freezer: upright v chest...

Did you solve the problem by just not eating???


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Nope, by canning and dehydrating, unless I am a zombie first

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After looking at both we just bought a chest freezer last summer.

We have no problems organizing ours because it was designed well. The turkeys, hams, and roasts go on the bottom. The sides are each walled off. One side contains chicken and the other has smaller packages of beef. It came with three deep baskets. One is filled with frozen fruits, one with frozen veggies, and the other has butter and odds/ends.

We're very happy with our purchase.

I wish we had both, but if I could only have 1 it would be chest type. It just seems you can get more in the same space of a chest.

It absolutely is a pain sometimes when looking for something.

When we have had an upright it seemed the packages had to be 'stackable'. In other words if everything was more or less flat it was fine. If you put something like meat in there, it would fall out, although I have seen some advertised that had baskets that rolled out. That would be nice.

My daughter's new chest type came with dividers in the bottom of the freezer as well as baskets for the top. Wish mine had that. It probably wouldn't be that hard to come up with something that would serve that purpose.

It's really whatever need you have. Pros and cons to both.

We always had a chest freezer. I hated standing amost on my head to get things from the bottom. When it needed defrosting it was also hard to reach the bottom to clean. Then my mother-in-law gave me her upright freezer when she moved. I have had it now three years and love it! No more standing on my head to defrost and clean!

The down side is like others have said about things falling out if not stacked properly. I want to get a small chest freezer just for meat as there isn't enough room for everything in the upright. Besides meat when we butcher, I store berries, baked goods [as I don't bake all the time],butter and milk for long periods of time. I only shop once a month and hardly at all in the winter.The goats are dry in the winter so need lot's of space to store frozen milk. The door of the upright good for this with its shelves.

Our freezer is in a back porch where it is freezing in the winter and where doors can be kept open to cool it off in the warmer months. This way it isn't running all the time and does not run up our power bill.

No no no no no!!!! You do not want a self defrosting freezer for storage. That is what causes freezer burn. The freezer has a heater element that heats up inside to thaw the ice, then refreezes, etc, that is the self defrosting part, and it will ruin meat, you cant keep it very long at all without it getting burned and dried out, so you got a good thing!

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We have had both and I honestly hate the chest freezer! We just looked at uprights at Home Depot on Friday and they were the same price per cubic foot for a chest vs. an upright. Not a lot of difference in cost to run them either. I definitely want another upright one.

I can't really remember but I probably defrost once a year can't seem to remember having to defrost. It just usually gets done when I'm cleaning it out or moving things from one to the other.

If I keep it full, which mine are they don't seem to build up ice except around top, where there is no food.

You could give me an upright freezer, (have two, one WAS a freebie, the other was 20 bucks), but I'd never ever in a jillion and a half years BUY one.

I've dealt with insane uprights all my life. They may be more "convenient" than chest freezers, but Satan loves convenience. I cannot tell you the dozens of times uprights have not closed properly, and everything ended up as dog food. The Nanny State Safety Natzi's eliminated positive closure doors, and all you can get now is magnetic, or fairy dust doors.

Something falls or moves when your closing the door, or it's jumbled, and something moves while it's closed, and it's apt to open itself. BTDT.

Both of my current uprights are possessed by demons. I keep either a rope tied around the entire freezer, or a stick wedged against a beam forcing the door closed, or a barrel rolled up against the door, all in an effort to keep the food inside from getting defrosted when the demons want to come out and play.

I use milk crates in my chest freezers. Lesser used items in crates on the bottom, more often on top. I can empty the chesties in a few seconds.

Uprights, you have lots of dead space, unless everything is perfectly square.

so, for the OP, cheaper is relative... if you lose all of your food to the 'demon', 'tain't' cheap at all....

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So right, we did have one given to us when we were in our RV here on the place and had a small amount of stuff in there, something shifted and next morning, mush.

Milk cartons are a wonderful idea, I think I have a few.

I would like to have one for this house due to space limitations, but I think I would lock it each time. It would be a hassle, but worth it.

We have 3 chest freezers. You couldn't pay me to have an upright again. I hated it! I do like Texican, things go in crates or boxes. When I need something at the bottom, just lift out the crates on top & it's very easy to get to the things on the bottom. My brother made partitions out of plywood for his chest freezer. Each compartment holds certain things & makes it very easy to know where stuff is. I have never lost anything in a chest freezer because I know what's in it. Also, you don't lost cold air everytime you open it.

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chest all the way. The meat last, literally, for years with no freezer burn. Veggies too. Like they said, you can use crates but I never have a problem. I have had this last one for 11 years. I ran it non stop for those 11 years and have never, ever had a single spec of ice in it. I love that thing. Also I know it must cost practically nothing to run, as I have had my bill down were I used 6$ worth of electricity a monthy and thats with a fridge and everyday living. When you open a chest the cold dont pour out. Its true...

Texican, when I was young, my crazy father actually put locks on "his" fridge in the garage... I'm sure the same technique could be used on current freezers... You'd just have to make sure you remembered to lock it after closing it so it wouldn't come open on accident

I prefer the upright but things will fall out easily--just missed getting hit by frozen butter today. Also we have twice had the door left open calamity. No one would admit to one of the disasters but we found the culprit in the other case.

We have one of our freezers on the back porch which is now enclosed halfway up & screened. Before it was closed in I had a raccoon come up on the porch, open the door & help himself first to a loaf of bread & then to two packages of corn on the cob--and he didn't even shut the door behind himself.

The real problem with a chest freezer is that it has a large, flat surface about waist high. These surfaces are MAGNETS for attracting all sorts of things that then have to be moved before the freezer can be opened -- at least in my house.

When we were married we bought a chest freezer. My wife hates it and wanted an upright. I told her OK when it dies. 33 years later she is still waiting. With an average power bill of $45 for the house, shop and pump it can't cost much to run.

I prefer the chest type. Hard to organize though.
I like uprights because things can be sorted easier but I've had 2 and they don't seems to live very long.
I lost 650#s of beef the last go round. That hurt a little.