Virtues of a chest freezer

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Ok, Ok, Ok, I KNOW I should be shot for posting something as boring as this BUT my MIL rang last night asking if I wanted a chest freezer for christmas! lol When I had got over the initial laughter I thought hmmm wonder what having a chest freezer is like!

Have you got one?
Does it make a difference to being organized?

wish mil would buy us one!

they have got a big one in currys atm for 139 and it is energy a rating

OOO I think that is the one that I am getting

it looks brill but i hav been told i cannot order it yet

Yeah. You spend ages leaning over the into the thing, finding those chops you know you had in there somewhere. Just move the bread, ice-cream, the joint,the peas etc etc... now where are they?
Actually more room and no drawers that stick.

they are great - I remember our german shepherd dog pushing mum head first into ours at least once a day. Also when we had the awful winter when we were cut off from the village (let alone civilisation) the numerous loaves of bread and long life milk dad stocked up on were lifesavers to us and our neighbours (and believe me, Dad was quite obsessive about buying bread to freeze at one point). Ours was kept out in the garage, which goes to show how rural and bleak an area I grew up in . . .

Seriously though, there are worse things she could buy you and they do have lots of capacity so you can do proper big shops and not worry about best by dates. Hmm, you are putting ideas into my head . . .

It can also be handy when DP/DH gets too much and you need to kill him straight away.

I have a small chest freezer (only the size of an undercounter thing) plus a small freezer on top of teh frige) The chest freezer is outside in the garage and I love it. I do randomly find things a year or two later when I look in it, but I do use it for a lot of stuff. Get one defineatey if you have room

I've only got a small freezer now, but I used to have a huge chest freezer and I loved it. Stacks of room, easier to move things around in, easier to cook in bulk and freeze for later ...

I wish my MIL was offering to buy me one ...

Virtues = chop up MIL in small pieces, place inside and shut lid.

I found some homemade lasagne from 1998 in mine the other day....

Good for quickly chilling a bottle of White or some stellas if you forgot to put them in the fridge!

I always think of frozen corpses though...