Making Ice Waffles

Some time over the weekend, my roommates and I began to detect a funky smell coming from the part of our room where the mini fridge stood. We investigated the contents of our fridge and couldn't find anything that could have been the cause of the mysterious odor, so we were completely stumped.

One of my roommates went home for the weekend and managed to escape the lingering funk, but my other roommate and I were reminded of it every time we walked by our fridge. While we were both procrastinating from writing our papers that were due the next day on Sunday afternoon, we decided that it was the perfect time to do a deep-cleaning of our fridge with a Costco-sized container of Clorox wipes.

When we could still sniff out the faint traces of the odor even after scrubbing the insides of the fridge for about half an hour, we grew desperate and even tried defrosting our ice-packed freezer.

Defrosting the freezer had been on our to-do list for about a month now, and the amount of ice frozen in and around the freezer was growing absolutely ridiculous. About forty-five minutes after we turned off our fridge, I noticed that the layer of ice lining the bottom of our freezer was beginning to loosen. After a little prodding, the entire sheet detached itself from the freezer and fell into the drip tray:


As modeled by my roommate, it looked just like ice waffles!

We ran out and bought a box of baking soda after we finished scraping the ice off of the corners of the freezer and our room is now happily funk-free.

Productive procrastination... who knew such a thing was possible?