I am so used to the frost-free air-flow systems in both my refrigerator/freezer and my big upright one that I forgot that De Dawg's freezer needs occasional defrosting. So yesterday I took all four drawers out and piled them one on top of each other on the shower chair in my ensuite, unplugged the freezer and got out the carton of old-but-still-useful towels. I folded them to fit on the bottom of the freezer, three at a time, and as they got soaked dumped them in the washing machine. It took about seven or eight hours to defrost, then dried with another towel, before I could switch it back on and replace the drawers. I should add that there are three freezing shelves plus one at the top, so there were four in all to defrost and by the time it was done the washing machine was full of sodden towels. Put it on wash and this morning put all the towels in the dryer - and they are all nice and dry and folded and back in the carton. Considering that these old-but-still-useful towels were ones I brought with me from England nearly 30 years ago, and I only replaced them last year, I have certainly had my money's worth out of them!
Now you've done yours, will you hop over to Hungary and do mine please? And remember to bring the towels.
Of course it would have been far quicker had I done it a few months ago instead of in this freezing weather, and De Dawg's freezer is in my back room which is like an icebox, but I forgot that it is not a frost-free one! After I changed De Dawg over to raw, which was round about August/September 2011, her food took up more and more of my big freezer so I decided to buy a 4 drawer [140 litre] freezer for her. I think they call them "under the counter" size. So I asked Nir when he was here doing something that if he saw one that size in his travels please let me know. A couple of weeks later he telephoned and said he was in a store in Kiryat Malachi near his home and they had a freezer which was the ideal size and the same make as the refrigerator he has in his workshop. The price was far less than I thought I would have to pay, and Nir said that instead of paying for it to be delivered he would bring it with him when he came to do the next thing on the list I had for him to do so no delivery charge. And it actually holds much more than I thought it would. But of course it needs defrosting occasionally, which I forgot...
Tina, those mats look as if they would be ideal for an icebox section of a refrigerator The thing is though that each drawer in De Dawg's freezer slides onto a freezing shelf with a freezing shelf above the top drawer, and the drawers would not fit in if there was an anti-frost mat on each shelf. The shelves are not solid and the drawers sit on each shelf. This is her freezer - I have taken one of the drawers out to show what the shelves are like: It is not full at the moment as I have 5 kilos of chicken backs being delivered tomorrow and once they are frozen in ThreeBees I will pack as many as I can in her freezer. It is not really a problem to defrost the freezer - I just forgot that I have to do it and it actually only needs defrosting once a year.
I got an icemat, but it stopped the drawer from sliding properly. Perhaps I'll have another go with it, the next time I defrost.
