Defrosting a fridge takes too long. So bring in a hairdryer. But standing around with a hairdryer is not efficient when you can be doing other things while that’s happening. So tie the hairdryer to a chair and set it off. Today’s OCD moment is brought to you by carbon footprints and rising sea levels:
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Back in my student days, I moved into a place with 2 friends – GW and The Cabbage. The freezer compartment of the fridge was frozen solid. You couldn’t even slide a knife in. The Cabbage devised an ingenious method of speed-defrosting.
You take 1 can of Lynx, 1 cigarette lighter and1 crazy friend to hold the front of the freezer compartment down and you… (well you can figure that out for yourself).
You get a bit dizzy with the fumes after a while though.
I’m crying inside….
[…] Via Twitter, Mulley shows us where his inventiveness and incredible time management skills come from: his mother. He also posts about it here. […]
How come I never thought of that?
You do realise that all that melting ice is going to cause sea levels to rise by about fifteen feet?
I hope you have notified the National Disasters People??
That’d be Willie O’Dea right Grandad? He’s in charge of all those things…
Dude, you need to invest in a fridge that has a built in hair dryer! 🙂
I suppose just turning off the freezer part and going out for a few pints whilst it melted wasn’t techie enough ?
Oh I’m highlighting the madness of my mum in this. I threatened to film this if she went ahead. She did. I did. I should have filmed the electricity meter going around too.
In January I defrosted my freezer. To avoid it taking the whole of January, I got up early one morning and chipped away at it. It took hours!!!
I’ve decided, your mother’s not mad – she’s time efficient!
Keeping the fridge plugged in while you’re defrosting it, an interesting approach. You may find this post stimulating also.
I defrosted my freezer just yesterday. I relish the task. I don’t subscribe to the hair-dryer approach, but with bread knife in hand, it’s the best stress-relieving exercise I know.
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Whats a freezer?
I sense a new freezer defrosting product being introduced to the market. Watch out D, Your mom will make millions.
is the fridge still on ? I think I can see the light on in it. It’s much easier to defrost the fridge if it’s turned off.
Defrost mode on a fridge means it needs power.
http://greennav.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/how-to-defrost-a-refrigerator/
Surely worthy of a fluffy?
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I used the knife technique before, punctured the lining and had to throw the whole thing out because all of the refrigerant gas escaped 🙁
Wow, that’s a trick I could use. I usually put a bowl of boiling water in to defrost the freezer quickly.