How do you organise your chest freezer?

psso

Are you supposed to organise a freezer?
I just play freezer jenga.

krlyr

It drives me nuts! I've tried so many methods, stuck with the carrier bag method (trying to utilise the different coloured bags from different supermarkets) but we're now looking to switch to a tall freezer, some have even more capacity than our wide chest freezer, and it'll be lovely to have drawers to organise things in!

samanthaneww2d

My organisation involves putting something in there and then having to defrost it to try and guess what it is . I do occasionally order it but sometimes it becomes like a game of tetris fitting everything in. I do however have two drawers in my outside freezer for bread so I always know where that is and the second drawer down in my kitchen freezer in exclusively for veg

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With the GF at the bottom, out of sight.

elaine241

I'm with psso are you supposed to organise a freezer? I buy yellow sticker stuff, add home grown fruit and veg, plus occasional HG lamb and then play Jenga! We also have a good game of spot the UFO, identifying the unidentified frozen object and then having the challenge of making something from it. Especially difficult if its miles away from what you thought you had got out! LOL

TBH the coloured bags full of alike items seem the most practical, or poss plastic boxes with colour coded lids?

Slinky

janb5 wrote: »

My friend had the same problem but you can get " hamster baskets" online ( think they are called that to store stuff in. Works well according to her.

Finally got around to ordering hamster baskets which arrived just before Christmas. We were a bit cautious with the measurements and could have had slightly bigger baskets, but they are great and very well made. We should be able to get much more in the chest freezer and be able to find things so much easier.


I think a few more YS items will be coming home with me.

Feral_Moon

No way on this earth could I cope with using a chest freezer for my food. I have two which I store the dog's food in and that is bad enough trying to keep organised and I also use the bag method to group similar items.

My own freezer is a large American style one with open shelves, drawers and door trays. I can see where everything is at a glance and each shelf/drawer is designated to different food types so raw meat products on one, fish on another. Portions of home cooked meals on another, bags of home made soup in a shallow drawer and a draw full of reduced priced artisan loaves and rolls from the local Coop (to go with the soups).

It's surprising how quickly it fills up and despite living alone, it's only just big enough to stir everything :rotfl:

jk0

How do I organise my chest freezer? Only buy an upright! They are quite difficult enough.

When my elderly father went into a home I had to throw away most of the food in his chest freezer, as it was years, decades in some cases past its use by date. It was such a waste.

I think Dad had trouble lifting everything out, and below the first layer it was just one solid block of ice.

Slinky

The space we have only allows for a chest freezer, there's not enough room to open a door outwards

AnnieO1234

I use the funky little baskets from poundland etc to put things like home-made mash etc into the chest freezer. It means I can pull things out in one go too which is easier.

If I buy a big box of chicken breast I utilise the box to go back in the freezer with the breasts individually packaged back inside it.

I try and keep fruit and desserts in one area, meats in another and veg in another. More unusual or delicate things like crab, smoked salmon, chicken livers go in the little basket that's part of the freezer. And I stack boxes on the generator thing bit.

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