Refresh your fridge!

You've probably heard it before: you open the refrigerator and a stale smell comes out of that thing... You immediately lose your appetite. Handy if you wanted a sneaky late-night snack, but usually very nasty. We explain how you can clean your refrigerator super easily.

1. Turn off the refrigerator, empty it and throw away anything that has expired. Remove the racks, drawers and shelves and wash them with some washing-up liquid. Clean the inside with warm water, all-purpose cleaner and a scoop of baking soda. Dry thoroughly. You can easily remove dirt from the edges of the rubbers with a cotton swab.
2. Pay extra attention to the drainage hole in the back wall. That can become full of smelly mess. So clean thoroughly, possibly using a skewer. If the refrigerator is out of place, immediately use the vacuum cleaner to remove dust from the back.
3. To defrost your freezer chest or compartment, preferably choose a day when it is freezing to the point of cracking. Then the contents can be left outside without any problems. If you fill a plant sprayer with hot water and a little all-purpose cleaner and spray the walls with it, defrosting will happen quite quickly. Or keep a hairdryer next to it, then it will go faster. And you don't have to use a scraper to remove the last bits of ice.

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