Defrosting the freezer

squeaky

Hi

here ya go... loads if techniques... Defrosting the freezer

I'll add your query to this thread later. Good luck

mardycow

If you have access to one use a steamer - like a polti or similar, that shifts it, i just put stuff in cool bags and also put as much as poss in the fridge . I have frost free fridge freezer but seems to get build up of ice in the pull out drawer freezer part (it quite a fancy one)

hmc

thanks all
think of me this afternoon wont you?!
its like cleaning the oven on my list of jobs i hate and put off as long as possible

hmc

just reading the older thread on tips
why do they say glass bowls of hot water , why cant i use plastic which is what most of mine are

Any

I think because it needs really hot water and glass bowls take really hot?
Otherwise don't know. I go in just with haidryer, on highest hottest setting and crumble off loosen big pieces og ice with hand.
Done and dusted witin an hour.

maman

hmc wrote: »

just reading the older thread on tips
why do they say glass bowls of hot water , why cant i use plastic which is what most of mine are

I have freezers that have like metal shelves that plastic drawers slide onto. I've got stainless steel baking trays that fit the shelves perfectly. I fill those with boiling water and the trays get hot themselves as well as giving off steam for defrosting.

iris

I use a fan heater and the job's done in 20 mins. If possible I also usually wait for a frosty day, so that I can put all the contents outside to keep frozen.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

I used a Wallpaper Stripper as recommended by MSE and it worked!
I put the food (useful food) into black plastic bags stuffed with newspaper to stop melting with ice on to keep from thawing. I plonked them into old Lakeland boxes that I should have thrown out lined with packaging to provide insulation.
I fired up the stripper and off it went! it must have taken half an hour or more instead of the overnights needed to do the job previous.
As a result I was able to put back the food still intact with the ice encrustations back into my Freezer.
Now to do the fridge!

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

Equally any powerful Steam implement should have the same effect ie a specially dedicated device like Karcher cleaner though that may seem like a mallet to crack open a nut.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

I dried cabinet and smeared oil on kitchen towel as advised to stop refrosting. Wonder how effective that will be?