Do you know what's in your freezer?

[mouse4702]

Frankly, I don't.  (That's my freezer of course: I really don't know what's in yours.)

Occasionally I have a clear-out and all sorts of stuff appears - not labelled or dated.  Stuff I've put in thinking "well this will be coming out again within the week" and that's been that for a year.

Is it just me who's a freezer slob?

[bankhaunter]

---

@petitecalicocat wrote:

Some interesting meals are concocted when the freezer is being defrosted 

---

That would be deciding on a menu by the "I don't know what it is but I'm going to eat it" principle.

[myraandjim]

I've got 3 freezers in total, a huge chest freezer, a fridge freezer and an upright one. I bulk buy along the lines of Fred's idea and I know everything that's in the large one, most of what's in the fridge freezer, and not a lot of idea what's in the upright - looks like tomorrow is clear out day!!!! Fred, the days of £20 for a lamb are long past, you need to add £100 to that, pigs a bit cheaper - I pay £100 for half a pig!

[ed_blackadder_1]

We have 2 freezers one chest and one upright. The chest freezer has meat and fish and bread. The upright fruit and veg.

[peteryola]

---

@5129frederick wrote:

A full freezer uses less energy than one that is two-thirds empty, so I used an old trick that seemed to work - I put a few large cardboard boxes into it and then put the stuff on top.  I don't think you save a kings's ransom because I never noticed much of a difference on the electricity bill.  They're quite economical really.

---

Fred - you didn't notice much difference because the empty boxes don't really "fill" the freezer; the efficiency arises from having large quantities of frozen food in it - it's the solid cold mass of food that helps keep the temperature down, hence the improved efficiency.

The boxes will make some difference in that the air within them will not circulate when the lid is opened, meaning that you don't replace as much cold air with warm air, but for true efficiency you will need a large, cold, mass in there.

As you say, however, modern ones are extremely efficient anyway so the difference between full and empty is probably quite a lot smaller than it would have been, say, 10 or 15 years ago.