Ok Confession time, I love defrosting my fridge. Remember my beautiful old Kelvinator, well he aint no frost free guy, and he likes to get icy. When it first started happening I wasn't sure at all what was going on, I thought perhaps there was something wrong with it, ( I'm meaning the icing up etc) and being a child and innocent of the frost free fridge era. I spoke to Mum, and she explained I needed to defrost it, and "it was a pain in the....." So last year prepared for a terrible job, I embarked on my first defrosting. Well I have to say I never feel so satisfied. I'm not the sort of lay back and wait for the hot water to do it's trick defroster, i'm more the get involved defroster, standing there with my knife stabbing at big icicles and ripping them out. It's so much fun trust me, and it is strangely addictive and obsessive, before you ( ok or I and may be the only one in the world) know it you've spent you whole morning pulling bits of ice out of your fridge. "OH just that one, and maybe no look at that one).
Now it was second time to do it, and I've got my whole system perfected, it's quite methodical and sort of recyling too. With the bits of ice pulled from the fridge I make make-do eskis in which I put all the usual fridge foods in, and with the melted ice and the hot water from the defrosting now gone cold I put on my garden.
Ok I just have realised how much I have written on my excitement and systems over defrosting and aware of how scary and crazy it looks. I will stop now before I scare you ( and myself) anymore.
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I have memories of defrosting the fridge with my Nan and we would use the egg flip to see who could get the biggest piece of ice off. Thanks for reminding me.
I used to love defrosting my old fridge too. there's something satisfying about chipping away at all that ice. I bought a new one a couple of years ago...frost free - no fun at all!
There is something rather therapeutic about chipping all that ice loose. I learned another trick that helps, especially in hot weather when you work up a sweat, turn a fan on high and let it blow directly into the freezer unit, you gets lots of lovely cool air coming back out and it actually speeds up the process.
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