Home Appliances: Freezers
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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