By default, the smooth walls of a fridge can't hold many ships, but your nose, packed with receptors, makes a very good port. Your goal here? Provide a place for those boats to dock before they make it to your nose. After you've removed, cleaned, and replaced the drip pan, the odor should noticeably improve. That said, there may still be a lingering smell, and, of course, you'll want to keep new odors from developing. Which means you've also given me a perfect excuse to talk about the best way to keep low-level fridge smells at bay—something almost everyone has to contend with at some point in his or her adult life.
Generally speaking, there are two basic tactics we can deploy to solve a persistent odor problem. We can try to drown it out by introducing other molecules of a less offensive nature—we'll call those the deodorants of the cleaning world. Or, we can try to take them out of circulation entirely, by providing alternative places for them to dock—our antiperspirants. The former method can be cheap, easy, and relatively effective, but it comes with a few caveats.
That's because, like deodorant, these products namely, coffee grounds, white vinegar, and gel odor eliminators emit smells of their own. Smell is a very subjective thing, so I can't say whether you'd enjoy getting a whiff of, say, coffee every time you reach into the fridge for a carton of orange juice.
But, even if that does sound rather appealing, you'll want to keep in mind that these products don't just have their own odors—they can also impart those smells to other foodstuffs in the refrigerator. If you want to give them a shot, simply set a small bowl in the fridge, filled with either coffee grounds or vinegar or buy a canister of odor-eliminating gel to keep on a shelf.
Just keep in mind that you may find a new smell invading your fridge and its contents, rather than what we really want—no smell at all.
The pan will be located under your fridge, and, depending on the model, you'll either access it from the front behind a kick plate , or you'll have to pull out the fridge to access it from the back. Check your manual, or find it online by searching for the brand and model number. Once you've removed it, clean it with a sponge or rag and a good dish soap, all-purpose cleaner, or bleach solution.
On the bright side, you've already done the first thing I would have suggested— you've thoroughly inventoried and cleaned the inside of your fridge.
And, happily, you've also stumbled into asking exactly the right question: There IS a secret compartment in most refrigerators. It's called the drip pan, and it's just what it sounds like—a pan to catch drips. You must ensure that you store the right food in the right compartment. There are several readily available ingredients in your kitchen like coffee beans, lemon, oatmeal and vinegar that help in removing bad odour from your kitchen.
Vinegar and baking soda is known for its odour-killing properties, so keeping a bowl full of vinegar inside your refrigerator will help you in achieving the desired results. Here is a list of natural home remedies that will help in removing bad smell from the fridge. Scroll down to know more about it! Baking soda has odour-killing properties. Take a bowl full of baking soda and place this inside your fridge and close the door. Allow it to sit for a couple of hours. Vinegar helps in neutralizing the bad smells that come out from your refrigerator.
Put a cup or bowl filled with white vinegar in the fridge to obtain the desired effect. Place a few slices of lemon and leave them to sit inside your fridge. It will help in absorbing the unpleasant smell from your fridge. Soak a few cotton balls with essential oil and put them in the refrigerator. Close the door for a day. Place charcoal in a bowl and put it inside the refrigerator. Set the temperature of the refrigerator to minimum and keep the door of the refrigerator closed for three days.
Put some freshly-ground coffee beans and spread it across baking sheet and place in the refrigerator overnight.
These pans need to be emptied from time to time and cleaned, or else they smell awful and may even overflow. Solution: First, you need to find out if your fridge has a drip pan. Take a look at the maintenance part of your owner's manual to find out.
If you don't have the manual any more, many are online. Just search the brand and model number for your fridge. If your fridge does have a drip pan, unplug your fridge, take out all of the food and follow the manual's instructions for removing the pan. Then, clean it with warm water and dish soap and reinstall it. Solution: The smell may not be your fridge at all, but what's under it. It's possible that some food rolled underneath and rotted.
Roll the fridge out and clean under it thoroughly. Editor's note: This article was originally published on Nov 5, , and has been updated. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. Fridge Smells Bad Even After Cleaning If your fridge smells like death even after you've used all your cleaning prowess on it, then it's probably an odor that's seeped into the plastic. How To Get Rid of Fridge Smell With Baking Soda One of the best-known remedies for nasty smells permeating out of your refrigerator is to use the odor obliterating power of baking soda.
How to Get Rid of Fridge Smell With Lemon When it comes to removing fridge odors, many people reach for lemon because of its refreshing scent.
To use this odor hack, simply: Squeeze half of the juice of a lemon on to a cloth and wipe down the plastic sides of the fridge. Wedge up the rest of the lemon and leave it on a plate in the fridge for a day or two. Simply put a cup of coffee grounds on a saucer and leave it in the fridge for a few days. Replace the grounds for more odor-fighting power. How to Get Rid of Fridge Smell With Vanilla In addition to the coffee and baking soda tricks, try a cotton ball soaked in vanilla essential oil.
Leave the vanilla soaked swab in the fridge for a day with the door closed. Roll the newspapers and put them in the fridge. Allow them to sit for days with the fridge without using it. Fridge Smells But No Rotten Food If you had a spill or rotten food in your fridge, that's one thing, but if your fridge stinks without rotten food, then you need to get more creative. Clean Under Veggie Bin Trays While you might have thrown out old fruit and veggies, they can still leave behind juice and bacteria that can rot.
Clean Drip Tray Many of us know there is a drip tray under our fridge but forget to clean it. Check Under Your Refrigerator If you've tried everything inside of your fridge and are still getting a smell, then it might not be inside of your fridge that is the problem. Pull out the fridge with a little help. Use a cleaner approved for your flooring to clean under the fridge.
Fridge Smells Like Chemical When your fridge starts smelling like chemicals and not the cleaning kind, you could have a big problem on your hands that requires a professional.
Change the Water Filter If the smell in and around your fridge is sulfury and you have a water dispenser, then it could be your water filter. Clean the Refrigerator Coils Refrigerator coils can get caked with dust and other grime and cause a smell.
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