Fridge Freezer for Singletons

Fusspot

Hi, I need a new fridge freezer, I live on my own. The one I have is a bigger fridge and small freezer at the top, I've managed with this for years and has always been enough for me, but sometimes I wonder about having more freezer space but then if I don't use it all it will be a waste.


I bulk cook sometimes when I use the slow cooker but this isn't all the time and I don't make loads of ready meals. I buy frozen veg and put my bread in the freezer.


Any singletons out there - what size fridge freezer do you have?

jk0

Mine is a normal half & half built in fridge freezer. The top shelf of the freezer is filled with ice packs. These will be used to keep my milk fresh if we have any long power cuts.

GreyQueen

Fusspot wrote: »

Hi, I need a new fridge freezer, I live on my own. The one I have is a bigger fridge and small freezer at the top, I've managed with this for years and has always been enough for me, but sometimes I wonder about having more freezer space but then if I don't use it all it will be a waste.


I bulk cook sometimes when I use the slow cooker but this isn't all the time and I don't make loads of ready meals. I buy frozen veg and put my bread in the freezer.


Any singletons out there - what size fridge freezer do you have?

For the past 9 years I've had a Zanussi table-top freezer standing on top of a conventional (Miele) larder fridge.

Actually, it's now roosting on its second fridge.

The reason for this apparent insanity is that the table-topper has 50 litre capacity, which is greater than many a three-quarter height fridge freezer. And the compressor is sticking out the back, so the cabinet is a simple cube with one (removable) wire shelf across the middle and very efficient to stack.

!!!!!! tend to die when one of the two compressors fails, so thr fridge dies and the freezer is OK or vice versa. By having two separate appliances, you avoid this. The table-topper just sips electricity and my entire household is only using 2.5 kWH per 24 hours.

When the table-topper eventually trundles off to meet the great scrap-merchant in the sky, I'll be getting another one. HTH.

greenbee

I have a normal undercounter fridge, two undercounter freezers AND a chest freezer. And at times they are all full to bursting... at the moment I think I could probably rationalise and turn off one undercounter freezer, but I can't get to it at the moment due to the mess my builders have created in the garage.

Feral_Moon

I have a large American style fridge freezer and despite living alone, it's always fairly well stocked (capacity - 368L fridge/176L freezer).

It runs extremely efficiently too, costing approx £50 a year to run if I recall the blurb correctly whilst also keeping food fresher for much longer, so there's little to no wastage.

I also have two chest freezers but they belong to the dog lol

elsien

Separate under counter fridge and freezer here. I could do with a bigger freezer because I batch cook soups etc for lunches, buy yellow sticker bread and veg, and bulk buy meat etc. on offer, but I don't have the room.

I did also look at raw feeding the dog, but that would have needed a whole freezer to itself to make it worthwhile so I've had to give up on that idea.

moneyistooshorttomention

Personally - I think single people need even more fridge and freezer space than anyone else. Certainly more freezer space.....all those leftovers to be stored from often cooking up 2 (or even 4) portions of things and needing to be able to store the rest.

Only one person to do the shopping. Being only one person - then a much greater chance of the household not having a car for doing the shopping (courtesy of being worse off than equivalent bigger households).

Then add the fact that I think the need to grow food, if possible, is even greater for a single person (ie so it's possible to get just the quantity of veggies one person requires at a time) - but any surplus can be put in the freezer.

All of which added up to me getting the biggest I possibly could. So I have a fridge that is as tall as I am and a freezer that's even taller than I am. Yep....I do use all that space...