How do you get a moldy smell out of a chest freezer?

Answer 1

A long time ago I worked for a place where we commonly had to repo fridges and appliances. If you don't get them cleaned right away they smell to high heaven. Even clean and the door shut you're doomed. A good scrub with baking soda helps, not just putting the box in there. Also a few sheets of bounce seemed to always do the trick. Put them in there and turn it on, then clean it again to get rid of the bounce smell and it's all back to normal. Don't know quite why but it has always worked.

Answer 2

Place an open can of fresh coffee grounds in the freezer, & close the door tightly for at least 24 hours. That should do the trick, especially if the freezer is empty. It works for us for all kinds of odors. All you need is about 2 or 3 cups of fresh coffee grounds, not the whole can. The grounds you use are no longer good for brewing coffee, but you can use them in your plant dirt (indoors or outdoors).

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Here's something else I just found Online:

Coffee Grounds Takes Away Odors

My brother used to work for a tannery and they used fresh coffee grounds to eradicate smells in the trucks that hauled hides. They would open the truck doors and pour out a fresh can of coffee, and then lock the doors and in a day or so they would sweep out the grounds and no smell would remain.

We began using that idea as a military family moving frequently, and having our household goods periodically put in storage. After cleaning out our refrigerators and freezers prior to a move, and going into storage, we would be sure each was thoroughly dried inside. Then I would take about 1-2 cups of fresh coffee grounds and place them in a brown paper bag (lunch size) and staple shut. This would be put on a refrigerator shelf and another in the freezer compartment. Our things were often in storage for a month, and when delivered, we would always be able to open the appliance doors, take out the coffee grounds bags, and then close doors and plug appliances in to the power. There was never that stale "refrigerator" musty smell, but always a clean, fresh smell.

This would probably work, as well in a storage unit, though you might have to place several sacks around the unit to get full coverage. It impressed me when I first heard of it, since it had been proven to remove the smell of hides from animals. We have shared this with many friends through the years, and all have had the same positive reaction we did.

Answer 3

Miz some bleach and lemon juice together. Let it sit in there and then rinse it out. I prefer to throw on some thick rubber gloves and use the powder bleach and make it a paste and scrub away. Not the best way to spend a weekend but the smell goes away!

Answer 4

a couple cap fulls of bleach and baking soda. hot hot hot water.
let it sit for a few hrs keeping the water as hot or warm as possible. Then rinse with supper hot water. Repeat until the smell goes. It shouldn't take more than 2x to get rid of the smell.

Answer 5

Scrub it out with a bleach and water mix 80% bleach 20% water. then backing soda leave the backing soda box in freezer with top open with sheets of Bounce fabric softener leave it on for a few days . this should solve your problem.yes this does work.

Answer 6

Try washing with a mild solution of vinigar and warm water. Dry and place a bowl with baking soda in the freezer and close it for a day or two. Vinigar will wash oders away and baking soda should absorb any oders left over.

Answer 7

Wash it with a 50% bleach water solution. Then air it to get rid of the bleach smell. Whenever you use it, wash it out afterwards, spray it with a kitchen cleaner and dry it with paper towels to keep this from happening again.

Answer 8

Clean it out with bleach and then put 2 open boxes of baking soda

Answer 9

Unthaw and use bleach, and let it air out after you use the bleach for a day. It needs to get dried out as moisture causes the mold issue. Bleach will kill off the mold as well.

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