Wondering whether people keep a lot of smelly, unwrapped stuff in there, cleaning schedules, etc.
Best tipp i ever got in this regard was putting a cup of crushed charcoal in the fridge. Absorbs odors for years.
Interesting! Never heard of that but it makes sense.
Activated charcoal or BBQ charcoal? Does either work?
BBQ
Mine’s not smelly. Like others have said, I use glass containers for leftovers etc, and I also wash and store like lettuce and veggies in ziplock plastic bags. I probably deep clean mine a couple times per year… definitely spot clean if there are spills etc.
If you have any odors you could try putting a box of baking soda in your fridge to absorb them. They actually sell fridge boxes of them with side panels that are mesh and easy to use.
Not really asking because I am affected. I just used to go out with someone who had a very smelly fridge full of meats and cheeses. I wanted to know if this is something a lot of people do.
Normally, my own fridge doesn’t smell though. The last time I had any kind of smell, there were a few rotting limes somewhere in the back, and that produced a weird chemical odor which started clinging to dairy products. Finding and eradicating that took a while.
I keep tons of meat and cheese in the fridge, and the only time it smelled was when the MIL spilled milk in it and neither cleaned it up nor told someone about it so the more able bodied could take care of it.
That person must’ve spilled something and not cleaned it up. Normally, as you’ve seen, if you use containers and bags to store stuff it shouldn’t be a problem.
No, they were just really big on specialty meats/cheeses in open containers, left in the fridge for weeks.
Open containers are a no-no for me.
Closed containers are easier to store, if something goes off it doesn’t affect the other stuff next to it. Imagine having mold spores going from one cheese to another to different kinds of deli meats just because you didn’t keep them in closed containers or ziploc bags.
Second. If something is naturally smelly it will usually impart smell on other things nearby.
Imagine having a really smelly cheese right next to a gouda. The gouda will take on the smelly cheese and everything in the fridge will now smell like smelly cheese.
Plastics also takes on smells really fast. So even if you remove all those cheeses and meats that smell or put them in locked containers then the fridge will still smell.
Not at all. Full cleaning once a week. If you do it that often, it only takes half an hour.
Also, keep everything wrapped and don’t let leftovers and condiments accumulate.
Good point about condiments, those really tend to accumulate in fridges for years. Sometimes I just don’t shop for a few weeks and try to use up all the food at home.
It doesn’t smell because I am not a degenerate.
It gets a quick wipe down every few weeks and a deeper clean every couple of months.
Well a tornado hit our area and we’ve been without power for 3 days now. So I’m sure my fridge smells like shit.
I hope you’re safe! I guess you may have bigger issues than a smelly fridge.
My fridge doesn’t smell. I clean it about twice a year. I’d be very worried if it started smelling.
We don’t clean ours as often as we probably should, but our fridge is also weird to begin with. It has this fun habit where it gets so cold that the top shelf will literally form ice, and that’s if we have it on the medium setting. On the high setting, it turns into a vertical freezer lol.
It looks sick in the dark sometimes, because you can literally see the cold air coming out.
This man knows how to hack your fridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTjPzw9VhY ;)
I expected that Technology Connections video and I was not disappointed.
That sounds like a very interesting fridge to say the least.
It smells a bit like rubber, but all fridges smell like that.
