you poke holes from the bottom and get a pie breather
This helps a little bit. Before you bake the crust, brush it with egg white. This forms a slight crust that you can't notice but seals the crust a bit.
It sounds like the meringue is breaking down. This can be avoided by being careful before baking to spread the meringue topping all the way to the edge of the pie, so that the egg whites are touching the crust at all points.
Normally in a lemon meringue pie the pie crust is fully cooked, then the lemon curd filling is added, then the Italian meringue is piled on top. To finish, most recipes will say to either give the pie 2-5 minutes in a very hot oven (to give the meringue some colour/crispyness), or to lightly blowtorch the meringue. The rationale for fully cooking the pie crust is because the pie will either only briefly be baked again, or will be finished with a blowtorch ; cooking times are far to quick to make any difference to how cooked the crust is.
it gets soggy
Yes, this can certainly happen. In most cases, you will want to freeze your apple pie unbaked, and then bake it from frozen later on to avoid a soggy crust.
The crust will get soggy and tough.
Too much juice in the pie. I would suggest adding some flour in the bottom.
I would freeze the crust separately from the creme cheese filling and then assemble the whole thing later. If you put the filling on the crust, it will get soggy when you thaw it out.
It woulsd be wet, yellow, soggy,sour :) and most likely it would hurt your eyes. :D
No. Meringe does not have to be refrigerated. If it is, it gets hard and chewy. I suggest you leave it out in a room teperature area for a few days. After 2 or so days, you can put it in the refrigerator so it doesn't go bad. I hope this helped!
Yes, it is. It means very damp or wet (soggy clothes, soggy ground).
Cool first or you could end up with soggy crust.
I would think one day would be OK. Much more than that and the pie crust would start to get soggy.