On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:49:09 -0600, notbob > wrote:

>I've been watching old eps of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (USA
>edition). More than once, I've seen Gordon tear into chefs fer not
>knowing that putting a hot soup/sauce into a cold refrigerator makes sed
>soup/sauce "sour". True?
>
>I've been doing this (putting semi-hot soup in fridge) fer years. IME,
>letting soup/sauce cool on range-top prior to putting in refrigerator
>cause item to spoil sooner. Yes? No?
>
>nb

My thinking is that putting the hot stuff into the fridge causes the
temp in the fridge to increase for everything in there. I don't know
how long it takes for the fridge temps to recover but in the meantime
the temps may be above optimal. I don't have any facts and figures
for this, no article to cite, just my thinking of how it would work.
So I leave soups and so forth on the stove top to come to a palm
(hand) temperature before I put it in the fridge.
Janet US