We never buy frost free big freezers . . only manual defrost for us. I don’t know if I’m embarrassed or proud to say this but we moved in here in November, 2011 and I had not defrosted either freezer since then. They were both needing to be defrosted and I really planned to do it soon but . . Saturday afternoon I was in the shop, where one of the freezers is located and I happened to glance over at it and I thought “That door doesn’t look closed!” and it wasn’t. The frost was so deep that I couldn’t even get to the controls to turn it off so Vince had to pull it out from the wall and unplug it. What a mess!
Vince drug out all the coolers and we unloaded everything. Surprisingly, only two packages of meat were halfway defrosted and had to be thrown out.
I used a plastic putty knife to scrape off as much frost and ice as I could and then I used the blow dryer to finish.
In just a few hours, I had one clean, organized freezer. The best news was . . I found two packs of lamb chops and last night, we had lamb chops for dinner.
Dinner
One more freezer to defrost. I’m so thankful I hadn’t just defrosted it when the door was left ajar. I will be more careful with the freezer doors.
Susan says
I have one that’s manual, too. It’s ancient, but it works just fine. I’ve had it a year and haven’t defrosted. I thought I’d let a bit more build up. The good thing is I can’t leave the lid open because there’s no spring. Keeping it open long enough to look inside is the hard part!
Carolyn says
OH that is chore! we usually have at least 1 week w frigid cold temps over night.This yr we took advantage of the DAYTIME 0 degree weather and defrosted it easily during the day. It was nice to get that done before dark. Instead of having to go down after dinner and finish it up even later.