Chest Freezers

   / Chest Freezers #21  
That would last me more than a lifetime since I rarely eat beef. Like almost never. Pork on the other hand ......
 
   / Chest Freezers #22  
More food for the batteries!

I never understood why distilled fluid is supposed to be pure, but alcohol is distilled and is not just water.

I'm not sure what you are asking. Distilled liquid is not always completely pure; it depends on what the original mixture consists of. When a liquid mixture is heated, say alcohol and water, the liquid with the lowest boiling point comes off first...in this case alcohol, and it is relatively pure...so condensing it gives you a relatively pure alcohol. Further distillation will make it even more pure. The water and other higher boiling point liquids are left in the vessel.

Distilling water works the same way; at 212 degrees (or thereabouts) the water vaporizes, and when condensed it is pure; leaving the dissolved salts in the vessel.

The principal works for all kinds a mixtures, but it does get complicated. There are mixtures called azeotropes where the theory doesn't work so well. Most of the pure water we used in the laboratory, was "deionized", not distilled. It was run through a system that actually removed the solids, leaving pure water...much like a water softener, except the water softener substitutes sodium ions for calcium, magnesium, etc.
 
   / Chest Freezers #23  
It is one good reason to own a freezer, as the frost free fridge freezer is not great.

I believe the ice water to be totally distilled. It is only water vapour condensed.

I would say that is probably correct, if the freezer was completely empty and 100% clean. However, the ice could well be contaminated to a small degree, from stuff in and around the freezer.
 
   / Chest Freezers #24  
Now that my family is gone, I cleaned out the 1950's Sears chest freezer ( about 3 ft x 5 ft x 2 ft) and store tractor and equipment parts in it....lid up and disconnected. Those top sliding baskets are real handy. There is plenty of room for my needs of distilled water, antifreeze, motor oil, HST and Gear oil, spark plugs, filters, etc...:thumbsup:
Cheers,
Mike
 
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I wanted a small black freezer. If I were not so fussy, freezers can be had dirt cheap and free for the picking up on classified adds. It turned out to be a gift from my lady friend anyway. I guess she was tired of digging around in my bottom fridge freezer on her hands and knees.lol There is the odd thing in there, but I don't miss it one bit.
 
   / Chest Freezers #27  
The chest doesn't do that, and it's also easier to pack full.

And it is impossible to access anything on the bottom without unpacking it. I gave up on chest freezers years ago
 
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Yeah, that can be frustrating. But at least that chore is done standing up. And also, when adding stuff, it would make sense to unload the thing as much as necessary and keep like stuff together, but who does that?
 
   / Chest Freezers #29  
You don't want a frost free chest freezer!

What you put in it, won't last near as long in a frost free.

SR

Just about all chest freezers are manual defrost. When I was shopping for a new freezer I only found one chest with auto defrost and it was a commercial unit

I ended up with an upright and it has a vacuum pump that sucks out all the air after the door closes. Ive been storing game in my freezers for more than 20 years and always kept track of the dates due to freezer burn. I don稚 have a problem with the new freezer and just pulled out some venison that was dated 2016 last week with no freezer burn
 
   / Chest Freezers #30  
While a chest freezer is a pain to get stuff out of the bottom when full. We just fill it with rows of like stuff with the burger on one end, roasts, steaks, filets go in a basket hanging on top. We also make sure it is almost empty before buying the next supply. Other than not being sure how big a cow we are getting:licking:, we have a good system.
 

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