Why does the ice that builds up inside the freezing compartment of a refrigerator taste terrible?

It’s created by all the secretions from the breaths of the people opening the compartment. Smegma

Why would taste it in the first place?

So when you get crazy enough to taste it and go “Ewwww” then you will clean it.

How do you know it tastes terrible??

@Dutchess_III
The same way that @Hawaii_Jake knows about smegma.
I tried it.

Why did you do that @Raggy?

For Science!

Ah!

Why do you have ice building up? Is it an old fashioned freezer that you have to defrost manually?

So you won’t eat it, silly.

When you melt it, it smells terrible. No need to taste it.

Multiple reasons, for one, it’s likely a frost-free freezer. That ice sublimates but leaves whatever nastiness was in the water at a more concentrated level. With all that air moving around the ice can actually absorb stuff. Your water may have also been dreadful to begin with. If there is a filter in the waterline it may need changing. Your waterline may be disgusting too. Do you have a bunch of stuff in the freezer like broccoli getting freezer burn? That makes nasty ice also. Sometimes a combination of all this makes ice inedible.

Wait, you’re not eating ice cubes from the trays but the shit building up on the sides because you don’t have a frost-free freezer? You don’t need science to tell you that will be nasty.

Me thinks @RocketGuy had a much better plan!

Nobody keeps broccoli in the freezer @Blackwater_Park!

It is the moisture from all the things in there and the moisture collects the odors of all those things.

@Dutchess_III It may sound savage to you but I have a freezer full of broccoli.

Do you blanch it first @Blackwater_Park?

Not sure what that is, mine come out of a large, pre-packaged bag.

Sebastian Maniscalco – Change out your cubes!

@Blackwater_Park…I was rifling through my freezer just taking casual inventory and lo! I found a small bag of frozen broccoli from Schwan’s!