To choose between an upright freezer and a chest freezer?
Can they be put in the garage, insulated but not heated? How long will meat stay good, before looking freezer burnt? Who makes a good quality one, cheaper...but effcient, and energy saver? Thanks...we are looking at ways to improve our spending, and we seem to waste alot of money buying groceries. Esp meat because we but only what we need, and often are forced to buy things not on sale...only have freezer compartment with fridge. |
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| I tried a freezer for a while too, a small chest freezer, but it used too much hydro and wasn't needed really so we took it to the dump. |
Wrap your meat in freezer/butcher paper, then put it in a freezer bag or seal a meal thing. Make sure to mark what's in there and the date (I always think I'll remember the contents and never do  ) I think an upright is easier to manage because with a chest freezer things tend to get lost at the bottom. |
| We have a small chest freezer I purchased from Sears. It is the energy efficient model and it holds plenty. |
| Chest models are more energy efficient and uprights are easier to find things in.
I have a 19 cu ft Whirlpool that was given to us before 1986 (new). It has been in 3 states and, for the most part, has been in the garage. No repairs. |
| The most efficient is a chest because you loose the cold on an upright when you open the door.
Double wrap. If you use a Ziplock freezer bag suck all the air out (Be carefull if you do this with meat) with a straw. I do my vegies this way and have a Wirlpool  I can keep (but not recomended) meat for up to a year. |
| Thanks everyone,
My dad is a rancher, and raises cattle. So we were thinking of buying meat from him, he has a guy who is a butcher, and he wraps in the brown wrap. It's a quite an expense upfront, but over a few months I hope it balances out and we save. Or we will just buy on sale??? Whirlpool was the one I was thinking about, I am glad everyone has the same one. I think we will get a chest, we want the thing to save us money, and our house is just to small to put it in a room somewhere, so it has to be okay in the garage. It would be nice to be able to take advantage of other sales. |
| I have upright that I keep in the basement. I like to load up on frozen meals when they go on sale so that's why I got it. It's really easy to see what you have and really easy to defrost when necessary.
To anyone who has had both, is there that much difference in energy efficiency between a chest and an upright that you would notice a cost savings in utilities? It seems like you have to have the lid open longer in a chest while you're digging for stuff so you'd lose a little extra right there. I realize, just by physics alone, the upright will lose cold faster when the door is open but i couldn't imagine it adding up to more than a few dollars per year. |
| We have a small chest freezer and I like it a lot for storing bulk meats. However, it is difficult for me to dig around in when I am looking for something in particular. With an upright you would be able to coordinate easier. |
| We have a huge chest freezer in the garage from when Joan used to be in meat sales; her company was across the country, so she needed to store some samples there.
It is full. Of God-only-knows-what. If I can make a suggestion: Label everything and write the date on it. A deep freezer is very different than the freezer in your kitchen: It doesn't have a defrost cycle. The defrost cycle ruins your food. You should keep things in your kitchen freezer for absolutely no more than 1 month. In the deep freeze, you can keep food much longer. I think I have defrosted that freezer only once in the 10? years it has been out there. It is so full and is opened so rarely (and it's so cold and dry in the garage 9 months of the year) that there's just very little frost buildup of any kind. |
| That's a good point, having to leave the chest lid open while you dig for something, vs door open and quickly grabbing the item...
Has anyone ever did a study on this? |
I have a small chest freezer and I use it alot. I do however occasionally result to "talking like a sailor"  when I have to find something and it is in the bottom. The hubby and I are looking into getting an upright because of the convenience of finding things. |
| Labelling the date is a very good idea....esp if I have to re-wrap store meat in brown wrap to last longer.
I noticed that chest freezers have a drain spout on the bottom (in catalog pictures)...do the upright's need manual defrosting? |
| I've had mine 8 years and it's been defrosted once (only because I moved). It could use another defrost because I accidentally left the door cracked one day when putting things away and a lot of condensation built up. Had I not made that mistake, I'd say no, it doesn't need it. |
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