Please help with Rotting Freezer!

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My mum's fridge freezer stopped working (due to faulty electrics) and the meat stored in the freezer compartment pretty much rotted...they have cleaned and scrubbed the freezer but it still smells awful. Have you got any advice to stop it stinking please?

What about scooping out a lemon and filling with bicarb? Or fresh coffee grounds.

Thanks notgrownup, I'll suggest that to her, maybe a whole bag of lemons filled with bicarbonate will help...

painting the bicarb on the inside might help. I sometimes sponge with foaming washing up liquid, neat, and let it dry on the linings. I like to think it will come away with any grime next time you sponge it out. But I have never had a rotting freezer. It might help to leave it open for a few days to air. Once it is cold again I presume the smell will stop.

If it is a frost-free the melt water wil probably carry it away, and it will collect in the evaporation dish round the back, which you can clean out.

PigletJohn, what do you mean by painting the bicarb? What worries me is that the rotting juices (yuckittyboak) have escaped under the fridge and have a little stinky pool. Arghhhh...

I mean, mixing it up into a paste and painting it onto the inside with a soft brush

If you can pull the freezer away from the wall, you can clean out the evaporation dish that you will find on top of the motor (it will be full of mould, dust and grime) and also look at the floor.

Thank you, I will tell my mum and see if I can retry in a few days when I will be there with here. It sounds really disgusting :(

You'll be fine. If you can delegate the job to someone else

If its dried up with the heat from the motor the smell shouldn't be too bad. If you have to do it put some Vicks under each nostril.