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Post by SueDonym on Jul 13, 2008 22:39:06 GMT -5
I have been reorganizing cabinets and closets. A few days ago, I came across a nasty find... a crock pot I'd left a little bit of something in.... and then I apparently stashed it to hide it. I think I may have splashed some bleach into it, because when I opened it, it wasn't just yucky but NOXIOUS!
I was going to send it out with the trash Saturday, but then I started feeling guilty... I have been so good lately about cutting expenses, and it seemed so wasteful to throw it away and buy a new one. So, I gathered my gumption, took it outside, and hosed it down really good. Now it is in my kitchen sink. It *looks* clean, but I don't trust it after having that gunk in it. I am gonna soak it and bleach it before using it again.
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Post by SueDonym on Jul 13, 2008 23:19:13 GMT -5
 ! I have thrown away pots, pans, containers, etc before, and yes, with things squiggling in them. But this is actually quite a nice crock pot, and as hard as I have been working to save up for more home repairs, I just couldn't justify replacing it. If I threw it away, it would mean not having one for at least 6 months, until I have the money I need set aside. I think after soaking it, bleaching it, and then maybe leaving soapy water cooking in it for an entire day, I may feel OK with using it again. |
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Post by need2bfree on Jul 14, 2008 3:07:53 GMT -5
OMG, this is so bad! Last November I made a cassorole and took it to my daughters, well the left overs of it got sent back to my house a couple of days later (my daughter was going on a diet and didn't want to eat it) anyway, my kitchen took on a life of its own and that dish, although covered sat there for months. I was afraid to open it and it was a new dish so I didn't want to throw it out, so I just left it there. Finally, a few months later I was so ashamed of myself I just had to clean it. I took the lid off(even though I was afraid of what may be inside) and everything in it had dried up, thankfully! So I scrubbed it and bleached it and scrubbed it some more.
See you are not alone in the ucky dish club!!!! BTW, I have had dishes with squigglies in them, ickyyyyy!! Oh, well, just another day in the life of a messy.
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Post by Carrie on Jul 14, 2008 8:47:24 GMT -5
 Hahahahahaha!!!! This happened to me with my crockpot too! I made a beef stew and forgot to refrigerate it that night. Then next morning I was too tired to deal with it, so I left the lid on it and stuck it out on my side porch. There it sat for months! Finally I really wanted to use it one day - but I was stumped as to how to deal with it. It was a very FULL crockpot of beef stew and I had no idea where I could dump it. Thought it would probably clog the toilet if I tried that. Didn't want it leaking through garbage bags. Finally I took it out to the woods behind my house, walked several yards into the woods, took the lid off and dumped the contents at the base of a tree! Man, did it smell HORRIBLE!!! Probably grossed out the local racoons, squirrels and skunks completely. But it was gone. Took the crock pot to the hose and rinsed it outside before taking it in and soaking it in a mixture of hot soapy water & bleach for several hrs. Then I scrubbed it with Bon Ami, rinsed it real well and sniffed. It smelled fine, so I used it. I find it amusing that so many of us have had similar experiences. So good to be able to find the humor, even in the life of a squaloree!Carrie
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Post by heylady1 on Jul 14, 2008 14:25:34 GMT -5
I had something similar happen oh so long ago....I was in my early 20's and had a roommate. I had cooked this fabulous dinner for us and our respective families for Thanksgiving and one of the agreements we made was that I would cook and she would clean up. She refused to clean the roaster and so did I. Well, that roaster sat there for months. When it started smelling really bad I thought I'd break down and clean it but when I opened that thing it was all I could do to chuck it in the garbage!! Nice roaster but out it went!! Haven't thought of that in years!!! I do understand about not wanting to pitch the crock pot though. At this point in my life if the roaster thing were to happen again I would just clean it up and use it again. I think having bleach water in your crock pot for even an hour will do a good enough job. No bacteria or living thing can survive that....  Don't you just love crock pots though?  What a wonderful way to cook without a ton of hassle. |
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Post by messymimi on Jul 14, 2008 15:27:02 GMT -5
In this, too, you are not alone. When we moved from our first rental house, I neglected cleaning a couple of pots. When I went back for them and lifted the lids, I found maggots. I "lost" them in the move. messymimi |
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Post by luucy on Jul 14, 2008 16:56:07 GMT -5
Hi,
This year my dd's science fair project was bacteria growth: home v. public. We did petri dishes of food court seats, mall toilets, home toilets, animals mouths, playyard toys...you name it, we swabbed it. Well....my friend let it sit a while after sci fair, I let it sit a while. After about 2 MONTHS it was GROSS. Gross, gross, gross. The petri dishes were all in one zip lock and I just couldn't let G-d knows what loose in a landfill, so I sucked it up, held my breath, and pour a 1/2 gallon of bleach in the bag and zipped it up quick and shook it to get it in the dishes. I left it in my utility sink (hey, it's STILL there from 5 months ago! D'oh!) but the dishes are crystal clear again. If bleach can kill what was in those petri dishes, it will kill your crock pot yuck.
Luu
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Post by BDG on Jul 15, 2008 12:25:49 GMT -5
Salt in hot water will kill just about anything too, so after the bleach treatment and a good rinse fill the pot with hot salt water. I have also done this too, leaving something in a pot too long, just remember most materials pots are made of are not porous and will not soak the gross mess into itself. After all of that soaking them why don't you plug it in and heat some water in it so that you will feel it is really clean.
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Post by ramatama on Jul 15, 2008 16:02:57 GMT -5
Was about to write exactly what BDG wrote, but she got to it faster. Yep: cook just salty water in it if not once then twice. Boiling water will disinfect it.
Oh, BTW i too discovered a pot of rice where i had burnt the bottom sitting out for half the winter and into spring and it was absolutely gross! I dumped it out and used bleach and the boiled soapy and salty water in that pot several times. It looks fine now.
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Post by SueDonym on Jul 15, 2008 22:13:02 GMT -5
Thanks everyone! It is still soaking in the sink. I think afternoon I will fill it with salt water and let it cook for the evening. If only I could wipe my mind of the memory so easily! |
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Post by Minnibella on Jul 18, 2008 12:01:50 GMT -5
I just had to comment on this! I can so relate to this...Some people from church came and cleaned my apartment and they tossed the yucK from the crock pot which had been sitting in the fridge for months!!! I still have not cleaned that thing, and its a nice one...I do not want to throw it away! I thought I was the only one who had issues with crock pot yuck and all the other ickies. I guess I will finally bleach the thing this weekend...ha. Blessings |
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Post by moggyfan on Jul 18, 2008 14:46:36 GMT -5
This may qualify more as an accident (and incipient senility) than as squalor, but it was soooooo gross:
I keep a stock pot on the stove (too big for cupboard). One day a few years ago, I put two pounds of black beans in the stock pot to soak overnight. I completely forgot about them.
Days later, there was a terrible smell in the kitchen (not a terribly unusual circumstance in my most squalorous years) so I looked in the fridge, the sink, the cupboards--in fact, everywhere except in that *** pot. This went on for about ten days--and never once in all that time, did I have even a whisper of a memory about the beans I had put to soak.
Eventually, driven to a frenzy by the smell, I lifted the lid of the pot. Yikes--I've never seen anything like it :-) I readied three thicknesses of plastic garbage bags and dumped the entire mess into it. I did end up cleaning out the pot--it's stainless steel so it ended up fine.
I guess the one plus of that experience was that in all my fruitless efforts to get rid of the smell, I cleaned parts of my fridge and kitchen that had not been touched in years!
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Post by fluffernut - now Jannie on Jul 19, 2008 16:48:18 GMT -5
I had some leftovers in Tupperwear that had been in my refrigerator A LONG TIME. I gave myself amnesty And threw them out without looking inside. I also found a quilt in a hamper with baby diarrhea on it. That quilt had been missing for a year when I finally found it. It got bagged and tossed. Those are my most disgusting confessions.
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