Tommy Joe wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> > Meantime, just cleaned my chest freezer a bit. *I haven't ground up

(snippies)

> My entire adult life I've lived in furnished apartments. I have no
> idea what it's like to own a freezer. I mean a full freezer, not the
> type that sits atop a fridge. When I moved into this place 16 years
> ago, they had a fridge like all the others I'd ever seen, the type
> with the little metal freezer in the actual fridge, not a separate
> compartment. It worked ok, but not on ice cream. I could not keep
> ice cream bars and so forth hard. Never was able to do that with the
> old fashioned freezer in the fridge thing.

I lived in a real house as a kid, then apartments until age 40 (I'm
retired navy, 26 years of military moves in there) then got one. I had
to rent it out almost 7 years but we enjoyed living in Japan.

I got a little mini-freezer around 1995 or so. About 30 inches tall
and 20 wide, it let me freeze sales meats and helped a lot with the
food bills. In college though, some places had those little slot sort
of freezer and they were a pain.

> But get this. One day about 12 years ago I had a little extra cash
> and decided I was sick of it. So I looked in the newspaper for used
> fridges. I found one and called the guy. I went by in the cab one
> night and checked it out. It looked kind of big. I should have used
> a tape measure, but I'm not a tape measure guy. So I said ok, I'll
> buy it. But how are you going to get it to me?


> The guy said he and his buddy would bring it in a pickup. They
> did. This thing had a freezer with a separate door, the first time in
> my life I'd owned such a thing. Oh such joy. But I had
> underestimated the things size. I live on the third floor (top) of
> this building, and there is no elevator. This building went up in
> 1927. The steps are narrow and twist into the hallways. It took all
> 3 of us an hour to get it up there. We used cardboard and slid the
> thing up, then stood it up, but not all the way, as it would bang into
> the ceiling and go nowhere. I was drenched in sweat. I paid the two
> guys for their trouble, and believe me, there was plenty of it.

Now you are joking that it won't stand up in your apartment ;-)

> Anyway, about 3, maybe 4 years later, I'm noticing my electric
> bill is going up - from like $20 a month to nearly $40. Then up to
> $50. I'm calling the power company and telling them they must be
> getting a false reading. They're sticking to their guns. I'm getting
> ****ed about. Then one day the big fridge died. I went out to get
> something and the food was warm. I opened the freezer and the ice
> cubes had melted.

> I called the apartment manager and told them I needed a fridge.
> I expected a used one, but for them it was more cost effective to buy
> a new one at Sears. It took a week. A few months after they
> installed the new fridge, which is the most modern one I've ever owned
> - cheap and plastic-like, but very effective - I noticed one day that
> my electric bill had gone down to below $20. All that time the big
> fridge was dying on me and sucking up electricity and I never
> suspected it. Anyway, that was a funny and stupid adventure in my
> personal freezer/fridge history. ---

LOL! Yes, energystar is almost a reason to replace a still working
older one. We got rid of a huge beast of a chest freezer to a food
bank. It's not that it wasnt reasonably efficient, it's that it was
too big though for it's size it was efficient. It was an old farmhouse
unit where you butchered a whole steer and stored it in there.


> Yeah, I get it, feed the dogs
> the old stuff just to test it out, the way Kings used to have peasants
> sample their food before eating, to test it for poison or freshness.

Naw, seriously they lack taste receptors for freezerburn. No quality
in the meat suffers for this (at reasonable levels of course) except it
tastes nasty to us.


> Looks like the boneless pork ribs topic will not die.

LOL! The thread that will not die!




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