DIY: 2 Simple Methods to Get Rid of Fridge Odour

We usually store plenty of food items in our fridge. Often we forget to utilize the old items stored in our fridge. With time passes, those items started to rot and creates a very bad smell in your fridge. This thing sometimes becomes real embarrassment when you have to open your fridge in front of someone. Other then embarrassment, the odour will also effect your other food items stored in your fridge. In the event that you open your fridge and smell something awful, it is high time to do a bit of examination. Instead of telling you long steps to solve this thing, I am going to write just two simple methods which are tested and they have proven to be useful.

Before using these methods, you must remember that, you should prevent this smell by taking some small measures. Like never store large amount of items in fridge and at least twice or thrice a week, check your fridge, and discard all old items. Once in a month take all of your items out of the fridge and keep its door open for half an hour so that all the smell gets out of it. Once in  month wash and rinse all of the parts before thoroughly drying them. Don't forget to wipe as much of the walls and floor of the fridge as you can, even under the crisper drawers.

1. Use Activated Charcoal 

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You can easily purchase this type of charcoal at your local house wares store. Place a layer of it on a shallow pan and place it inside of the refrigerator. Keep the settings on low and let it run for a few days in this manner. Do not keep food in it, though.

2. Baking Soda and Lavender:

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Sweet scented lavender is a species of flowering plants in the mint family. Dried leaves of lavender and baking soda is enough to make a smell absorber. If you can't find dried lavender, you can also use lavender oil. Take an aluminium dredger. Fill it three quarters with baking soda and add lavender buds by separating it from stem. Mix the buds with baking soda using spoon. Place this aluminium dredger into back of the fridge and it will work as a perfect smell absorber. You can change this mixture of baking soda and lavender after every month.