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[BIG AL]

I never would believe this if I hadn't tried it myself. I recently bought a 20' shipping container from the port in Boston. I have no idea what had been shipped in it but it had recently been unloaded and was delivered to my house. When I opened it up it had a strong fishy odor. I tried spraying it down with Bleach twice and that didn't help. My wife washed it out with some sort of commercial cleaner and that didn't work. So a friend of mine said go get the cheapest coffee you can find and spread the grinds all over the floor and close it up for a couple days. So I bought a bucket of cheep coffee at the dollar store and tried it out. Unbelievable it worked!!! No more fishy smell just smells a little like coffee which is fine with me. He said they use that trick to clean out the freezer units at his freezer plant when they aren't running them. He says you can sweep it up and use it multiple times. I never would have believed that in a hundred years.

[coolidge]

Coffee and flour will suck the smell out of anything, now I wouldn't want too brew or bake anything with it after.

[RSI]

How do you get rid of the coffee smell afterwards?

[BIG AL]

I wouldn't want to brew that coffee either lol , but prob better than slim's instant  The coffee smell , well then there is Febreeze 

[slimjim]

What do you mean, my instant coffee is the best in fact I'm enjoying one right now!

[farmboythegreat]

finally a good use for that nasty stuff

[mlappin]

What do you mean, my instant coffee is the best in fact I'm enjoying one right now!

Thats all they drink in England, we took our cousin a big can of Folgers breakfast blend, he played hell finding any coffee filters….

[kommandokenny]

What do you mean, my instant coffee is the best in fact I'm enjoying one right now!

Thats all they drink in England, we took our cousin a big can of Folgers breakfast blend, he played hell finding any coffee filters….

Cut coffee consumption in half [2 cups],, 86 the salt,, lost 10 lbs,,,, and my blood pressure went from a buck 50 to 120's.
Now I got blood pressure room for beer]

But I still miss my extra coffee's

[aarmga]

How do you get rid of the coffee smell afterwards?

Baking soda

[BIG AL]

I might just leave the coffee in there isn't hurting anything and it completely removed the smell that was in there. We are packing the contents of our house in there so we can move. All I could imagine is opening it up later to have everything smell like old fish. I think the coffee smell would be a lot easier to swallow.

[mlappin]

I used to work second shift on the docks at a door factory, Sargento cheese trucks would haul cheese down from Wisconsin and we’d load em up with doors, windows, flashing, trim, etc etc.

After one of those babies sat in the hot summer sun they’d about knock you clear over when you first opened the doors. We made it a habit to spot those first at the far end of shipping, open the doors, then place a big fan in each to blow fresh air in, would still reek but the danger of those with weak stomachs tossing their cookies was greatly reduced.