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Freezer Advice

Posted by TomOB <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=TomOB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 11, 2025, 9:56 am

Our freezer has started acting very odd. The freezing air coming from the fan is making everything in the freezer stink strongly of fish. Even the ice cubes smell like raw salmon.
Some interweb searching led to me cleaning out the drip tray at the back (disgusting), and rinsing out the pipe that leads to that with a white vinegar solution. Now everything smells of fish and vinegar, but not in a good seaside way.

I’m going to do a defrost even though the freezer isn’t iced up and another thorough clean.

But has anyone else experienced this? Advice welcome, serious and non serious.

Re: Freezer Advice

Posted by Tonytaxi1970 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Tonytaxi1970' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 11, 2025, 1:53 pm, in reply to "Freezer Advice"

Smell can be coming from motor burning out on the freezer. I've known instances where the freezer can have the opposite effect, where it warms the food inside.

If its old, just get shut.

You don't want a dodgy electrical apppliance in you're house for obvious reasons.

If it is a free standing freezer, they are not particularly expensive anyway.

Re: Freezer Advice

Posted by Platinii <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Platinii' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 11, 2025, 1:41 pm, in reply to "Freezer Advice"

Pull the freezer out and look underneath also.

Re: Freezer Advice

Posted by Otto <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Otto' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 11, 2025, 11:30 am, in reply to "Freezer Advice"

Defrosting wont work, thats a red herring

Fat wheezy boy with a note from Matron

Re: Freezer Advice

Posted by Dirk Hoffman <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Dirk+Hoffman' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 11, 2025, 11:25 am, in reply to "Freezer Advice"

have you checked behind the freezer for dead critters?

The only survivor of the National People's Gang.

Re: Freezer Advice

Posted by fat-freddy's-cat $<iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=fat-freddy\'s-cat' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on August 11, 2025, 11:22 am, in reply to "Freezer Advice"

mmmm...fish!

shitting in Fat Freddy's shoes since 1969

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