In this episode, Jonathan Strickland explains how bacteria spoils food and what temperature your refrigerator should be to slow their progress.
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you could finish it in .46 instead of 3.46 minutes.
Jonathan, Love ya guy… Great sense of humor you have. Thumbs up on your video, and you have a new subscriber.
37-38°F is ideal.
i really need help. my refrigerator temperature is all wrong.it a sunbeam 4door .please help me set the the correct temperatures.
thanks
I actually got the Punky Brewster fridge analogy!! lol that episode may have saved my life as a kid!!
The "bacteria" used to produce beer is actually a fungi which is called yeast. Bacteria is very different from fungi.
2:58
You talk too much!
It takes a true genius to wonder about shit
What a useless waste of my time
4 celcius! And -16 for freezer!
4 celcus for fridge, 0 celcus for freezer. THnaks for bacteria biology lecture.
I see a lot written about trying to keep the freezer and refrigerator doors shut, as much as possible. That there’s a lot of cold/warm air exchange when you open the doors.
But, I think it’s actually more than there simply being an exchange going on actually. I think that one has to consider that, when they open the doors to their refrigerator, cold air isn’t simply, slowly floating out. To an extent, I think it’s actually being sucked out by the door being swung open. At minimum, it’s a good thing to envision for encouragement in keeping the doors shut, as much as possible.
Another remaining encouragement, is to just buy inexpensive freezer and refrigerator thermometers, with the refrigerator thermometer likely being the most important because a freezer should usually be around 0 degrees so, briefly opening it might not make too much difference since, it would take some time to get from 0 to 32. But, the temperature window between 35 and 40 for the fresh food compartment is not only easier to get past, but the refrigerator, at least in a top freezer unit where the fresh food compartment is at least twice as large as the freezer, is going to take awhile to get back to proper temperature, after you’ve replenished or retrieved something. But, if you have a thermometer in the fresh food compartment, it will provide you a consistent reminder and respect as to how quickly the temperature rises, while you stand there with the door open, vacillating over whether or not you want juice or soda.
You talk too much
32deg f. = zero deg c.that's when pure water freezes. Do you really want 0 deg f. = -18 c.?
Thanks! When God delivered me of my ex, and when he moved out he put my fridge on 9. Until that day, I never saw frozen eggs before. 😳 So, I have it now on 6. I feel like I shouldn’t go any lower than that.
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OMGGG JUST SAID THE TEMPERATUREEEEEEEE
hk
Maggotts in our fridge, this was the worse thing, we asked if they would pay rent, but. No. No they were not buying
Not on that idea any how.so me and the girlfriend, spente a long time evicting the little creeps.
Great information
Skip to 2:50. This guy loves to hear himself talk. He recommends a below 40*F temperature or 4*C.
thanks nice explain 😁😁😁
2:43
Just say best temperature!!!!
is this 4°C setting or 4°C ambient inside the refrigerator?
I love Punky Brewster❤️
2:53 he's telling the ideal tempure for the fridge. Thanks
Actually, 40 F is 4.4444 C to be precise 39.2 F is 4 C 🙂
strawberries
2:47 ;D
Cut a watermelon in half. A few days later,, it had green mold on top…..yikes. waste wasted