Maybe it’s time to add your refrigerator to the list of household tasks you do in a once-a-year spring cleaning. You might want to use rubber gloves while doing this job and keep the trash can handy.

It’s frustrating to have any broken appliance, but a refrigerator that stops working might be the worst. Not only are you unable to keep your food fresh, but you’ll likely have to throw away all of ...

A typical Wednesday night at my house goes something like this: Open refrigerator, take lettuce and other vegetables out of crisper, see that most of them are wilted, return them to refrigerator.