Fridges are kind of a triumph of design. There are shelves; there are crisper drawers; there are little spaces for individual eggs; a light that comes on only when you open the door and, if you’re feeling fancy, even an ice machine. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

But not everything about your fridge is so well thought-out. The shelves inside the doors, for example, are perfectly presented as a place to store butter, milk, and eggs – and yet, according to experts, pretty much the worst place in the whole gaff to put them.

“Every time you open your fridge, warm air rushes in, and the door shelves are the first place that air hits,” Kathleen Benson, a registered dietitian nutritionist at VNutrition, told Reader’s Dig

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