Up with a roar!!
@GardenGerty (169505)
United States
September 18, 2022 7:50am CST
Oh no!! my very large upright freezer has a loud roaring fan and everything is partially thawed.
Fortunately most items in it are dry goods, and I have a chest freezer that is barely full, plus the freezer on top of my refrigerator. Neither of them is as convenient, but I did not have to discard much..
I am cooking three pounds of boneless skinless chicken thighs.They still had ice in them. I discarded some turkey and chicken carcasses just because I do not have room right now to store more bone broth, and that is what I saved them for. I had two unlabeled containers that I believe may have been watermelon, but as I said, they were unlabeled.
Most of that freezer actually was filled with beans, and rice and things like powdered milk and dried fruit. Things my sister has given me, that were given to her. They do not have to remain frozen.
I do not know if I will fix that freezer, or haul it out. I unplugged it for a while and the roaring stopped. It was working fine at 9:00 p.m. I may just have had it too full.
Or the thunder and lightning during the night caused a power surge that damaged the fan.
Everything I had to save, like three kinds of ice cream fit in the chest freezer, so I am all good.
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@DaddyEvil (174590)
• United States
18 Sep 22
I'm glad the rest of the stuff in it doesn't need to stay frozen. Hopefully, it's an easy fix, if that's what you decide to do.
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@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
18 Sep 22
We have had the fan motor replaced on it once, two years ago. It has been a problematic appliance the entire time we have had it. We probably will choose to do without it for now.
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@DaddyEvil (174590)
• United States
18 Sep 22
@GardenGerty No reason to do anything if the items in that freezer don't need to be frozen. We keep that kind of stuff in plastic totes in the back of the kitchen.
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@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
18 Sep 22
@DaddyEvil This is where I had the most space, and freezing it keeps pests from hatching out.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
18 Sep 22
Sounds like you are definitely clearing out Heather.
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@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
18 Sep 22
It was a part of my to do list anyway. Could have been much worse.
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@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
18 Sep 22
I have done that in the past with a freezer. Actually did it for a while with this one the first time it broke.
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@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
18 Sep 22
It made for an extra chore I had not planned for today.
@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
19 Sep 22
What I threw o ut was very minuscule. Yes, it is nice to use up those bones in bone broth, but I just could not do it today. I think the pink unlabeled liquid was actually juice saved when I cut up water melon.
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@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
18 Sep 22
Yes, I am glad I had space for the things that have to be frozen..
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@BarBaraPrz (51837)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Sep 22
I'm glad you managed to save the ice cream.

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@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
18 Sep 22
It would have been sad, we bought three containers right before Bob got sick.
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@wolfgirl569 (135886)
• Marion, Ohio
18 Sep 22
Glad you had a place to move most things.
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@GardenGerty (169505)
• United States
18 Sep 22
Yes. Now it will just be dry storage until I move it on out the door.
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@LindaOHio (222623)
• United States
19 Sep 22
Oh no! I'm so sorry about your freezer. Our freezer was purchased back in the 70s; and I'm always worried that it's going to go. We have a lot of meat stored in it.
@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
9 Oct 22
The culprit is the fan which makes your freezer roaring. Have it fixed.











