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RE: Would activated charcoal help control the nasty fre... - 8/7/2008 11:38:36 PM

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I forgot to mention, clean out the lower part of the unit, the fridge part, completely too. Rotting veggies or stinky anything will make the whole appliance reek.

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RE: Would activated charcoal help control the nasty fre... - 8/8/2008 5:03:35 AM

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Our fridge is frostless it doesn't ever frost and ice up. I suppose though they still need a chance to "defrost" even though no ice forms.

No. You do not need to defrost a frostless freezer, you need to empty it out completely then clean it. Throw everything away unless it is very very well wrapped and not old stuff.

Once you get everything out, take a damp towel and wipe it down to get all the loose crumbs and stuff out.
Then take some baking soda, pour a bunch into a small kitchen towel and add enough water to make a thick paste. Scrub that starting on the 'ceiling' of the freezer and work your way down, changing out the paste every so often.

Once you have done that, take the first damp (used for the crumbs, then shaken out and rinsed) kitchen towel and wipe it down to remove the baking soda grit. Place a bowl of white vinegar in the freezer and shut the door.

Next up, the ice.
Do you use ice trays or buy bags of ice?
If you use ice trays they need to be cleaned, again wash them and use a baking soda paste. Let the paste sit in the trays for a bit before rinsing very well.
Ice cube trays need to be cleaned regularly.

Store ice cubes in a large and well sealing tupperware type container, don't just leave the ice exposed to the air.

This is stuff that should be done every 2 months, cleaning out and washing your freezer and your fridge. Make sure when you clean the fridge that you don't use strong smelling chemicals, and also make sure you get the very bottom of the fridge super clean. That is where drippy stuff mixes with crumbs making a toxic nastiness.

I use a magic marker and write on the lids of stuff I open and keep in the fridge. That why I know when it is time to get rid of it.

If you don't know how long to keep jarred food around, Google the items.
'How long can I store XXX once opened in the refridgerator'.

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RE: Would activated charcoal help control the nasty fre... - 8/8/2008 6:18:15 AM

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Lemon juice.
But if you have placed it in storage, even bleach will not remove the smell, it just masks it. When placing fridges and freezers in storage, or during removal, keep to door propped open at all times. That is the only way to avoid getting that stale smell.

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RE: Would activated charcoal help control the nasty fre... - 8/8/2008 5:46:33 PM

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We use ice trays made in another freezer an then stored in the house freezer. All though lately cause it's gotten so funky in the freezer my dad's taken to putting the ice in plastic tupperwares or canisters to keep the funk from ruining the ice, but that don't really help either, since eventually the ice becomes nasty anyway.

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Our fridge is frostless it doesn't ever frost and ice up. I suppose though they still need a chance to "defrost" even though no ice forms.

No. You do not need to defrost a frostless freezer, you need to empty it out completely then clean it. Throw everything away unless it is very very well wrapped and not old stuff.

Once you get everything out, take a damp towel and wipe it down to get all the loose crumbs and stuff out.
Then take some baking soda, pour a bunch into a small kitchen towel and add enough water to make a thick paste. Scrub that starting on the 'ceiling' of the freezer and work your way down, changing out the paste every so often.

Once you have done that, take the first damp (used for the crumbs, then shaken out and rinsed) kitchen towel and wipe it down to remove the baking soda grit. Place a bowl of white vinegar in the freezer and shut the door.

Next up, the ice.
Do you use ice trays or buy bags of ice?
If you use ice trays they need to be cleaned, again wash them and use a baking soda paste. Let the paste sit in the trays for a bit before rinsing very well.
Ice cube trays need to be cleaned regularly.

Store ice cubes in a large and well sealing tupperware type container, don't just leave the ice exposed to the air.

This is stuff that should be done every 2 months, cleaning out and washing your freezer and your fridge. Make sure when you clean the fridge that you don't use strong smelling chemicals, and also make sure you get the very bottom of the fridge super clean. That is where drippy stuff mixes with crumbs making a toxic nastiness.

I use a magic marker and write on the lids of stuff I open and keep in the fridge. That why I know when it is time to get rid of it.

If you don't know how long to keep jarred food around, Google the items.
'How long can I store XXX once opened in the refridgerator'.

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RE: Would activated charcoal help control the nasty fre... - 8/8/2008 9:58:17 PM

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It sounds like you have somthing growing in there if it is that bad.. or growning on something stored in there.

A> thorough cleaning. Bleach kills fungi by oxidizing but anything radically acid, alkali, or oxidizing will do for killing odor causing critters. If you don't want to use regular bleach, oxyclean will do the same thing but not as strongly. Lemon juice is acid, baking soda paste is alkali and either will help with mold growth but not as quickly as bleach (sodium hypochlorite).

For absorbing odors, acrtivated charcoal works. Silver Zeolite works better. But even just a box of baking soda sitting open will do some good.

And, odor causing mold and fungi don't have to be prevalent enough to see to cause odors. Think about what a warm closed up empty ice chest or refrigerator will smell like when you open it after a couple of months of being warm.

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RE: Would activated charcoal help control the nasty fre... - 8/8/2008 10:03:17 PM

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Just thought of something else that could cause extreme funk in a freezer.. pinhole leak in a freon tube.
The lubricant in a compressor smells nasty and the stink will permeate everything. (flashback to a leak in a walk-in warehouse freezer in the Navy. 120 tons of groceries trashed from a leaky cooling tube)

If it is a pinhole in a tube, that freezer should be dead within the month of the leak starting.

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