Help with this fishy problem

[Anonymous]

I bought two pieces of fish on a Saturday morning. We ate one Saturday night, meant to eat the second Sunday, things happened and we didn't. Tuesday morning the kitchen stank of fish and we threw out the second piece. By then the entire refrigerator AND freezer stank horribly. There's no exhaust fan, and the window is already open. Put Arm & Hammer baking soda container in there.

The smell is now out of the kitchen, but still in the freezer and refrigerator. How to get rid of the fish smell?

[Anonymous]

Wipe down the refrigerator with baking soda and vinegar.

[Anonymous]

Strange that it is also in the freezer - was it leaking fluid?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like it leaked you will have to clean both. Fish does not air out on its own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Strange that it is also in the freezer - was it leaking fluid?

It was wrapped in white paper and leaks through that, but in an open plastic bag that it did not spill out of. So the white paper was wet on the outside where fish wasn't directly touching it, but it was all contained within the plastic bag.

[Anonymous]

Plastic Grocery bag? Notorious for leaks, sorry.

[Anonymous]

If in freezer, throw out your ice cubes and anything that wasn’t sealed. If it still persists, I would defrost. Sorry, that (literally) stinks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Plastic Grocery bag? Notorious for leaks, sorry.

Not a plastic grocery bag - a clear plastic bag. It didn't leak out of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wipe down the refrigerator with baking soda and vinegar.

Do you think a Clorox Wipe will do the trick? I have a lot of those.