How to Store Meats

Video Transcript

"Hi Christi Ferretti here with Expert Village. Ever wondered how to store meats properly in your refrigerator? Well if you didn't know the shelf just above your crisper drawer which is going to be the bottom shelf of your refrigerator is going to be the coldest part of the fridge. That is where you want to keep your meats. Its going to keep them fresher longer and ultimately give you a better taste and better flavor. Now when you have various different meats such as I have here , I have a beef rib eye and a chicken breast the easy way to think about it is how are you gonna eat your meats. Your always gonna eat your chicken well done. You wanna kill all the salmonella and any bad things out of it. That is gonna go on the bottom you don't really ever want to put anything below chicken. If you can at all store it separately. This would be your best option as it would reduce the risk of cross contamination. Now when you get home these packages from the grocery store there is a chance there gonna have some extra juices in it and you don't want those to leak out. So what you wanna do is either take a plate and put the meats on the plate and that way nothing will leak down into your fridge or from one meat to the other. Along with that or separately, you can put them in a ziplock bag, keeping it in the grocery store package so you just have an extra guarantee. Seal it up and you can stack your meat safely on the bottom shelf in your fridge keeping them nice and cold and avoiding any risk of cross contamination. "