On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:10:47 +0100, Janet Baraclough
> wrote:

>The message >
>from Lou Decruss > contains these words:
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>> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 18:26:53 +0100, Janet Baraclough
>> > wrote:
>
>
>> > My current (upright) freezer is frost free. That means there is zero
>> >ice build up and I never, ever have to defrost it.
>> > I'd *strongly* recommend getting a frost-free model .
>
>> Really, Really! bad advice. The frost free part of our combo unit
>> has stuff we're going to use in a week or so and want to keep handy.
>> Everything else goes in the real freezer with no intermittent heat
>> blasting on it.
>
> ? Mine stores stuff for 6 + months; and is only opened once a day
>max, to get out whatever needs to be defrosted.
>I don't have to open all the drawers because the contents are organised.

I've read the newer frost free freezers are better than the older ones
but I still wouldn't want one.

>And, heat blasts are virtually unknown in Scotland :-)

<laugh>

Lou