I emptied the whole thing out defrosted it and gave it a good cleaning inside and out.
Chest freezer organization ideas.
Some may be sold with a hanging basket for the top but otherwise you re on your own.
Make the most of your freezer space by tailoring organizers to suit your freezer configuration.
To organize your chest freezer use large storage bins or dividers to separate different types of food.
Updated march 2020 since my original chest freezer organization ideas post in august 2013 i have moved two times and downsized my chest freezer space from two large chests to just one.
If you just throw food into it without any thought of organizing anything it s like throwing your frozen food into the abyss of no return.
But instead of just throwing everything back in helter skelter i decided to get organized.
Organizing your freezer is a chore that is best done as you go.
10 ideas for organizing a chest freezer.
For top and side compartment freezers a shelf divider or stacking organizers can be helpful.
Here s what our chest freezer looked like before i got it organized.
The chest freezer came with those two blue baskets and they re helpful for separating some things out from the others but everything else was just thrown in the bottom half of the freezer.
Our chest freezer organization system.
Chest freezer organising ideas galore.
You will be able to see at a glance what food needs to be bought you ll have a place to store each type of food and you can grab it when it s needed.
My chest freezer was impossible to keep organized.
Create the perfect organising system for your own freezer and needs and you ll find things run oh so smoothly.
16 tips on how to organize your freezer the right way whether you have a side by side freezer drawer freezer or even a deep freeze chest it seems there s never enough room.
Now in the midst of a huge worldwide quarantine freezer organization is even more important.
I have a free freezer inventory sheet here that you may find helpful.
Take a look at the great organizing ideas below.
A chest freezer is essentially a deep hole.
Make the most of your freezing friend.
You can also use smaller storage containers to hold loose items.
To keep everything easy to find label your storage bins or use a color coding system so you will know where everything is.
I m happy to say that organizing a chest freezer can be done and it s not hard or expensive.
Chest freezers though handy for penny pinching food hoarding folks like myself are notoriously tough to organize.
The inherent problem with chest freezers is that everything gets piled on everything else.
Up to 3 days the downfall to having a chest freezer as most people know is keeping it organized.
For bottom compartment and chest freezers repurpose open desktop file boxes for slim boxes like frozen pizzas.