Tall 'larder' or 'Chest' freezer?

Ben84

Chest freezers take up more space, but then they do provide a lot of open space inside without shelves getting in the way. Big items and odd shape items will be much easier in a chest freezer.

What I'd also consider is that a freezer can last 20 or 30 years, so it's worth getting a good one. Frost free and with an efficient energy rating are the main things I'd look for because you'll save a lot of time and money over the years.

meritaten

I think chest freezers make far better use of space. they are usually bigger too!
I hope you love Wales......I do, but then I am in the South! More populated and more towns!

Emm-in-a-pickle

I have both types of freezer - and couldn`t manage without either! No dishwasher or tumbledrier, I`d sooner use the space for the freezers. I`m in North Wales too, but not far from a lot of good shopping places. I shop for either ultra-fresh or `whoopsie` reductions as & when I can, & with the aid of both freezers I do `siege` shopping/cooking/freezing because of my shift pattern! (My house is Messy, but my meals aren`t!)

TravellingAbuela

I have one of each too. Each has its own merits and I wouldn't know which to recommend really! It is easier to find things in the upright, however, and I hate having to rummage down to the bottom of the chest one and almost half empty it before I get to what I want! I try to be organised - the chest is supposed to be for all my foraged berries, frozen veg, etc and the upright is for meat (I buy it in bulk from the butcher), fish, bread, batch cooking (soups, pies, meals etc) but, invariably, when one freezer is full I have to overflow into the other and end up totally disorganised!

If I could only have one I think I would plump for the biggest larder freezer I could find, rather than the biggest chest freezer I could find - just because it would be easier for me to keep it organised and tidy!

weeze210

I have two small under counter freezers at the moment and they are chaos! I have really tried to keeep them organised but as one is in the house and the other in the shed I tend to try and squeeze everthing into the one in the house and when I go shopping and the huse one is full all the nw stuff gets bunged into the outside one. I mostly live off the one in the house and when I can't find anything to I fancy I venture outside to the other one and find loads that I had forgotten about. I should be more organised and proberly with this move I am going to have to be, so may be I should go with the tall larder freezer as that seems to be the one thats easier to keep organised!
Thanks for all your opinions, you lot are so helpful!

Weeze x

rising_from_the_ashes

For me, a larder everytime (used to have a chest one but hated it - kept losing things at the bottom).

However, depending on what you want it for, a chest one can be brilliant. DM has one for her fruit & veg (huge veg plot) and puts each type of veg in a carrier bag - easy to find and pull out. So, for that type of thing, it's brilliant (and you can get a lot more in them).

HTH

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I had a chest freezer which was in the boot room and a fridge freezer in the kitchen. I used to move the frozen meat etc needed for the next month's menu's from the chest freezer into the kitchen freezer before I went shopping, I try to shop for big heavy stuff once a month with a fruit top up in between. I also used to buy a few loaves of bread when they were reduced and use them to bulk up the freezer so it worked more economically. I also used to bake my own bread and would freeze lumps of dough in plastic bags; I always had bread if nothing else. Years ago I also froze milk, using the big 6 pint bottles, pour some out into a jug to use and then screw the lid back on and freeze upright, however remember to take it out of the freezer so it thaws......I got caught out a couple of times, so I made a habit if there was arounf a pint and a half left in the container I was using I would take the next container our and leave it in the sink overnight, by the next morining it was thawed, shook it before I used it.

No longer use fresh milk, I store cartons of skimmed milk in a cupboard put them in the fridge before I know I am going to need it to make sure its cold....I hate 'warm' milk.