Defrost Your Freezer by Coating it with Cooking Oil

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When ice builds up in your freezer, defrosting it is a tedious and time-consuming job. Coat the freezer walls with cooking oil before it frosts over to make it easier to clean up.


Defrosting a freezer usually involves a lot of time and scraping. If you want to make it easier on yourself the next time you need to go through it, weblog recommends coating the walls of your freezer with cooking oil.

At this point, you may want to coat the walls of your freezer with nonstick cooking spray (unflavored of course) or glycerin. This will make is so ice can't stick to the walls. No more difficult defrosting!

Aside from its intended use, cooking oil is also great for preventing car doors from freezing shut and shoveling snow like a champ.

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i need to do this next time i defrost my freezer. right now i use the method of using up most of the food, throwing what's left into a big cooler with a ton of ice packs and then just unplugging the freezer and filling the bottom of it with towels. (small upright freezer)

time consuming, but no scraping