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Big Daddy said:
Thanks for the info. I'll check my owners manual.
Your Al Gore owners manual will tell you to move the freezer to the arctic to save on the electricity. Then using your "green" credits he can keep his woolly mammoths cold until the BBQ with Henry Kissinger.
 
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xpc said:
Big Daddy said:
Thanks for the info. I'll check my owners manual.
Your Al Gore owners manual will tell you to move the freezer to the arctic to save on the electricity. Then using your "green" credits he can keep his woolly mammoths cold until the BBQ with Henry Kissinger.
You said to check my owners manual. Now I'm confused.
 

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confused you should be - you brought up Henry in the first place.
 
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xpc said:
confused you should be - you brought up Henry in the first place.
I didn't bring him up on this thread. I brought him up on a political thread. My viewpoints on political topics are forbidden. So I can't address that particular subject with you. I will say you must have been bored to bring that subject up again since it was a dead thread. I would be more than happy to debate other important things. Just nothing that people will report me on, or that may hurt someones feelings.

Thanks XPC
 

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I have two BIG chest type freezers. I started with one and then bought another one to hold the excess. They are both Energy Star rated and have to be manually defrosted. (Although that is seldom necessary)

I keep my freezers in the basement in a dry yet cool location. I think this helps the energy costs even more. As for organization I now have one for vegetables, fruit, breads, lard and tallow for soaping and ready to use items like casseroles and such and the other one is specifically for meats.

I keep them organized by "color coded" plastic carry totes. Purple for pork, yellow for chicken, blue for lamb and pink for beef. I always double bag my meats in an additional freezer bag (which can be reused) as an extra precaution to keep them from waste by freezer burn. It is an easy matter to lift out a tote to organize if necessary. If I have a few packages left from the last butcher, I place them in a paper sack and set that on top of the new meat to be used first.

I keep meats like burger and liver, that do not store as long in the top baskets to be used first. I also keep things like fish,or things like duck and rabbit, which we do not usually have great amounts of at one time in those top baskets as well. I also try my best to use cuts like spare ribs and other bony pieces first as they take up valuable freezer space with little meat on them. Big meaty packages like hams, roasting birds or whole turkeys live in the odd space around the freezer motor and special things like bacon like to live in the odd little spaces.
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I have the veg freezer similarly organized. I use a filing system for lots of the items. By filling 2 quart bags and then flattening them before originally freezing them on a cookie sheet you can keep a nice system that not only allows you to keep a lot of items in a little space, it allows you to easily use the oldest packages first thus making it easy to rotate stock.
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Things like my slowly ripening green tomatoes that will soon be made into sauce get a temporary spot in bags top and center, while seldom used items like that tallow for soaping get consigned to the odd space around the motor in the very bottom. Again good organization makes everything work.

In addition we have the freezer on my refrigerator. That is the home of any item that is going to be put to use soon, cuts of meat for the next few days, ice and frozen treats etc..

Once you have a good freezer you will never go back. They can truly save lots of money if you use the right.
 

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Farmfresh I like your way of thinking and freezer pictures, but why drag the filthy liver into it? Most livers will repair themselves so there is no need to be skunkish.
 

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Part of being Self Sufficient for me is eating it all. I have a pig head in there right now, but I did not want to offend you by mentioning it. Some people might feel threatened. ;) :D
 

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Farmfresh said:
Part of being Self Sufficient for me is eating it all. I have a pig head in there right now, but I did not want to offend you by mentioning it. Some people might feel threatened. ;) :D
You can't offend me with a hogshead, but liver like a rubbery sucky sticky pile of squid just doesn't seem appetizing. I traveled for a living for many years and was given many disgusting things to eat (I pretended to eat) I even had to huff a piece pipe after the host fed me porcupine, he could not pronounce it in english and just showed me the dictionary entry. It was tasty but the raw squid was nasty.
 
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