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yeah, we had an upright when i was a kid and that thing would lose too much just from opening it and rifling around looking for things. got a chest freezer when i moved into a house with some other guys in my 20s and the wire rack crates worked great. could pull them out to get the big stuff on the bottom like full ribs or whole chickens.
Technology Connections did a good video on them if you really want to get into it
also chest freezers offer better space in general. you can fit more big things in them
but i would get bear and venison right from a kill share. most people are getting beef steaks and pork chops. i cook whole chickens. i have 2 right now but i need to clean the refrigerator to defrost. just made a rack of dry rubbed ribs in the gas broiler with yukon gold potatoes and sauteed asparagus with onions and mushrooms
I have a chest freezer now and when I move I was going to swap to standing. For puff pastry and breads and, blanching and freezing fries and other tubers and the like... but now I think I'm just going to do both. Hahaha.
I have both. Both is a good call.
Oh, yeah. had a garden at that house and the zucchinis were huge, breaded a bunch of them for frying and that was a hassle to freeze them. A stand up would work much better for that.
Stand up freezers come in both auto defrost and no defrost. Ones that defrost themselves let the meat thaw when they kick off and then refreeze it when they get cold again. Most chest freezers don’t have this option. So you will get some freezer burn with stand ups and chest freezers are good for long freezes.
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