I really messed up!

I did this once with fish sticks in freezer. Hit me like a ton of bricks one night while I was sleeping. It took a lot of cleaning, bleach. Good luck

We ended up with two turkeys one Thanksgiving so one went in the parked RV for a Christmas dinner.

Needless to say a few weeks later we had a multiple day county wide outage and I forgot all about the Turkey in the fridge.

I used my 2KW generator to keep the house fridge going just fine and survived the power outage just fine running the generator a coupe of hours a day.

Then I was working out near the parked trailer which is next to the woods and started looking for the dead deer or some large animal in the woods. Finally stuck my head in the trailer and that is when the light went off in my head...

This was a 14-lb turkey...

I disassembled what I could on the fridge and opened up the doors after cleaning up all I could find. I tried several things local folks told to try (pure vinegar worked the best) and got rid of the smell pretty good but when you closed it up and opened the door a couple of days later the smell was still there to some degree.. Getting behind the panels on the inside of the fridge is where my smells was coming from... I even had an open bowl of WD40 sitting in there - would rather smell that than turkey hehe...

The I heard about coffee grounds and had a open container of this sitting in both areas of the fridge. I also kept newspapers wadded up all over the inside of the fridge. I changed out the newspapers and coffee grounds once a week. The newspaper trick really absorbs the smells great.

We are back to using the fridge now but still get a whiff of something when we first open the door. I imagine some of that is expecting to smell something hehe...

My problem was that the melted away 14lb turkey also ran down the front door and onto the floor. I had lots of areas to cleanup...

I guess running the fridge again with it getting cold again helped alot as well...

What a mess - geesch....

Check on-line google for what others have tried.. Lots of info there...

Roy Ken

Wash all of the insides with vinegar, it may not be enough to just sit bowls of vinegar inside.

mdamerell wrote:

bnardini wrote:
I left my TT in storage for a few days which turned into three weeks. I left some food in the fridge with the fridge running on propane and the TT got moved, the fridge shut off

Unless there's a charger on the battery most OEM 12 vdc systems are dead in a couple of days due to parasitic loads. Even with fridge on propane it needs 12 vdc control power to operate. Was it plugged in while in storage? Do you have solar or extra batteries? Just curious.

X 2 but it takes a week or two with a new battery before it's dead. Clorex cleanup in a spray bottle works well as well.

I use fresh coffee grounds (not brewed). Just put some in a bowl in the freezer and the fridge. I also keep them in there while in storage with the fridge off. You can get the ones that are already in a filter pack.

We moved into a house that had a nasty stinky freezer and fridge. I scrubbed it clean with bleach but it still stunk. I put the filter packs in and it worked to get rid of the smell.

bnardini wrote:
I left my TT in storage for a few days which turned into three weeks. I left some food in the fridge with the fridge running on propane and the TT got moved, the fridge shut off

Unless there's a charger on the battery most OEM 12 vdc systems are dead in a couple of days due to parasitic loads. Even with fridge on propane it needs 12 vdc control power to operate. Was it plugged in while in storage? Do you have solar or extra batteries? Just curious.

Yeah,, bet you only do that once. I'd do all the above with the bleach to clean and then letting the vinegar soak overnight. One trick I use to keep smells down is newspaper. I always store crumpled newspaper in my coolers and fridge. Really helps to absorb smells.

X2 on all of the above.

Our seasonal park was kind enough to upgrade some elec at our site and forgot to plug us back in. About month later what a chore to clean out and get clean. The smell and what it looked like is the worst part. The biggest part over the looks is the door seal that has little corrugated ridges. Q-tips and cleaning worked fine for tiny places. Funny how the mind works. Reading your post made my mind smell what we went though on ours. Good luck

(Edit part)lots of info here that might help https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=cleaning+refrigerator+with+rotten+food

Essentially, the worst of the smell will come from bacteria. Let it dry out for a good couple of days. Once it dries, hit with 50/50 bleach water mix. Repeat until the smell goes away. I am guessing you shouldn't have to do it more than once. You really have to get into every nook in order to be effective...... elbow grease should help.

Put a bowl of distilled white vinegar inside the fridge and another in the trailer itself for the night. This will even get cigarette smoke out of the air.