# 1 Least Desirable Reason To Clean Your Freezer

Lawn Ranger

Without question, inadvertantly leaving the door open for 24 hours will do the trick every time. Twenty pounds of melted ice, melted popsicles, and the blood of various mammals can really make a mess.

It's now clean as a whistle and ready to restock. The biggest loss was several bags of pecans put up by my Dad prior to his death that were in the bottom bin which collected all of the liquids. Sad.

Always check your door.

Mike

Ripnem

I bought one with an alarm built-in to try and avoid that problem we hear so darn often. My good buddy just did the same thing, 3rd time in 10 years for him.

wkygriller

I have a friend with an up right freezer. He locks it every time he closes it. The key is hanging by a string attached to the handle. He started doing this after he lost a freezer full on seafood.

Mickey

A lot of years ago we were having the floor tiled. The guys were to move the freezer (and re-plug it in). Guess WHAT.
Three days later the 30 lbs of King Mackerel started to talk to us. Have never to this day had mackerel....

icemncmth

I use chest freezers for that reason. If you forget to close the top most of the time the only thing that is thawed is what is on top..

I do have a fridge in the garage and if you shut the fridge door too hard the freezer will open. I am thinking of putting a latch on both the freezer and fridge door.

PhilsGrill

As I said before, a simply $20 freezer alarm will do the trick!


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dgarden&field-keywords=freezer+alarm

Shwiezzee

That was us two weeks ago :( my wife is still upset and apologizing. Someone on the forum suggested setting the front legs higher. I did that and the freezer door closes better. Still an expensive lesson :ermm:

Jay

stike

we have an old spare frdige in the basement, and i added a sliding bolt to the door. got into the habit when shutting it of sliding the bolt across. it had a habit of popping open when the fridge door was shut, and this keeps it closed.

sorry to hear about it.

we rented a lake house once, and one of the kids of our guests was playing "ice cream store" in the family room downstairs. she left the freezer open, and all the house-owners' stuff melted, which we replaced at considerable expense....
ugh.

fishlessman

worst that could happen in my house is that the ice melts in the trays and the vodka gets warm. :laugh: i have not put food in there for years. the camp is a different story, dad will put rotten chicken in there unmarked so that the trash wont smell til trash day and forget it in there, i dont touch any thing in that freezer and its full to the top :laugh:

2Fategghead

It's been a long time ago but, I remember a time when my dad bought a new chest freezer and screwed a hasp to it so it could be locked up. Now the rest of the story. Dad punctured a hole in the freon line and then had to have it fixed. :( Just saying be careful. Tim

Dreggs

Eggzactly.

Lawn Ranger

Whew!!

Lawn Ranger

Live, learn, regret. :(

Lawn Ranger

Sounds like some wisdom in your discretion.

Lawn Ranger

I think I'll do something like that. This thing is very old but still operational.

LR

Popsicle

Don't you just hate it when your Popsicles melt????

Lawn Ranger

kinda like blasphemy, huh? :woohoo:

Photo Egg

2 years ago, Hurricane Ike.
Lost power and were not allowed back into Galveston for over a week.
A free range whole turkey and two turkey breasts.
As bad as this sounds it did not hold a candle to the two containers or Rocky Road Ice Cream...Looked like a bad science experiment in a "B" movie. Rocky Road on top shelf and it ate it's way out of the container and spawned the entire freezer on the way to the bottom.
I swear I can almost still smell it just thinking about it. Cleaned it on and off for several days and had to use it for several weeks. Fridge and freezers were like trying to find gold in the street.

Very sorry about your pecans Mike. Some things just can't be replaced.

Lawn Ranger

Good advice.

Lawn Ranger

Yep, I can buy more steak. So, what you're saying is that you should eat the entire carton of Rocky Road in one sitting to avoid such disasters, huh? :blink:
Ike was really a Stinker!

Mike

Gator Bait

 
I have to be careful what I say, my frig/freezer is almost 28 yrs. old and within hearing distance, I don't want to say anything that might upset it! :huh:

I have to agree with Photo Egg, hurricanes can ruin a perfectly good day. I always plan on having the bare minimum in my freezer during hurricane season but I never get around to it and it is always loaded, maybe next year.

Sorry to hear of your hassles Mike, I'm afraid it happens to all of us.

Blair

 

Little Steven

Richard,

I have been to the fine metropolis of Cadiz.

Steve

wkygriller

Steve,
I wouldn't exactly call Cadiz a "metropolis" but it is a great little town. We have been here for about 5 years. If you haven't been through in the last year, you can now buy "a cold beverage" here. Us outsiders were able to get a wet/dry election passed!!!

Little Steven

Richard,

It's over ten years since I was there. I remember it being dry. I think we were able to join a "club" to get a beer in the evenings.

Steve

Lawn Ranger

Blair:

So it would seem judging by the number of kindred responses. Must be a common malady.

Mike

cookn biker

Got home from work and went to check my freezer...it's closed.
Sorry for your troubles, especially the nuts.

Desert Oasis Woman

WAY BACK when, we had just bought a side of beef and a mouse decided "to build" in the freezer motor
fortunately, we discovered it before everything went south :side:
feel your pain :S

Gator Bait

 
Actually Mike it is fortunately a very rare malady. In the 27-28 years I have lived down here it has only happened a few times. Hurricanes Charlie and Wilma are the ones that come to mind. Charlie blew my mobile home over and removed my large screened in porch (all I could find was the front screen door and it was a block up the street, I never found the rest of the porch!), Wilma took the secondary roof off. The power outages both times were a bear. Hurricanes like hot weather and when they take the power out they kill not only freezers and frigs but A/C as well. Summertime down here in an aluminum trailer with no A/C is unreal. This trailer has lived it's expected lifetime and then some, the next one will have a good Honda generator. That would solve most of the problems as long as the house is not destroyed. My BGE is hurricane equipment. With no power many people loose the ability to cook and the very few restaurants that might be open after a hurricane will have waiting lines that are unbelievable. After Hurricane Charlie no one had power and all the traffic lights were blown down, I know of only one that was working afterward. More then one was hanging down into the street at windshield hight or laying on the side of the road. They asked people to stay off the roads but no one listened, they had no A/C or any way to cook food at home if they had food. The National Guard was called out just to direct traffic. It was a zoo.

That's life in the tropics for you. I want my next trailer to be something I can either tow or drive out of here when need be. Maybe get out of here in the summer and find some of that nice dry heat out west! :cheer:

Blair

 

Lawn Ranger

Thanks, Dear!