How much did your deer weight when it was hung at the butcher shop?
You might be interested in an apartment size freezer from costco or ?London Drugs or Craigs List for under$125.00.
Shouldnt be to hard to find one.
Rob
Do I need to buy a deep freeze for deer meat?
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How much did your deer weight when it was hung at the butcher shop?
You might be interested in an apartment size freezer from costco or ?London Drugs or Craigs List for under$125.00.
Shouldnt be to hard to find one.
Rob
Here's a few thoughts:
You could use the 2 weeks to shop around for both new and used freezers that you can run out and buy right away if your meat doesn't fit in the freezer side of your fridge.
If your butcher will freeze the meat for you, get him to do it and ask if you can come and have a look to estimate the volume before you take it home. If it will just fit into your fridge freezer side, it will be better to put it in there already frozen and it will probably stay frozen just fine. If you have any doubts, ask him to keep it in his freezer while you go and buy one.
You could just buy a freezer. I don't know why you say you will probably never use it again. If it's because you didn't enjoy the experience and don't plan to continue hunting, fine. Be warned that you may develop a taste for venison while consuming this year's meat and may change your mind about that. But, if it's because you thought this year's deer was a lucky fluke and you lack confidence that you will ever have a repeat you should buy the freezer. It will give you incentive to try harder.
You could use the 2 weeks to shop around for both new and used freezers that you can run out and buy right away if your meat doesn't fit in the freezer side of your fridge.
If your butcher will freeze the meat for you, get him to do it and ask if you can come and have a look to estimate the volume before you take it home. If it will just fit into your fridge freezer side, it will be better to put it in there already frozen and it will probably stay frozen just fine. If you have any doubts, ask him to keep it in his freezer while you go and buy one.
You could just buy a freezer. I don't know why you say you will probably never use it again. If it's because you didn't enjoy the experience and don't plan to continue hunting, fine. Be warned that you may develop a taste for venison while consuming this year's meat and may change your mind about that. But, if it's because you thought this year's deer was a lucky fluke and you lack confidence that you will ever have a repeat you should buy the freezer. It will give you incentive to try harder.
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We actually have two deep freezers in the house, one for summer, and one for after hunting season, and another back at camp that runs on the generator, so if it's a warm year I can load quarters in there and not have to go out early.
You can put a lot more in a chest freezer, than an upright, but it requires some organization to avoid having to dig for stuff. You usually have a couple of baskets on top that we use for burger and other stuff you tend to use a lot of first. Roasts in the bottom, cause you need them less often.
Will it fit in your four cubic foot? It might if it were a chest type but it would be tight, but as it's not, I very much doubt it. Shelves mean waste space, and stuff that falls out when you open the door if you load it too heavily.
Frozen meat in roundish packages does take up a lot more space than it did before freezing, but two average deer will fit in a small nine cubic foot if you don't have things like sausage that add pork etc and expand the volume of the meat.
I grind my own burger and add minimal or no pork unless it's an older deer. So my estimate is based on that.
Get a big deer, and you won't get two in there. The 220 lb buck I got last year more than half filled it.
You can put a lot more in a chest freezer, than an upright, but it requires some organization to avoid having to dig for stuff. You usually have a couple of baskets on top that we use for burger and other stuff you tend to use a lot of first. Roasts in the bottom, cause you need them less often.
Will it fit in your four cubic foot? It might if it were a chest type but it would be tight, but as it's not, I very much doubt it. Shelves mean waste space, and stuff that falls out when you open the door if you load it too heavily.
Frozen meat in roundish packages does take up a lot more space than it did before freezing, but two average deer will fit in a small nine cubic foot if you don't have things like sausage that add pork etc and expand the volume of the meat.
I grind my own burger and add minimal or no pork unless it's an older deer. So my estimate is based on that.
Get a big deer, and you won't get two in there. The 220 lb buck I got last year more than half filled it.
Thanks for the replies folks. Looks like I'll be shopping for a chest freezer.
I only made the comment about never using the freezer again because I've never needed one before. Hopefully me getting a deer this year wasn't a one off. Time and effort and a little luck paid off this year.
I only made the comment about never using the freezer again because I've never needed one before. Hopefully me getting a deer this year wasn't a one off. Time and effort and a little luck paid off this year.
A fridge freezer unless separate from the fridge with its own thermostat is not suitable.
Unless you can keep the freezer temperature to zero degrees it is not suitable.
When there was too much meat one year we just bought a small apartment size freezer at Costco to compliment the larger freezer.
With comments in other forums about posting pictures . . . on of your fridge would have been helpful . . . and a lady's description might vary from yours!
Unless you can keep the freezer temperature to zero degrees it is not suitable.
When there was too much meat one year we just bought a small apartment size freezer at Costco to compliment the larger freezer.
With comments in other forums about posting pictures . . . on of your fridge would have been helpful . . . and a lady's description might vary from yours!
