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Ace!
06-29-2004, 07:27 PM
I feel like I've hopped in a goddamned DeLorean.

I live in a studio in college housing. As this is a one room apartment intended for one person, I was not given a full size refrigerator. Below my counter I have a cube minifridge. Which is fine, as I don't use a great deal of perishables.

What is not fine, however, is that said minifridge has a teeny tiny freezer space. Two feet by six inches by one foot. I can fit a pint of ice cream in there. On its side.

Okay, not a big deal. I just can't shop Costco. But what is unforgivable is that this minifridge is older than I am. Which means that it must be defrosted. Remember Frank Drebin's freezer in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad? Mine looked like that, but instead of an orange frozen in space I had an orange creamsicle.

Hence the poll. Has anyone ever defrosted a freezer? Because I don't reccomend it. Fortunately I know a fast(er) way of doing so. The method that I have been instructed to use involves turning off the fridge overnight. Which wouldn't be a big deal if one were to look past the fact that I need my fridge overnight. Apperantly botulism had yet to be discovered when my fridge was birthed from the holy conveyors of Kenmore.

A hairdryer, a hammer and a bloodletter bayonet do help get the job done, but I am now much more wary of using the most effective of these tools for one reason. Do you know how my freezer stays cold? Freon. Freon is supposed to get you high, but all it did to me was make me throw up a little in my mouth.

Today, at three o'clock, I went to work on the second freezer that has taken up residence in this household, as the first freezer ceased to work once the freon forced itself out of a small, bayonet sized hole.

It is now just after four o'clock. My freezer is free of ice, my milk is warm and my sink is full of orangecreamsicley water.

I hate college housing.

Gendo Ikari
06-29-2004, 08:54 PM
I had to defrost my freezer, too...no big deal.

Just pull the plug...

Of course, I won't have a fridge to pull the plug on anymore...

Ace!
06-29-2004, 09:05 PM
Right. But if you pull the plug then everything you have in the fridge, things that need to stay cold, aren't cold anymore. And then you find thick, black stool in your toilet or you pee out your butt.

Greg Kennedy
06-29-2004, 10:29 PM
Make sure when you empty it and pull the plug, you have it over a drain. College housing people came into our dorm room and pulled the plug on everything over Spring Break, including our fridge - which subsequently defrosted, filled with water, leaked, molded over, and we came back to a brown puddle of goo on our carpet and a fridge that smelled like all the toilets in Hell overflowing.

Also, don't use a shower to clean out a fridge. That just makes things worse.

Shonen Samurai
06-30-2004, 12:09 AM
^happened to me too

Ace!
06-30-2004, 12:22 AM
You actually took a minifridge into the shower? I can only imagine the horrifying scene that transpired.

Well, it's good to know that I'm not alone.

Almasy Marquis
06-30-2004, 02:47 AM
A tub works way better.

Flik
06-30-2004, 04:04 AM
We used to have a ghetto fridge. Ghetto. I mean it had a handle you lifted to open it. That freezer was a pimp...whoring out ice to every possible area surrounding the freezer area. I used to use a hatchet to defrost that sucker. A HATCHET.

Enigmatic Magus
06-30-2004, 09:28 AM
.. Leave it unplugged for an hour, then beat it up.


Seriously, my parents spent days defrosting their "second" freezer (Imagine one of those freezer/fridge combos.. then imagine it only has one bigass metal door.. then imagine it's all just a big freezer, with shelves that run coolant as well as the walls and roof and floor...)

The next time, when I offered to help, I waited till it just about started to melt, and then warped the metal the ice was stuck to.. fell off in big chunks.

After that, the rest comes out with a cheap metal spatula.

Zeiram
06-30-2004, 10:51 AM
A hairdryer, a hammer and a bloodletter bayonet do help get the job done, but I am now much more wary of using the most effective of these tools for one reason. Do you know how my freezer stays cold? Freon. Freon is supposed to get you high, but all it did to me was make me throw up a little in my mouth.

Freon can be turned into a poisonous gas; I hope that's not what was happening here. See this article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20040625/od_nm/odd_phosgene_dc

Hthe8th
06-30-2004, 12:27 PM
You could have put your stuff in a friends fridge......unless your friends suck or don't exist.

Miller
06-30-2004, 12:35 PM
You could have put your stuff in a friends fridge....

Or just eat/drink it all.

Ace!
06-30-2004, 01:33 PM
A hairdryer, a hammer and a bloodletter bayonet do help get the job done, but I am now much more wary of using the most effective of these tools for one reason. Do you know how my freezer stays cold? Freon. Freon is supposed to get you high, but all it did to me was make me throw up a little in my mouth.

Freon can be turned into a poisonous gas; I hope that's not what was happening here. See this article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20040625/od_nm/odd_phosgene_dc

The Great Freon Exodus took place last summer, so I think I'll be alright. Thankfully I didn't have the stove on.

And I really wasn't in the mood to eat a jar of mayonaise and a pound of chicken. At least I wasn't yesterday.

Ybrik Metaknight
06-30-2004, 04:51 PM
I...have defrosted a freezer...but there wasn't a choice for that...

But yeah, mine was just a pull-the-plug-and-leave-the-door-open deal.

Ace!
06-30-2004, 05:01 PM
Yeah, I didn't actually think there were others. As I have found, I am not alone.