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beowabbit ([personal profile] beowabbit) wrote2011-02-18 08:56 pm
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Oops!

Steps in cleaning freezer:
  1. Pick a cold day
  2. Turn cooling off on refrigerator and freezer.
  3. Take food out of freezer. Put it on porch so it will stay frozen while you work.
  4. Wait for gunk (mostly melted chocolate ice cream, I think) that pooled in the bottom of the freezer when door was left slightly open and food melted that one time, to melt. Help along with warm water.
  5. Sop up gunk with sponge.
  6. Thoroughly clean interior of freezer with spray cleaner and paper towel.
  7. Wipe down with damp paper towel and wait until entirely dry.
  8. Bring in food from porch and refill freezer.
  9. Close freezer door. Clap hands together in celebration of a job well done!
Do you see the step I missed?

[identity profile] zzbottom.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Have you thrown the rest of it out, yet? I bet it got plenty warm in there.

[identity profile] docorion.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm assuming there was still food in the *refrigerator*, or was that subsumed in "freezer"? If not, then some of your fridge stuff is less than well preserved. Since you turned them both off.

(Anonymous) 2011-02-19 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ummmm, The on switch? I say
this because your )
sound depressingly familiar,
including my outcome (until
I remembered

[identity profile] likethewatch.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
The fridge was still turned off. For how long? I don't expect to get points for coming in third, but I'm still proud of myself for figuring that one out on my own.

[identity profile] treacle-well.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Do you see the step I missed?

Um, 1. Pick a cold day.

[identity profile] fenicedautun.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I can sympathise! I'm so sorry.

I'm lucky that last night, when I left my groceries on the porch to get in to my house intending to them pull them in through the sliding doors, that I thought about my fruit and whether I'd remembered to throw out the softening/mushening pear when I put it away as I went to bed. And then went "oh sh*@$" and ran down the stairs to pull the groceries in. Only 2 hours, but on a warm day. I'm...concerned for some of them. (Most will be fine, it shouldn't hurt fruit that much!)

[identity profile] plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, last weekend you showed me your cleaning handiwork in that freezer, and I failed to notice it wasn't as cold as it should be. Unlike me. Well, this calls for a trip to Ikea to replace all those meatballs!

[identity profile] hermitgeecko.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no...

It's a funny story, but poor you!