Claire
Master Chef
I've lived here for 11 years, and most of our married life we've had a small (I think 8 cubic ft) freezer. We went on the road for three years, then moved to this old house.
My intentions were to buy another small chest freezer, but we somehow got by with the freezer on top of the fridge (the fridge is probably about 15-20 years old, and the freezer is just typical of the era).
Lately I'm getting fed up with juggling and jigsaw puzzling my way through the freezer. Needless to say, since we're all DC here, I cook a lot. It is very difficult to cook for two, so I tend to cook a regular meal (I learned to cook for 6), and freeze. I also make a lot of stock.
I told DH that I'm not making stock any more unless we buy a freezer. I feel like Fibber McGee and Molly every time I open the freezer door. He couldn't possibly in a million years find anything in the freezer. It is always packed totally; sometimes you have to almost empty it to find something that is in there.
Here's the question. For some reason DH does not want to put it in the cellar. After 30 years of living together, I am not going to go anywhere. He wants it in the garage.
The question is this: does a freezer function well in the winter when there is no heat (in other words, for the couple of months where I could literally put anything that needed to stay frozen in the garage without a freezer)?
My intentions were to buy another small chest freezer, but we somehow got by with the freezer on top of the fridge (the fridge is probably about 15-20 years old, and the freezer is just typical of the era).
Lately I'm getting fed up with juggling and jigsaw puzzling my way through the freezer. Needless to say, since we're all DC here, I cook a lot. It is very difficult to cook for two, so I tend to cook a regular meal (I learned to cook for 6), and freeze. I also make a lot of stock.
I told DH that I'm not making stock any more unless we buy a freezer. I feel like Fibber McGee and Molly every time I open the freezer door. He couldn't possibly in a million years find anything in the freezer. It is always packed totally; sometimes you have to almost empty it to find something that is in there.
Here's the question. For some reason DH does not want to put it in the cellar. After 30 years of living together, I am not going to go anywhere. He wants it in the garage.
The question is this: does a freezer function well in the winter when there is no heat (in other words, for the couple of months where I could literally put anything that needed to stay frozen in the garage without a freezer)?