Fridge Smells Like Dead Animal. The first thing you should do is to clean the condenser coils at the back of your fridge as the build up of dust and other debris with the warmth of the coils can cause a burning smell from the back of the fridge. In rare, unfortunate cases, your fridge will smell like something died even after all the aforementioned steps.
I'm a member of the stinky kitchenaid fridge club. The smell that results from there you might mistake it for a dead animal. Things leak down in and behind those and stick and can smell.
The fridge and freezer smell like a dead animal.
The fridge and freezer smell like a dead animal. Use this to clean the whole fridge after 2 hours; A dead animal of some sort that you can't quite locate, as the smell has spread and filled the interior to the brim. The exact source of the smell is difficult to find because it's so pungent, but moving the fridge to the other side of the room seems to have also moved the smell, so i'm really only 80% sure the fridge is responsible.