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.
Huh, so your stores don’t have larger bottles of milk? There’s bottles 2.5x that in most of the stores near me, with noticably lower cost per liter compared to the smaller bottles.
Sorry, I sometimes forget not everyone goes by a grocery every single day.
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.
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 wonder if supermarkets aren’t careful about keeping it chilled. I always take milk from the back of the cabinet.
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 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.
Oldest/open container should be wherever you’re most likely to grab from, I feel like height and fridge layout would be the deciding factor here
People still drink milk?
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.
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 would put them on the shelf, but they don’t fit standing up and on more than one occasion they have leaked when lying down, so the door is the least worst option.
Hinge of no relevance - in left to right reading countries, oldest should be on the left, it is what we intuit as “first”.
Front to back > *, but you didn’t allow for that option, so I’m imagining a fridge so full of milk that the rows are already front to back sorted, and we’re just deciding what order to put the rows in.
Sealed in back oldest in the front to newest in back but open vs closed overrides that sorting system
I don’t care.
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.
Unless you’re adamant that you’ll never have two milks in the house which is what I was asking.
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.
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
Aligned oldest to newest in the back farthest from the door.
anything else invites ruin
Civilization depends on order and shared values.
