Another shortage

My freezer just died so I'm going to be in the market for a new one. If I don't I'm not going to have a place to store venison and turkey in a few weeks.

It was well over 20 years old and probably isn't worth fixing. I don't want to spend 100 bucks or more on a 25 year old freezer.

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I agree with Sheripoms,,I am buying up all the canning supplies I can,,at auctions and rummage sales, I do need a pressure canner tho..and feel I should get a new one..not used,,so thats on my xmas list..then I'll do meats etc..we have 3 freezers..we share with our kids what ever is in them..they put some meats in..pheasant season and deer seasons are coming..so we'll fill up..and maybe I can can some of that also later on..I canned more this yr. than ever before, its been fun..I've raised all I canned..a bigger garden next year, more for us and Farmers Market..plus I'd like to find a commercial kitchen to rent and can with for selling..We'll never starve,,living on the farm is definitely a plus.

Whinneyninny:
You can can meats , you just need a pressure canner. You can put up meats in small amounts if ya want. I heard someone say they even used baby food jars for a little amount of stuff.

Well, the Sears.com site does have something odd going on. If you look at their chest freezers they have nothing between the 7.2cu/ft and the 19.7cu/ft models. Uprights seem to be more fully represented.

We just bought another freezer several weeks ago which is how I discovered the oddity on the Sears site. Fortunately we went to our local store and they had the 13 cu/ft model we wanted. We're steadily filling it up.

.....Alan.

I lost 2 refridgerators because i used them outside in the barn... I am told the compressor oil thickens in the cold and it takes the motors out. I have a heated roome in the barn ... I keep it 45 degrees f during the winter and the fridge and freezer in there is just fine.

I bought my first freezer 2 months ago. Actually my son bought it for me as a mothers day/birthday/christmas gift. He's such a good boy!!! LOL. It is just shy of 10 cubic feet and I thought that would be plenty for my husband and I. It's already full! I don't worry too much about the power going out. It's a chest type so I'm guessing it should hold the cold even if it is opened a few times a week. The salesman said if we powered it with our generator for just an hour or so a day we should be able to maintain safe food temps. I hope he's right......

My experience during the Florida hurricane season has been that if I run the gen-set an hour and a half in the morning and the same in afternoon it will keep my freezer (15 cu/ft model at the time) hard frozen until time to run the gen-set the next day. This worked better than running it three hours once a day.

The weather would have to be rather coolish to keep the freezer hard frozen just running the gen-set for an hour a day.

.....Alan.

How much gas did that take?

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Roughly a gallon to the hour or thereabouts with my old cheapo Coleman.

.....Alan.

A.T. Hagan, that's pretty much what they have in the stores too. Little bitty ones, great big ones and a whole selection of uprights.

I checked freezers at Sam's this morning. Price has gone up, $20 or $30 over what they were last week.

Thanks bunches for the info!! Good to know.