrigerator. It takes extraordinary courage to blindly pursue "fresh milk".

02. Can food stay fresh by putting it in the refrigerator?

Do you think that food can stay fresh by putting it in the refrigerator? NO! Not to mention that low temperature has a limited shelf life for food freshness, there are many foods that will become less fresh the longer they are refrigerated. For example:

If bananas are stored in an environment below 12°C, they will turn black and rot;

If fresh lychees are left in an environment below 0 degrees for a day, their skin will turn black and the flesh will change its taste;

If a cucumber is placed in the refrigerator for three days, its skin will become waterlogged and lose its flavor, because the storage temperature in the refrigerator is generally around 4°C to 6°C, while the optimal storage temperature for cucumbers is 10°C to 12°C.

Green peppers: 7°C to 8°C;

During the baking process, the linear part of the starch in the flour ages, which is why the bread has elasticity and soft structure. As the storage time increases, the linear part of the amylopectin in the bread slowly associates, making the soft bread gradually hard. This phenomenon is called "staling".

If ham is stored in a refrigerator, the water in it will easily freeze, which will promote the oxidation of fat in the ham, and the quality of the ham will be significantly reduced, greatly shortening the shelf life...

In the era of material scarcity and underdeveloped commerce, hoarding food was necessary to ensure a rich table. But now it is no longer that era. The commodity economy is so developed that as long as you have enough money, the difficulty of obtaining new things is infinitely close to zero. Improving the quality of life is a more important issue at the moment. What's more, now convenience stores and fresh food delivery are so developed, they purchase in large quantities and control costs throughout the entire chain, so the final price is also very low, and they are everywhere.

At the convenience store near my home, I can get a hot meal made with fresh ingredients for just over a dozen yuan. Isn't this much more economical and simpler than spending half a day at home making a meal with vegetables and meat that have been stored for a few days?

Anyway, my refrigerator is now only used to cool soda water and wine.

Of course, there is another fundamental factor: less cooking. Since I have thoroughly cleaned out the frozen meat in my refrigerator several times, well...