"gregz" > wrote in message
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> Cheryl > wrote:
>> On 8/9/2012 6:57 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:08:46 +0100, "Ophelia" >
>>> wrote:
>>> snip
>>>>
>>>> My chest freezer is 18 cubic foot. I cook a lot for the freezer
>>>> (especially
>>>> foods which need long slow cooking) and freeze seasonal foods too. I
>>>> can
>>>> get good bargains if I buy a lot at once ie meat etc. I store my
>>>> wholewheat flour in it and I bake a lot of bread at once, which of
>>>> course
>>>> saves fuel and then I freeze it. It has the usual baskets at the
>>>> top, but
>>>> I keep plastic baskets in the bottom to separate food there too. I
>>>> don't
>>>> have any problem finding stuff. I suppose you just need to be tidy and
>>>> methodical. I never buy bread so I am not sure about your sale bread
>>>> ;o)
>>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> Ditto, Ophelia. My chest freezer is 24 cu ft and we've had it since
>>> 1969. I do all the stuff you do. We operate with three layers of
>>> stuff in it and are able to do so because we use baskets and are tidy.
>>> It gets cleaned out about once a year to defrost. Cold air doesn't
>>> fall out when you open it and neither does anything else.
>>> Janet US
>>>
>>
>> I have multiple freezers now. My new fridge has the freezer on the
>> bottom, so that's similar to a chest freezer since the main drawer has
>> the most room. It has two drawers above the main compartment though. One
>> drawer is just the right height for plastic containers of leftovers and
>> other frozen food that comes in containers. That drawer has limited
>> height because if food is stacked too high, the drawer above it won't
>> close. The top drawer has additional clearance from the bottom of the
>> drawer to the top of the freezer so I can stack bags of frozen veggies
>> and other food and the drawer opens ok.
>>
>> When I replaced my main fridge, I kept the old one and it's downstairs
>> next to my freezer that doesn't have a refrigerator compartment. It's
>> not full sized but the shelves help organize things and I've added a
>> couple of wire baskets to organize small things so they don't get lost.
>
> I would love an "all" refrigerator. If I had room, and freezer. Walk in
> pantry too.
> just like the kitchen on tv chef at home.

I not only want an all refrigerator but one with glass doors so I could see
into it. I would also like a counter top beverage refrigerator, again with
glass door. And some of those built in drawer ones where I could make big
platters of stuff and just pop them in. Also an all freezer. And of course
a huge kitchen with plenty of counters and cabinets, an island, a little
sink just for prepping produce and stuff, water over the stove and of course
a walk in pantry. I actually had a walk in pantry in the first apartment I
had. The sad thing was, back then I was so poor that I didn't have money to
put food in it. There actually was some food once when I had enough to take
advantage of a case sale on veggies. And another time my roommate cooked a
turkey and left it in there all week, eating off of it as the days went by.
He offered it to me too. It's a wonder he didn't get sick!