The bachelor fridge is not for the squeamish. It takes years of practice to master the art of reading the contents of a fully stocked box. the most universal trait of a bachelor fridge is that the door racks have more stuff packed into them then the rest of the fridge combined! Everything from the mountain of Taco Bell hot sauce and ketchup packets overflowing into every shelf of the door to the half drank can of beer and the two year old bottle of ketchup with just enough left in it to cover the bottom. There's usually a partial bottle of BBQ sauce used mainly to flavor the traditional bachelor meal, Macaroni and Cheese. The butter shelf is always either full with a new four stick pack of butter or empty except for a sliver left in a half close crumb filled wrapper. there is never a middle ground here, it's all or nothing. (Mac & Cheese takes a half a stick at a time you know).

The top shelf of the fridge is always a mystery shelf even for the owner! Small items seem to get shoved up there and get lost because you have to bend over to see all the way to the back. Why is
it that most bachelors don't buy or eat yogurt but you can almost always find a half eaten cup at the back of every fridge? The second shelf is usually the two jugs of milk and sea of leftovers shelf. The back jug of milk is the "old" milk while the front one is the not quite as "old" milk. If you do not distinctly remember putting a leftover in within the last week then the rule of thumb is to not touch it until the next spring cleaning or the power goes out for more than twelve hours, whichever comes first.

The third shelf is the seven different kinds of beer shelf. The beer is a collection left by friends ranging from the night before to the PBR and Old Milwaukee in the back from last summer that no one will drink intentionally.

The crispers are reserved for things like mesh onion bags full of onion skins and potatoes that are growing better than the front lawn, along with any good (read expensive) beer hidden from the view of your free loader friends and neighbors. The freezer is easy. Four empty ice trays, a freezer burned half quart of ice-cream, three chicken pot pies, a Tony's frozen pizza, and a piece of mystery meat freezer burnt beyond recognition wrapped in Saran Wrap.