pepperhead212
Executive Chef
You can keep the snow, KGirl, but the food you are having with it sounds good!
My freezer died a couple days ago - could have been worse, since it is still staying around 18-20º, with the door closed for a while. It runs non-stop, so it's probably the compressor. I talked to a fellow that repairs appliances (he did my DW and fridge a while back...I think he's semi-retired now), and he was honest with me, and told me that it would probably cost 2/3 the price of a new one, for him to fix it. So last night I sat down with my inventory notebook, and highlighted everything that I have to move over to a friend's freezer. This Is a guy who barely cooks at all, and his wife cooks less! He sent me a photo of the inside of the freezer, and I replied, "holy ____! My freezer hasn't been that empty since the day I got it!"
So today I took everything out from each shelf, one at a time, and put all the grains, nuts, and flours - things I can stick on my back porch temporarily, with no problems - in bags, in a large box, and all the perishables in other plastic bags, and put them back in, when I removed everything from the next shelf/basket, to do the same. Fortunately, a lot of the stuff I have in boxes, like all the butter, etc., so it didn't really take long - about 3 hours. Tomorrow morning, all that gets taken to his house, to put in that empty freezer!
I haven't worked this hard since planting my garlic and shallots! I actually got wet! I didn't realize it until I went outside, where it was very windy today! I didn't stay out there long, fortunately.
I've been researching what freezer to buy, and where to buy it, and may have found a good place; I would like to buy it closer to home, but the only place around here only has Maytag, which is low on the CR rating list. I checked Lowe's and HD, but all the larger models were listed "unavailable". Why do they even list them then?!
My freezer died a couple days ago - could have been worse, since it is still staying around 18-20º, with the door closed for a while. It runs non-stop, so it's probably the compressor. I talked to a fellow that repairs appliances (he did my DW and fridge a while back...I think he's semi-retired now), and he was honest with me, and told me that it would probably cost 2/3 the price of a new one, for him to fix it. So last night I sat down with my inventory notebook, and highlighted everything that I have to move over to a friend's freezer. This Is a guy who barely cooks at all, and his wife cooks less! He sent me a photo of the inside of the freezer, and I replied, "holy ____! My freezer hasn't been that empty since the day I got it!"
So today I took everything out from each shelf, one at a time, and put all the grains, nuts, and flours - things I can stick on my back porch temporarily, with no problems - in bags, in a large box, and all the perishables in other plastic bags, and put them back in, when I removed everything from the next shelf/basket, to do the same. Fortunately, a lot of the stuff I have in boxes, like all the butter, etc., so it didn't really take long - about 3 hours. Tomorrow morning, all that gets taken to his house, to put in that empty freezer!
I haven't worked this hard since planting my garlic and shallots! I actually got wet! I didn't realize it until I went outside, where it was very windy today! I didn't stay out there long, fortunately.
I've been researching what freezer to buy, and where to buy it, and may have found a good place; I would like to buy it closer to home, but the only place around here only has Maytag, which is low on the CR rating list. I checked Lowe's and HD, but all the larger models were listed "unavailable". Why do they even list them then?!