I defrost in the winter and stack stuff in baskets on the patio. Mine has a rapid defrost, it hardly takes any time at all. I like having a chest freezer except that everything I ever want out of it is apparently buried on the bottom.
Happy Birthday : )
We bought an upright freezer this weekend too. We got a great deal off Craigslist because someone was selling an almost brand new one that cost $800 for $200. It’s all shiny and spotless and just waiting for me to go to Costco and fill it up. It will be nice to be able to take advantage of sales but I’ve never had the room until now.
I’m waiting until this round of monsoon rains passes, though. I hate rain by this time of year and I’m tired of getting soaked.
HH Gregg had by far the best price, if anybody’s interested - the same model at Best Buy was I think 569, and a similar one at Sears for 501, and HH Gregg for 427. So we got it delivered too. Two guys with those shoulder harness-and-under-appliance-sling things, in and out of my house in, say, three minutes. You should have seen them squeeze through the doorways - it was like a beautiful ballet.
Happy belated birthday.
On your behalf, I wish for whirled peas.
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy birthday de-ar Zsofia, happybirthdaytoyouuuuu!!!
Do you like my singing?!
Funny how becoming a responsible adult (well, at least getting to the age where you pretend to be one) means getting excited over the strangest things, huh?
I’m pretty excited for you by proxy. 
My little chest freezer in the basement is the best thing ever… it’s like a neverending wonderland of sausages and roasts and bacon and butter and peas and chicken soup and ground beef and tortellini and phyllo pastry and so many other edible things.
(Just wait until you come home after your first big post-freezer Costco trip… it’ll feel like Christmas or something)
I made my first Costco trip a week or two ago before I even had the freezer and I bought cases and cases of all sorts of staples and I’ve never had this much food stacked up in my life. All I have to do is open the cupboards and I have countless choices of things that I can throw together. We could hold out for a month in a natural disaster without going hungry or running out of toilet paper.
Yes, I did.
It sounds very festive, like a visit from Pea Boy.
Ooh, I’d love a bigger freezer. And happy birthday!
My “I’m a real adult now” moment was a year or so back when my mother proudly announced they had just gotten a new washer and dryer set – front loader, lots of bells and whistles – and I was jealous. Still am, actually.
Hey, that sounds just like my house.
I actually squeed out loud when we took our first look at our current home and I discovered the basement had a little room that was perfect for a pantry. A pantry!!! Now I just need to dig out a proper cold room, and then I can have the last laugh when the Final Reckoning comes… we’ll be eating pasta and beans for years before we run out.
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You can never have too much toilet paper. Never.
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I read as far as the word “limoncello”, and then I don’t remember anything after that… mmmmm… limoncello…
Happy Birthday, Zsofia!
I brought up the idea of a root cellar once and my partner just laughed and told me to stop watching Little House on the Prairie. (I wasn’t.) He does have a point - I’d have to grow a lot of root vegetables to make it worth digging out a place underground to store them. I’ll have plenty of room to freeze what I grow, though. We usually get bushels of fruit from our trees and I don’t know how to can or jar things but I’m sure that there’s something to make out of it that will freeze well. I suppose when Armageddon comes I’ll be willing to eat canned vegetables.
Root cellar? You guys have strange habits.
Unless root means something different in the USA.
Now you have a place for Himself when he says that one time too many! :D:D
Yes. 
Like carrots and turnips and (not exactly roots but) potatoes and the like. A cool dry place in which to store such vegetables over the winter, with a minimum of loss.
What does it mean to you?
Ohh, a deep freeze. I was so excited when we got ours. Now I can go food shopping, and I don’t have to worry if there is space in the freezer for that package of hamburger that is on sale.
Things you can now keep in the freezer:
Extra pepperoni, for those frozen pizzas.
Specialty sausages, from that place you only visit every couple of months.
A supply of frozen peas, corn, broccoli and cauliflower
A 10# (or larger) bag of rice. Freeze most of it, and it will last darn near forever, without the worry of getting bugs in it.
A couple of tri-tip roasts. They actually defrost rather fast. Can have them on the grill in about 30 minutes (still frozen in the middle, but that’s ok)
A few bags of pre-made potstickers.
Bags and bags of strawberries you picked last year.
Popsicles!!!