How big chest freezer do i need

When you want to buy a chest freezer then you’d probably wondering just how big chest freezer do i need? The chest freezers sizes will depend on just how much food that you want to store in the chest freezer and here’s an easy way to determine the right chest freezer size that will be suitable for your needs!

How to determine how big chest freezer do i need? 

First you need to make a plan just how much food do you need for a whole year, for example you can list all the foods such as half of cow, 2 pigs, 100 chickens, 2 turkeys and so forth, the smallest possible chest freezer that you can have is about 9 cu.ft while the large one is 35 cu.ft, while you can’t put all of them using one chest freezer, you can have several chest freezers to store all of your foods.

If you don’t want to have several chest freezers then you’d probably can split your inventory so instead of one year inventory, change it into half of year inventory and how big the chest freezer will be is also depends on the size of your family, it means that if you’re a small family then you don’t really need a super big chest freezer.

You also might want to check your local farmers and ask them if you want to buy chickens or a slaughter house and ask them for a special price, they usually have a much better meat quality than what you found on a grocery store and with a good price too.

So I hope now you know the answer to how big chest freezer do i need, if you still have any question feel free to comment on chest freezer reviews, you also might be interested with chest freezer for fermentation storage that explains how to convert your chest freezer into a kegerator.