To avoid further dragging the corona thread off topic, moving the discussion about manual vs. automatic (sometimes called frost free) defrost freezers here. Pretty much every freezer / fridge combo is ...

Stand-alone freezers used to be little more than open boxes. That was especially true for chest freezers, though even uprights were short on organization. But just as we’ve seen improvements to ...

If you’re anything like me, your kitchen freezer—and yes, maybe even the one in the garage—is packed. Does it need organizing? Absolutely. But on a busy weeknight, few things beat pulling a make-ahead ...

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Maybe you’ve always been someone who plans ahead—making an extra pan of lasagna and sticking it in the freezer or stocking up on groceries at the warehouse club. Or maybe with food prices ticking up, ...

Q: What is the best method for defrosting a manual defrost freezer? A: Manual-defrost freezers should be defrosted at least once a year or when there is more than one-fourth inch of frost over a large ...

Over the past year, a lot more people have been stocking up on food and storing it away for later — a habit born out of pandemic-related scarcity. And that means a lot of people need more space to ...