MAJOR Freezer clean out & organization! Defrosting the GROSSEST freezer | Jordan Page
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- Well, that was gross haha. Feels so good! Every freezer needs a good deep-clean once in a while, hopefully this inspires you to tackle yours too! Thanks for watching, Freebs! See links and more details about everything mentioned in this video here: Funcheaporfree.com/freezer-cleanout
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Tip: One way to track outages....I freeze the tall 8oz mason jar with water, then a place a quarter on top of the ice, put on a lid. I check the jar each time I open the freezer. If the quarter is not on top of the ice, it means it has melted and refrozen with the quarter further down in the jar. Not an original idea by me but it is good piece of mind after my one freezer mishap.
Feeling productive by having watched this instead of cleaning out my own freezer 🫶
Love that this is actually a real person freezer that can get messy and chaotic, unlike these tiktoker perfectly rainbow ones that are so unrealistic. All mums want is to feel like their chaos is normal 😂
This is exactly why so many people love Jordan! She is real and shows us the 'ugly' side of adulting
I loathe cleaning out my freezer and fridge, but I LOVE the feeling when I'm done doing it, and I know what I have and what needs using up first. So satisfying!
I clean my fridge out fully every 2 weeks usually the day before I stock up on groceries. I literally spend 5-10 minutes cleaning which is nothing in comparison to hours. I need to get better about our deep freezers, being pregnant makes me want to do it less since all the bending over 😅
So one thing that has helped me was a baby latch like for cabinets or something and it has a magnetic click lock … easy to hold the door shut and it keeps it closed unless in use, and my kids know to relatch the clip before they walk away so it’s never oooops i didn’t know the door didn’t seal or shut well. Super easy fix!
A hammer is a bad idea. You can break the pipes that lays inbetween the wireshelfs and contain freezemedia.
We always use hot water in saucepans on the shelfs, we let the hot steam melt the ice in the freezer. When it's all melted we clean it out.
Yup. We used a hammer once and the freezer was completely irreparable after we damaged the pipes
I use a pot of hot water to defrost. I put it in the frezer, close the door and reheat the pot when the water is warm and repeat the proces until all is defrosted. :)
Quick tip. I use a steam machine to defrost my standup freezer I put a tote basket on bottom shelf that collects most of the water and ice along with towels. I get it done in less than hour.
This is genius!
This is one more reason why I need one. 🤔 My husband does the freezer and he would love a faster way!
Frost Free Freezers are a game changer!
for anyone with a deep freezer or chest freezer, a flat head screwdriver works really well to get the ice off the sides!
With how much meat you have in that freezer you may want to think about purchasing a freezer alarm to help protect that investment. They are not that expensive and will alert you if your freezer door ever gets left open again in the future.
Does it alert you when a child is responsible for turning it off 😂 cause that was my issue. I had to buy a key for my freezer so I could lock it
Jordan i highly recommend a door lock for your freezer. I got one so cheap on amazon after 3 separate accidents where the door was left open and that was it! Now i live in peace knowing my food is safe 😅
YAY! YOU ARE BACK! LOVE YOU JORDAN!
I always use my hairdryer to help speed up the process of melting the ice when I defrost my freezer 👍🤣
Thats genious😁
I often use fruit to sweeten BBQ Sauce. Cooking freezer burned meat in a pressure cooker most often is the best way to remedy that, it's surprising 😊
So happy your back on you tube. Love your personality!
Second that! 🥳 🎉 We missed ya lady! BUT... take care of yourself too. No pressure.
Hope all is well with you! This inspired a freezer cleanout for our household too! Thanks for inspo 🩷
Wow! That looked like a major chore!!! Well done getting it all clean and looking good again!
Love this Jordan!
Next time use a steamer it makes the job much easier and sanitizers as you go , also a can of ice away for thicker ice when you are short on time xx
This video was so satisfying!!! Loved it! ❤
I went through a wildfire evacuation in July 2022, and lost everything in the fridge and upright freezer (power was shut off and everything thawed and got too warm). Even though the meat had been put into vacuum-sealed bags, it was better to be cautious than not. And then just recently the upright started acting weird (too much ice accumulation in the back was making it cycle a bit too loudly, and the top shelf was stacked too high with meat), and all it needed was a good defrosting and it was back to normal.
Your freezer needed a good once-over for sure, and maybe another round of "eating through your freezer" too. But you got it done, and my compliments to the kids who spotted the issue before it turned even more nasty.
Let me guess, are you in Cali? I am and we've had a few evacuations. I get it!
@@justinewhite-hadley3138 Yosemite region. The one in 2022 came within a mile of my neighborhood.
@@grizzfan08 WOW!! So glad your home was alright! I'm in the Napa hills. We've has a few big ones. Leaves you with ptsd every time you smell smoke.....
@@justinewhite-hadley3138 You said it. I call it the ""Baptism by Fire", once you've been through one you've been through them all. Everyone in my region gets super twitchy in the latter half of July since that's when the last 3 big ones have happened, and the whole county goes on patrol watching for plumes.
You will always be my favorite youtuber no matter what. ❤ youve taught me so much.
This video came at the right time! My mini freezer has tons of ice build up and I’ve been procrastinating on just getting in there and cleaning it. Your freezer was WAY more work so no more excuses!
Great job!! I need to tackle my freezer soon too!
Welcome back I miss you guys
That was a big job, and you mastered it nicely! I used a giant metal BBQ/grilling spatula to scrape my S/S freezer when the ice maker line leaked and turned the bottom and sides into a frozen tundra. I'm thankful they invented frost-free appliances - can you imagine having to do this on the regular? lol.
I can’t believe you got that done in an hour! 😅 It looks much better now though, awesome job!
Well done sweetheart!!!
I love Jordan
You’re back!
Satisfying to watch
I need to do this with my deep chest freezer soon
You did a great job. BTW, I love Aidells Gourmet Sausage
Great job 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤
Well done
never thought of the hammer to get the ice out !!! I used to wait until it melt.. soooo long!
Thank you for this vid❗️💥😊👍
Yesssss my Thursday motivation
Would love to see you do a “use it up challenge” from your freezer
I had to purchase a door sensor to know when my freezer gets left open. I'm so grateful for the technology available now. They also make sensors to notify you of temperature changes.
Great job! Hope you fixed the door so it stays shut
This is on my list this week!! I’m hoping this video will give me some motivation since it’s already Thursday and I haven’t done it yet.😂😂😂
After losing 400 oz of breastmilk in our basement freezer because the door wasn’t closed all the way and we didn’t know it until 2 days later, I now put little wifi temperature monitors in my freezers so if it goes above a certain temp it alerts me on my phone. Much greater peace of mind.
Don't forget to turn it back on!! We had that happened and forgot. Thankfully didn't lose much!
I have freezer locks on my garage freezer they are very easy to use.
Video idea: a day in the life of y'all. Maybe that looks a little weird right now, but it would be cool to see how you balance kids, house work, and business from day to day. 😊
Sadly a few years ago my freezer was so full after a Costco haul i went out to our back house garage to quickly put all the freezer items away because i was leaving for the night and some how some way the door that automatically locks its self did not im guessing it was over full and yes of course it was summer here in Gilroy California and it is pretty hot and the door popped open and almost everything slid out and everything was a loss !!! So now i am super obsessed with the freezer needless to say after the huge fail !! So now i regularly almost daily go out to check it !! But love a freezer !!
Looks like a blizzard in there! Hope you fix the bad seal.
Wow you had a lot in your freezer I’ve heard that if you block the flow of air in the freezer it can cause major problems/issues with the running of the freezer itself. an appliance repair man told me that
I use a hair dryer after chipping most of the ice off the shelves. It's a great way to quickly melt the ice stuck on the grates!
I live in the Caribbean so it's hot, I actually use a standing fan to melt the freezer quicker!😮. 15 minutes defrosted and cleaned. My fridge/freezer is old and it makes a lot of frost.
A screwdriver is handy too, to chip off the ice. My freezer is newer and has a bad seal.
Nice! Did it only take an hour? If I'm doing our big freezer in the garage, it usually takes all afternoon as I let some of the ice melt. Fortunately, it's typically a once a year project. :)
We had a freezer that the door wouldn't stay closed and I put heavy duty Velcro on it. I only takes an extra 2 seconds to open or close now and we don't have to double check it all the time.
Love you Jordan! I'm praying for you in this time of struggle. Don't listen to the haters.
On a different note, my kids won't eat anything decent. We're stuck on the chicken nuggets, pizza,corn dogs kind of dinners for them. I know I allowed it in the beginning and I shouldn't have but how do I fix it now that they are so picky!
Add one non-preferred food with two preferred food items to their plate every meal. You can also try offering foods that are similar in taste or texture to what they normally eat so it doesn't seem completely foreign to them.
@@elizabethdowney3412 thank you that is such a good idea!
@@genden88 You're very welcome! Hope it helps!
@@elizabethdowney3412We do this too. “Choose two”. Two of four items I serve at a meal. I pick the meals always.
Does your freezer have an alarm? Ours does & it helps when the door isn't closed.
Thank you for showing us how to do this Jordan!! You are encouraging me to tackle our big freezer for our family of 6. You are a wonderful encouraging Mama on the internet . Love that.☺️🩷 . It’s a big task isn’t it?!❤😂
after organizing was the door able to stay shut? I sure hope so!
Handheld steamer would help melt the ice and clean the drawers/shelves
lol I think we have the same freezer as you!❤
Do you not have issues with freezer burn when you freeze things in the store packaging? Mine always get freezer burnt when I just put them in, in the packaging they come in. Like Chicken and such.
Are you still using only 4 pieces of toilet paper a day?
I bought a zepp door sensor for my freezers. My kids have thought they closed my garage freezer twice, and now my sensor lets me know if the freezer if open longer than 5 minutes. They also make freezer thermometers for power issues.
Get a fridge lock for your freezer to ensure that it stays shut. We have an older fridge/freezer in our garage and the seal is week. I have a child lock on it to ensure it stays shut.
Yeah, it's... stuck, looks like you need a hammer. We typically get it all out (when it's of course do-able, your situation is clearly so different right now), then use a regular blow dryer, not hot, not cool, just medium temp and move it around a lot, meanwhile you unplug the thing, or put it on de-frost, we unplug. Our freezer has a well in the bottom that the water pools into, we just put a shallow container there and empty it out, plus a lot of floor size rags/EU style mops. It's a chore, but it's so rewarding!!!
Careful about breaking and banging with the hammer.. isn't there freezer coils in those shelves?
They make magnetic freezer band locks that you can place on the top part of the freezer. It wraps from side to front. Great way to keep little hands out of freezer and secure it!
Great job! So how many hours did it actually take?
Lol, I wonder too
A trip (trick?), habit I have developed over the years is I always check my fridge and freezer when I get my trash. Obviously life still happens and things get left behind but I have found I have far less clutter or science experiments in the fridge than I used to and I am more aware of what I have to make a meal with or what I need.
Don't forget to turn the freezer back on!!
My mom always used a hair dryer instead of a hammer!
I use hot water and a plastic freezer scraper
Did that only take 1hr.
If it did I am impressed.
That looked like a lot of work
Plastic bins help keep my freezer from building up. I do still defrost at least once a year cause its an old freezer.
Usualy if something like this happens i use a stainless steal utensil that is strong enough to break the ice take the food out put it in those small portable fridge (those you use to take with you in a trip to the beach) we have 3 of them and it is usualy enough for all my freezed food , then to clean the freezer i will tel uou guys that im lazy enough not to break all the ice from the shelves i just pour warm water over it (after turning off the freezer oc) and i wipe excess water as i go big towels on the floor help i didnt think of it befor but i used to use small towels to take out water from the ice that melted and the hot water that i poured there to melt it then mopp the floor after im done its a little bit more work but it is way quicker to melt the ice rather than breaking it and taking it out
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But what happened with the freezer seal? Did you change it? 😮😮😮
That's what I was wondering...if the seal doesn't get fixed, it's going to get gross again!
It was probably popping open because it was too full
Call your local zoo or animal sanctuary. They are usually happy to take freezer burnt meat, produce and fruit for their animals. They cannot take marinated/flavored/breaded meat but just raw meat is great! I hate having to throw away all of that $$$ and I try to make sure I donate anything that I can.
Love a clean and organized freezer. But why don't you have a self defrosting one? I know they make large ones.
Jordan show us the pile of stuff u had to throw out. Also I wish u wud hav labeled-on screen-wat u put back in. It looked mostly like meat. I saw u put some meat back into the door?
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Frost free only
Man I was hoping you would tell us how long it actually ended up taking. Seemed like a bigger job in the end
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Try and put boiled water in a big bowl in there, close the door. The ice in there will melt.
I came back from a week long vacation on Saturday realizing that I’d unplugged my chest freezer before leaving.. the upside was being able to chip off the build up and sanitize everything, but we lost 95% of the stuff in there :-(
Send Love and prayers to our sweet and beautiful Jordan ❤ You go girl! PS...great reminder for me to go hit that basement freezer that looks pretty darn similar to this one 😂❤
Never over pack a freezer! That freezer had way too much food in it!
It’s her freezer so don’t worry about it
@@dearleah7299 Jordan sycophant is not a good look for you
@@sotrue5108 😂 I really don’t give a rats ass what you think. You’re nobody important to me.
Having my freezer go out is a big worry for me. I don't have tons of meat in there but groceries of any kind are not cheap.
I thought my freezer was bad lol. And my kiddos are bad about spilling stuff
I have freezers I’m eating thru so I can do this. Maybe start this weekend. Just so you are aware, those vacuum sealed meats…hitting them with a hammer can put a small hole in them and break your seal. Also, that chicken and other meat you didn’t seal. Do it now. You may not get that “diaper” off the bottom, but seal it with it on. Frozen meat gives you a better seal. Whatever freezer damage it has won’t get worse if you seal it now. Nice job.
Note to self.... clean out freezer
You hace so much unused food! Id cook from your current storage Even with 10 people You have a lot of food you can cook Thats amazing!
Just a query and meant in the nicest possible way.. maybe our country is different. But having that many freezers, I can’t see how it’s saving you money when you have so much in there or multiple freezers and it’s so expensive to have them running for power, it comes across as horderish, and spending more to keep food in the freezers, which you forget about
Utah has some of the cheapest energy prices in the US, roughly 11 cents per KWh now. Also, US grocery stores will sometimes slash prices on specific items to half to bring you into their store versus competitors.
She has a lot of videos on how to cook in bulk and so on to save money.
I didn't watch the whole video. Check gaskets around door for sealing. Sometimes they need reglued if something sticky got on them. Also, if the bottom shelf freezes in the back where water has dripped down the back of the freezer, the seal can come off there too.
Hammer is a no no.. although satisfying can do some damage.
Use either hot water in a pan in one of the shelves ( close the door and let the steam do the magic) or a hair drier ( obviously be careful with the water dripping- but I promise it is super fast)
Using a hammer on the iced-over shelves can damage the little hoses of freezing agents and ruin your whole freezer. As an alternative, you could put bowls with hot water on each shelf and let them sit with the door closed. They can defrost your freezer while you sort through the frozen goods. This method might need even more towels though
She’s not stupid
@@dearleah7299 Did I say she is stupid? It's a common mistake that can ruin your freezer.
@@KiraCatlady let people live and learn from their own mistakes. They’re not following you around telling you what to do or not, are they?
@dearleah7299 I'm not telling her what to do, though. I said this method can ruin your freezer, which is a costly mistake. Here is an alternative. She's a grown woman who can decide if she wants to listen to some strangers information or not. Btw I'm not the only one who pointed this out.
Did you seriously do this in an hour? 😅 I need to do my chest freezer so bad and make room for breast milk!
If you are disgusted most of the video… why do you feed this to your kids?
I wonder how often your kids get sick from this type of “cooking” 🤢
I'm guessing she's so disgusted because she never really cleans anything herself. And yeah, probably doesn't eat any of the foods she feeds her kids.
I wonder why you’re such a miserable troll behind the safety of your device, mouthing off when you know you wouldn’t have the balls to say this to her face.
@@dearleah7299 I wonder why you've taken on the job of comment police, likewise behind the safety of your device.
@@sotrue5108 you’re not someone I have to answer to, so move on.
@@dearleah7299 You aren't someone anyone has to answer to either, but it's not stopping you is it...
Why is it so gross?
Anyway...