How to Organize a Chest Freezer

The chest freezer is well known, widely used and very useful for long-term storage, but they are a little tricky to organize.

Basically, the chest freezers are just a huge rectangular box, if this is full of frozen food, you have to dig around to get to the bottom, and make the food look a mess. So, it is important to organize the food in the chest freezer so that the chest freezer is in order.

I will introduce several ways to organize a chest freezer.

1. Put stacked ordered baskets in the freezer.

If you don’t use any type of storage container in the chest freezer, you will soon be in a mess. Baskets are perfect because they remain like objects, prevent items from spreading to more space than should be taken, and allow stacking. Stacking is very important because you want to be able to easily lift the basket up and move those things so that they can be lowered when needed and then easily put it back into place.

Erin Huffstetler also describes this approach in her blog: they can install five boxes in their chest freezer-which gives them one for meat, one for fruit and one for vegetables. One for nuts and one for jars, and some room for homemade food to pile flour and other cans. So finding something at the bottom of the chest freezer is as simple as pulling out a few crates.

2. Use the grocery bag

First, take everything out and then immediately take everything out of the grocery bag so that we can see exactly what we are dealing with. Then we classified it all, like meat - frozen fruit -snacks, and then we can use reusable bags in the chest freezer.

Sorting in the chest freezer is essential, so you can better track what you have there. Reusable bags help keep classified items separate and pull out quickly as needed.

3. Use boxes to organize

I think the most useful way to organize a chest freezer with baskets is to put "favorite" items together and put them in small dumpsters that can be easily stacked and disassembled.

Once you have a box, clear the entire freezer first. Pull everything out and put it aside so you can see everything. Take this time to organize any bags, or to remove individual bags from the bags, etc. So you can pull out each file and threw a large bag. In this way, you can see exactly how many folders you have, and there is no extra packing in the freezer space.

You need garbage bins in squares or rectangles to make full use of the space in the chest freezer as circular baskets do not make efficient use of the space in the chest freezer because there is a gap between the baskets.

If you can find a different color trash can, that would be great! Use color to help separate different types of food and don’t worry too much about finding dumpsters stacked together. I find that this actually limits you because nothing in your box can reach out slightly to the top, or the next box doesn’t stack properly.

You can also buy a nested bin, all you had to do was fill up a trash bin and put the second in the first bin. Because it’s frozen anyway, you don't accidentally crush anything.

Now you can go to Meibca to buy a chest freezer and try these methods to organize your chest freezer, get items in an orderly way will make you feel extremely relaxed and happy.