Strange yet Effective way of Removing freezer ice

[Talat_kas]

Last weekend I visited my aunt at a time when she was cleaning her freezer. She was removing the ice from freezer walls very

easily which surprised me as I would have spend a lot of time melting it in order to clean it. She told me that she used oil for this purpose. What she did was that she coated oil on the walls of freezer with the help of tissue paper and this would allow her to remove the ice easily without any hassle.

[Linda Rose]

It sounds like you're saying she used the oil to melt the ice. Or are you saying the oil was put on the bare walls before it got icy? That makes more sense for quick release.

[Talat_kas]

It sounds like you're saying she used the oil to melt the ice.  Or are you saying the oil was put on the bare walls before it got icy?  That makes more sense for quick release.

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The Oil is coated before the walls get icy so that it may provide space between walls and ice and hence ice would not stick to the walls and comes out easily.

[Kayakado]

What an interesting idea. I usually melt it off with the hairdryer but coating the shelves to facilitate release sounds good.

[Jaymes]

You know, now that you mention it, I kinda remember somewhere reading that you should spray your freezer walls with Pam.