Time for me to get my first freezer! Not sure what size or brand I should go with. Chest or stand up? I think I'll need a chest since my basement ceilings are low. Looking for some advice!
I use one that gets cold, and stays cold. More specifically, I much prefer a stand up. I think its easier to store things and find them.
Yeah, I hear cold isnt good enough. It has to be Freeeeeezing. Yeah dude I want a stand up bad but Im pretty sure I'd have a hard time fitting one in the basement. Im gunna measure it before I go and hope I find something! BTW You should change your signature to "If you are going to do something illegal, don't post it on the internet". I swear I've seen you say that so many times I expect it.
Kyle...here's a link to a thread I started last year. Read through it....they were a ton of great suggestions in there. I still haven't gotten a spare freezer but I will soon. http://forums.bowhunting.com/showth...ight-or-chest-freezer/page3&highlight=freezer
We've had a GE upright that we've used for 18 years. It runs great, but we just replaced it with a 14.8 cu. ft. chest Frigidaire. This is why: 1) Three times in the last 18 years the door has somehow come ajar just slightly. Not enough to notice, but enough to allow the cold air to flow out. Two of the times it resulted in a complete overnight thaw ruining almost everything in the freezer. Yes, it was our fault for leaving it ajar, but the chest would not have yielded the same result. 2) B/C we use our freezer almost every day, we access it frequently. Items on the edge quickly begin to show signs of freezer burn. 3) The outdoor door shelves do not keep items frozen as well as the interior shelves. I assume it has something to do with the opening of the door. Not sure, though. Maybe it's due to having less insulation in the doors. 4) Twice over the years we've had power outages that have lasted in excess of 24 hours. Though our upright supposedly has a typical freeze capacity of 24 hours as long as the door remains closed, it isn't even close to that. After just 6-7 hours, items in the door and front edges of the shelves were noticeably thawed. 5) We keep it in our uninsulated garage. In the winter the garage typically stays around 40-45 degrees. In the summer it averages about 80-90. During those months it seems like the freezer runs almost continuously. There's no question that the upright is more convenient for storage, but after losing hundreds of dollars worth of meat and fruit over the years, I will never go with an upright for my primary freezer. And as someone else noted, the first thing we did was go to Walmart and buy some milk crate type containers to organize in the bottom of the freezer. That coupled with the 4 movable shelves actually allow it to be organized pretty efficiently. Not saying either is better than the other, but for our use the upright simply didn't serve us well. FWIW, this is a summary from Consumer Reports. I know they aren't the end-all, but I thought this was an accurate summary of my experience of uprights:
