{"id":22281,"date":"2011-05-02T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12144"},"modified":"2016-09-17T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T10:41:02","slug":"rv-freezer-defrosting-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/rv-freezer-defrosting-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"RV Freezer Defrosting Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took advantage of my <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12132\">electrical problem yesterday<\/a> to defrost the fridge and freezer. In the fridge it&#8217;s always half of the coils that turn into a mass of ice while in the freezer it&#8217;s the back wall that gets thicker and thicker.<\/p>\n<p>The fridge ice falls off the coils very quickly after turning off the power, but the freezer ice behaves as though it was attached with crazy glue. It&#8217;s a bad idea to use anything sharp to scrape and a hair dryer or other heat source can also cause damage.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is to lightly coat the freezer walls with a non-salted oil, such as vegetable or olive. Ice will build up as normal, but after letting the fridge sit for about an hour a gentle tap will loosen it. Dispose of the ice, wipe down the walls, and reapply the oil before turning the fridge back on.<\/p>\n<p>I would not try oiling the coils in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took advantage of my electrical problem yesterday to defrost the fridge and freezer. In the fridge it&#8217;s always half of the coils that turn into a mass of ice while in the freezer it&#8217;s the back wall that gets thicker and thicker. The fridge ice falls off the coils very quickly after turning off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,6,1226,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}