Freezers for home

The freezer is designed for long-term storage of products. The presence of such an aggregate in the apartment allows you to harvest berries, mushrooms, fruits, fish, meat and much more for the winter, including food for cats, dogs and live food for aquarium fish. Freezers for the house produce many companies - both solid and little-known. We will now talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this type of home appliances.

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Do you need it?

You were going to buy a freezer and even started to study catalogs. But first try to answer the question - and why this device is for you, what exactly are you going to store there? It depends on which camera to prefer.

The most active buyers of freezers:

• gardeners;
• truck farmers;
• mushroom pickers;
• fishermen;
• hunters;
• lovers of pets.

Why do you need cold rooms for your home?

1. To gardeners, the freezer allows you to keep berries and fruits fresh, that is, with all the vitamins that inevitably dissolve during heat treatment.
2. Such an aggregate can significantly facilitate the life of a mushroom picker. Of course, some of the mushrooms can be salted or marinated, but the ones from which you want to cook soup in winter or make a roast is better to freeze than to dry. It's faster, and tastier.
3. If you're lucky on fishing or hunting, you can not immediately prepare all the trophies. Where to put pike perches and wood grouses? Of course, in the freezer! And you can cook at any time.
4. As for pet lovers, especially those who feed their pets with natural food - the freezer will save them a lot of money. You can buy meat or liver for your cat wholesale from a reliable seller - and a few weeks not to think about it.

In a word, the freezer is interesting to almost everyone.

Important! The freezer will help to improve the diet of young children. So, you can make in the summer reserves of useful vegetables, fruits, berries, so that in the winter they do not buy them at exorbitant prices in an unknown capacity and with a quite understandable amount of chemistry.

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What are the cold rooms for the house?

In the salons of household appliances you will find freezers for the house of two types:

• vertical;
• horizontal.

To understand which one is best for you, we learn to distinguish them first:

• The vertical camera looks very similar to the usual refrigerator. Such units are called still freezers.
• The horizontal freezer has the second name - a chest. It really looks like an ancient village chest, in which the flour was stored most often.

Important! Each species has its advantages and disadvantages. Asked how to choose a freezer for your home, consider, among other things, how much space you can allocate for it and where. Vertical models will definitely be more compact, although not as voluminous.

Vertical freezer

The freezer cabinet can have very different sizes. On sale you will find also quite small freezers of this type, about 50 cm high, and real two-meter giants.

The main advantage of a vertical camera is that its internal cavity is divided into compartments. Advantages of this division:

• hygiene - each kind of product is in its cavity;
• compartments are closed, so smells do not mix.

Main disadvantages:

• high price;
• product containers are not removed.

Important! If desired, you can choose a very narrow vertical freezer, which will rise in any corner.

Horizontal Freezer

Cache can pick up even a family with not particularly high incomes. The main advantages of such cameras:

• price;
• products are placed in special trellised boxes - they are easily removed, they can be washed if necessary.

Important! This is an ideal option for a small apartment. You can put a chest at the dacha, in the pantry, and even on the balcony, if you choose a small volume.

Suitable box for those who harvest products of one kind, but in large quantities. For example, hunters and fishermen. Meat and large fish can be frozen, without cutting into small pieces.

Important! The main disadvantage of this type of freezer is that the products are stored together. That is, meat and fruit, if placed incorrectly, absorb the smells of each other. But it's not so difficult to cope with this. You just need to pack everything.

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How to choose a freezer?

After determining the type of freezer and how much you agree to allocate it from the family budget, compare the technical characteristics of different models. You should be interested in:

• freezing class;
• volume;
• power;
• power consumption;
• principle of the device - a drip system or no frost.

Freezing class

This parameter indicates the lowest temperature that your future freezer can provide. It is designated by "stars", each of which corresponds to 6 °:

• if you see one "star" - it means that the freezer gives a temperature of -6 ° C;
• two - respectively, -12 ° C.

Important! How many of these icons should a freezer for the house have? Three or four is more than enough. The fifth "asterisk" means that there is a function of deep freezing.

It depends on the freeze class for how long you can lay products:

• -6 ° С - a week;
• -12 ° C - month;
• -18 ° - three months;
• -18 ° С and below - year.

Volume

It depends on what you need the camera for. In the salons of household appliances you will find freezers of very different sizes:

• Minimum -100 l.
• Maximum of 500.

Important! If more are already industrial refrigerated cabinets.

For a normal family of three or four people, if it does not make a huge number of blanks, a freezer of 150-300 liters is enough.

Power

How many kilograms of products should your camera freeze per day? This is its power. The range is from 5 to 25 kg.

The choice depends again on the goal:

• if you are preparing "a little bit, a little bit of this" - the power from 6 to 10 kg per day is enough for you;
• the same, who freezes strawberries with whole buckets, and meter-long zander completely, needs a more powerful freezer.

How much "eat" your

freezer One of the main parameters by which you need to choose a freezer for your home is energy consumption. A powerful freezer can be literally "golden" if you suddenly have to pay for electricity more than for the products in the cell itself.

Important! Please note that the camera is open 24 hours a day.

How do I find out the power consumption class?- Very simple. By marking. On any camera you will see the letters from A to E. They mean how economical in terms of electricity consumption your freezer:

• If you see the letter A or marking A + - before you the most economical model, with a very low energy consumption class.
• If the E-energy camera absorbs a lot.

Important! Cameras with a low class are more expensive than those with a high. But it pays off, because the lower the class, the less you have to pay for electricity.

A little bit about

What is the best freezer for the house - with a drop system or no frost?

Let's find the difference:

1. The device with a drop system will have to be thawed out periodically, like a regular refrigerator. And this is not always convenient. But such a system has the advantage - in such chambers humidity does not change, and accordingly - the products are not subject to dehydration.
2. Behind the camera with no frost it's much easier to take care of - there's no need to clean the ice. It is enough to keep it clean and periodically ventilate. But there is a serious drawback - because of the air circulation, the products dry up. Therefore, they should be packed before freezing. The camera itself should be washed and disinfected at least once a year.

Important! There are freezers, where each section has its own refrigerant. You can choose for each product the best option for freezing.

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Additional data

To choose the ideal home freezer for your needs, consider several other parameters:

• climate class;
• autosave;
• control method;
• protection against extraneous interference;
• light signal;
• removable door.

Climate class

The climate class is denoted in Latin letters:

• SN;
• N:
• ST:
• T.

We understand the differences:

• Devices marked SN and N are designed for a moderate climate and can withstand outdoor temperatures of up to 32 ° C.
• If you see the markings ST and T, this means that the unit works well even in extreme heat - up to 43 ° C.

Important! Correctly selected climate class allows you to avoid unnecessary energy consumption.

Autosave, Super Frost and Extra Frost

Note that these functions are available:

1. If there is an autosave mode, your camera will be able to maintain a temperature of -10 ° C for two days after the electricity is turned off. This is a very good option for a holiday village where there are some difficulties with energy supply.
2. Super-frost means that you can immediately freeze very large volumes of products.
3. The function of extra-frost allows to maintain the desired temperature at the moment when a new product is placed in the chamber. For a couple of hours before the "beginner" bookmark you just put this function, the new product quickly freezes, so that the rest do not deteriorate due to a sudden temperature increase.

Control method

In modern frosts two types of control are used:

• electronic;
• mechanical.

Important! Electronic - stylish and modern. The control system is equipped with a control indicator, the camera has a display - in a word, it's a fashionable device equipped with the latest technology. But mechanical control systems are still more reliable.

Child lock

This device is a lock. If someone presses "not the buttons" - the control panel is locked, the program continues to work as it worked.

Light signal

Some models are equipped with a special indicator that shows that the door is open too long. This prevents the warmer outdoor air from disturbing the mode inside the camera.

Removable door

This trifle will be especially pleasant if you have to think for a long time where to put the camera in a small and cramped apartment. If you have a removable door, you can put it anywhere - and get the products, not arranging a global rearrangement in the room.

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Brands

Rating of freezers for the home is difficult to establish. Freezers let out everyone, to whom not laziness. However, there are manufacturers with a very good reputation, long and successfully working in this market.

If you analyze the ratings, which are the leading trading firms:

1. Practically in each you will find the products of the companies "Indesit", "Bosch", "Liebher".The freezers of these companies, however, are quite expensive. But they are economical and reliable.
2. You can find good models among the economy class cameras. These are such freezers as "Saratov" and "Atlant".They are no worse than expensive European models, and are cheaper several times.
3. Among Chinese manufacturers, literally flooded the world market now, the "Shivaki" firm has proved itself well. Small freezers of this company are good for small apartments or offices.

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Popular freezers

Let's talk about some popular models. This, for example, is such as:

• Liebherr GN 4113;
• Bosch GSN36VW20;
• Vestfrost VF 320 H:
• ATLANT M 7184-003;
• Saratov 104( MKSH-300).

Liebherr GN 4113:

• From all the others, this model is distinguished primarily by the fact that it has a fundamentally new energy consumption class, super low, denoted A ++.
• There is a No Frost system here, and this model is deservedly considered the best among cameras, which should not be thawed.
• The unit is equipped with a handle with a pusher.
• The volume is 406 liters, the door is outweighed.

Important! This is an excellent freezer for a large family or a small business.

Bosch GSN36VW20

Bosch models are of the same price category as Liebher. These are quite expensive freezers, but at the same time very high quality.

This model:

• is smaller in volume - only 237 liters, so for an ordinary family of 3-5 people it is quite suitable.
• class of energy consumption is also quite low - A +.

Vestfrost VF 320 H

This freezer for the home is close to the economy-class models:

• From the more expensive German cameras, this offspring of a Danish company differs in that it has an electromechanical control.
• Vestfrost should be periodically thawed.
• This camera works quietly.
• Takes up little space.

ATLANT M 7184-003

Cheap reliable freezer for home. Design without any frills, but elegant. The freezer does not make noise and works very long, besides it has a low energy consumption class. In a word, this is in all senses a budget model.

Saratov 104( MKSH-300)

Not very stylish, but simple, durable and cheap unit - as, indeed, all the products of this brand.

Features:

• Provides superzamorozku.
• The energy consumption class is rather low - B, not the most economical, but not particularly wasteful.

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For a small apartment

Do you have too little space?- No problem. It is for such situations that narrow cameras are designed. This category includes freezers ranging in width from 45 to 55 cm. If you have a tiny corridor or kitchen no more than 6 m2 - this option seems to have been specially created for you. This, for example, is a model such as BEKO FSA 21320:

• "Beco" is not a very expensive functional freezer.
• In the class of narrow models it has the best energy consumption indicator.
• This model weighs only 44 kg and is also the quietest, giving a noise level of only 41 dB.

Important! The disadvantages are not very high-quality plastic, from which the boxes are made. Consumers complain that the compartment for fast freezing is covered with hoarfrost, although this is not provided.

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Where to put?

You can put a freezer in any room. Most often they are installed in the kitchen or in the corridor. But, oddly enough, the ideal room for the camera will be a glazed balcony or loggia. This is where your unit will work, like a clock, which is not surprising - after all, there is a fairly low temperature. But keep in mind that even in the coolest room should be a plus temperature.

Now you know all about how to choose a freezer for your home and which version of the model deserves your attention. We hope that you have understood all the characteristics and were able to determine from the rating of freezers for the house the most suitable for yourself.