Cleaning the Fridge

Well, those who have been to my apartment in Moscow would know that my fridge needed some serious cleaning, it was in a pretty pathetic shape. Not because it was all smelly and gross inside (although there was a bit of that present also), but mainly because we have an old fridge and it's Russian (by old I mean made in like 60's) So, it does not have that kind of cool freezer that never collects ice like we have in the states. So, half of our freezer was taken by the ice that formed, and in the last couple of weeks my sister, our roommate and I have discovered that we can no longer open the freezer because it was frozen solid.

So, on Friday night my roommate and I decided to unplug the fridge, took everything out (except the stuff in the freezer of course) and just waiting till it started to defrost.

Saturday night, well, we could finally open the freezer, but the fridge was still far from being all the way defrosted. My roommate wanted to plug it in since it was somewhat defrosted and we needed to refrigerate our food, but I insisted that we leave it overnight. I wanted all the ice from the freezer gone, so we would not have to defrost it for awhile.

Sunday around 1 pm, I finally woke up and decided that I should start cleaning the fridge. The freezer was almost ready to be wiped clean. My roommate helped with chipping away a few last pieces of ice, I washed the fridge and freezer and just when I was ready to say that we did it, I saw a huge chunk of ice underneath the freezer in a little compartment that was covered. Long story short, we opened the compartment and found that underneath the whole freezer area there was a chunk of ice that was about 2 inches thick. We spent over an hour working on getting that ice out, we used hair dryer, knife and other utensils that we thought would help us accomplish such a challenging task.

So, at 3 pm we finally got all the ice out, assembled the fridge back, put all the food back in and plugged it in. Man, this is the most work I have done when it comes to cleaning a fridge in about, well, EVER. I am telling you one thing, I sure love my fridge in Minneapolis. Even though it seems to be made from the same era as my fridge in Russia, my fridge in the US never collects ice and is so nice and quiet and I miss it :)

Oh, well, I just hope that we won't have to defrost this stupid fridge in the near 3 months, preferably longer. Ok, now I gotta go take a shower, because while I was cleaning the fridge and working on getting all the ice chunks out, a bunch of water from the fridge dripped all over me, so it's kind of gross. Just thought that I had to share my experience with you, because I doubt anybody else had nearly as exciting or adventurous this weekend :)