Insignia 5 Cu. Ft. Chest Freezer $100 at Best Buy

[Attjack]

Nice place to store your meats. Insigniaâ„¢ - 5.0 Cu. Ft. Chest Freezer - White




$99.99
On Sale
Save $70
Was $169.99

[JakeT]

Dang that's actually a lot cheaper than I always thought stand alone freezers were. May have to make a visit to the ol best buy this weekend.

[RonB]

Someone needs to ice this deal.

[Huskee]

I see what you did there. Pretty cool line!

[RonB]

Good one Huskee - maybe you should freeze the replies right here.

[Huskee]

Chill, Ron, chill..

[Omega-Man]

I don't buy ANYTHING from Best Buy! Their return policy is carved in stone and they lost me as a customer over 10 years ago over an $18 return. Sales associate suggested an item for my phone which turned out to be the wrong part. Since the store isn't close by, I waited only one week past the return period. I figured that I would at least still be able to return an unused item and get a store credit but, NO. Sent email to corporate office and got the same result. So, now when I need to buy something and feel the need to see it, I go to Best Buy to see and touch and talk to sale associate. Then I go home and buy on Amazon or somewhere else where prices are cheaper and, for the most part, no sales tax.

[Omega-Man]

It is a great price. I'm not sure if it has auto-defrost, which is a deal breaker for me.

[jfmorris]

Most chest freezers do not have auto defrost. In fact I’ve never seen one with it. If it has a drain plug on the bottom and front, like all the ones I’ve ever had do, that’s a sign it’s manual defrost, which is the primary difference from an upright freezer.

[smoken]

I'm with you Omega, They are the worst!

[jfmorris]

This is about $50 less than the normal price on a 5.0 cubic foot chest freezer at most retailers. Most places (Lowe's, Home Depot, Sam's Club) charge about $149 as their regular price, so while Best Buy's sale price is lower, their normal price of $169 is higher than average.

I've got one about this size in our laundry room, its just big and deep enough for me to stack a two of those plastic "milk crate" storage bins in on the side without the compressor hump. I keep my meat in those, and can put a couple of butts or a brisket or other large item on the compressor hump. They usually come with a wire basket thing that spans the opening, and can be slid back and forth, and I keep that on the compressor hump side.

[Mr. Bones]

Thanks Attjack !
They also have their 7.0 ft² Insignia on sale, if this helps anybody decide to git a deep freeze...I'm kinda leanin towards th larger, fer my nefarious BBQ purposes

[Attjack]

Yeah I have one 5 cubic foot one and I definitely fill it up. I also have a beer fridge, and a fridge in the kitchen that give me a little more freezer room each. That 7 is probably a good call.

[Mr. Bones]

Attjack they both have their merits...
th smaller one could likely git tucked away inside my small duplex...
th larger one will hold 2 ft² more sale-priced food items...but it'd be exiled to th garage, most likely.

Wait! If I buy two 5.0's fer $199.98, I git 10 ft²
(Nah, actually I want another fridge, an a freezer at well, so I ain't gonna do it that route...)

[Attjack]

Yeah my freezer actually just fits in its spot. So it's a good match for me.

[jfmorris]

For those that don’t know, the main difference between a chest and upright deep freeze is that most upright models incorporate an automatic defrost cycle like your refrigerator does in its built in freezer. This means that the upright allows the freezer to get above freezing periodically, usually daily. This is what leads to freezer burn and frost build up on ice cream, and also reduces the shelf life of frozen meat. Most chest style freezers do not do this, and have to be manually defrosted when frost build up reaches a certain point, and have drains for this purpose.

When I kept a chest freezer in the garage, the humidity that would get in there when I opened it led to massive frost build up of an inch or two through the freezer over the course of a year. Being in a garage, it was easy enough to defrost and run a drain hose out the garage door. Since I moved to a smaller chest freezer in the house (laundry room) I’ve only seen a little frost build up at the very top of the interior, likely due to it being less humid in the house, and I have knocked it off easily with an ice scraper from the car.

[Omega-Man]

Thanks! Good to know.

[Bogy]

Yeah, we have about a 10 cu.ft. chest freezer, in our basement. every 2 or 3 years I bust the ice that forms close to the top off. Stuff stays good far longer in the chest than in a self defrost. We get a half a beef every year from a friend, and last week I took out a forgotten package from 1 1/2 years ago, and a "fresh" package, just in case the old one was burned. Couldn't tell the difference.

[theroc]

We bought the 7 cu.ft. Insignia freezer that Mr. Bones mentioned at BB a couple of months ago. Got it to hold a quarter cow we had just ordered from 5 Bar Beef. Tight squeeze to fit the entire quarter in there, but it looks like a decent, basic chest freezer. So far it is operating fine. Paid about $20 more than the current sale price, so not too bad.