Proud owner of new chest freezer

[tbob4]

Huskee - you made me laugh. When the hoarding started, I waited in line like everyone else at COSTCO and finally received my issue. My wife does NOT like storing things. A couple of weeks ago we were in COSTCO and they had the Charmin in. Despite still having a 1/2 pack at home, she bought more "just in case". Because of it, I was allowed to buy another pork belly "just because the price of bacon is going up" What a win!

[DaveD]

In my defense, that was the normal level of stock on hand before the pandemic! I inherited from my father (among many, many other things) the "stay stocked up" mindset (my folks were born in 1919 & 1922 and grew up during the Great Depression). We always have backup of everything. (And half of that stack is paper towels... )

[Huskee]

So YOU'RE buying up all the toilet paper!

[DaveD]

Hey, one last update here. I got some shelves installed on the wall above the chest freezer and can now store all my cooking accessories & supplies in one spot instead of everything being down in the basement. One less set of stairs to have to go up and down X number of times on cook day...! These are Fleximount shelves, and they definitely live up to their claim of being easy for one person to install. Nice design and everything literally clicked into place. In these dark days, getting this done has had a surprisingly beneficial effect on the ol' mindset.

Brackets onto the studs:


Assembled:


Load 'em up:


Bonus: frees up all this space along the wall of the garage, making it much easier for my lovely wife to get in and out of the passenger side. Brownie points for sure.

[DaveD]

To be clear, the Temp Stick is its own device, not part of the freezer. It can be used anywhere you need T and relative humidity monitoring. VERY nice gadget.

[tbob4]

That is a really nice feature!!!

[DaveD]

The Temp Stick sensor sits in the freezer, and if I were to leave the lid open, it would send me an email and a text once the T breaches 5F, so I shouldn't have that particular problem...!

[tbob4]

Seriously- I get excited about finding something and sometimes forget to shut the lid. Fortunately my wife has caught it in time, each time. The garage is an easy place to forget

[BBQPhil]

$129 at Costco

[DavidNorcross]

Welcome to the adventure. I also started with one. Now have 2 chest freezers, an upright and an extra fridge

[DaveD]

One feature of the Midea we got is that the lid will stay up, the hinge is designed with "stops" at about 75 & 90 degrees. That's definitely worth something...!

[Bbqmikeg]

They call it a chest freezer because when they fail and you lose all your meat you feel like you’re having a heart attack. It happened to me a couple of weeks ago. ThermoWorks sells a $19 (RT801) freezer alarm that will warn you and save your pork butt. When the grieving subsides I’ll probably get another freezer.

[HawkerXP]

So in my fading memory...........are these chest freezers self defrosting? I know the one I grew up with wasn't.

[Michael_in_TX]

And, if you opt for the 7.0 cu ft version instead of the 7 cu ft version, you get $10 off! (What....is going on.....)

[DaveD]

That's the one! It's behaving exactly as it should thus far, holding a few degrees below 0F.