Tacklebox Design Deep Freezer

Mrs AusCan and I just bought an upright deep freeze and transferred the contents of the old chest style freezer. Down in the bottom depths were food products deposited there sometime during the Pleistocene Era. These frozen moments of time were either forgotten, too hard to reach or just not worth the effort of removing the top layers of permafrosted peas.

Upright freezers are good in that you have much better access to the contents but, are inefficient because every time you open the door, all that nice cold air comes tumbling out. Chest freezers are better in that sense, however over time you end up only using the top 10 inches of the volume and the remainder becomes reminiscent of the frozen Aztec mummies' stomach contents.

The solution is to re-design the chest freezer with wire mesh trays which lift up when the counter-balanced lid is lifted. The cold air tends to drain back into the freezer compartment but you still have visual and manual access to your frozen goodies. The end product has a similar design mechanism as multi-trayed tackle boxes. [link]