Home Appliances: Freezers
Cathy Peterson
If you have the space for a large freezer, you can save
yourself a lot of time in the kitchen. There are websites that
can tell you how to cook once a month and have homemade dinners
every night. Another growing trend are assembly line type
kitchens, where customers can come and assemble meals for their
family to put in the freezer using prechopped and measured
ingredients. By setting aside one day a month to assemble
meals, you can avoid that what’s for dinner question everyday
and avoid the fast food drive thru more often as well. If you
are in the market for a freezer, here are some things to keep
in mind.
First look at the space that you have intended for a freezer.
The amount of floor space and height clearance that you have
will determine whether a chest freezer or upright freezer is
best for you. After you have figured that out, look at whether
the freezer is self defrosting or manually defrosting. Having
to manually defrost a freezer periodically can be a big
downside, especially if you plan on keeping the freezer loaded
with food. That said, manually defrosting freezers are usually
less expensive than self defrosting freezers so if you’re on a
tight budget, the manually defrosting might be a better way to
go. If you are trying to cook once a month, just make sure you
do your defrosting toward the end of a month when you are
running lower on food in the freezer.
Chest freezers are usually more energy efficient than upright
freezers and while most have to be manually defrosted, they
often have a drain at the bottom that makes cleaning up from
defrosting easier. Some people complain that it is harder to
see what you have in a chest freezer since things get stacked
deeply, but some have wire baskets so that you can hang some
items higher and organize your frozen items, avoiding large
piles. If you have large items to freeze, chest freezers are
often a more effective choice.
Another thing to keep in mind is size in terms of how much you
plan to put in the freezer. Studies have shown that freezers
run more efficiently when they are relatively full, so if you
buy a freezer that is much larger than what you will fill, you
will waste energy and the freezer will take up that much more
space in your house.
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