Life is full of surprises, some pleasant and some not so pleasant.Some things come as a complete surprise to us, while others are quite predictable. And this applies to all areas of our lives, both outside and within the home. And if a flood caused by the neighbors upstairs comes as a complete surprise, then, for example, the appearance of a strange smell in the refrigerator is quite understandable, and in some cases, quite expected. But, as life experience shows, pleasant surprises should be accepted with joy, and unpleasant ones should be eliminated. Therefore, if suddenly your sensitive nose caught some not very pleasant or just unnecessary smell in the refrigerator, you need to immediately eliminate this smell. Ideally, a clean and working refrigerator should not smell of anything. But we do not always store food properly, and sometimes we do not take very good care of the refrigerator. It happens that the cause of an unpleasant smell in it is spoiled food (oh, this abundance!), and it happens that the smell is emitted by quite fresh, but simply very aromatic food (cheese or cutlets, for example). By the way, not all fresh vegetables smell good: onions or garlic, for example, will easily make the refrigerator stink. Therefore, all products and prepared meals should be stored only in airtight containers. And, naturally, it is necessary to wash or at least wipe the inside of the refrigerator and freezer more often. By the way, not only an unpleasant, but also a quite tolerable smell of food is inappropriate in the refrigerator. Therefore, if it does appear there, let's try to remove it.
Absorb the smell
This is the first of the most famous methods of removalodor from the refrigerator. You know that many available products and improvised means are able to absorb odor. If such a magic "sponge" is placed in the refrigerator, it will simply absorb all the odors present there. At first, thrifty housewives used only home-grown adsorbents, and then they (and we too!) had the opportunity to use industrial odor absorbers, or, as they are also called, neutralizers. So, we offer you first a list of folk methods for eliminating odor in the refrigerator. Any adsorbents available in your home will do for this purpose.
- Activated carbon
Take it from your medicine cabinet (or buy it innearest drugstore) several packages of this wonderful product. For subsequent manipulations, you will need about twenty to forty tablets. These tablets need to be crushed into powder, poured into some bowl and put in the refrigerator. The smell will not disappear immediately, but the next day it will become less noticeable. Such a carbon odor absorber "works" reliably for about two weeks. After that, it needs to be replaced with a new one or the same powder should be calcined in the oven (for about ten minutes at 180 ° C). And one more important point. The larger the open surface of the carbon powder, the faster it will cope with its task.
- Black bread
It works similarly to activated carbon, butless effective. Suitable in case of a not very strong smell or for preventive purposes. Just cut small pieces of rye bread and place them on the shelves of the refrigerator.
- Tea (food) soda
Also a very good adsorbent.Its effectiveness is lower than that of activated carbon, but higher than that of black bread. Take a small food container or any suitable plastic box. Fill it with soda and put it in the refrigerator. You can keep such a box in the refrigerator constantly, only changing its filler from time to time. This product will help you not only remove the unpleasant smell from the refrigerator, but also prevent its appearance. Other improvised adsorbents act similarly to these products: granulated sugar, salt, flour or starch. But they act softly enough to remove persistent odor. But they will help prevent its appearance.
- Industrial odor scavengers
They can be found in hardware stores oramong related products in home appliance stores. The range of prices for industrial odor absorbers is quite large. You can buy both a cheap model and a more expensive one. Such absorbers are filled with the same activated carbon or have a filling of safe minerals or a special gel. Industrial odor absorbers work for about two months.
We smell the smell
The second way to remove the smell fromrefrigerator - this is its displacement by other, stronger and more pleasant smells. In fact, this method in practice turns out to be a regular deodorization of the interior of the refrigerator. Here, proven and already proven handy deodorants are used.
- Lemon
Known for his unique abilityinterrupt any odors and neutralize even the smell of garlic and onions. It is not for nothing that almost all manufacturers of household chemicals use the aroma of lemon as a fragrance for their products. You can make such a product yourself by mixing lemon and vodka: ten spoons of vodka per teaspoon of lemon juice. And if you do not want to dilute the lemon juice with vodka, then mix it with water: one part lemon to two parts water. Wipe the inside of the refrigerator with this product, soaking a cloth or sponge in the lemon mixture.
- Vinegar
Also used as a neutralizerunpleasant odor and allows you to remove it from the refrigerator. By analogy with the lemon mixture, we make a vinegar solution by mixing six percent vinegar with water in equal proportions. Or just add a few drops of vinegar essence to warm clean water, and then wash the refrigerator with this water. If the smell was too strong, then after water procedures, leave a cotton wool soaked in vinegar or a glass of vinegar in the refrigerator, and then thoroughly ventilate the refrigerator.
- Ammonia
Just like vinegar or lemon, it helps removeany foreign smell from the refrigerator. Wipe the refrigerator with a mixture of ammonia and water, after washing it first. Then wash it again with clean water. For this procedure, dilute a tablespoon of ammonia in one liter of water. In short, you can remove the smell from the refrigerator even using improvised means or purchasing a special odor absorber for this purpose. But it is best to remove spoiled products from the refrigerator in time, store all its contents in containers or packages, defrost and wash the refrigerator in time. By the way, odor absorbers (industrial or improvised) can be used for preventive purposes. Then you will not leave any unnecessary aroma a single chance! We advise you to read:
