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Cutting Down Your Freezer's Energy Consumption

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Date: 07/18/2006 Topic: Green Living > Conservation  
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This tip requires that the user collect a few gallon and half gallon milk or juice containers.

If you have a chest freezer, fill a few gallon containers with water and freeze them. Make space in your freezer and pack it to the capacity with the ice/the gallon container. This way you can turn your freezer off for 10-18 hours. If you re-inforce the insulation, you can be sure of one advantage: intact groceries at a lower energy bill.

If you can place the frozen gallon containers upright, with caps on, you can rest assured that there will be no water to remove from the freezer! I cut my energy bill by $5 - 8.00 month this way. You might have a freezer, but remember that you do NOT have to:

  1. Use it all the time. If you dont have much in there, just empty it out and turn it off.

  2. Leave it turned on 365 days a year even if you have stuff in there.

June was Dairy month. Chances are that your freezer is packed to the capacity. After a few weeks, your stockpiles might dwindle. This would be the time to use ice: big savings in your energy bill.

Also, did you know that a freezer packed to its capacity can be turned off for one hour without much damage? Of course, all this will be directly proportional to its volume. The larger the freezer, the longer it will take to gain heat. Simple Physics.

Just invest in a good thermometer and see how long your freezer will retain the low temperatures after you have pulled the plug. (The same worked for a friend's fridge. I never had the guts to turn off my fridge.)

Happy savings.

By Megan from Racine, WI

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By (Guest Post)
Warning! This is potentially dangerous advice! Beware for FOOD POISONING. A freezer operates between at -18 degrees C (0 F).
While the ice thaws, the temperature will be at 0 C (32 F) and it will reach 0 C very quickly. Not only will the water thaw, your food will too.

If the food (especially meat, poultry and fish) thaw, that is very dangerous. But even if the temperature stays below 0 C, bacteria are still active at these freezing temperatures.

For example, you can not keep meat at -6 C for long periods of time (i.e. longer than a week). Food safety will not be guaranteed.

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By David (Guest Post)
Perhaps if you jus turned the thermostat down and left the ice in, it would cover your back?

Posted on 09/20/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

By Julia (Guest Post)
You are taking risks there with your freezer. After a power cut my freezer's motor burned out. Apparently every time a freezer is switched off, and then switched on again, there is a strong chance that the motor will burn out.

Posted on 07/20/2006 | Report Spam or Abuse

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