upright or chest freezer?

[Sammimom]

We want to get a freezer for the garage, we are buying a quarter of beef and would like room for those extra things that never seem to fit in our regular freezer. I grew up with a big chest freezer, but it seems an upright may be easier to keep track of things...opinions?

 

[Mahonri]

UPRIGHT!

Chests are a PAIN in the back.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Uprights are nice but a little more expensive and aren't suitable for large cuts of meat.

I bought my 9 cubic foot chest freezer as a scratch and dent at Home Depot for $154. I label everything by date and rotate the oldest to the top every month or so since it's easy for things to fall to the bottom, get buried, and stay buried.

 

[A1 Steak Sauce]

Chests are a pain in the behind but I've never had the door to a chest come open on its own and thaw out a whole freezer full of meat which had to be thrown out either. So yeah, my vote's for a chest freezer lol.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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Oh good point. My friend lost 12 ducks he raised one year because the upright was left open. He wasn't happy.

 

[saddina]

Chest, grab a magnet, slap a freezer inventory list to it, and check off, add to as you go. mine's a 16cuft monster, i could hide 3 bodies in there easy.....

http://organizedhome.com/printable/household-notebook/freezer-inventory

 

[Brick243]

We always had a chest type freezer. A few years ago we bought an upright. I think I will go back to the chest freezer next time, but hopefully that will be a long time.

 

[lilshadow]

I have both, and like them both.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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OMG you are so OCD.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

I will not rotate, inventory, or even organize. The upright is awesome, and I have two. One cow fills the big one, and part of the smaller one, with plenty of room for ice cream and t.v. dinners. If I had to dig for a t.v. dinner, I'd be thirty pounds lighter. If I had to rotate or shuffle meat, it would all be freezer burned. BTW, a pig's head is in my small upright, fits just fine.