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So, go check your freezer right now. Look for that little hole. Give it a hot water rinse. refrigerator defrost drain
Take a 12-inch piece of thin copper wire (like 12-gauge electrical wire stripped bare). Stick one end of the wire into the drain hole as far as it will go. Wrap the other end around the defrost heater element (the metal rod behind the freezer panel). Enter the
If you’ve ever pulled your fridge out to find a mysterious puddle of water under the crisper drawers, or you’ve noticed a thin layer of ice building up on the back wall of your freezer, you’ve met the culprit. Give it a hot water rinse
Modern frost-free refrigerators cycle through a defrost mode several times a day. A heating element melts the frost that builds up on the evaporator coils (usually located behind the back panel of your freezer). This melted water has to go somewhere.
Crumbs, coffee grounds, loose lettuce leaves, and that mysterious sludge from the bottom of a takeout container. These solids wash down with the meltwater and get stuck in the narrow drain port.
