Oh why didn't I ...

[smallblueplanet]

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buy a frost-free fridge freezer?

I hate defrosting the bl**dy thing, but I've gotta do it now as I can't get the drawers shut! Oh and just to make things more annoying I've stood the fridge stuff outside in the cold - only its bright sunshine!

Still I'm determined to have lots of space in the freezer to pack full of M&S xmas party food!!!

[maytreefrannie]

I'm with you there, Small Blue Planet - I hate defrosting and it seems to need doing too quickly.

Am doing my best to get rich and buy a really nice frost-free one - buying lottery tickets.

[MaureenHall]

I use a hairdryer to melt the ice quick Don't know if it's a good thing to do - water + electricity etc, but it's always worked for me. Can do my freezer in about half an hour

[Marthaclematis]

Bowls of hot water on the shelves do it too. And if you wrap the food in layers of newspaper it helps to keep it frozen.

[jackie j]

I am lucky that I have two freezers, one upright one in the dinning room but it could give up at any time and one chest freezer in the cellar for emergancies kept switched on and keeps the ice packs ready for summer !!! also put spare stuff in there.

[pipscariad]

I'm with Maureen on this one, the hairdryer always worked a treat for me (keep it well away from the water though!!!). I say 'worked' as when my freezer conked out two years ago I bought *skips* a frost free one. You never know Smallblueplanet, you may get one one day (not that anyone wants to have their freezer break down - esp at this time of year, christmas coming an' all that).

[ailsasyl]

I got my brothers fridge/freezer when he moved a couple of years ago, its a frost-free one, its brilliant, no more defrosting for me! A job I used to hate. Self-cleaning oven would be great, but unless I win the lotto not much chance of that!

[HeyWayne]

I don't know how you do it. We've never owned anything but frost-free fridge freezers.

You have my sympathies.

Have you tried putting the fridge freezer in the sunshine?

[zazen999]

Hair dryer - and put a towel in the bottom to catch the water as it melts.

[lynda66]

i bought a new freezer this year .... unfortunately not frost free, ..... now why didn't i even notice you could get frost free ones (haven't bought a new freezer for about 20 years lol) ..... the other day i must have erm kind of left the door open a bit the whole of the front of it was all frozen and can't open the drawers ...... sprayed it with antifreeze stuff till i could get the door shut and left it ..... better do it soon cos i can't actually get anything out of it

[smallblueplanet]

...sprayed it with antifreeze stuff till i could get the door shut and left it ..... better do it soon cos i can't actually get anything out of it

...the anti-freeze stuff, err what's it normally used for?

Oh and worse than the defrosting, I've got to clean the ...... thing too!

[Hazel at the Hill]

That's a point - why can't you use car windscreen de-icer and spray that on?

[HeyWayne]

That's a point - why can't you use car windscreen de-icer and spray that on?

Probably because it's blue.

Would a salt water solution work you think?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Probably because it's blue.

Would a salt water solution work you think?

Well, you're going to clean it off anyway, aren't you. Good idea about the salt solution. Can you have a go with it and tell us if it works, SBP?

[lynda66]

...the anti-freeze stuff, err what's it normally used for?

Oh and worse than the defrosting, I've got to clean the ...... thing too!

defrosting freezers ........ it's green.