How Can You Get Odor Out of the Refrigerator?

2011-10-18

Sooner or later, everyone faces with the emergence of odor in the refrigerator. Once you open a refrigerator, and feel odor there. You have forgotten some foods there for a long time and have not thrown in time. – So much for odor. The storage of unpacked products can be also a source of odor. Any smell can be even in a newly purchased refrigerator. Prevention of odor. A just bought new refrigerator is necessary to wash inside with a weak solution of soda or other detergents. You can wash it with ammonia or vodka. Then open the refrigerator door and ventilate it for a few hours. Generally, you must thoroughly clean it inside to prevent odor in it, then do not forget to wash the drain hole in the refrigerator as it is a place where a large portion of contaminating impurity is accumulated, thus it is the source of odor. The refrigerator is necessary to unplug before washing. Simply wash and defrost a refrigerator more often, do not wait until it is covered with mold inside. All products in the refrigerator should be tightly closed or wrapped. There are several basic ways to combat the smell: the use of household chemicals, some types of products, combined use of household chemicals and products, standard sinks of smell. Odors can be removed by means of Household chemicals 1. Clean the refrigerator walls with a cloth soaked in a solution of vinegar. Then, for the final destruction of odor, put in a far corner of the refrigerator a jar with a cotton wool soaked in vinegar for some hours. 2. You can use baking soda. For example, place a glass with a water solution of soda in the refrigerator or simply put baking soda in a plastic container with holes in the refrigerator. If there is no container, put an open box with soda and change it every three months. 3. Rub the inside walls of the refrigerator with ammonia and leave it opened throughout the day. 4. You can use wood charcoal or active carbon. Take a handful of charcoal, crush or powder it and put this substance on the saucer and then - into the refrigerator for 7 hours. Charcoal absorbs various kinds of odor very well! You can put the crushed charcoal or activated carbon into a plastic jar with holes on its lid and keep it regularly in the refrigerator. Some kinds of products 1. Lemon is very helpful in this situation. Wash the refrigerator or at least wipe with a damp cloth with droplets of lemon juice. Cut the lemon into slices, place on a saucer and put it into the refrigerator for several days but no more than a week or even less. Otherwise, your lemon will rot and you have to get rid of the smell from the rotten lemon. 2. Cut black bread into slices and lay on a few saucers. Each saucer put on the empty shelf of the switched off refrigerator for 8-10 hours. Bread also absorbs odors very well. 3. You can use rice grains instead of bread. 4. Rub the inside of the refrigerator with garlic and leave it for 10-14 hours. 5. Similarly, use onion. 6. You can also put basil, turmeric, cloves, tarragon, cinnamon, celery, thyme in the refrigerator. 7. You can also use orange crust. 8. Put a container with salt or sugar in the refrigerator. 9. Lay slices of cheese in the refrigerator to kill odor there. Combined use of household chemicals and products. Cut lemon into two pieces, remove pulp in each half and put baking soda there, put them in the refrigerator. All is thrown away through a week. Standard odor absorber There are special ionizers, air fresheners operating on batteries for refrigerators. There are also simple special odor absorbers for refrigerators. They are chosen more often than others. Usually they are put or hang inside the washed refrigerator. By the way, the basis of these odor sinks is any material steeped in a solution of charcoal.