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Wife asked a question that has me wondering if such a thing exists, and if not, why not?

Her idea of the perfect freezer is an upright model with say, 3 or 4 smaller doors/compartments so that you can store your frozen goods by category and only open that part of the freezer that has what you want. Idea is that it's easier than bending over pawing through a chest freezer looking for that package of pork chops and I'd think it would save some operating costs.

Be there such a critter?




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Never seen one, but it appears they exist. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Fr...FFFU14F2QW/205555907

I like that I have my chest freezer in the laundry room. If I had an upright version, I would have no place for it.




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I have a spare fridge and freezer in the utility room. You can get them used very cheap. I could not live without them! I like to vacuum-pack quality meat in bulk quantities, and I love the fridge, packed with beverages, for entertaining. I also use the spare fridge for dry-aging quality meats.

Almost forgot. Every Sept I buy cases of over-ripe organic Roma tomatoes very cheap, and make huge batches of tomato sauce and spaghetti sauce, and pack the freezer.
 
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Never seen one, but it appears they exist. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Fr...FFFU14F2QW/205555907

I like that I have my chest freezer in the laundry room. If I had an upright version, I would have no place for it.


Not quite what I had in mind. That's just a basic upright freezer with shelves. Allows for sorting contents, but you open that big ol' door and all the cold air (being denser/heavier) "spills" out the bottom.

Which is why I've always gone with chest freezers, more efficient.

At least, that's what I've always been told.




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if you have money to burn
http://www.norlake.com/nor-lak...or-reach-in-freezers


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We bought a small Kenmore upright freezer several years ago. I specifically didn't want a chest freezer. I've had one in the past, and food gets "lost" at the bottom. We bought a 5.8 cu ft upright freezer from Sears. It measures ~ 21" X 23" X 57" tall. I love it and would never go back to a chest freezer! I only open it once every 2 - 3 weeks... I don't think the cold air escaping is a concern.

http://www.sears.com/kenmore-5...ockNo=6&blockType=G6



After looking at the picture, I realized we definitely need more BACON!

The bottom 2 shelves is some the elk meat I brought home this year (split it with 2 other guys).
 
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Used to have a 25cf fridge only in the house and 22cf upright Kenmore freezer in the garage. Single door with multiple shelves.







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if you have money to burn
http://www.norlake.com/nor-lak...or-reach-in-freezers


THERE ya go, exactly what I was looking for.

Apparently, if ya hafta ask, you can't afford it. Frown




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Perfect! First thing is drill a hole in the side for the hose on the kegerator. Other side top, chill my mugs.


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^^^Yowza!

Lessee here...a beef critter, coupla hogs, 6 dozen chickens, coupla lambs, a deer critter or three and ummm.....BACON!




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^^^Yowza!

Lessee here...a beef critter, coupla hogs, 6 dozen chickens, coupla lambs, a deer critter or three and ummm.....BACON!

And a body or two.


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^^^Yowza!

Lessee here...a beef critter, coupla hogs, 6 dozen chickens, coupla lambs, a deer critter or three and ummm.....BACON!

And a body or two.


Just thinking outside the box. Big Grin

Does kinda lend a new meaning to "John Doe" tho. Eek




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We have an upright Kenmore, been trouble free for 7-8 years.


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If you have a, say, 25cu ft freezer that's 80% full, you're really not transferring much heat if you open the door & cycle 100% of the air to 70*.

I'm not going to bother testing it, but I'd say if you unplugged the freezer, opened the door, used a fan to cycle air for 30 sec, then closed the door, I doubt you'd have much perceptible temp rise an hour later (with the freezer still off). Maybe 0.5*F, probably less.

In college, we had an HVAC lab on the top floor (walk in freezer that also could apply heat). One hypothesis we tested was to pack cases of beer up & try to calculate how long they would take to get cold. Even though we had remote monitoring, we usually ended the test early once we got thirsty.

I have a small upright freezer, I much prefer it to a chest type for organizing & retrieving food.
 
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I have a 12 chest (> 20 years old) and a 25 upright (new this year).

Though it has worked like a charm for all these years, I really dislike the chest freezer for some of the previously mentioned reasons.

The upright is great for organizing and being able to see what you've got in there. The one thing that I don't like about it though is that there are only four shelves in and it is difficult to stack things very high on the shelves without them sliding off so you get a lot of wasted space. It would be really nice if someone would invent one with shelves that had some kind of front on them to keep that from happening. Otherwise I'm happy with it.


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They have baskets for some units to replace the shelves.


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Growing up we had a chest and a upright, the chest was for long term storage, only got opened to add bulk or to remove food to place in the upright for short term storage. We kept the chest as full as possible and the upright was kept full by putting plastic jugs of water in any available space so if we had a power outage the food in both would keep for a longer period of time (I lived in south Alabama 30 miles from the gulf and this was the era of hurricane Camille, frequent power outages).
 
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Used to have a 25cf fridge only in the house and 22cf upright Kenmore freezer in the garage. Single door with multiple shelves.


Does anyone living in the south / southwest (e.g., Texas) where you can have extended periods of +100 degree days in the summer have a refrigerator freezer in the garage?

Our 18 year old Amana in the kitchen bit the dust this week and we have another fridge on order for the kitchen.

We'd like to put a backup /extra one in the garage (my wife would). We have space for a fridge or deep freeze in the laundry room but my wife really wants something in the garage. She practically lives in the yard during the warmer and summer months gardening and stuff so I know she'll want to have lots of cold Gatorade and ice available.

Only the two of us live in the house so I expect it will be a smaller sized unit. I'm okay with having one in the garage as long as I don't have constant problems with it working well.

So is a fridge in the garage a bad idea? Thanks!
 
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Used to have a 25cf fridge only in the house and 22cf upright Kenmore freezer in the garage. Single door with multiple shelves.


Does anyone living in the south / southwest (e.g., Texas) where you can have extended periods of +100 degree days in the summer have a refrigerator freezer in the garage?

Our 18 year old Amana in the kitchen bit the dust this week and we have another fridge on order for the kitchen.

We'd like to put a backup /extra one in the garage (my wife would). We have space for a fridge or deep freeze in the laundry room but my wife really wants something in the garage. She practically lives in the yard during the warmer and summer months gardening and stuff so I know she'll want to have lots of cold Gatorade and ice available.

Only the two of us live in the house so I expect it will be a smaller sized unit. I'm okay with having one in the garage as long as I don't have constant problems with it working well.

So is a fridge in the garage a bad idea? Thanks!

My upright freezer lives in the garage. It's an old Crosley... works great. I get into it a couple of times a week.



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