| May042009 | Stinky Fridge |
Yesterday I threw out some of the worst smelling leftovers I’ve encountered in quite some time. Mercifully, the food still looked normal but it just smelt like meat farts and sweat. Once upon a time, this was a shrimp noodle dish and she and I were lovers. But, the past being the past, she was just rotting in my fridge now.
I live in an apartment building where on one side of my abode and the windows are on the other. Little air flows through the kitchen so I’m sensitive to garbage and bad food smells. Deodorization is difficult.
A bad smell has been haunting me for a while and I didn’t immediately find the food because it was my girlfriend’s leftovers and she had put it into a plastic bag that just made me think it was fresh groceries and not leftovers that were already a week old.
I would catch this smell in tiny whiffs as I moved through the kitchen. I thought it was the trash so I emptied it and let the trash can air out by the window for a while. Nope. I got frustrated and I cleaned the stove and all the counter-tops. The smell of the cleaning agent dominated for a while but by the next day, the bad odor was back.
Fast forward to yesterday and I noticed that the bad odor was coming from inside the fridge.Each time I shut the fridge door, it would force out a small puff of stinky air and I would blame the trash can or the unclean stove. Fool me twice and I can’t get fooled again, fridge. Oddly enough, the smell was also quite strong inside the freezer compartment and the dishwasher. But I didn’t have time to ponder over this because I knew for a fact that these leftovers smelt very very bad.
I set to work throwing out the inconspicuous bag of leftovers, evicting it from my apartment and cleaning out the tupperware container that housed it. Relief washed over me as I’d finally made defeated my villain.
But. The villain’s calling card remained.
There was still some residual gym sock smell in my fridge, freezer and dishwasher. And then I remembered my baking soda. I have this big orange box of baking soda and I’ve ever only used a few teaspoons for… well, baking. But I figured that this could exorcise the last the stench out.
Three small bowls filled with baking soda and two-to-three hours later, there was no more evidence of the death and decay that once haunted my pair of kitchen appliances. I had escaped from the killer in the first movie and now I have condemned it to hell in the sequel.
All that remains is to remove the bowls of baking soda and hope that I’ve actually removed the source of the smells and it’s not some dead rat that’s trapped underneath my fridge.
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