Deep Freezer Reccomendations Please

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  stuntah on 22/03/2024 - 19:34

  Avoid Samsung. Went through 3 units in 12 months, died randomly each time losing all the food.

  Got an LG and it has been hunming.

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    kiwiicheapies on 22/03/2024 - 20:01

    From our experience Samsung has been pretty decent, however samsung appear to only sell upright freezers, as per Alan's comment, i dont think wed be going for an upright. But thank you anyways

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  Alan6984 on 22/03/2024 - 19:45

  +1

  No particular recommendations, but we made the mistake of going from a chest freezer to an upright, thinking it would be more space efficient, and it might be easier to see what you have in there.

  Huge mistake!

  Despite what you'd think (we'd thought) it's actually much easier to know what you have and find things with a chest freezer, as you can bag all the like stuff together (with the chest freezer, I could empty the whole thing in about three mins if I wanted to), but you can't do that with an upright, as the space is divided up, which means you can't have anything very big (like a bag of all the chicken say).

  Also, with a chest, you effectively get a refresh of everything that is in there pretty much every time you open it, as its mostly all visible (especially if you pull out a couple of bags to get to something further down). With an upright, not at all.

  Given our previous chest freezer lasted about twelve years, I am guessing the upright will have a similar life, so it will be some time before we can rectify our mistake :-(

  It might be more space efficient though, in that the space above the chest freezer was 'wasted', but we also lost the convenient 'workspace' that was the chest freezer top, so bit of swings and roundabouts on that side of things too.

  I would note that, if you are the type of people to just thrown each item in the chest freezer individually, then you might find an upright works better for you, but you really need to re-think your whole life :-)

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    kiwiicheapies on 22/03/2024 - 20:00

    Thank you, that was a big question we had too. Thought an upright might be a good change and would be easier to find food, however did wonder if even though we will be getting an extra 100L space, it didnt look like we would fit all that much in it!

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      Alan6984 on 22/03/2024 - 22:59

      +1

      An upright is significantly 'sub-optimal' for space usage.

      The same capacity (litres) gives you much more (effective) usable space in a chest freezer.

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        kiwiicheapies on 22/03/2024 - 23:05

        Yes that did seem to be the case

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  joshtnz on 23/03/2024 - 09:30

  +1

  The robin hood chest freezers from mitre10 are pretty good value. The 200l one goes down to 4 or 500 bucks once or twice a year.

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  apieceofpie on 23/03/2024 - 11:22

  I bought a second hand (~8 months old) 300L Living & Co chest freezer two years ago for $420 and no complaints with it.
  Freezer tech is not complicated, I would be surprised if there's a great deal of difference in quality between the brands but I could be wrong. I would guess the main difference will be efficiency depending on how insulated they are.

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  Foodie on 23/03/2024 - 17:30

  Got the Mitsubishi small upright from harvey norman 1-2 years ago. Going well, had no issues with it.
  Frost free is quite handy, had no build up of frost since owning it.

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  sunshinenz on 23/03/2024 - 19:14

  I have an Acqua 200l from Harvey Norman. Happy with it so far (about 5 yrs now).