Chest Freezer Baskets
In order to maintain keep your deep chest freezer well organized, it is essential that you have a sensible system in place. Many freezer owners have no system at all; instead they simply have a big mess in their freezer of frozen packages jumbled haphazardly. The well thought out use of Freezer Baskets will allow you to convert your freezer from chaos to order.
If your chest freezer is a mess you will commonly encounter two situations; packages with unknown contents and packages with an unknown age.
Once an item has been in the freezer a few months it is very difficult to remember what it was. This is made even truer by the tendency of frozen items to mildly ice over, which tends to obscure the contents. If your food was wrapped in foil or stored in unmarked Tupperware, you may have to just guess what it actually is. If you have no clue you may just give up on the item and put it in the trash.
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Keep your deep chest freezer well organized with commercial grade freezer baskets.
Even if you can tell what you are looking at, unless dates are marked on the package it’s the next thing to impossible to know how many months (years?) old it is. Do you feel confident defrosting that fish you froze when for all you know it has been sitting in there for five years? I would be very hesitant to do so.
Clearly, the problems of unknown food and unknown age are serious ones. Both can contribute to food wastage. If you don’t know what something is you will likely throw it away. If you are no longer certain it is still safe to eat, you will certainly discard it! (at least it would probably be wise to do so.)
In these times of tightening budgets, it’s more important than ever to make the most of what you have. Not that anyone would ever enjoy the idea of wasting money and/or wasting food, but certainly in the current economic times you should want to do everything you can to keep your budget in place and yourself and your family healthy.
Setting up a stackable freezer basket system in your deep chest freezer is a great way to cut back on food wastage. Consider purchasing some chest freezer baskets today.