The freezer in your refrigerator is a great appliance. It allows you take advantage of those terrific specials at the grocery store by buying food in bulk. If you do this a lot, however, the room in these freezers may not be adequate. This is where a standalone freezer comes in. Not only does it offer more space for frozen foods, it saves you money in fewer jaunts to the grocery store and provide room to freeze leftovers instead of simply throwing them out.
As with any larger purchase, you should consider what you want the freezer to do. Although freezers may look equal from the outside, except for color, different models offer varying features and functions and vary in operation. It is important that you choose a model that offers the functions you need because you will own it for some time.
When looking for your new freezer, the two primary aspects you should consider are the space it will occupy and the function it will perform. Food that you are not planning to get to very soon or very often can be stored in the larger, chest model freezers. On the other hand, upright models take up only as much room as a typical refrigerator and grant easy access to food. They are, however, a little more expensive and less energy efficient than chest models. For defrosting purposes, some upright freezer models offer automatic defrost functions. Chest freezers do not offer this feature and must be manually defrosted. Though automatic defrost is more convenient, they perform their task by removing humidity from the air. They remove the moisture from the frozen food at the same time, leading to freezer burn. With a manual model, this is not an issue. Ice cream kept in a manual model doesn’t develop the interesting layer it can get in a freezer that automatically defrosts. And to speed the process, some manual models provide power cycles to move the process along.
In appearance, an upright freezer is very similar to a single-door refrigerator. The sizes of upright freezers range from the smaller, 33-1/2 inch tall models to those that reach 70 inches tall. The smaller units have about 5 cubic feet of storage space while the larger models feature about 20 cubic feet. Upright freezers are found in both frost-free and manual defrost models and start at around $250.00. Frost-free models often cost around an additional $100.00.
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