extra fridge?
 

am i the only one who wants to have 2 fridges? i just bought a second one, it was bigger than i planned but the price was less than the smaller one, and it costs no more per year to run, so why not? i need extra room when i'm milking alot, the chickens are laying well, we have produce to can, dinners to do, cheese to age,..... of course, right now i coulda lived without it, as the goats aren't milking much and the chickens are not laying as well, but i had the money and the sale was good! i can always unplug it til i need it again, but i am so happy to have it! :nanner:

since we produce much of our own stuff, one fridge sometimes is so full i'm struggling. we dont' live too near town, so that's another thing--i can buy when i'm there as i have room to store it now.

hubby was saying that we really didn't need it. ok, i coulda done without, but having it will be great! am i the only one???

Nope, you're not the only one!!

I have two fridges and two freezers. I live about 25 minutes from Aldi's so when I go there on Mondays I get 6-10 gallons of milk and put them down in the fridge. It's also where I thawed my turkey this year! My upstairs fridge is a side by side and I HATE it. I loath it. I would do a Happy Dance if it disappeared one day.

I keep trying to talk DH into getting me a Coke cooler. The one with sliding glass doors. Then I could unplug the old one downstairs, move one of the freezers upstairs to the kitchen and have everything so handy! I keep scrolling craigslist to find one....one of these days I will!

I also have two fridges and two freezers. One freezer and fridge are out in the barn.

Heck, chewie, I not only want (as in desire, lust after) another fridge, I want one of those huge, walk-in, restaurant fridges!

With, of course, a matching freezer. Side by side, I think.

If I dig out something like a cellar, build an underground room for them, cover it with a lot of dirt so that they are REALLY well insulated, do you think I could cut back their energy use enough that hubby wouldn't notice?

We have two fridges and one freezer. The extra fridge is for eggs, cheeses, and things that I get on sale that will keep for a while. It also helps when the garden is producing well.

We're planning on getting another freezer as when ours broke we thought we could get by with one, but I've had to turn down some good deals, and have several people that supply us with deer meat so I need to get it soon.

Dawn

I have a 5.8 cf refrigerator.
http://www.survivalunlimited.com/sundanzer.htm

But I have a 288 cf cooler. It is a 6'x8'x6' spring house....James

You're not alone; we have a fridge/freezer and a 17 cu. ft. upright freezer, and are actively persuing another freezer. Between the garden, fishing, and hunting neighbors, and the fact that we keep the freezer packed, we run out of room fast. Luckily, we had a hole from the turkey, so the venison we receive had a home...but they just got 2 more, and are going out again thursday...yum!
Matt

See this thread http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/sho...d.php?t=374483

You started the above thread and received a lot of support and suggestions for buying a second fridge, so I'm not sure I understand your point in starting yet another thread on the subject. You never responded to folks to let us know what you decided, even though you asked our input. Or is there something I'm missing?

I may be a bit over the edge -

I have four fridges and three freezers.

22 cu ft side by side fridge
11 cu ft freezer top fridge
5 cu ft apartment type fridge
4 cu ft apartment type fridge


7 cu ft chest freezer (25 years old from our apartment days)
15 cu ft chest freezer
15 cu ft chest freezer

I work full time and normally need to do things over a few days, so I need lots of fridge room to store veggies/meat that is in process. Right now the fridges are full, chicken, venison, pork and leftover turkey. Taking the afternoon off to process, so soon it will be moved to the freezer and pantry.

I have 2 fridges, and neither one is an "extra". :)

I only have one fridge, but I am wanting to get an upright freezer with external thermostat to use for cheese aging, and a chest freezer with external thermostat for beer and mead brewing.

I suppose I should get a chest freezer to use for it's intended purpose, as well :p

One new fridge in the kitchen ( Energy tag says it uses 580kw/hrs year compared to the old one that used 1200/yr)

Three freezers in the garage.....now have stuff consolidated down to two, and have one turned off. But when we kill a beef or pork, we need all 3.

Then built a 6x6 walk-in cooler in the auxiliary kitchen off the back of the garage, cooled by a 12,000BTU window AC. That lets us kill a beef and hang it couple weeks or kill a hog anytime, and not be at the mercy of the weather...which around here, you never know. It was 60/rain yesterday, and it's 26/snow this morning.

We have two fridges and two freezers. The main fridge is a side-by-side in the kitchen, but it isn't quite big enough for our family of 5 unless I want to grocery shop every week. Which I don't (I stock up once a month and pick up milk weekly.)

The 'beer' fridge is in the basement, it has a tap on the side and holds a corny keg (we homebrew) in addition to the extra milk, cheese, gallon of syrup, jug of mustard, etc that doesn't fit in the main fridge (I buy condiments in bulk and keep a normal sized container in the main fridge that gets refilled as needed from the gallon jug in the beer fridge).

I think what we save by being able to buy even 'must refrigerate' items in bulk and on sale (always when on sale, and enough to last until the next sale!) more that makes up for the cost to run the extra fridge (and freezers!)

If you'd asked me this question a month ago, I would have said "No way! I have plenty of room in my fridge!" After DH came home with an elk and proceeded to empty the fridge in order to fit the elk in for aging...I dream of having a walk-in fridge now (or at least a second upright with no shelving)!

hehe, i knew it!! we also have 2 freezers. i got the reg. top/bottom fridge after seeing a dorm sized one costs about the same as the bigger one to run per year. (why is that??) the initial cost was more, but we also have tons more room, plus that extra little bit of freezer--very handy in deer season, since we've just processed our 2 hogs!

i like keeping things like my wheat flour in the fridge too, so having 2 just is a great help.

i fully agree, those side/sides are not my cuppa tea!! blah!

belfrybat--i AM responding, since i did get help, didn't know there was a thread-starting limit here, but i hope you feel better now, knowing what i did and why. :cowboy:

Two fridges, two freezers. We wouldn't trade them for anything!

2 fridges.....3 LARGE chest freezers......plum' full!!!!

Lets see..... I have a chest freezer you could fit 4 possibly 5 bodies in, and 4 upright freezers and another on the way after grandma cleans it out and defrosts it. Then I have one fridge that is in the house, top freezer type. It is small but all that will fit in my small kitchen. But I have a stainless steel fridge the size of a large standup freezer in our attached garage that we are converting to a family foom. We also have two small dorm style fridges out in the garage for DH's beer and hard crabs when the season is in.

I love my big fridge. We debone and age our deer in it and use it for the garden and so much more!!!

We have 2 fridges and 2 freezers, hoping to add a 3rd freezer. The grocery stores are pretty far away (although some may think 10 miles is pretty close) and I won't waste the gas to run to the store for 1 gallon of milk. I buy cheese and butter when it's on sale and keep it in the fridge or freezer. Fruits and veggies sometimes get stored in the fridge. Also need freezer or fridge space for killing the bugs in flour and dried beans.

2 fridges here also. 1 in the house side/side energy eff. and 1 in the shop for garden, store specials, drinking water in the summer etc.

2 freezers- 1 for all our meats and 1 for all the veggies we grow.

1- above ground cellar, actually a room I built similarly to Tn Andy's (with and a/c) except we use it in the summer for extra veggies and canning until we can get everything processed.

1-walk in cooler at one of my friends that I did the refrigeration work in exchange for using it anytime I need. (hogs, deer, etc.)

I have 2 fridges and I live alone! One can never have too much cold storage!

Whew, I thought we were strange, glad to see we aren't the only ones with multiple fridges/freezers. We have a side by side and a small freezer in the kitchen, another larger side by side and a bigger freezer in the utility room, and a very large freezer in the garage. We butchered a beef and 4 hogs last fall, and even after we sold quite a bit of each we still needed all of our capacity.

Ah, I'm among friends! We bought a large fridge this weekend; the owners had purchased a new, smaller fridge and sold their well-kept larger one for a song. It has been added to our collection that includes an equally large fridge in the kitchen and a smaller one in the garage. In addition, we have a small chest freezer and a larger upright freezer.

Now I don't feel so odd :)

We have one side by side refrigerator/freezer in the main kitchen. 2 bar refrigerators in the game room/man cave and a keg fridge, a double door reach in 4' wide commercial fridge in the outdoor kitchen with 2 upright freezers and a chest freezer. Can you tell I'm married to an Executive Chef? LOL

Does keeping a small office fridge to keep beer and soft drinks count? If so I have had two fridges ever since I moved my first female in with me and she had the wierd idea the fridge was for more than beer, bread, boloney , cheese, ketchup , peanut butter , jelly and to tape a list of nearby bars and their happy hour buffets to. :)

That 4 foot tall fridge is still running 24 years later . I also have 3 deep freezers because when my ex decided that my small apartment chest freezer wasn't big enough I figured out that buying two more apartment chest freezers and lining them up side by side was cheaper than buying a bigger freezer, provided more space than a single chest, had 3 separate sections and if one freezer died the contents could be moved into the other two chests until it could be fixed or replaced.

Now I am back to using one of the freezers for food storage and the other two I use to freeze neutralize wormcastings in.

WOW... you guys are paying some electric bills. I'll introduce myself in this thread as well. I'm a newbie to *this* site. Just signed up last week. I am an active poster at a different site. I'm also very very frugal (translated = born/raised poor)

Might I offer some Refrigerator Alternatives? (I posted these on my other site)

Man Retrofits Freezer to make Ultra Efficient Fridge... (this would make a solar powered fridge very doable)

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005...etrofits_f.php


wanna take it a step further?

Turn a Broken Refrigerator into an Ice-Box... (I'm thinking a broken chest freezer would be even better?) with winter approaching this could be helpful..

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/hom...r-ice-box.html

I have an inside refrigerator freezer and two freezers outside. One medium, one smallish. I use an external thermostat to convert either of the freezers to refrigerators when I need to. I still wouldn't turn down a refrigerator in the garage. I'm just not sure it would run efficiently in our hot NC summers.

welcome 123. yes, some elec. bills, but that is why i bought new. some of the older versions suck the elec. fast. the newer ones do much better. my new fridge costs around $41 a year to run. that aint' much, and yup, willing to pay it for the convience of it. we also use a car if needed, in the winter! i like that top link!! that's something i think is brillant! the other, well, i have a cooler, same thing. and i have used it that way when needed.

Up until last month we also had 2 fridges. Our second one died and oh do I miss it. I have one of those "french door" style in the kitchen and I hate it. It doesn't hold half of what I need it to. We are saving the money to buy a new fridge for the mud room. I also have a upright freezer in there.

We've had 2 fridges for about 4 years now --- wouldn't get rid of the 2nd one for anything.

We have 2 upright freezers, 1 in the garage & the other is in the basement. We also have 3 refridgerators, the 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the garage & 1 in the basement. The fridge in the basement is only plugged in & used from Christmas till spring when the temp's warm up, That's also the same time the 1 in the garage is unplugged. So only 2 fridges going year around if that counts.

My garage fridge wants to freeze everything in the fridge part & just keep the freezer food cold. Not sure why but I think it has something to do with the garage not being insulated. The old freezer in the garage works great year around though.

Ours in in the garage in Texas -- no problems with it at all. Temp swings here from low 20's in the winter to well over 100 in the summer. Been in the garage for 4 years now with no problems.

2nd Fridge
 

I would love to have a second one...I just have nowhere to put one :(. We need to add on to the house..or just build a new one first.

wonderful! Our last refrigerator had trouble staying at a proper temperature in the house when it got around 90. I'm fairly certain that fridge just didn't function properly. Thanks for letting me know.

No, you're not alone :)

I have just a small "under counter" fridge in my kitchen. I don't have enough space in my kitchen for a big fridge, so I went European and got an under-counter model. It fits beautifully in the spot where a dishwasher would normally go (don't have one of those!) and is handy for milk and condiments, etc.

My "main" fridge is downstairs in the basement, the biggest one I could find. It's an "all fridge" with no freezer compartment. It's very energy-efficient, and big enough that I can store huge stock pots in it if I need to. I typically have 15-20 dozen eggs in there at a time, and buckets of milk or produce. It's fantastic to have the space.

In addition, I have three freezers. There are two 14Cu ft freezers in the basement, and a huge 27Cu ft in the garage. DH has informed me I'm not allowed to get another freezer :)

When you process and store your own food, rather than make weekly grocery store trips, you have to have plenty of cold storage. My dream is to build a big summer kitchen with a walk in fridge and freezer. One day :D