How to get rid of horrible smells

Question

i work somewhere with a kitchen (disclaimer: this is NOT my home, no way would my home EVER stink this badly) and some chicken was left in the fridge (in its packaging, for a week) and i believe it got extremely rotten. the current smell is one of serious death and i can't bear to walk into the kitchen to clean it up, but i NEED to. so my two questions are: would old rotten chicken smell bad enough to almost cause a mental breakdown, and two, what is the most effective way to get rid of the smell? could/should i wait overnight, use febreez, baking powder...? HELP! fast please....

Answer 1

-wash the entire fridge with bleach water and wear gloves,.then get a baking soda box or a glass of vinegar and leave it in your fridge for a few months,.

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Answer 2

If baking soda does not work for you. Use char-coal it will work.

Answer 3

The smell of rotting chicken is perhaps one of the worst smells in the world and I feel your pain.  As soon as possible, put the package of chicken in a ziploc and throw it out.  Spray the juicy area with Clorox spray and leave a freshly-opened box of baking soda in the fridge.  Wipe-up the Clorox spray and dispose of all the evidence in an outside dumpster.  The smell should be at least bearable by morning.

Answer 4

If you haven't already you need to get on a pair of gloves and take the chicken out of the fridge and throw into a trash sack and get it to the dumpster ASAP.  Then if you just can't stand the smell get a box of baking soda and sprinkle some on the shelf where the chicken sat and then leave the rest of the box in the fridge for overnight.  In the morning you need to wipe out the baking soda and remove the box and throw away.  Then remove the kitchen shelves and start scrubbing with a mixture of bleach and water, mix it with 1 part bleach to 10 parts water (ex. 1 cup bleach to 10 cups water), make sure to rinse with clean water.  You need to scrub every surface of the fridge, and chances are any othe food that was in there is now not good because it absorbed the stinky odor, so it will most likely need to be thrown away also. Once all surfaces are cleaned then I would put a new opened box of baking soda in the fridge, and if there is a freezer attached put one in it also.  

Answer 5

It could be that you got an animal that died in your kitchen? You said there was a smell of death so you could be right? If you already removed the spoiled chicken the smell should have left with it. Now what you need to do is pull out the fridge and look around. Look in your cupboards especially the bottom ones near the pipes you could have a dead mouse or rat and they smell terrible when they die. If you have a crawl space under your house it could be a cat or other animal was trapped in someway and died under there? All the febreeze, baking powder or anything else is just going to be a waste of time until you locate the problem or the corpse rots away enough for the smell to go away. We could be talking weeks or months? I once had a cat crawl under my house and died the smell was coming up through the floor vents and I nearly barfed from the smell! I had to send a friend under my place and get the dead cat out and bury it.  

Answer 6

Use Febreeze to start,  you can either dilute some vinegar with equal parts of water and boil it as you clean (this will be strong but it remove bad smells from the air and keep them out.)  Other option is to use baking soda.  Good Luck!

Answer 7

Cleaning with bleach and put a box of baking soda inside refrigerator would help.  Everything should be emptied out and every surface thourghly cleaned.