Stinky Frig.

[old turbo]

The wife again has managed to scramble eggs in our frig only this time she mixed in cottage cheese. We have a Mountaineer 297RKS with a rear galley. The first time was three years ago on our way to winter in Texas. I thought she had learned not to put the eggs in the frig,on a long trip. This past summer on the last day of our trip back to MI. from Yellowstone she put eggs and cottage cheese in the frig and when we got to our beautiful roads in MI. it got throughly mixed and spilled all over the frig. The Texas trip when it happened we cleaned it up and no smell. This time with the cottage cheese we have trouble with the smell when we open the frig door. We have cleaned with every product we could think of and I have removed every part I could get off the front of the frig box and cleaned. Need some thoughts?

[Tom S.]

Try putting a dish of Arm & Hammer baking soda in the refrigerator. I don't know how it works, but the baking soda will 'soak up' the smell.

[steves]

I'm no expert on this but Betty always leaves an open box of baking soda in the refrig to absorb smells???? Especially when the refrig is not in use.

[kdeiss]

quote:Originally posted by Tom S.

Try putting a dish of Arm & Hammer baking soda in the refrigerator. I don't know how it works, but the baking soda will 'soak up' the smell.

We had a similar problem we had left meat in the freezer and the power went out.
I cleaned with Clorox and than Baking Soda still had faint odor than someone suggested peroxide odor 100% gone.

[grampachet]

I have heard coffee grounds can help take the smell away? Havent proved it, but at least it is a cheap.

[ole dude]

I have used news paper and placed it on all the shelves, seemed to absorb orders pretty well.

[KTManiac]

You might try and remove the front trim at the bottom of the refrigerator. I did when I was modding the space under the fridge for an extra storage space. It has a foam strip that was just plain nasty because of stuff that had leaked in there from spilled contents in the fridge.

[Wayne and Carolyn Mathews]

KTManiac is right--if anything dripped or seeped onto that rubber gasket or foam strip, the smell will be with you until you replace that part. When we were living in our old Cardinal in Austin, we were evacuated because of a flood--make that "evacuated in such haste that we forgot we had 10 pounds of raw shrimp in the freezer of the refrigerator." Two weeks later, we were allowed back into the RV park, where you could smell some of the rigs before you saw them. The power had gone out nearly immediately after we were evacuated.

I didn't think I'd ever get that smell out of the refrigerator/freezer, even after cleaning with Clorox, peroxide, and Simple Green. Then I realized that the smell was coming from the bottom of the foam gasket on the door. I removed it, soaked it in bleach, cleaned it with peroxide, and the smell was 99% gone. Oh--stuffing the fridge and freezer with newspaper (the black and white sections) did take out a lot of the smell, too. Just be sure to change the papers daily. A pan of charcoal helps, too.

Carolyn

[mcgiver2]

KT & Carolyn or right the Gasket gets the juices in there and its hard to get out , we had the same problem with shrimp a few years back and we had to clean that gasket with bleach and also we put charcoal in newspaper that does help.

[RCMP03]

Not to worry.

We left chicken on the fridge door for about 40 days while in storage.

It will take time. We used a combination:

1. Baking soda.
2. Charcoal (fish tank)
3. Windex

It did work well but, like I said, be patient. Good luck.

[old turbo]

Thanks to all for the advice. I have a RV sales not to far from my house. This guy deals in a lot of used rv's and buys some rv's from auctions. He said he steams the frig. in each used rv with one of the hand held steamers and it will do the job on the seals around the door where a lot of crud gets stuck. I think if I use all of this advice I can cure the smell.