Posted by Jeremy--Title: "I TOLD you I smelled something burning!"A few weeks ago, we started to smell something in the kitchen. It wasn't overly strong and we never saw any damage anywhere, but we KNEW we smelled SOMETHING burning. After a few days, we discovered that the mystery odor seemed to be coming from the refrigerator...the INSIDE OF THE REFRIGERATOR! Like anyone else, we immediately thought "what could Possibly be smoking INSIDE a refrigerator? Isn't that like something catching fire in the shower?" The smell persisted, however, so we started looking further into the source. We took out the lights (no effect). We turned off the Ice Maker (no effect). I cleaned out the area around the fan in the back (no effect). Then it happened. At 3:00 in the morning on July 19 (why can't these things ever happen at 3:00 PM? or even 7:00 PM?), Marsha awoke to the smell of SOMETHING burning. The problem is, Marsha has a condition that prevents her from getting out of bed anytime before 8:00 AM. Therefore, I was dispatched to discover the source of the odor. My immediate thought was that something had fallen onto the heating element in the dishwasher and melted. Nope. But for those who have experienced that, that was the smell. Upon reaching the main floor, it was immediately apparent that the smell was coming from the kitchen. The microwave was fine, the oven was off, the dishwasher hadn't run...so I opened the fridge. You'll see below what I found. I have to admit that I just stood there stunned for a few moments as I tried to grasp the fact that all my food was now cooked...INSIDE THE FRIDGE!!!The rest of the evening was spent trying to get the smell of burning fridge out of the house then trying to get Spencer back to sleep. Wednesday morning found us shopping for a new major appliance (an item that, oddly enough, was NOT in the budget for July...fancy that). Well, now the new fridge is installed and all is back to normal in the Duncan Household...as normal as things get for us anyway (after all - WHO HAS A FRIDGE CATCH FIRE?).Any minute now I expect God to speak to me from a whirlwind and ask me where I was when He formed the earth...
The bottom two drawers melted in place so I couldn't get them open to see how bad the damage was below this level. ~mkd
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Title: "I TOLD you I smelled something burning!"
A few weeks ago, we started to smell something in the kitchen. It wasn't overly strong and we never saw any damage anywhere, but we KNEW we smelled SOMETHING burning. After a few days, we discovered that the mystery odor seemed to be coming from the refrigerator...the INSIDE OF THE REFRIGERATOR! Like anyone else, we immediately thought "what could Possibly be smoking INSIDE a refrigerator? Isn't that like something catching fire in the shower?" The smell persisted, however, so we started looking further into the source.
We took out the lights (no effect). We turned off the Ice Maker (no effect). I cleaned out the area around the fan in the back (no effect).
Then it happened. At 3:00 in the morning on July 19 (why can't these things ever happen at 3:00 PM? or even 7:00 PM?), Marsha awoke to the smell of SOMETHING burning. The problem is, Marsha has a condition that prevents her from getting out of bed anytime before 8:00 AM. Therefore, I was dispatched to discover the source of the odor. My immediate thought was that something had fallen onto the heating element in the dishwasher and melted. Nope. But for those who have experienced that, that was the smell. Upon reaching the main floor, it was immediately apparent that the smell was coming from the kitchen. The microwave was fine, the oven was off, the dishwasher hadn't run...so I opened the fridge. You'll see below what I found. I have to admit that I just stood there stunned for a few moments as I tried to grasp the fact that all my food was now cooked...INSIDE THE FRIDGE!!!
The rest of the evening was spent trying to get the smell of burning fridge out of the house then trying to get Spencer back to sleep. Wednesday morning found us shopping for a new major appliance (an item that, oddly enough, was NOT in the budget for July...fancy that).
Well, now the new fridge is installed and all is back to normal in the Duncan Household...as normal as things get for us anyway (after all - WHO HAS A FRIDGE CATCH FIRE?).
Any minute now I expect God to speak to me from a whirlwind and ask me where I was when He formed the earth...
Wow! That is all I can say...
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