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oh crap, my room might get pwn3d by spoilage

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NeoPTLD

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I just got home from school for winter break and came to realize I left a bunch of perishable food in the fridge in my dorm room. I already cut the power to it because the school housing requires everything to be unplugged before we leave. Well I defrosted the fridge, hit the shower and I was going to bring the stuff home, but I totally forgot about it.

I can't get a hold of my roommate and as far as I know he's leaving the first thing in the morning.

crap my fridge is going to get owned by spoilage.
 
I left a sandwich under my bed once all through winter break. I was eating it, put it down, realized it was time to leave and just forgot about it.

Well when I came back, it was totally and completely black and very powdery. Still delicious though.

dfi
 
What kind of food?...

Ugh. Don't even bother, unless you have a nose of steel & want to scrub with bleach.

My girlfriends mom's roommate had a big freezer full of fish.. and somehow the power got cut to the fridge... lol...

Oh man, the stench when those doors were opened...

You'd just have to smell it. It's inconcievable.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
What kind of food?...

Ugh. Don't even bother, unless you have a nose of steel & want to scrub with bleach.

My girlfriends mom's roommate had a big freezer full of fish.. and somehow the power got cut to the fridge... lol...

Oh man, the stench when those doors were opened...

You'd just have to smell it. It's inconcievable.
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Burritos(in paper wrapper) and some salad in a plastic bowl.
 
That probably won't be that bad.. unless your fridge is gross in the first pace.

It's meat & animal products that really gets stank....
 
Originally posted by: dfi
I left a sandwich under my bed once all through winter break. I was eating it, put it down, realized it was time to leave and just forgot about it.

Well when I came back, it was totally and completely black and very powdery. Still delicious though.

dfi
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🙂
 

Had that happen to me once. I left some chicken defrosting in the microwave over a weekend. When I came back, it was the worse smell I've ever encountered in my life. Had to throw out the entire microwave.
 
This thread reminds me of that one time I left a corpse in the freezer and forgot about it for a couple weeks. Silly me.
 
Somehow we accidentally left something in the oven for several days (maybe chicken??) and began noticing an odd smell wafting through the house. I opened the oven door and was overwhelmed with the stench that came forth.

I don't remember how we left whatever it was in there but probably because I wanted to eat out instead and we're both kinda absentminded so put two and two togther 🙂
 
Try calling your R.A. or an R.A. in your dorm... at my school they always had to stay until everyone was required to leave, so they might be able to help you out.
 
my band left a bag of opened fruit in the fridge in our rehersal/recording studio. we turned it off for recording. and never turned it back on again. 3 months later... "where did all these fruit flys come from?" "check the fridge." :: opens fridge :: "run for the hills!" NASTY
 
Originally posted by: Eli
What kind of food?...

Ugh. Don't even bother, unless you have a nose of steel & want to scrub with bleach.

My girlfriends mom's roommate had a big freezer full of fish.. and somehow the power got cut to the fridge... lol...

Oh man, the stench when those doors were opened...

You'd just have to smell it. It's inconcievable.
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I can only imagine it smelled like a gynecologist's office on a really bad day. 😀
 
my roomate was out of town.
i was leaving town, i guess i left some dishes in the sink that had some hamburger still in them.
no one was in the apt for about 5 days. he came home to find maggots on the beef in the sink. he puked 3 times. then found out that his cat had used his bed for a litterbox multiple times.
he wasnt very happy with me leaving the beef.
the cat was his, so it wasnt my problem.
 
Btw, if you have milk in there too, it'll be interesting to look at it. After a few weeks the oil begins to separate and float to the top, while white chunks form at the bottom. Do not take of a whiff of it though... it stinks!

I know this because my college roommate and I, while actually quite good at taking expired milk out of the fridge, were very bad at actually throwing the darn milk out.

dfi
 
Originally posted by: dfi
Btw, if you have milk in there too, it'll be interesting to look at it. After a few weeks the oil begins to separate and float to the top, while white chunks form at the bottom. Do not take of a whiff of it though... it stinks!

I know this because my college roommate and I, while actually quite good at taking expired milk out of the fridge, were very bad at actually throwing the darn milk out.

dfi
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So that was oil at the top. I never knew that.

Hehe, Maybe there's a market for milk oil. Great for cooking with fish sauce, oyster sauce and shrimp sauce I bet.
 
I left a popsicle, 2 slices of bread and a liter of milk in my fridge over winter quarter my freshmen year.

Came back to open the fridge and see something that looks like it came out of Aliens 3, except white. It was so bad that when I opened the fridge, people at the door to my room could smell the fungus spores.

Needless to say, I bleached and souped that thing good.
 
it's not as bad as my roommate leaving TWO cantalopes in a 10x13 room for 5.5 weeks...... now that was evil coming back too... had to sit in the cold all day, close the windows to sleep.. wake up.. take a shower.. and then when you got back into the room.. it nearly knocked you out.

i had to toss the rug, the smell was infused into it
 
Originally posted by: dfi
Btw, if you have milk in there too, it'll be interesting to look at it. After a few weeks the oil begins to separate and float to the top, while white chunks form at the bottom. Do not take of a whiff of it though... it stinks!

I know this because my college roommate and I, while actually quite good at taking expired milk out of the fridge, were very bad at actually throwing the darn milk out.

dfi
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Think of it this way.. you won't have to put a dent in the budget to buy cheese..
 
Originally posted by: dfi
Btw, if you have milk in there too, it'll be interesting to look at it. After a few weeks the oil begins to separate and float to the top, while white chunks form at the bottom. Do not take of a whiff of it though... it stinks!

I know this because my college roommate and I, while actually quite good at taking expired milk out of the fridge, were very bad at actually throwing the darn milk out.

dfi
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I did this once. I took out milk from the fridge because it was expired. Sat it down by the fridge. Didn't realize it until next week.

It was in a closed half gallon jug, so I didn't notice the smell until it leaked. But after a week, spoilage progressed so much that the container got pressurized enough to cause a bit of transparent yellow fluid to seep out from somewhere and that's when I noticed something was up.
 
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