My fridge crapped itself over Christmas while i was out of town. Came back to a fridge full of mold.
Sprayed bleach inside daily for a week, cleaned it all out, dropped the ice trays and my beer glasses in a sink full of bleach water and let em soak.
Final clean, ready to use stuff again.
However, my favorite ice cube trays smell of mold and bleach. Are they trash now?
Most likely yes, but you can try baking them before you throw them out. 350 for like 40-60 minutes. Keep an eye on it though in case they're silicone with something, but silicone itself should be good to 600izh.
It's been recommended for silicone baking molds and utensils, don't see why it wouldn't be with a shot with ice cube trays.
In reply to RevRico :
Hrm. Maybe line a cookie sheet with parchment paper before doing it?
I'll try it.
No personal experience with either, but for the mold smell I might try one of those ozone generator thingeys. For the bleach I would try some baking soda.
Spraying them with febreze is probably not a good solution.
I think you should treat yourself to some new ones.
There is one of them I want to save. As dumb as it sounds, it has sentimental value
:sigh: brains are stupid sometimes
In reply to RevRico :
I sell a lot of silicone rubber for gaskets - we state 450dgF as the max temp.
LOL
Probably ruined, but possibly not. Soaking in bleach was almost certainly the wrong answer.
I'd start with submerging them in hot water - you want >181*f. Easy button is to boil and then take it off heat.
After that, I'd go with an acid-solution soak. If you can get concentrated citric acid, that's probably best. If not, then white vinegar. I'd probably do a 1:4 solution.
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Always err on the side of safety.
When I was making silicone novelties, some formulations I found rated to over 600, some 400. Smooth On, the manufacturer I bought from, claims 500 on most of their silicone blends.
The really cheap silicone kitchen stuff concerns me that they're using fillers to get the price down, but I haven't bought any so I haven't really researched it.
We had a somewhat similar situation. We bought a couple of these silicone smart tag holders for our dogs' collars and one of them got a full-on skunk spray. After several baths the dog was (mostly) stink-free and we were able to get the smell out of the collar, but that silicone case not savable. Soaked it in vinegar, bleach, a mix of the deskunking shampoo and water, baking soda, you name it. That material just seems to hold on to odors. Fortunately, they were cheap, so we just bought another.
Beer Baron 🍺 said:After that, I'd go with an acid-solution soak. If you can get concentrated citric acid...
Any Schmo can get pure food grade citric acid on ebay. That's where I got mine for the purpose of descaling my Keurig. It's not expensive.
Try soaking in hydrogen peroxide
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