"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> Having used the chest freezer to store stuff while we waited for the new
> freezer I realized how badly it was in need of defrosting and purging.
> holy cow there is a lot of mysteries in there. There are containers of
> stuff that I don't even know what they are. There are several half loaves
> of very dried out old bread, old yogurt containers with various soups and
> sauces.
>
> It's a nice cold day here, so everything from the freezer is sitting in
> laundry baskets in my car. The ice should be falling off the sides pretty
> soon. I think that only about half that stuff is going back into it.

That's why I try not to freeze that sort of stuff.