About Us

Morning Crate Co is a small reference site about keeping household food safely: storage temperatures, labeling, and pantry organization, written for kitchens in Canada.

What this site is

The notes here are organised around three everyday tasks — running a refrigerator and freezer at the right temperature, labeling and dating what gets stored, and laying out a pantry so stock gets used in order. Each article keeps to one task and stays at the scale of a home kitchen rather than a commercial one.

How the content is written

Temperatures are given in Celsius, the unit on Canadian appliance dials and packaging, and dates use the YYYY-MM-DD format throughout. Where an exact figure carries a safety implication — such as how long food keeps after a power outage — the articles point to current guidance from Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency rather than restating numbers that can change.

What it is not

This is general reference reading, not personalised advice. For a question that depends on your specific situation, the official Canadian food safety resources are the right place to look. External links on this site go only to those public authorities.

Images

Photographs are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under their respective public-domain or Creative Commons licences, with thanks to the contributors who shared them.

Contact

Corrections and questions about the published notes are welcome through the form on the home page.