American fridge · La Ley del DeshieloDay 6 of 11
Day 6 · Fruit drawer
The fruit stall
Fruit goes in its own drawer, apart from the vegetables. Many fruits release ethylene, a gas that speeds up the ripening of everything nearby; next to the veg, they spoil it sooner.
And remember some fruit doesn't even want the fridge: bananas blacken in the cold and tomatoes lose flavour. Those go in the fruit bowl.
If the drawer has a humidity control, turn it down a bit for fruit.
Art. VI
«fruit in its drawer, apart it must go; its gas ripens neighbours and lays them low.»