As long as there's no meat mixed in with it, it should keep for up to a week and a half in the fridge. It goes dry the longer you keep it in there, though.
You can keep meat sauce in your fridge for a couple of days. You can typically keep meat sauce in the fridge for up to 2 or 3 days.
4 to 6 days, after that the meat becomes stale and tough.
About a week
Always keep raw meat at the bottom of your fridge and covered. This ensures that should the meat leak, it doesn't leak over other foods.
Bacteria in the meat grow faster at higher temperatures. Therefore, meat is typically kept in the fridge.
3 days
Poultry meat must be frozen to keep it preserved, as it is no longer considered suitable for consumption after 10 days in the fridge.
Fresh ground meat should only be kept in the refrigerator one or two days. If you want to keep it longer than that, freeze it.
To be safe, you should defrost the meat in the warmer section of the refrigerator, at less than forty degrees F. Meat should not reach room temperature.
Nothing major. The meat can keep cooking if it is hot enough, or it can warm the contents of the fridge. Not putting hot meat into a fridge is a holdover from true ice boxes, where the hot meat could melt the ice.
Cooked meat should be stored in the upper part of the fridge where it is colder.