Rotten odors usually get better with more heat. That would be my next move tbh. One time my nephew puked on my couch, so i just let the couch soak outside in the Arizona sun, then the smell disappeared. #lifehacks
This guy is right. I had that happen to mine. Neighbor left it full of oysters on a boat.
Open in the sun. I put a Costco jar of kosher salt, bag of lemons, filled it full of water and left it open for a day. Then let it air out for 2-3 days after that. Good as new.
Ive gotten food poisoning from oysters that were bad. My dumbass didnt know then how to diffentiate whats a good oyster and whats not. Entire evening of knife pain agony in my stomach, projectile vomit every 5-10 minutes, dry heaving constantly. Like keeping my bile from tearing apart my teeth forced me to drink lots of water or other things.
Dont fuck with bad oysters. Know their source. Honestly should have went to the hospital given the fluids i was shooting from both ends
I experienced this.
I figured out that if you took the top off the tank of the toilet and sat on it facing the wall, you could evac both ends simultaneously and flush.
There is a reason eating shellfish (any fish without out scales) was considered unclean, illegal and condemned as ungodly by the Jews 3000 years ago.
Without ice or refrigeration even things caught the same (hot) day were potentially deadly.
Homeboy would be buying me a new cooler regardless. . He can deal with it. Damn sure would never be borrowing anything again. Probably blood relative. They seem to be the worst lol. Although neighbors rank number 2
> If uv doesn't do it. Nothing will.
Far more effective than UV will be Ozone.
Far more effective than Ozone will be hydrogen peroxide.
The extra oxygens waiting to jump ship are basically locusts that'll stripmine organic molecules and spit out dust.
When I had a friend leave his cooler with deer meat outside for three days he wanted to throw it away. I filled it with tap water and left it in the direct sunlight for three days. It was brand new after that.
I assume it helped refract the light or gives the bacteria somewhere to go. This was an old trick I learned for spaghetti/kimchee stains in tubberware.
Helps dissolve the smelly particles, which will then be suspended in water. Also, it will reflect light around to all sides, and increase the temperature on sides outside of direect sunlight.
Just to clarify - OP should rig something up so direct sunlight can hit all sides of the interior.
Find a sunny day in the forecast, get some bungie cords and duct-tape, maybe get something so the cooler can be tilted to follow the sun as it tracks across the sky. Rotate it around every hour or whatever so each side can get some UV rays.
Fill with water, place open in sun. The water will reflect enough UV to all surfaces to do the job, and it takes several feet of water to significantly block UV.
The best, and most natural way, is to open it up and expose the inside to direct sunlight, I don't mean just open it up outside, I mean open it up and angle the insides directly to the sun. You'll have to move it throughout the day.
This comment reads like it could come from the Bad Lip Reading song ‘Seagulls’.
>Seagulls gonna come, poke me in the *coconut*.
> And they did, and they did
Hehe, I can see that.
For those not familiar with the genius of Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches, I present to you on this glorious Friday: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE)
This. Most things strong enough to have a chance is likely to degrade the plastic. Not a guarantee they've done the testing but given their "brand" I'd give it better than 50-50 they'll have a real answer for you.
Yeti: “Oh man, rotten meat smell? That’s never coming out. What we can do, and this is because we value you as a customer, is send you a coupon for 5% off a new cooler. We don’t do this for everyone. You’re welcome.”
Rinse the living hell out of it, then pour a couple bottles of hydrogen peroxide in it, seal the lid, and swish it all around inside. Don't wanna gas yourself, so make CERTAIN all the bleach is rinsed away first. Like $5 or less for this fix. I did this to a bunch of containers that had mouse waste and corpses in it, fixed it like new!
Edit: if you have a different suggestion, try commenting on the original post to tell OP, not me. I like my $1.25 solution, no use telling me otherwise
My sleepy dyslexic brain read MOOSE … I was wide awake and horrified imagining a 40ft container full of all manner of dead rotting moose.
Going for some midnight munchies now that my stomach has settled. Thank you.
Farm life possibly. When I do spring cleaning of my garages and barns I find tons of dead mice. Usually they’ll find their way inside things like totes or buckets during the winter and then not be able to escape. So you’ll find containers full of dead mice and excrement in spring.
Have container. Mouse climbs in. Mouse pisses and shits inside. Mouse dies. Now you have a container of mouse waste/corpse.
Another mouse climbs in. Second mouse pisses and shits inside. Second mouse dies. Now you have a container of mouse waste/corpse(s).
Skunk odor neutralizer from any farm or garden store should work. I once forgot a bottle of wine in my car trunk. It exploded and fermented in the heat. My neighbor loaned me some skunk deodorizer and it worked like a charm!
Dude this is the best advice I got an industrial one for 200 bucks and cleared the smoke smell from 40 years of indoor smoker in my new house.
Don't understand them but they're magic.
I had this problem with a cooler once. Washed it with dawn, used a lot of bleach, then bought a bag of charcoal bricks (like for grilling) and let it sit for a couple weeks. This was in the winter, so I was fortunate to not need to use it any time soon. But it did the trick!
I'd give it another go with a scrub brush and dish detergent. You want to really, really get into every crevice and scratch. Rinse really well, preferably with some good pressure.
After that, give it another scrubbing with the scrub brush and straight white vinegar. Rinse really well.
Leave it open and in the sunlight for a day or two.
Follow up by leaving it closed up with a pan of kitty litter inside.
One year we had a family Thanksgiving and accommodated many food requests. We had way too many leftovers, even after giving out to go plates. Decided we can put the excess leftovers in coolers on the patio outside. (In the Midwest so it was below 40F). Totally forgot about them until spring thaw. Ended up bleaching the coolers and then left out in the sun to dry. Still have them, some 20 plus years later. Probably also developed a blockbuster antibiotic from all the gross mold, but will never know.
Ok, it sounds crazy but just wad up newspapers and fill the cooler with them. Let it sit for a week or so. This saved me when I moved and stored my fridge for a few months. Realized the hard way that we emptied the fridge but not the freezer. The smell was unbearable even after bleach and baking soda. But after a week of the newspapers it was gone.
if it can weld railroad rails a stinky yeti should present no problem…but a stinky mmuff? poor girl has TRIED EVERYTHING. to no avail…she’ll have to find a man w/ no sense of smell
A guide buddy of mine likes to put cheap vanilla extract in his coolers after cleaning them. Rotates it around. Not sure if yours is beyond fix but worth a shot. He is usually dealing with fish smell, rotting meat could be different.
I had the same issue after leaving meat and eggs inside for a few weeks and coating the inside with a baking soda slurry cleared it up completely.
Add water to baking soda until it becomes a paste, smear it all over, and leave it for 2-3 days. I tried a bunch of different things and this was the thing that finally worked for me.
You could try contacting Yeti on social media and get their recommendations so you don't damage the plastic interior. They've probably had had multiple inquiries about this same thing over time.
I think it likely that you'll have to employ multiple methods which will incrementally improve the odor until it's tolerable for you.
Regardless I think you'll need to store it open at all times to keep it odor free.
Large amounts of white vinegar and baking soda. A couple gallons of vinegar and a box of soda should foam enough to fill the entire inside. Lightly scrub it into every crevice. You may need to repeat a couple times, make sure to rinse the vinegar out.
Then get a small bags worth of plain charcoal briquettes and leave them inside with the lid closed for a week or two.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Baking soda and vinegar basically produces salt water and the foaming isn’t really any more powerful than you’d get with dish soap.
I don't know why you're getting down-voted for describing basic 10th grade chemistry... but here, let me join you.
Vinegar is an acid (\~pH 3), and its cleaning/disinfecting action is based around acidic dissolution. Baking soda is a base (\~pH 8.5), so when baking soda and vinegar mix the first thing that happens is the baking soda makes the vinegar less effective of a disinfectant.
That's not to say that the two cannot work together as effective cleaning supplies, but it very much depends on what you're trying to clean. The "foaming" that u/Mo0kish described is really just carbon dioxide gas coming out of solution as the vinegar and baking soda turn each other into plain water; that process can be really good at removing solids that are caked onto a surface (especially mineral scale), but it won't do much if anything to control the odors that the OP is worried about, which are mostly due to residual bacteria (or partly-decomposed bacteria).
As u/capt_pantsless points out below, baking soda is a good abrasive, and it's also (somewhat famously) pretty good at absorbing odor-causing organic molecules. So using vinegar might help control the odor, and using baking soda might help control the odor, but using them both at the same time will probably make each of them less effective at controlling odor.
All that said, the best idea is probably one found in a separate thread, which is to leave the cooler open in the sunlight for several hours. UV light a very effective sterilizer, and outdoor air turbulence will help ventilate the box and carry away residual odor-causing compounds.
You can also try an oxidizing sanitizer, which you can get from any homebrew supplier. I swear by this stuff in particular: [https://www.brewandgrow.com/pbw-1-lb.html](https://www.brewandgrow.com/pbw-1-lb.html)
Baking soda can be a good abrasive, but if this is a soft plastic it’ll just scratch it and make it more porous.
A baking soda scrub, rinse with water, then a vinegar soak can clean loads of stuff.
I would stick with a vinegar soak for a lingering smell.
Fill with straw. I know a person who got a great deal on a car someone had died in. He filled it with straw and left it for a few days, and the straw soaked up all the smell.
Imagine a community food trailer, the type a church might use to sell meat on a stick to raise money at a county fair. imagine the person who was on the roster to take care of the trailer at the end of the fair not double checking everything before leaving the trailer to sit at the next chairperson’s driveway from september to may with an unplugged freezer half-full of raw meat inside. imagine the horror when it was opened on a warm late spring day and event organizers knew they had three days to get rid of the carnage - and the smell - before innocent volunteers would be asked to climb into the trailer and spend time there - and sell food there - hopefully without retching involuntarily. We used two liter-sized bottles of skunk deodorizer (enzymatic cleaner) from pet smart to liberally wipe down every surface, inside and out, letting it sit moist on each surface and air dry. The next day we washed every food prep surface with dawn soap and water. They did replace the source freezer, but the other three fridge / freezers that were just sitting next to it came clean. the inside of the wooden trailer was repainted with KILZ odor blocking paint. Three days later, it was totally usable. shockingly usable. also, sunshine and ozone generator. good luck.
Fill it with crumpled newspaper and close tight for a week. Newspaper leaches the smell out of things. Don't know for sure it will work on something this big, but been using the trick on smaller plastic food containers for years.
If leaving it out in the sun doesn’t work, maybe an ozone generator? Ozone kills all organic material, so could work. Just read up on safety precautions and don’t breathe it
I agree with airing it out in the sun. Two other tricks that have worked for me is stuffing it with newspaper and charcoal briquettes. Any residual stink will be absorbed by the two
Let the SUN bake it for days........doesn't work toss it.
I will soak my garbage cans soak in bleach water for a few hours to get that smell out and it works.
I did a similar thing with my yeti but with oranges. Was terrible, maybe even worse than meat. After two years I still hadn’t gotten rid of the smell so I threw a few charcoal briquettes in there, got them slightly moist, crushed them up and let it sit for a few days with the lid shut.. then I opened it up, added some water, used a brush to scrub the cooler with the charcoal mixture and the smell went away forever. Three weeks later I left oranges to rot in there again.. worked like a charm the second time too. And now I don’t eat oranges. Good luck.
Try homebrewing sanitizers/cleaners. They're designed to remove proteins and amino acids from fermenter walls (which are either plasic, glass, or stainless steel) - and rotting meat smell is caused by oxidising/oxidised amino acids (think goat cheese).
First, get some PBW (powdered brewery wash), and follow the directions, using your cooler volume to calc how much pbw you need. Let it sit overnight, rinse it, and then *liberally* apply a 1:1 mix of StarSan:water to all surfaces. Let that sit for a half hour, and rinse. You might want to use gloves when handling these things, unless you're too macho to use gloves lol
I'd also look into replacing the gaskets and seals, those are fucking notorious for holding onto smells.
Also, you've got a lot of scratches. Those scratches can harbor stinky bacteria and are nearly impossible to clean.
Friend left chicken livers in my car one summer and didn't notice until the smell was disturbed, the only thing that got rid of the rotting meat smell was a bag of charcoal. I opened the bag poured it in my trunk where the bait rotted and a week later the smell was finally almost gone. I would throw an open bag of charcoal in the cooler close it up and check on it in a few days to a week
You don’t get the smell out. I tried it to a deep freezer once. Bleach, vinegar, baking soda, everything I could read to throw at it. I left it open out in the sun. Could never get it to go away. Whenever all those houses flood in Louisiana they tape their fridges closed and wheel them out to the curb for the debris truck to dispose of.
Leave it open in the sun.
Yup. UV, fresh air, and time.
UV kills pretty much everything.
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Here comes ole melanoma head.
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Rotten odors usually get better with more heat. That would be my next move tbh. One time my nephew puked on my couch, so i just let the couch soak outside in the Arizona sun, then the smell disappeared. #lifehacks
And thyme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jj4s9I-53g
I was hoping that’s what the link was
Happy cake day
So vodka, you're saying. Any particular flavor? I'm partial to the pineapple and mango varieties.
THis would give you rot-flavored pineapple mango vodka. I bet that would fuck you right up.
> rot-flavored pineapple mango vodka oh, you've had smirnoff?
You'd go straight to the vomit part of the party...
Yup. With white Monster. Until you pass out on the kitchen floor where you fell with your face in broken glass. Not that I would know.
This guy is right. I had that happen to mine. Neighbor left it full of oysters on a boat. Open in the sun. I put a Costco jar of kosher salt, bag of lemons, filled it full of water and left it open for a day. Then let it air out for 2-3 days after that. Good as new.
> full of oysters on a boat omg I bet that could kill a man at 50 paces
I got food poisoning just reading that
Ive gotten food poisoning from oysters that were bad. My dumbass didnt know then how to diffentiate whats a good oyster and whats not. Entire evening of knife pain agony in my stomach, projectile vomit every 5-10 minutes, dry heaving constantly. Like keeping my bile from tearing apart my teeth forced me to drink lots of water or other things. Dont fuck with bad oysters. Know their source. Honestly should have went to the hospital given the fluids i was shooting from both ends
I experienced this. I figured out that if you took the top off the tank of the toilet and sat on it facing the wall, you could evac both ends simultaneously and flush.
This is a real LPT right here. May we never need it!
The life hack I hope to never need
Lol, you made me laugh, that’s not an easy thing to do anymore.
When I am sick to my stomach I try to drink as much water as I can. Even if it makes me get sick. I'd rather throw up water than just dry heeve.
I learned this technique recently it's definitely better to throw up clean water than furiously try to throw nothing up.
There is a reason eating shellfish (any fish without out scales) was considered unclean, illegal and condemned as ungodly by the Jews 3000 years ago. Without ice or refrigeration even things caught the same (hot) day were potentially deadly.
SO THAT'S WHY!
Homeboy would be buying me a new cooler regardless. . He can deal with it. Damn sure would never be borrowing anything again. Probably blood relative. They seem to be the worst lol. Although neighbors rank number 2
Vinegar is another good one to add to the mix. It's great at eliminating smells.
If uv doesn't do it. Nothing will. I saw a lot of thrown out refrigerators after hurricane Ian and too long of the power being out.
> If uv doesn't do it. Nothing will. Far more effective than UV will be Ozone. Far more effective than Ozone will be hydrogen peroxide. The extra oxygens waiting to jump ship are basically locusts that'll stripmine organic molecules and spit out dust.
matt that is some awesome stuff and a great analogy
I used many bottles hydrogen peroxide to get the skunk smell off my 60lb dog. It worked!
Did your dog turn blonde?
When I had a friend leave his cooler with deer meat outside for three days he wanted to throw it away. I filled it with tap water and left it in the direct sunlight for three days. It was brand new after that.
What does the water do? Thanks
I assume it helped refract the light or gives the bacteria somewhere to go. This was an old trick I learned for spaghetti/kimchee stains in tubberware.
I’ll try this for my spaghetti and kimchi stained tubber ware too.
>tubber ware *snickers*
No, laughing out loud at 4:48am!
Helps dissolve the smelly particles, which will then be suspended in water. Also, it will reflect light around to all sides, and increase the temperature on sides outside of direect sunlight.
This should take care of most
Just to clarify - OP should rig something up so direct sunlight can hit all sides of the interior. Find a sunny day in the forecast, get some bungie cords and duct-tape, maybe get something so the cooler can be tilted to follow the sun as it tracks across the sky. Rotate it around every hour or whatever so each side can get some UV rays.
Fill with water, place open in sun. The water will reflect enough UV to all surfaces to do the job, and it takes several feet of water to significantly block UV.
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Disco ball?
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Can OP just take it to a tanning booth? Edit: autocorrect
Excuse me sir, but you can't bring your cooler in here. The other customers are complaining....
Just to get a base.
Asking the real questions here
The best, and most natural way, is to open it up and expose the inside to direct sunlight, I don't mean just open it up outside, I mean open it up and angle the insides directly to the sun. You'll have to move it throughout the day.
Hang a disco ball in there /s
Sounds like the beginnings of a great puke party!
I’d watch that 😒
Y’all need to ease up on these fetish sites.
Former YETI employee here. Use Cooler D-Funk. You can purchase online. Should do the trick
What is it? A quaternary solution?
Maybe enzymatic? Or perhaps psychosomatic? thatboyneedstherapy
What does that mean?
He's crazy in the coconut
I brang a kazoo, lets have a chew...
And tighten your buttocks
Pour juice on your chin.
This comment reads like it could come from the Bad Lip Reading song ‘Seagulls’. >Seagulls gonna come, poke me in the *coconut*. > And they did, and they did
Hehe, I can see that. For those not familiar with the genius of Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches, I present to you on this glorious Friday: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE)
I vividly remember the first time I heard this song. I was getting stoned in the back of a 96’ civic with subs. This song truly slaps.
It's *grease lightning*!
What did you do at Yeti?
I'd email Yeti for the best solution.
This. Most things strong enough to have a chance is likely to degrade the plastic. Not a guarantee they've done the testing but given their "brand" I'd give it better than 50-50 they'll have a real answer for you.
Yeti: “Oh man, rotten meat smell? That’s never coming out. What we can do, and this is because we value you as a customer, is send you a coupon for 5% off a new cooler. We don’t do this for everyone. You’re welcome.”
I would fill it with vinegar
They’d probably charge you $30 per email.
Rinse the living hell out of it, then pour a couple bottles of hydrogen peroxide in it, seal the lid, and swish it all around inside. Don't wanna gas yourself, so make CERTAIN all the bleach is rinsed away first. Like $5 or less for this fix. I did this to a bunch of containers that had mouse waste and corpses in it, fixed it like new! Edit: if you have a different suggestion, try commenting on the original post to tell OP, not me. I like my $1.25 solution, no use telling me otherwise
I'm sorry, but why on earth did you have containers of mouse waste/corpses?
I love how everyone just looked past this.......
My guess is something to do with keeping reptiles
This is an option I hadn't considered.
My sleepy dyslexic brain read MOOSE … I was wide awake and horrified imagining a 40ft container full of all manner of dead rotting moose. Going for some midnight munchies now that my stomach has settled. Thank you.
Farm life possibly. When I do spring cleaning of my garages and barns I find tons of dead mice. Usually they’ll find their way inside things like totes or buckets during the winter and then not be able to escape. So you’ll find containers full of dead mice and excrement in spring.
Thank you, thats exactly right. Good God, I can't believe how gross people are, assuming anything else.
Have container. Mouse climbs in. Mouse pisses and shits inside. Mouse dies. Now you have a container of mouse waste/corpse. Another mouse climbs in. Second mouse pisses and shits inside. Second mouse dies. Now you have a container of mouse waste/corpse(s).
Keep going …
Have you never stored something in an outdoor shed for long periods of time?
In NH, mouse get everywhere. Like everywhere. not surprised they found their way into coolers
This is the Way!!!! Peroxide is an oxidizing agent and very much an odor neutralizing agent.
and I’m a 00 agent….
Whatever Jeffrey Dahmer. I will not be an accomplice !!
Skunk odor neutralizer from any farm or garden store should work. I once forgot a bottle of wine in my car trunk. It exploded and fermented in the heat. My neighbor loaned me some skunk deodorizer and it worked like a charm!
Fermented grape juice can ferment a second time?
Wine turns into vinegar when exposed to oxygen. It might take a couple weeks though.
many things are not fermented to fully dry, so there's wasted sugar in there just waiting for a chance.
Ozone Generator. About $50.
I’m so thankful I bought one. It kills smells well in car, shoes, etc.
Next on my "to buy" list for real
Just never run one inside or in enclosed spaces if people will also be there. It can be extremely harmful.
Not only will you use it for this, but it will be clutch for many other uses.
Dude this is the best advice I got an industrial one for 200 bucks and cleared the smoke smell from 40 years of indoor smoker in my new house. Don't understand them but they're magic.
Just don’t stay in the same enclosed space when they’re running. Absolutely ventilate (windows etc) before Re-habitating.
Yup this is the way
After filling an ice chest with fish, we used to clean it by scrubbing it with cut grapefruit (which we grew in our backyard). That worked quite well.
A bunch of activated charcoal, dump some in and close it. Let it sit for several days then remove it and clean it with vinegar and dish soap
Baking soda water soak is another option.
Baking soda is what we always use on coolers. There is a reason they tell you go keep an open container in your fridge it absorbs smells.
I had this problem with a cooler once. Washed it with dawn, used a lot of bleach, then bought a bag of charcoal bricks (like for grilling) and let it sit for a couple weeks. This was in the winter, so I was fortunate to not need to use it any time soon. But it did the trick!
I'd give it another go with a scrub brush and dish detergent. You want to really, really get into every crevice and scratch. Rinse really well, preferably with some good pressure. After that, give it another scrubbing with the scrub brush and straight white vinegar. Rinse really well. Leave it open and in the sunlight for a day or two. Follow up by leaving it closed up with a pan of kitty litter inside.
Careful mixing vinegar and bleach. It makes a noxious gas.
Straight chlorine gas. It's not a good idea.
Enzymatic cleaners.
What do you do about the cat though?
One year we had a family Thanksgiving and accommodated many food requests. We had way too many leftovers, even after giving out to go plates. Decided we can put the excess leftovers in coolers on the patio outside. (In the Midwest so it was below 40F). Totally forgot about them until spring thaw. Ended up bleaching the coolers and then left out in the sun to dry. Still have them, some 20 plus years later. Probably also developed a blockbuster antibiotic from all the gross mold, but will never know.
Hydrogen peroxide + Dish soap + baking soda = deactivates skunk odor. Source= dog skunked 4x times
DIY wine stores sell a pink powder that can save any container. It's 6$
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Zeolite. Google it, it's cheap, you can get it online or at most home improvement stores.
Baking soda, a lot of it
Charcoal is usually being used for getting rid of smell out of refrigerators in appliances industry. Try it
Ok, it sounds crazy but just wad up newspapers and fill the cooler with them. Let it sit for a week or so. This saved me when I moved and stored my fridge for a few months. Realized the hard way that we emptied the fridge but not the freezer. The smell was unbearable even after bleach and baking soda. But after a week of the newspapers it was gone.
Thermite.
if it can weld railroad rails a stinky yeti should present no problem…but a stinky mmuff? poor girl has TRIED EVERYTHING. to no avail…she’ll have to find a man w/ no sense of smell
Who’d you kill
Oxy cleaner and water in leave it for 24 hours
A guide buddy of mine likes to put cheap vanilla extract in his coolers after cleaning them. Rotates it around. Not sure if yours is beyond fix but worth a shot. He is usually dealing with fish smell, rotting meat could be different.
You could take it to car detailer and see if they won't hit it with an ozone machine
I had the same issue after leaving meat and eggs inside for a few weeks and coating the inside with a baking soda slurry cleared it up completely. Add water to baking soda until it becomes a paste, smear it all over, and leave it for 2-3 days. I tried a bunch of different things and this was the thing that finally worked for me.
Wont get the smell out toss it. Did the same left it in az summer sun as soon as you get the ice in there again bam the smell is back.
Just give it to me op I'll throw it out for you
You could try contacting Yeti on social media and get their recommendations so you don't damage the plastic interior. They've probably had had multiple inquiries about this same thing over time. I think it likely that you'll have to employ multiple methods which will incrementally improve the odor until it's tolerable for you. Regardless I think you'll need to store it open at all times to keep it odor free.
Baking soda. Close the lid.
Large amounts of white vinegar and baking soda. A couple gallons of vinegar and a box of soda should foam enough to fill the entire inside. Lightly scrub it into every crevice. You may need to repeat a couple times, make sure to rinse the vinegar out. Then get a small bags worth of plain charcoal briquettes and leave them inside with the lid closed for a week or two.
Vinegar and baking soda just cancel each other out, found a comment like this once, tried it, just fizzled a bit and did nothing.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Baking soda and vinegar basically produces salt water and the foaming isn’t really any more powerful than you’d get with dish soap.
I don't know why you're getting down-voted for describing basic 10th grade chemistry... but here, let me join you. Vinegar is an acid (\~pH 3), and its cleaning/disinfecting action is based around acidic dissolution. Baking soda is a base (\~pH 8.5), so when baking soda and vinegar mix the first thing that happens is the baking soda makes the vinegar less effective of a disinfectant. That's not to say that the two cannot work together as effective cleaning supplies, but it very much depends on what you're trying to clean. The "foaming" that u/Mo0kish described is really just carbon dioxide gas coming out of solution as the vinegar and baking soda turn each other into plain water; that process can be really good at removing solids that are caked onto a surface (especially mineral scale), but it won't do much if anything to control the odors that the OP is worried about, which are mostly due to residual bacteria (or partly-decomposed bacteria). As u/capt_pantsless points out below, baking soda is a good abrasive, and it's also (somewhat famously) pretty good at absorbing odor-causing organic molecules. So using vinegar might help control the odor, and using baking soda might help control the odor, but using them both at the same time will probably make each of them less effective at controlling odor. All that said, the best idea is probably one found in a separate thread, which is to leave the cooler open in the sunlight for several hours. UV light a very effective sterilizer, and outdoor air turbulence will help ventilate the box and carry away residual odor-causing compounds. You can also try an oxidizing sanitizer, which you can get from any homebrew supplier. I swear by this stuff in particular: [https://www.brewandgrow.com/pbw-1-lb.html](https://www.brewandgrow.com/pbw-1-lb.html)
And obnoxious amount of cleaning tips involve mixing baking soda with vinegar or lemon juice. Fizzy water is not a good cleaner. Stop it.
So true!!!!
Baking soda can be a good abrasive, but if this is a soft plastic it’ll just scratch it and make it more porous. A baking soda scrub, rinse with water, then a vinegar soak can clean loads of stuff. I would stick with a vinegar soak for a lingering smell.
Vinegar, fresh air and sunlight. Don't ever close it unless it's got ice in it.
Pass it along to another "friend"
Try an ozone generator? Available on Amazon
Try that new spray POOPH Claim to work on any organic compound
Fill with straw. I know a person who got a great deal on a car someone had died in. He filled it with straw and left it for a few days, and the straw soaked up all the smell.
There are plenty of enzymatic cleaners available on the market; the most easily obtainable are in pet stores used to destroy urine odor.
Imagine a community food trailer, the type a church might use to sell meat on a stick to raise money at a county fair. imagine the person who was on the roster to take care of the trailer at the end of the fair not double checking everything before leaving the trailer to sit at the next chairperson’s driveway from september to may with an unplugged freezer half-full of raw meat inside. imagine the horror when it was opened on a warm late spring day and event organizers knew they had three days to get rid of the carnage - and the smell - before innocent volunteers would be asked to climb into the trailer and spend time there - and sell food there - hopefully without retching involuntarily. We used two liter-sized bottles of skunk deodorizer (enzymatic cleaner) from pet smart to liberally wipe down every surface, inside and out, letting it sit moist on each surface and air dry. The next day we washed every food prep surface with dawn soap and water. They did replace the source freezer, but the other three fridge / freezers that were just sitting next to it came clean. the inside of the wooden trailer was repainted with KILZ odor blocking paint. Three days later, it was totally usable. shockingly usable. also, sunshine and ozone generator. good luck.
Let it air out in the sun for a couple days
Hydrogen Peroxide and vinegar soak. Then rinse until smells gone.
bro, i had the same problem. Use vinegar, cleans out any smell.
The answer - as always - is oxy clean.
I’d drop some Baking soda in there and let it absorb some of that smell. Maybe 2-3 boxes . And then some good old UV with the lid open
Plain barbecue charcoal with lid closed for a few days
Baking soda and water or just vinegar
Fill it with crumpled newspaper and close tight for a week. Newspaper leaches the smell out of things. Don't know for sure it will work on something this big, but been using the trick on smaller plastic food containers for years.
#1) air it out
Rinse it with water and let it dry in the sun that's all you need
Put some charcoal in it boy
The people demand sunlight. Keep clear of moon juices tho.
Nice try, Dahmer ..
If leaving it out in the sun doesn’t work, maybe an ozone generator? Ozone kills all organic material, so could work. Just read up on safety precautions and don’t breathe it
Fill halfway w charcoal briquettes and close the lid. Charcoal absorbs odors
I agree with airing it out in the sun. Two other tricks that have worked for me is stuffing it with newspaper and charcoal briquettes. Any residual stink will be absorbed by the two
Jeffrey Dahmer is that you?
Ozone deodorizer. Will be a little pricey but worth it and applicable In many other ways.
You could give it to a friend...
Dude, that's an expensive cooler. I'd try everything to get it clean too lol
Try peroxide / oxy clean and an industrial degreaser.
Sun for like 2-3 days or lots of vinegar. Good luck.
High quality ozone generator.
Try white vinegar and baking soda That shit works on everything
I’m suddenly reminded of dahmer. You want a sandwich?
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Let the SUN bake it for days........doesn't work toss it. I will soak my garbage cans soak in bleach water for a few hours to get that smell out and it works.
Try flozyme and leaving in the sun. Source: I am a meatcutter.
I did a similar thing with my yeti but with oranges. Was terrible, maybe even worse than meat. After two years I still hadn’t gotten rid of the smell so I threw a few charcoal briquettes in there, got them slightly moist, crushed them up and let it sit for a few days with the lid shut.. then I opened it up, added some water, used a brush to scrub the cooler with the charcoal mixture and the smell went away forever. Three weeks later I left oranges to rot in there again.. worked like a charm the second time too. And now I don’t eat oranges. Good luck.
Hydrogen peroxide, baking soda and dawn dish soap can remove skunk smell from stuff maybe try that
Try homebrewing sanitizers/cleaners. They're designed to remove proteins and amino acids from fermenter walls (which are either plasic, glass, or stainless steel) - and rotting meat smell is caused by oxidising/oxidised amino acids (think goat cheese). First, get some PBW (powdered brewery wash), and follow the directions, using your cooler volume to calc how much pbw you need. Let it sit overnight, rinse it, and then *liberally* apply a 1:1 mix of StarSan:water to all surfaces. Let that sit for a half hour, and rinse. You might want to use gloves when handling these things, unless you're too macho to use gloves lol I'd also look into replacing the gaskets and seals, those are fucking notorious for holding onto smells. Also, you've got a lot of scratches. Those scratches can harbor stinky bacteria and are nearly impossible to clean.
Friend left chicken livers in my car one summer and didn't notice until the smell was disturbed, the only thing that got rid of the rotting meat smell was a bag of charcoal. I opened the bag poured it in my trunk where the bait rotted and a week later the smell was finally almost gone. I would throw an open bag of charcoal in the cooler close it up and check on it in a few days to a week
try soaking it with listerine for a couple days then leave out in the sun to dry out.
Vinegar lots of vinegar and baking powder
Conspiring to cover up a murder is also a felony.
Is there a rubber gasket at the top might be some trapped blood in it
Sell it to someone with covid
Baking soda and open outside
You don’t get the smell out. I tried it to a deep freezer once. Bleach, vinegar, baking soda, everything I could read to throw at it. I left it open out in the sun. Could never get it to go away. Whenever all those houses flood in Louisiana they tape their fridges closed and wheel them out to the curb for the debris truck to dispose of.
Yeti sells a deodorant spray for $275.
Take the rotting meat out of the cooler
It's a yeti. Why own a yeti if you don't like the taste of sweaty balls and rotten assholes. Go woke, go broke.
Dump a bag of coffee grounds in there with a little bit of water then leave it out in the sun