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How to rescue a fridge that power out for a month
Posted on 10/1/24 at 6:12 am
Posted on 10/1/24 at 6:12 am
Some kind soul turned off the power at our camp while I was out of town. Everything rotted, maggots, horrifying smell. We spent 3 hours tossing, scrubbing, deodorizing. Unbelievably awful.
Still stinks. Bugs still coming out of the cracks and vents into the fridge.
Can it be saved? If so, how?
Still stinks. Bugs still coming out of the cracks and vents into the fridge.
Can it be saved? If so, how?
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Posted on 10/1/24 at 6:24 am to NyCaLa
Why would you want to save that? Toss it and find a used one on marketplace to replace it
Posted on 10/1/24 at 7:32 am to NyCaLa
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Some kind soul turned off the power at our camp while I was out of town.
This mofo is buying you a new fridge.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 7:35 am to onelochevy
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Toss it and find a used one on marketplace to replace it
Exactly what I was thinking; especially for a camp. You can find pretty nice fridges for 200-500 bucks on market place.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 8:11 am to NyCaLa
A fridge with rotted meat in it for a month absolutely positively cannot be saved.
You duct tape it closed, roll it to the curb for pickup and buy another.
Anyone with hurricane experience knows that.
You duct tape it closed, roll it to the curb for pickup and buy another.
Anyone with hurricane experience knows that.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 8:13 am to NyCaLa
You should have duct taped it shut and dumped it. There's no saving it.
Posted on 10/1/24 at 8:26 am to NyCaLa
Imagine grabbing a beer out of that thing in a month knowing what condition it was in. No chance, buy a new one.
Posted on 10/2/24 at 7:43 am to NyCaLa
if it absolutely must be saved (no other option), roll it outside into a sunny spot and leave it open for a week or so. Then come back and scrub it with straight bleach, then straight 30% vinegar. Then rinse it out good, let it dry, spritz it inside with vanilla close it up and turn it on.
it’s likely going to remain stained but you can use it again
it’s likely going to remain stained but you can use it again
Posted on 10/2/24 at 10:03 am to cgrand
Had a 250 gallon deep freezer get unplugged. I plugged it back it to refreeze everything just to move it. Full to the brim with meat
It was so heavy we picked it up with a mini excavator. Having no course of action to get rid of it full of rotten meat we shot it full of holes to drain any liquid. Put several gallons of used oil and diesel inside and lit it off with some hot coals. After two days of burning all that was left was ash and bone. The remaining shell was easy to get rid of.
It was so heavy we picked it up with a mini excavator. Having no course of action to get rid of it full of rotten meat we shot it full of holes to drain any liquid. Put several gallons of used oil and diesel inside and lit it off with some hot coals. After two days of burning all that was left was ash and bone. The remaining shell was easy to get rid of.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 6:36 am to NyCaLa
You need to remove the freezer back panel. Then spray everything with bleach then rinse well then get a few boxes on baking soda and pour them into plates and let them sit doors shut for a few days to absorb odor.
I can always tell when a fridge was cleaned out because they are always tons of dead maggots behind the freezer wall. Make sure you take off any panels in the fridge and clean behind them exorcism especially the freezer rear wall.
I can always tell when a fridge was cleaned out because they are always tons of dead maggots behind the freezer wall. Make sure you take off any panels in the fridge and clean behind them exorcism especially the freezer rear wall.
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:29 pm to Napoleon
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You need to remove the freezer back panel. Then spray everything with bleach then rinse well then get a few boxes on baking soda and pour them into plates and let them sit doors shut for a few days to absorb odor.
F all that
Toss it and start over
Posted on 10/3/24 at 3:40 pm to NyCaLa
just saw a post on the outdoor board about getting squid smells out of a Yeti cooler...one guy said to use activated charcoal...might be worth a try in your fridge
Posted on 10/7/24 at 6:01 am to NyCaLa
We're giving it one more shot:
Chlorine dioxide overnight followed by removing back panels, hosing out and sunshine.
Will report back.
Chlorine dioxide overnight followed by removing back panels, hosing out and sunshine.
Will report back.
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