How many freezers fail?
100 percent of them. All appliances will, at some point, completely and forever quit. It is not a pretty sight and can be quite costly if your freezer is full of garden vegetables, fruits, or meat products when it fails. Since our freezers are full of beef, they are checked at least once a day. A thermometer is kept inside each of them for a quick check of the temperature. Chest type and upright freezers should be kept at 0 degrees or below for best longevity of frozen food products. Food kept at zero and below may have a bit of frost damage at some point but won’t go ‘bad.’ Chest type freezers are more efficient, but take up more floor space than an upright freezer. Your refrigerator freezer is not the best place for long-term food storage. Keep the freezer full for best energy efficiency, so buy only as large a freezer as you feel you can keep full. Another option, when it starts getting empty is to put in ice.
100 percent of them. All appliances will, at some point, completely and forever quit. It is not a pretty sight and can be quite costly if your freezer is full of garden vegetables, fruits, or meat products when it fails. Since our freezers are full of beef, they are checked at least once a day. A thermometer is kept inside each of them for a quick check of the temperature. Chest type and upright freezers should be kept at 0 degrees or below for best longevity of frozen food products. Food kept at zero and below may have a bit of frost damage at some point but won’t go ‘bad.’ Chest type freezers are more efficient, but take up more floor space than an upright freezer. Your refrigerator freezer is not the best place for long-term food storage. Keep the freezer full for best energy efficiency, so buy only as large a freezer as you feel you can keep full. Another option, when it starts getting empty is to put in ice. We like to freeze up some water in cleaned-out plastic milk jugs to have
