Large Big Green Egg, Weber Performer Deluxe, Weber Smokey Joe Silver, Fireboard Drive, 3 DigiQs, lots of Thermapens, and too much other stuff to mention.
Okay, this is what I bought it for. Both the freezer side of my side-by-side and this chest freezer are 7.1 cubic feet. But this is a much more efficient volume. The meat fills the side-by-side about 80%, with the other 20% being ice cream, leftovers, frozen veggies, etc. Here it’s less than half full.
It’s been solidly between -2 and -8 since it got to temp this afternoon.
If not cooking outdoors, I am cooking on the stovetop with my 14" carbon steel wok, 12" CI skillet, or in the oven with my two Lodge CI pizza pans, or two dutch ovens. I've also got a nifty Lodge carbon steel grill pan that rocks for veggies outdoors.
They JUST fit into my smallish deep freeze, and I can stack them two high on the the side away from the compressor hump. It puts the meat into more manageable piles. I tend to keep meat sorted by type into the bins, and it makes it quick to lift the top bin out, set it on the ground, and rummage through the one below, then put it back. It sure beats having a huge pile of loose stuff filling the entire freezer.
I put big roasts, briskets, etc, on the compressor hump, and keep that wire basket pulled to that side, since the milk crate stack comes almost to the top of the freezer. I keep the bottom basket full of heavier items like butts and roasts, the top one gets steaks, chicken, etc. Ribs get shoved wherever they will fit.
They sell rectangular ones too. I would look for whatever used the space in your freezer most effectively.
Last edited by jfmorris; November 4, 2020, 08:36 AM.
As jfmorris said a freezer alarm is worth the investment especially if it isn't a freezer you get into every day. Our chest freezers often have more value in them than they cost.
If you travel a bit then you'll want to get a model that has min/max temperatures so if there was an extended power outage you know if things thawed and refroze. If you want to go cheap fill a small yogurt or similar container with water, freeze and then put a penny etc on top. If you come home and the penny is below the ice you know things went wrong and the contents might be suspect.
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