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East central Iowa | We have a house built in the 1800's and going into the basement isn't fun on the steep steps. We aren't moving until we can no longer live here and I don't see a realistic way of changing the steps.
Our basement freezer is getting on in years and it's probably a little bigger than we need. I found a GE chest freezer that is supposed to be "garage ready" and reading the literature it says 0° to 110°. I've never seen the garage below 20 and it doesn't get near 90° so that should be okay.
I think we'd get a 15.7 cu. foot to replace what is probably a 21 cu. foot.
I am curious as to thoughts on brand and will this really work okay in my garage?
And where we might find a freezer. We live within driving distance of the Quad Cities, Clinton, and Maquoketa, IA so any of those places might have what we need. |
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Central Illinois | I would NEVER recommend a chest type freezer, ever.
There are some new upright freezers made for garage storage.
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East central Iowa | Can you please explain why you wouldn't want a chest freezer? That's what we have now and we have a refrigerator with one vertical side refrigerator and one side freezer, I get really tired of opening the freezer side and having stuff fall out.
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St.Clair Co. IL. | I have two chest freezers in my garage, didn't know there were freezers made for the GARAGE I just bought them and put them out there have been out there for 20 plus yrs. wouldn't do without them no problems, but now that I made that statement I guess they will both go out next weeks LOL
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Southwest Kansas | Chest type are more efficient in that the cold air doesn’t spill out the bottom every time you open the door. |
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| I have both a chest freezer and an upright one. Meat goes in the chest freezer which is in the basement. It isn't a self defrost which is good as it doesn't warm up to get rid of ice and wreck the meat. Hardly any ice on the sides at all. One thing you can help with that is after cleaning the chest freezer, spray it with Pam spray and then if there is an ice built up, carefully use a putty knife to get it off. Yes I know you could poke a hole in it, that is why I said carefully. The upright freezer is nice for all the other stuff. You can see what you have in there easier. With putting meat in the chest freezer, I make sure and put everything in a certain place. I don't just dump. |
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East central Iowa | I checked local appliance dealers and big box stores. None of them have any freezers. What the heck?
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Treynor IA | As the wife and I got older we found it harder to reach to the bottom of the chest freezer. When the chest freezer crapped out we bought an upright. We really like because we can find things and they don't get lost in the bottom like a chest type. We use plastic milk crates to store various items in which keeps them from falling out plus we can pull them out for easy a access. I would buy 2 uprights over a chest type. |
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| Chris - 7/29/2020 13:32
I checked local appliance dealers and big box stores. None of them have any freezers. What the heck?
Everyone hoarding for the pandemic bought out all the freezer inventory every where. Local dealer was backordered until August back in April.
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| I use a plastic fry pan utensil to loosen the ice off the sides of my freezer. I think that would be safer than using a putty knife. When growing up, when my Mom would clean the freezer, when every thing was out, she would set a bucket of hot water inside the freezer, then close the lid. (Freezer turned off.) The hot water would help loosen the ice on the sidewalls. Come back after a little while and pry the ice off. Put it in containers, and go dump it. |
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| I have thought about using some kind of plastic container/crate system inside my chest freezer to help manage it. Trouble is.... I haven't found the right size containers to fit in my chest freezer that I won't waste space. Maybe I shouldn't worry about it, but this issue has stopped me from going to a container storage system in my chest freezer. |
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Embarrass WI | martin - 7/29/2020 16:25
I have thought about using some kind of plastic container/crate system inside my chest freezer to help manage it. Trouble is.... I haven't found the right size containers to fit in my chest freezer that I won't waste space. Maybe I shouldn't worry about it, but this issue has stopped me from going to a container storage system in my chest freezer.
I use a combination of cardboard boxes and the reuseable cloth shopping bags that I used to be able to get at farm shows. The boxes on the bottom and the bags are the next layer up. Simple to grab a bag of product A and get it out of the way to access product B in the box.
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Hooker Twp,Ne | We have an upright in the house and a chest freezer in my shop (pickup garage). We use to have one in the basement and if you don’t check it daily down there look out. Ours went bad and the stink was terrible and then having to drag the crap meat up the steps. Now I’m in my shop daily so I can easily check it. Also it’s handy to put frozen food in from town where you park your vehicles. |
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SE SD | 2 chest and one upright here.
Chest are more energy efficient. The cold stays in when you open the lid.
Besides, tough to store bodies in an upright ;) |
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Arkansas | A lot harder for the door to get left open or pop back open on a chest freezer. Been there done that. |
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Panhandle of Ne. | would this be an option? We have a similar one and we have the slip free sticky back stuff on the steps. Looks a lot like coarse sand paper. Not the handiest thing in the world, but a dang sight better than the small steps on a lot of the older stair cases. |
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NW-Ohio | We just clean and reorganize our chest type freezer once a year. After removing everything from the freezer. I unplug the freezer and lay my wife's hair dryer on a small upside down bucket in the bottom of the freezer, turn it on warm for about 15-20 minutes. Then just use towels to finish cleaning the inside of the freezer. This has worked for us for years. |
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Cambridge, southwestern Nebraska | I would agree with the chest type freezers being more efficient. We had several for years. Trouble with a chest type for us is bending over and getting stuff at the bottom. AND, having stuff at the bottom that never gets dug down to. A chest type seems to be a little better about keeping things rotated out.
As fas as opening the chest type freezer and having things fall out. That's just poor supply management! |
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Northeast, NE | Tim in WI - 7/29/2020 18:33
I use a combination of cardboard boxes and the reuseable cloth shopping bags that I used to be able to get at farm shows. The boxes on the bottom and the bags are the next layer up. Simple to grab a bag of product A and get it out of the way to access product B in the box.
That is an excellent idea. Thank you for that!
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Lancaster, OH | When we cleaned out Mom's freezer after she passed away, we found items in the bottom that had expired 15 years earlier. I guess they were ballast. :) |
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Floyd County, Iowa | Like someone else above, we have 2 chest type freezers in our attached garage. Have had freezer in garage for 19 years.
The garage is insulated, but not heated. It gets warm in there during summer, and in winter gets down to almost freezing on the coldest days.
Had to replace one a couple of years ago: the original was bought (from Sears) in 1976, and it lived in 7 houses during it's lifetime. |
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