I had a freezer go off a couple years ago. We werent using it much so i didnt notice it for awhile. I kept going to the basement and noticing a funny odor, kept asking the wife if she smelled it and she said no, finally one day i opened the freezer - oh man that stench hit me so bad in the face - beef, venison, bread dough, a turkey and the worst - chicken. The bread dough had busted the bag and was growing across the bottom of the freezer.


I did a lot of research and took a while but i got the smell out (from time to time i still get a whiff but i think it is jsut psychological from the first time i opened it). Anyways I crumpled a newspaper up and put it in along with a 5 lb box of baking soda and shut the freezer for a couple days, then opened and took out the paper. Next i mixed up hot water and Borax, dumped that in on the baking soda and scrubbed the hell out of the inside with a scrub brush. I used a shop vac to get the water out and then repeated the process again.

I keep a 5 lb box of baking soda in there along with a bowl of vanilla extract (supposed to kill odors).


Good luck with it, and i agree it was off longer than one day for the meat to thaw and spoil