Smelly Fridge...

FairyPrincessk

I'd actually wipe the fridge out with vinegar (or a 2-5% solution of bleach in water). Then, while it is standing for 24 hours, I'd put in several small bowls of bicarb. After the 24 hours are up, it might be worth it to change out the bicarb. The vinegar or bleach should help kill the mould spores that may be on surfaces which will help with the smell, and the bicarb will help absorb any other smells.


Hope this helps!

beemuzed

I always have an egg-cup with bicarb at the back of the fridge shelf to absorb odours. I think I'd go along with the weak bleach solution to clean first too. Hope it works and that your daughter gets years of use from it!

Pink.

Hi Hootie,

These threads have lots of advice that should help:

Smelly Fridge...

Cleaning Fridge (don't read if you're eating)

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Hootie19

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi Hootie,

These threads have lots of advice that should help:

Smelly Fridge...

Cleaning Fridge (don't read if you're eating)

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Thank you pink. I did try doing a search for fridge + smelly but just got bucket loads of Flylady threads!! I knew there HAD to be one somewhere! Thank you

zippychick

Ive merged this with our smelly fridge thread

Zip

Grumpygit

My parents bought us some crevettes back from France on Saturday.

There were in two bags but it must have split as the fridge is really smelly and it is affecting food ie I have had to chuck away loads of milk this week which has only just been opened (we don't have plastic screw top containers here but waxed cartons which are always open)

We ate the things on sunday so it's not as if they were in there for ages.

I have taken everything out, cleaned it and bought one of those fridge odour shifter things but it is still smelly

I now have a dish of bicarbonate of soda in there, a lemon cut in half and some scrunched up newspaper basically a few of the tips from the net but is there anything that people have tried which they have found to work?

With our milk costing £1.05 a litre, I don't want to keep throwing it away.


As an aside, my mum took one look at our fridge and said you shouldn't keep your fruit in there.........raspberries and strawberries but why wouldn't you???

Anyway hopefully someone will have a good tip

Thanks

BitterAndTwisted

Don't you have a container than you can decant the milk into? Something like a glass jar with a screw-top lid if you have nothing else?

If the bicarb isn't shifting it I suspect the only solution, if you are absolutely certain that you've cleaned it adequately, is to empty the fridge and leave the door open for as long as it takes.

Can't answer your question about the soft fruits as I have no idea what your mother is on about. In this humid sort of weather very ripe fruit can go mouldy overnight.

Dunroamin

You're supposed to wash the fridge with the bicarbonate of soda solution, not just leave it in there.

If the best way of storing strawberries and raspberries was in the fridge, don't you think that the supermarkets would do this?

gibson123

Check the bit where the water drains and make sure you clean out the water, if there is any ice around, defrost it. clean round the seals, put all the food in a cool box, clean everything and leave it to dry with the door open.

Cat501

Grumpygit wrote: »

As an aside, my mum took one look at our fridge and said you shouldn't keep your fruit in there.........raspberries and strawberries but why wouldn't you???



Thanks

I've got a punnet of Mr A strawberries in the fridge, on the label it says.....Keep Refrigerated. So they're in the fridge because I always do as I'm told:p