What gives food that "freezer smell"?

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Gitagal Baltimore, MD(Zone 7a) Mar 25, 2007

It is not just food, but anything that "lives" in my freezer on a regular basis--like my ice pack I use on my knee.
Also, no matter how well I wrap something, after X number of months, it will have THAT smell. Ice cream that has been open just a few days. My ice cube trays, etc...

Are they gasses? Chemicals? Something in the walls of the fridge?

Hmmmmmmm.....P-EW!

Gita

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merigold Sioux City, IA(Zone 4b) Mar 25, 2007

I kinda know what you mean. I did a quick search couldn't really find a "cause". However, I found yet another horrible task to add to my "spring cleaning" list (ya, right) lol.

http://kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=health&m=health/articles/cleaningthefridge

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Gitagal Baltimore, MD(Zone 7a) Mar 25, 2007

Marigold,

I can only echo your sentiments----"YEAH RIGHT!!"

If I told you how long I keep stuff in my freezer AND still eat it, and how seldom I clean my freezer/refrigerator, you all would send me to the loony bin tied up in a straight jacket.

HEY! I'm still around AND healthy! I think I should volunteer as THE human guinea pig for all the time limits and guidelines for cleaning and eating anything--and not having any ill effects.

For one--cheese mold and bread mold are totally harmless, and allowing natural milk to sour resulted in three things. Cream that floated to the top, milk solids that turned into "yogurt" or "curd" (byproduct of the natural souring of milk), and whey (the liquid part at the bottom) that is very drinkable--as in Little Miss Muppet, etc.--unless you grew up in the US. and have NO clue what I am talking about. I recently read an article where there is a movement to pass laws to allow farmers to sell Natural milk--like straight out of the cow. Hey! I grew up on that, (I even milked one every day when i was 8 years old) and all the other by-products of natural life.

Seems I have now digressed. Mea Culpa!!!!

Woo Hoo! Gita

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merigold Sioux City, IA(Zone 4b) Mar 25, 2007

All right Gita, I like your attitude :) My fridge rarely gets cleaned inside, I suppose the fact that there is only the two of us makes a difference but I don't think it looks tooooo bad.

Hey, I drank farm milk for a couple years as a teenager. My stepmother got us started on it. Didn't think it was so great at first (down right disgusting) but once we got use to it the regular stuff tasted gross. I can remember times when the cows apparently had been eating grass...the milk had a green tinge to it, ha, ha.

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Tir_Na_Nog Houston, United States(Zone 9b) Mar 28, 2007

I'd like to know to Gita!

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Gitagal Baltimore, MD(Zone 7a) Mar 29, 2007

.......NOT tellin!

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