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Dick W.

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We need to buy a new freezer. Which do you recommend, chest or upright? Our old one is a 23 chest freezer. I'm thinking maybe a small one of both types. What say ye? Thanks.
 
They both have their advantages. It's easier to keep things seperated and organized in an upright. Trouble with them is,every time you open them the cold rushes right out on to the floor,and you can't store as much in the same cubic foot size. Everything slides out when you open the door.
We've got one of each. We try to get the upright emptied out first so that we don't have to use it.
 
Upright is easier to organize and has a smaller footprint. Chest is more energy efficient and stores more..Alos, if you're going to get a manual defrost, a chest doesn't frost up as fast. However, no matter what you want in a chest freezer, it's in the bottom.
 
Have had both over the years. Usally buy non defrost to save money on the light bill and once a year in the winter, thaw it out.

Problem with chests for me is too much gets stuck in the bottom, outdated and wasted. So, why did you spend the time and effort to put it in there if you were just going to let it go to waste and throw it out?

An upright helps to prevent it as does a non auto defrost. Since you are monitoring the contents annually, you can keep tabs on what needs to go and what can stay.....and the go items to to the table before they're useless.

Mark
 
How tall are you? Short people and chest freezers don"t get along well. Some tend to fall in reaching for the bottom! Mom was 4 feet nine- liked her upright freezer.
 
I've got a chest freezer in the cellar and one in the garage. I find it is easiest to sort your meats into milk crates. Then you can move a crate to get what you need and not dig for things with frozen fingers.
 
We have a little chest type at the cabin and I made some shelves that hang from the top lip and go across the back. Works well for small stuff that you use often.
 
Have an upright now, SWMBO already had it when we joined up.
Preferred the old Sears chest type from first family. That one got away with the property split. Had 2 tiers of tracks with roller baskets. 3 baskets each tier, but space for 4. Could roll them to side & reach between to access stuff below.
Manual defrost, switch on edge of lid so couldn"t accidentally leave it on. Open lid, lift out the baskets & stuff from bottom. By that time the frost was warmed enough to scrape off with plastic scraper. Pile everything back in, close lid. Total time about 15 minutes.
Willie
 
Hands down CHEST. They save the most $$ and the cold does not fall out when you down them up. Plus if the power goes out they are more likely to stay cold a whole lot longer. Yes I have had both types and have a side by side and a chest and the side by side is used for the want hands on and the chest for the longer term stuff
 

To me it would depend how full I expected to keep it. The cold can't fall out when you open it if you keep it pretty well full unless the food falls out LOL. If you are not going to have a lot then the chest would be better because then you would not have to dig so much. My first was a chest type but then I got an upright after I figured out that I wasn't really losing the cold when opening it.
 
We just bought a new 21 cu-ft Frigidaire upright from Sears. The old freezer was made by Whirlpool and it was also an upright that was 19 years old. It was still working and we received $125.00 from our gas & electric by recycling it.
The freezer was on sale for $699.00 and they gave us 15% off. I had received a $50.00 coupon from Sears on any Energy Star appliance over $699.00 and they took off another $50.00. The total cost should be about $521.00 with the rebate. I didn"t buy the service policy that was $200.00 for 5 years. I think we only had 2 or 3 service calls on the Whirlpool in 19 years. They also had chest freezers about the same size for $699.00. They had baskets for storing food and an area below the baskets for storing food. My wife really like that, but we couldn"t get it into our basement. We use to keep a chest freezer in the garage, but it gets very hot in there during the summer. Hal
 
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