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Cleanin out a Deep Freezer

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Well, it was time....................Our steer will be ready to be picked up either tomorrow or Tuesday. I needed to clean out the freezer, it's an upright. Not a bad job, but although it's supposed to be frost free....with our humidity down here, there aint no such thang as frost free. Open the door......it's gonna make frost. I got everything out of it...transferred to MIL's freezer and the freezer of the fridge.........stood there for a few minutes.......and decided Mr Lilly needed to get involved in this chore.
Yeap........bring the dolly...roll that sucker out on the front walk way, and turn on the water hose.......defrosts real fast....gets nice and clean......in just a few minutes!!!!!!
At the same time..all the cleanin goin on, my dryer had to come out so it can go to the Dryer Dr tomorrow. Ingnitor went out.....and it's a newer fangledy one. So my whole utility room got a good cleanin today.
I'd planned on doin absolutely nothin today. But ya know how that goes LOL :roll:
 
Are you sure that freezer is supposed to be frost-free, Lilly?
They don't make them that way here unless it is above, below or
along side your refrigerator. Frost-free dries out the meat real bad,
even when it is wrapped properly. It could be different in Texas,
it is just that frost-free freezers aren't available here. I sure have to
defrost mine on occasion.
 
Yeap I'm sure, says it on the door. Has what they call Jet Freeze shelves, and is supposed to be frost free. I don't ever expect any of them to be totally frost free....but this one had quite a bit of ice built up on the shelves. With no fan in there, like the freezer part of a refridgerator, I don't know how it could be said that it'd be frost free. LOL I prolly just paid more for the lil tag on the door that says "frost free" and it's sposta make me think it's gonna be better than the one's that don't have it LOL

But any who...it's all clean and ready to git filled up.

Oh, and somethin funny, after we got it moved back inside. where all the cold ice water ran out into the yard, our cat was just layinnnnnnnn out there enjoyin the coollllllllllllll this evenin
 
I didn't even think about gettin the camera. But he sure appreciated the cool wet grass after 100 degrees today LOL

Mine has three shelves....and all of em have the quick freeze.......I like them so much better than the older model freezers. So far with this one I've not had any meat seem dried out, or anything freezer burnt.
 
Speaking of cats and freezers-I'd put a deer cape in a plastic bag and then put it in the deep freeze. Later that night I eent to get a loaf of bread for the Mrs. and a damned cat jumped out of the garbage bag when I opened the lid. Talk about a Kodak moment-we just about had a kitty pop.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Speaking of cats and freezers-I'd put a deer cape in a plastic bag and then put it in the deep freeze. Later that night I eent to get a loaf of bread for the Mrs. and a damned cat jumped out of the garbage bag when I opened the lid. Talk about a Kodak moment-we just about had a kitty pop.

I'd have needed CPR after an incident like that one, NR!!! :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
ranchwife said:
Northern Rancher said:
Speaking of cats and freezers-I'd put a deer cape in a plastic bag and then put it in the deep freeze. Later that night I eent to get a loaf of bread for the Mrs. and a damned cat jumped out of the garbage bag when I opened the lid. Talk about a Kodak moment-we just about had a kitty pop.

I'd have needed CPR after an incident like that one, NR!!! :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Reminds me of the woman in our area who froze all her
dead cats. Least I HOPE they were dead when she froze them!
Ewwww.
 
Hate to say what's in our chest freezer right now. The head from
the wild turkey for that joke we're playing. It was from a huge gobbler. So extremely ugly its double wrapped in a paper bag so I don't haveto see its beady eyes everytime I open the door.
 
Know what you mean there Miss Lilly We were canning last week before i left and Mary took a look at our freezer and after about 20 standin alone in the kitchen 20 i decided to find her and found her in the pantry chippin ice with all the stuff outa freezer on the floor...I made a sarcastic comment ( you might as well do the refrigerator freezer since i am canning by myself) and I be darned if she didn't finish that one and do the freezer on the frig too :roll: next time i will keep my mouth shut :) :)
 
Longgggggggg time ago we had a refridgerator that the freezer wasn't frost free....OH MAN I hated that thang, too many times I spent the day with a hammer and a screw driver chippin ice outta that thing....sweepin chunks of ice outta the floor and throwin it out the door.

talkin about whats in peoples freezers...Mr Lilly's dad usta catch rattle snakes all the time in West Texas. He had someone ask for a whole snake, NOT just the hide, wanted to full mount it. The fella said dont kill it, just freeze it solid. So he did. It was one about 6 ft long....biggun. Gave it to the friend still froze, friend took it home and put it in his freezer till he could get around to gettin the mountin done. Well.....it was froze for about 6 mo....froze solid.......when he finally took it out to thaw......guess what???? It wern't dead!!!!!!!
 
When it gets cold snakes system slows down.....and they can survive cold weather like that. they will appear dead if it's cold enuff. But they aren't, when they warm up, their system starts workin again.
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
talkin about whats in peoples freezers...Mr Lilly's dad usta catch rattle snakes all the time in West Texas. He had someone ask for a whole snake, NOT just the hide, wanted to full mount it. The fella said dont kill it, just freeze it solid. So he did. It was one about 6 ft long....biggun. Gave it to the friend still froze, friend took it home and put it in his freezer till he could get around to gettin the mountin done. Well.....it was froze for about 6 mo....froze solid.......when he finally took it out to thaw......guess what???? It wern't dead!!!!!!!

Sounds like a tall TAIL! But how would I know. How did he catch it and
store it in?
 
Mr Lillys' dad worked in the oil field for 30 some odd years in west texas. Drivin them deserted roads in early mornin or late evenin, rattlers are all over the place. He'd carry a 5 gallon bucket with a hinged lid that he made for it, and had a snake grabber made kinda like the grab things for old folks now........once a week there was a man came thru that would buy the snakes live by the pound. They used them for anti venim I guess. Was a easy way to make some extra money. As far as puttin the one in the freezer goes, he put it in a toe sack.....burlap bag whatever ya wanna call it, and tied it shut. Once in the freezer, the snakes own system shuts down. Just like they do in the winter. They go into their dens in the ground and are almost dead like. More extreme in the freezer. You'd think they wouldn't survive but that one did.
 
:shock: :shock: :shock: Another thread talking about snakes :shock: :shock: :shock:

That's how cold-blooded animals survive...their systems can shut down to almost zero, but a little warmth will revive them quite well :shock: . In the spring, there are all kinds of snakes spread out across the dirt roads in the morning, soaking up the warmth of the road. I have NO PROBS running over the rattlers :!:

Fixing fence, we have to be careful around the rock cliffs (and we have a PILE of them) :shock: ...all kinds of snakes warming themselves on the rocks :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
 
My worst freezer story had to do with an irrigator we had hired in Wyoming. He liked turtle soup, so he killed some turtles to make the
soup. (Not me, I didn't make it, nor did I eat any.) :P

His name was Frank and we kept him during the spring and summer, usually til August or so. He stayed in the bunkhouse where he had a refrigerator, stove, etc. but mostly he ate with us, unless we were gone for some reason; which didn't happen often.

In October we would have big group of hunters show up from
Ohio. They cleaned the bunkhouse, slept there and cooked their meals there. They brought so much stuff with them they would usually feed us. They would bring a refrigerated trailer that was full of food and Hudephol
BEER!!! They drank all the beer and ate the food, then filled the
trailer with wild game to take back to Ohio. It always worked out
real well and they were a super bunch of fellows.

But I'm getting away from my story.

This one year, they got to work on the bunkhouse, cleaning, sweeping,
mopping and one guy tackled the refrigerator. Which...

had...

a...

turtle in the freezer...

a green, mouldy, turtle
that smelled AWFUL!!!!!!!!

Frank had unplugged the refrigerator in August with the turtle
in the freezer...

And I've never eaten turtle soup to this day.
 
Well our nice clean deep freezer that was all clean and virtually empty is no long empty. It's bustin it's seams full of fresh beef....woo hoo.
Along with In laws chest freezer bein filled up as well. Got it all in there, except for one paper grocery bag full that we gave to a lady in town who helps Lil Lilly with her barrel racin quite a bit, she was tickled pink to get it too. Few T-bones, serloins, and rib eye's, and about 10 lbs of ground beef. Oh and she's never tried beef liver, so I threw in a package of that too. LOL I don't eat that stuff anyway, save it for my dad.
 

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