Emptying the freezer

pigpen

Buy the new one.... empty the old one onto the table... drag old one out and stuff new one in its place.. turn it on.. put food in new one..

Advertise old one for sale/freebie whatever.. defrost and wipe down when its done..

My old freezer lasted about 8 years.. with several repairs.

Why waste time and effort with tubs of water and newspaper when you can transfer frozen stuff straight over?? Pointless exercise and waste of energy freezing stuff to bin!!

Feral_Moon

Freezers need to stand for 6-8 hours after delivery before you can even switch them on. They then need 24hrs after switching on to get down to temperature before filling with frozen food.

Do you have any polystyrene boxes? Do you know anyone who raw feeds their dog who may get frozen food delivered in polystyrene boxes? These will keep your food frozen for 48 hours whilst you install new freezer and get it up and running.

Feral_Moon

jk0 wrote: »

Ten years? I'd expect a freezer to last at least 30 years.

(My mother has a fridge freezer she bought in 1980.)

I dread to think of the running costs due to inefficiency of such an old product! :eek:

Goldiegirl

Feral_Moon wrote: »

I dread to think of the running costs due to inefficiency of such an old product! :eek:

I had a chest freezer that was 28 years old. We only replaced it because a hinge on the lid broke.

When we got a new one, our electricity bill was noticeably lower. Sometimes it can be a false economy to hold on to old appliances.

JIL

My fridge freezer is leaking from underneath, I have googled it and it's a blockage that can be fixed, but to get it fixed it needs to be moved and to move it I need to empty it. I get so far and then I fill it up again. The wooden floor tiles underneath have rotted, and it isn't a good look with a towel underneath it, so I think I need to think about this thread.

jk0

Feral_Moon wrote: »

I dread to think of the running costs due to inefficiency of such an old product! :eek:

Oh, Mum ain't that expensive. She's still good at ironing & cooking.

rosie383

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

jk0 wrote: »

Oh, Mum ain't that expensive. She's still good at ironing & cooking.

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I needed a giggle. Thanks!

Slinky

My sibling's fridge packed up last year. It had previously belonged to our granny. She died in 1976. It was probably a couple of years old then.

FurryBeastOz

LW snap.

Dates and quantities and '2nd purse' price if bought on offer. For home cooking I also keep calorie and nutrition records (on a high protein diet)

Scarily, the spreadsheet shows I have about £400 of food in there:eek: That's why I keep failing on the Grocery challenge!

NewShadow can you run down the freezer for a while, and then 'borrow' freezer space from a neighbour for the time it takes to settle the new freezer?

NewShadow

jk0 wrote: »

Ten years? I'd expect a freezer to last at least 30 years.

It's had a hard life?

pigpen wrote: »

Buy the new one.... empty the old one onto the table... drag old one out and stuff new one in its place.. turn it on.. put food in new one..

Advertise old one for sale/freebie whatever.. defrost and wipe down when its done..

This is what I'd like to do but unfortunately a very uncooperative house layout, combined with a council that's very hot on 'fly tipping' (while awaiting collection is not a valid excuse), no outside space, and (disturbingly) no table, make this intimidatingly challenging.

FurryBeastOz wrote: »

... the spreadsheet shows I have about £400 of food in there:eek: That's why I keep failing on the Grocery challenge!

most definably me too...

NewShadow can you run down the freezer for a while, and then 'borrow' freezer space from a neighbour for the time it takes to settle the new freezer?

Maybe, but I think it's going to take me 6 months to get the to stage where it's not a huge imposition on someone else's space - unless my neighbour decides to buy a new freezer and has it standing empty for a period...

Sigh... why does everything have to be so complicated [/joke]