Household Hints & Help

want to eat it, do you? The doors are a little warmer than deep inside, but unless that ice cream is going to be around for years, well, something has to go in those doors...

Frost free means the sides heat up to melt the ice. that means anything touching the hot spots warms up, too. think about that when loading the thing. Most of the time nothing happens, but I have had strange spots on chicken thighs and boxes of spinach.

I have a chest freezer for long term storage, and it works great. Freeze the veggies I've been buying or growing all summer. Meats on sale. Frozen veggies on sale... Bread! Bagels! Cake!

Keeping it as full as possible, including water jugs when you don't have enough real stuff is always a good idea. However, calculating how much you spend in electricity freezing those jugs compared to how much on cold air flowing out of an unfilled freezer is guaranteed frustration. If the thing is normally full, I wouldn't throw jugs of water in there for a few days, but if it's normally half full, yes, fill it up with jugs. And remember that in the summer you can pull them out and as they melt you have ice water all day. You can also store bags of ice in there-- forget the refrigerator icemakers that break all the time.

Have fun with it-- it's just more options