Who remembers doing this? Defrosting the freezer.

jujube said:
Hey, I still have to do this. Our RV refrigerator's freezer gets quite iced up and about every six weeks, I have to defrost. What a mess. I use a hairdryer.

I learned the hard way back in the late 1970's why you're not supposed to use a sharp knife to pry the ice loose.....hisssssssssssss goes the sound of escaping Freon.
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I do the same, I use a hairdryer for our small freezer out in the garage about once a year. It works really well.
 

I was given that job once. A chest freezer. I emptied it and then I used a heat gun to melt the ice.

Then I broke it up and sucked up the water and broken ice into my shop vac.

Wiped it out with vinegar and dried it and put the food back in.
 

I still do it. The freezer was here when I moved in in 1991. It has to be at least 43 years old. The house was built in 1975. It's an upright. It's still going strong. I take a hair dryer to it. The food does not dry out in this one, like it does in the frost-free kind.
 
I defrosted one with a screw driver once. Well started to anyway. It did not go well. Punctured a gas line and killed the refrigerator.
 
I just did that yearly job on my second freezer.
There's supposed to be something better about a non frost free but I can't remember what it is.
It did keep the food frozen well during our last power outage.
 
I used to boil a pot of water, stick the pot inside, close the freezer door, close the fridge door, and wait for the heat and steam to do it's thing. What a mess it was!

Still plenty of prying, chipping, and coaxing... towels to sop-up water all over the floors and inside the freezer compartment, ice chips all over the kitchen floor, and when all was said and done, I remember the finished result never lasted for long.
 
I remember it. Hot water, every bath towel in the house to clean up spills, scraping and chopping the ice, being oh so careful not to punch a hole in anything.
 
Very first hour in my college rent house: The freezer was iced up, terribly. I started chipping at it. Psssssss........... I had gone right through the gas line. I had thoughts of how I'd survive without any money, after the repair.

Fortunately, the landlady, Mrs Burdett, knew she had messed up by not defrosting the fridge, before I moved in. Her handyman repaired it, no charge.

Mrs. B. stuttered, uncontrollably, with everyone, but me. She was one of the biggest influences on me, in my later life, to buy up houses, and be a great landlord.
 
Ick, yes, I remember defrosting freezers! One part of it was piling all the frozen food on the table and covering it with towels so it wouldn't start defrosting while I was defrosting the freezer.. but it was a rather uncomfortable task in general because that ice in the freezer was sharp- it wasn't unusual to get scrapes and cuts on my knuckles. Definitely prefer these self-defrosting models!
 

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