Usually I defrost food in some kind of container (deep plate, bowl, tray, etc.).
I don’t know how it happened, but a couple of times I put frozen food just like that without anything, and for some reason on the top shelf of the refrigerator.
Once it was a bag of cherries, in which there was a micro-hole, and it turned out of course not immediately, and when everything melted, all the cherry juice poured out of the bag, and my refrigerator turned into props for a horror movie)))
And just recently I defrosted seafood, and made the same mistake. For a long time I had to get rid of the persistent aroma of the “sea breeze”…
After such entertainment, I even decided to write this post to always remember about simple things and not throw myself unnecessary work on washing the refrigerator and everything in it))