Upright freezer suggestions

[Beeman]

It's time to buy an upright freezer, anyone have any suggestions on brand or energy efficiency?

[OD]

I've had good luck with Whirlpool appliances, & have 2 Whirlpool freezers, both manual defrost. I recently needed another one, & bought a Frigidaire, because it was on sale. It seems to be good, too.
My advice is to get the biggest one that you have room for & can afford.

[ET1 SS]

Our plan is to have a 3 foot tall X 2 foot wide glass-door in the kitchen that opens onto a big frig, and another one that opens onto a big freezer. both frig and freezer will be in the garage. they will big 8 foot by 10 foot walk-in rooms. This way we can butcher and cut meat in the garage and hang it in the chill-box or freezer right there. Likewise with cleaning produce.

Like those insulated glass doors you see in convenience stores.

Look in and see what is there without opening either door.

[SpringCreek]

Here's a list of the most energy efficient freezers: http://www.aceee.org/consumerguide/freezers.pdf

Unfortunately, when I was in the market for one last year, I couldn't find any of these models in the local stores.

[JAK]

I always wanted to make my own built in fridge and freezer from parts of an old fridge and freezer. With added insulation and putting the heat sink in a cool spot cooled by cold water on the way to the hot water heater you could make it as larger and way more efficient. The glass doors is a nice idea. You could have a heavier insulated door that slides in over that when your out of the kitchen.

[ET1 SS]

Originally Posted by JAK

I always wanted to make my own built in fridge and freezer from parts of an old fridge and freezer. With added insulation and putting the heat sink in a cool spot cooled by cold water on the way to the hot water heater you could make it as larger and way more efficient. The glass doors is a nice idea. You could have a heavier insulated door that slides in over that when your out of the kitchen.

LOL

Putting the HOT coils into a tank of cold water was exactly my thought.

Try this idea!

I have to run 300 foot of ditch to put electrical power cables into (to run from the power pole near the street and out to the house). AND I have to run a second 300 foot ditch from the house (septic tank output) to the leech-field. Now while I have these ditches open, if I dropped in copper tubing maybe a few hudred feet of it into one of these ditches, and circulated water through this copper tubing and into a holding tank in the basement. It should keep that water at 50 degrees year around. Depending on how close to the frost-line the ditch is, it might even get down to mid-30s in the winter.

A tank of cold water would be good for boosting the effieciency of any refrigerant compressor. Or if I ran this chillled water through a radiator with a fan, and built a drip pan underneath it; the radiator would work as a dehumidifier. But get this, an electric dehumidifier is running a 'refrigerant compressor' and thus is very costly to run. But my 'chilled-water-loop' dehumidifier would only need a small pump and it's fan; so it should run for a fraction of the cost.

[chas]

We had one upright and couldn't stack much in it because the piles of food kept tumbling out finally breaking the door threshold at the bottom.
A chest type you can root around in and things dont fall out on your toe!
But things do get lost in there
Cold air is heavier and a chest freezer will not lose as much cold .On the other hand it takes longer to find things near the bottom!!!!Six of one half a dozen of the other
Chas