What in the name of the wee man is making my fridge stink like rotten blue cheese?

[SirChenjins]

I’ve removed all traces of all foodstuffs that potentially could be causing it and wiped it down with anti bac stuff, but it still stinks to high heaven - if you open the door it fills the kitchen with the smell of rotten blue cheese.

Any ideas, oh wise ones? 🤢

taken all the shelves out and cleaned the backs of them?

does it have a water reservoir?

could it be knackered and on it's way out?

If there is one have, you cleaned drainage hole. Look it up on youtube.

Have you emptied the little drain at the bottom? It often has a plastic tab/stick thing sticking out of it. Sometimes that can get stinky with stale water.

Stick a bowl of bicarb in the fridge to absorb the smell.

Deffo this. I'd say it has got skagged up (<--- technical term).
Look inside for the hole, and poke it clean. Then look at the back if you can, as there will be a small tray filled with stinking mouldy grot.

It’s an integrated fridge/freezer, only 2 years old, so hopefully not on its way out. I can’t figure out how to pull it out to clean behind it but there’s a hole with a tab sticking out of it so will look online to see if there’s a way to clean down there.

Will give the bicarb a go too - thanks for that suggestion.

Doesn't seem the best design for integrated fridges to have stinky water trays at the back when you can't really pull them out.

We’ll, that’s 40 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Re-washed the entire interior and spent a good 20 minutes digging about in the hole with strips of j-cloth wound round the plastic hole plug and nada. Well, a tiny bit of gunk but no smell off of it. It’s smelling marginally better but there’s still a whiff of Camembert. I’m becoming obsessed with it now, it’s drive me mad.

We have an integrated, undercounter fridge, we have to pull the kickboard off and you can slide out this horrific water collected which we recently found was full if black slime. Why did noone ever tell me this thing existed?! Funnily enough, it was at the 2 year mark of ownership too!

any bean sprouts in there? They reek.

I’m delighted to report that my fridge is now smelling normal again - no idea what was causing it but a dig about in the drain hole and another wash down has done the trick and the l’odeour du Camembert has gone 🎉

This is strange, but....

I had this problem but my fridge was a bit older than yours. I tried everything I could to make the smell go away. It just wouldn't go.
I was so desperate, I thought it might of been the light bulb (I don't why I thought that, I was out of other ideas), so I removed it.
And the smell disappeared.
Don't ask why, I don't know. I never replaced the bulb, just left it as it was.

My fridge was driving me mad and I actually thought I was imagining it as I was ill and no other person could smell it (My sense of smell changed with Covid too)

I took everything out , threw out a manky cucumber (smelled ok so not that) , put the shelves and salad drawer through the DW and cleaned the bottom (under the salad drawer bit ) cleaned the drain hole ( it was ok)
Put a baking tray od bicarbonate of soda in the bottom......and it is fine .

I keep a jar of bicarb in there