Is there a specific drawer to put salad stuff, fruits and meat and cheese in the Samsung side by side.

[amilleroh]

My fridge temp is 38 and freezer is -3. The fridge has 3 drawers but it does not keep my salad stuff fresh at all. I can buy a head of romaine at the store, put it in the drawer and by dinner it is limp. It has 3 drawers and I'm wondering if each drawer is meant for specific types of food? The manual has no info on this. Model #RS25H5111SR

 

[herm0016]

have you checked the temperature manually?

 

[amilleroh]

have you checked the temperature manually?

I have a Thermometer inside the fridge and it is accurate with the temp on the display.

 

[daveybrat]

Anytime i buy veggies i put them in a Quart or Gallon ziploc bag. They stay crisp and fresh for almost a week that way.

If i don't do that they do get limp or soft pretty quickly.

 

[amilleroh]

Anytime i buy veggies i put them in a Quart or Gallon ziploc bag. They stay crisp and fresh for almost a week that way.

If i don't do that they do get limp or soft pretty quickly.

I'll have to try this.

 

[mindless1]

I usually just leave the produce in the grocery store plastic bags they provide (not the checkout bags, rather the much thinner ones next to the produce), or put in a washed/reused one of those bags, but I don't close the end so that some of the moisture can still escape.

Otherwise, fungus starts to grow and on lettuce it is often red colored. Limp > slimy.

 

[Steltek]

It has 3 drawers and I'm wondering if each drawer is meant for specific types of food? The manual has no info on this. Model #RS25H5111SR

Yes it does, on pages 24 and 25 of the user manual linked at the bottom of this page. Facing the fridge with the right door open, the vegetable crisper drawer is the 2nd one up from the bottom. That is the only one meant to hold vegetables - the third one up from the bottom is intended to be used in thawing frozen foods or quickly cooling beverages (it has a control on it for both uses). I suspect the bottom one on the right - since it isn't labeled - is just a general use drawer, while the one at the top of the right door is of course the bin for margarine, cheese, and other dairy products.

That being said, I agree with the other posters. Try keeping the lettuce in bags, and experiment to see what bags work best for your fridge.

Also, a lot of what will happen depends on where you buy your lettuce as well. When I get a bag of salad at our local Walmart, it might be edible for two days max as the store there doesn't force its employees to properly handle their fresh foods -- it sits around after unloading before they finally get it in the back fridges, then it sits a while before it gets moved up to the refrigerated cases for sale (at least at my local store - my mother works there, and she actually does all of her vegetable shopping there out of the back storage areas. She wouldn't buy ANYTHING they are have out for sale in the store). A pack of romaine lettuce heads from our local Sam's Club (when they have it) routinely stays fresh for me up to 10 days in my LG fridge as long as I remove it from the Sams bag and put it in ziplock slider bags. Kroger stuff locally is hit and miss, but is generally always going to last a several days longer than Walmart stuff (which I consider a waste of money, unless I'm going to use it the day I buy it and have no other choices available).

 

[mindless1]

Another thing you can do is wrap a wet paper towel around the severed end, and a plastic bag covering that, and a little higher up if the shape of the produce still allows some airflow past that point, then you check and keep the paper towel wet.

This continues to hydrate the produce, like lettuce, celery, asparagus, broccholi and cauliflower, and to some extent other leafy things like cilantro (but not as much, it's better put in a cup with water even if not in a drawer).

Which strategy works best for you includes both the age and treatment factors that Steltek mentioned, but also your rate of consumption, how old it gets once in your custody.

Frankly I would not sweat the lettuce as much as other produce that is more nutrient dense and more expensive. If my lettuce isn't crunchy, there's always onion/crouton/bacon/radish/carrot/etc crunchy things I can add to keep some good texture in a salad... but I'm a savage, I actually add random dandelion weed leaves to salad too, just pull the whole plant to get rid of it before it spreads and eat it. They are a little bitter, I keep that in mind when selecting the dressing.