How to get freezer smell out of silicone
Silicone kitchenware and ice cube molds absorb food odors and tastes from the surrounding freezer, transferring unwanted flavors to ice and water. This lingering odor makes items difficult to deodorize, leaving users unsure whether to deep clean or throw them away.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Deep soak in hot soapy water
- 2Submerging in a water and baking soda solution for a day or two
- 3Boiling the silicone to sterilize and refresh it, sometimes adding baking soda or vinegar
- 4Baking the item empty at 300 to 350 degrees for about an hour
- 5Cleaning with vanilla essence and bicarbonate of soda
- 6Running it through the dishwasher
- 7Scrubbing with a brush or nail brush
- 8Cutting a sponge to fit the texture
- 9Soaking in hot soapy water before brushing and dishwashing
- 10Throwing it in the washing machine
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I recently dug this out of my freezer and it has a distinct odour to it, mainly of bread, which we keep in the freezer too. It’s not disgusting but definitely affects the smell and taste of the ice cube it makes.”source ↗
“This silicone pot holder and oven mit thingey is a grime magnet and I need to either clean it up or toss it”source ↗
“similar question, you know that ice taste/smell from ice inside a freezer, well we bought a new water dispenser (with UV disinfectant) and the cold water somehow taste like that... how do we remove the taste? or smell”source ↗
Where this came up
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