Mystery smell(its never good)
 

For the last 3 days there has been a wierd smell(sort of musty rotten)drove me insane tearing the house apart :frown: Well today while putting groceries away my wife said the switch for the freezer was off :eek:
Sure enough,everything was rotten,and stunk like heck :evil: Beef,chicken and fish,all gone :cry: ...and I thought a dead anemone smelled bad :eek:....just felt like venting :biggrin:

Youch. :eek: My hubby can smell an unwashed frozen fish food container in the house.

Well find it and get him to wash it.

Doug

Re: Mystery smell(its never good)
 

Jim,

Sounds awful :eek: You gonna keep the deep freezer or toss it? If keeping, clean it with 1 part bleach and 20 parts water, then rinse well.

On a happy note, you've got 1000 posts :smilecol:

Whoo hoo :mrgreen: (starting to think I spend too much time on the board...nah!!)
I gave the freezer a final scrub today with hot water and mr.clean and turned out good.Makes me want to cry when I think of all the meat (guess I'm lucky it was only a 7 cubic ft instead of a bigger freezer :sad:)

a freind of mine had a frezer full of Cariboo go bad when the frezer quit the worst thing with game meat is you cant just run out to the G store and buy more

Lucky all my moose meat was in the kitchen freezer :smile: still lost over $300 worth of meat and fish :sad: There has since been a large piece of good ol' army duct-tape placed over the switch :razz:

Gotta love duct tape. Man's best friend (sorry Rover.) :lol:

:lol: He says he's going to plant it in my office next time.

failing freezer
 

Hey Jim,
When I bought my new freezer it came with like an insurance policy......if the freezer fails within warrrenty the food is covered (partly??) too.
If your freezer is newish you might have this feature.
FYI
----oops just noticed the 'Switch thing" :evil:

when I was younger my parents used to but a bunch of chickens from local farmers. We went on vacation only to come home to a freezer full of like 60 rotten chickens. That was probably the most rancid thing I have ever smelled. Sorry about your luck Jim :sad:

Looks like its hamburger for the next week :mrgreen: hmmm...hamburger helper..hamburger soup..sheppard's pie...meatloaf....mmmmmmmmm :cry:

home owners insurance will cover it also.

Steve

you should think about getting a freezer alarm.

First post ever...
Found this thread rather amusing, so I thought I'd throw in my 2 stinky cents.

A few years back the fellow I was working for (commercial fishermen) had a freezer full of tuna in his garage, he went out on another trip, when he came back (about 6 weeks) we went to re-organize the tuna and somehow the plug was pulled out of the wall. The fish not only turned into a rotting mess, but it went almost entirely liquid and was a pool of disgusting stench in the bottom of the freezer. About 15 tuna in total were lost. It was easily the worst smell I have ever come across. The worst part was that you couldn't put all the fish into bags and throw them out because it was liquified. So we had to drag it, dump it, wash it...that smell stuck around for at least a month.

Dont talk to me about bad smell try and drive a Commercial Garbage truck for a living I can tell you all kinds of bad smell stories :mrgreen:

The worst smell I endured at a job was when I worked at the maple leaf chicken hatchery. Just think of a little grenade filled with the most putrid smelling,vile, half developed,slimy chicken fetus that has been incubated for 3 weeks rotten! These bacteria filled eggs would actually explode if you grabbed them the wrong way! It was pretty sick and I didn't eat eggs for a long time after working there.