Appliance repair company Go-Assist.co.uk recently conducted a national fridge cleanliness study, involving 2,000 UK adults, and the findings were pretty grim.
According to the research, the average British fridge hasn’t been properly cleaned for 87 days. That’s more than three times longer than the recommended length of time between cleans.
Shockingly, almost one in ten Britons can’t even remember the last time they cleaned their fridge.
Brighton is the UK’s dirty fridge capital. 17% of the city’s residents can’t remember the last time they cleaned their fridge and among those who do remember, the average time since the last clean is 138 days. Five times longer than recommended.
Glasgow has the dirtiest fridges, with more residents than anywhere else in the UK leaving their fridge without a clean for more than a year.
Go-Assist.co.uk also looked at workplace fridges as part of the study and if you’re thinking of taking yesterday’s spaghetti bolognese into work today, you might want to think again.
Four in ten (38%) respondents who regularly kept their lunch in an office fridge said they had no idea when the fridge was last cleaned out.
