How to Organise an American Style Fridge Freezer

Over 9.5 million tonnes of food gets wasted every year in the UK. As this food decomposes, the greenhouse gases emitted significantly impact global warming. Keeping your fridge organised will help you to use food before it expires. This will save both the environment, and your bank account!

A disorganised American Style fridge freezer can increase your chances of food poisoning. By knowing how to organise a fridge for food safety, you can reduce illness. You can do this by storing your food in the correct containers and in the right part of the fridge.

When you keep your fridge organised, the fridge door will spend less time open. This is because you’ll spend less time searching for what you need. Even better, your smart fridge lets you see inside without the need to open your door. The less time your fridge door is open, the less your fridge has to work to keep the internal temperatures stable. Less work = less energy used = a more energy efficient home

Another great reason to organise your fridge freezer is because it just looks better. Our American Style fridge freezers look fab on the outside; why not look beautiful on the inside too?

Lots of people don’t know what can actually be frozen and what can’t. Don’t worry if you don’t. BBC Good Food explain what foods you can freeze here. If you need to, write up a list of freezer friendly foods and stick it on the door and you’ll be freezer-literate in no time.

You’ve just made a roast dinner. There’s chicken left over. You wrap it in foil and put it in the freezer. You soon forget what’s in there, and it blends in with all the other foil-wrapped items. There it stays, until it goes in the bin many months later. Labelling your food is a good way of seeing clearly what you have in stock. Eliminate the guesswork.

Flat freezing is a great space saving freezer organising idea. To do this, pour liquid foods like curries, sauces, soups and casseroles in zip-lock bags. Then, place a baking sheet in your freezer to store your liquid filled bags to freeze. You’ll then be able to stack them on top of each other on other shelves. No more half-filled containers wasting space.

If your freezer has a fast freezing function, use it! When you place non-frozen items into your freezer the internal temp rises. Your freezer will then need to work harder to get back to normal. Turn the fast freeze function on about 3 hours before you place non-frozen items over 1kg in there. This lowers the temp so that they will freeze quicker, and your other frozen items won’t suffer.

Labelled baskets can be useful for storing smaller, loose items. By keeping them in one place, your fridge freezer becomes less cluttered and more efficient.

We don’t always have the time to check what’s in before a food shop. Keeping a whiteboard or notepad around your American Style fridge freezer can help. Here you can keep note of what’s in stock. Alternatively, a Samsung Family Hub fridge freezer can keep track for you.

Once every month, try to use up everything that’s in your freezer over. This is easier done spread over a weekend. Doing this will help you cut the cost of that weeks shop, and free up space in your freezer.