Choose Your Freezer

Chest or cabinet, frost or static, capacity, climate class and energy class: all the elements to be considered for choosing the right freezer.

Chest or cabinet?

The first take up more floor space (about 1.50 m). Rather, they are reserved for people living in houses and with a cellar or pantry where to storage it. Cabinets, narrower (average 60 cm) can be installed anywhere.

It is also a matter of convenience. You will either need to kneel down to open the drawers of cabinet model or bending to deposit or withdraw the food stored in the chest.

To test in store, as well as the handling of doors and drawers.

Frost or static ?

The first, also called "no frost" has the wind in its sails, as it removes the hassle of defrosting. The downside, it often consumes a little more power. Static cold is more conventional and widespread, it involves a manual defrost.

Energy class

It goes from A (most efficient) to G (the greedy) and is calculated in function of the useful volume of device and its power consumption. Since 2004, two new classes of devices have been introduced: A+ and A++. Recall that the freezer is 1/5 of the electricity bill of a household and that from 1 July 2010, the devices classified B and C could not be sold.

Climate class

It indicates the ambient temperature in which the device operates correctly. Depending on where you live and where you place the device (heated or not heated rooms), you must ensure this detail. There are four climate classes:

- SN: 10 to 32°C;
- N: 16 to 32°C;
- ST : 18 to 38°C;
- T: 18 to 43°C.

Know that manufacturers sometimes unit several classes, eg N/ST: in this case, the device is assumed suitable for temperatures ranging from 16-38°C.

Capacity

Everything depends on the family composition. We suggest:

- Less than 150 l for a single person;
- 150 to 250 l for two or three people;
- Greater than 250 l for a family of four people.

Your eating habits also affect the volume you need, whether you freeze or not the garden vegetable, fruit from your orchard, you hunt or fish, store large pieces of wildfowl for family reunions, etc.