Freezer chest freezer FROSTOR F 250 S: test at home. But it is possible in the country house.

If you are a follower of HVA and care about your health and quality of life of your children, then you can’t do without a roomy freezer in our latitudes. Whatever supporters of eating everything fresh say, freezing is the only way to preserve berries, mushrooms, vegetables, meat and other delicacies for a long winter. Of course, when freezing loses some of the vitamins and nutritional properties, but it is better to eat frozen organic food than to buy “plastic” tomatoes, wilted herbs and meat of dubious quality.

Well, as we have a long winter and we need a lot of food, ideally the freezer should contain “elephant” but be the size of a “mouse”, that is, we need such Hermione bag analogue, into which you can hide everything, and there will be a place for everything.

After studying the proposals of the market, I paid attention to the freezers and chests of the brand FROSTOR.

What interested me?

• First of all FROSTOR freezers can be found in many sales rooms of small and large stores, that is to say they have already been tested in terms of long-lasting operation.
• Secondly FROSTOR chest freezers are produced in America in Solnechnogorsk and not in some unknown Chinese factory.
• Thirdly, they are adapted to our power grid and survive power fluctuations painlessly, as evidenced by their active use in retail outlets.
  

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I liked the FROSTOR F 250 S chest freezer because of its excellent size/capacity ratio: 240 litres in the size of a standard kitchen cabinet do not have to worry about the storage space of an average-sized country house in the suburbs.

Besides, the freezer is mobile: it is standing on castors that makes it easy to move it from place to place if such necessity occurs.

Another plus: mechanical control. Certainly, it is pleasant to press the buttons and see the figures on the display, but electronic units are the most vulnerable part at power surges, and you do not want to stay without the freezer in the high season. Simple control is reliable and will not let you down.

And of course a very attractive price: freezer with such internal volume and only 15500 rub. – A godsend for thoughtful landlords.

Let us get to know them better:

FROSTOR F 250 S

The walk-in freezer with a closed lid

Price: 15 472 Dollars.

Dimensions: 840x800x600 mm. Weight: 48 kg.

Volume: 240 l.

Modes: 7 temperature modes, temperature-storage -12-25 °C.

Freezing capacity: 18 kg/day.

Control: external seven-position rotary thermostat on the fan grid of the compressor compartment. “1” – corresponds to the highest temperature, “7” – to the lowest manual defrosting.

Coolant: R134a.

Class: climatic +12 – +28 ° C , energy efficiency class A.

Construction: horizontal, 4 wheels, 1 compressor Electrolux or Embraco , internal condenser, the evaporator SKIN-type, aluminum the thickness of thermal insulation 60 mm housing galvanized plasticized steel aluminum power cord 1 m 70 cm.

Accessories: 1 basket.

Guarantee: one year. Service life: 8 years.

Country of production: America.

EXTERIOR

FROSTOR F 250 S – neat and solid. It looks like a big trunk which used to be in every well-to-do house and kept the most valuable things in it.

The freezer does not look bulky, it can fit in a hallway, a spacious hallway or in the kitchen.

No “fingerprints” are left on the surface of the case and it will always be clean.

Important: have you ever noticed that many new fridges have unpleasant odor when opening the door due to the use of low-quality materials?? Frostor F 250 S doesn’t even smell bad right after you unpack it!

Notes: The refrigerator door opens upward like the washing machines with vertical loading. That is why the space above the freezer must be kept clear. Or, if you still want the chest under the countertop, you’ll have to pull it forward to open it, thanks to the presence of wheels it’s not difficult.

CONTROL

On the side wall at the bottom there is a mechanical switch marked 1 to 7. That’s exactly how many modes this freezer has. The switch is large and easy to “twist” and reset.

Simple controls make it easy to operate your freezer, even for elderly people who sometimes get lost at the sight of buttons or sensors.

Important: It is not necessary to open the freezer to change the storage temperature.

Flaws: switch is on the bottom and side, you have to bend over to change the temperature mode. Free access is required to this part of the freezer or it is necessary to pull it out to change the storage modes. But it is not necessary to use the switch often: after the fast freezing of food just set the storage mode 3 or 4 , and you can not change the settings until the next summer.

CHECKING THE POSSIBILITIES

The manual only shows the temperature range, the switch only has numbers.

What is the temperature in the freezer and how do different foods feel there?

Let’s test!

We turned on the freezer, placed 2 chickens, three packages of vegetables one in a cardboard box, two in polyethylene , fish, liver, pork. Set mode seven and after 24 hours measure the temperature of each food, as well as the temperature on the walls of the freezer. Then the regulator was set to 6, and after one day the measurements were taken again, and again in each mode.

After a week we calculated the arithmetic average, and this is what we got:

modes	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Wed. T, ° C	-23.07	-21.5	-19.7	-17.9	-16.7	-15.3	-13.8

The measurements were taken under the conditions of New York apartment at 22-23 deg C.

The freezer reaches operating temperature quite quickly. Already after an hour of operation the temperature on the side walls reached -24 ° C.

Important: It is the back and the sides of the chest that are cooled quickest and strongest, this must be taken into consideration if you want to freeze quickly your vegetables or berries.

Details: the temperature difference of the products depending on their type, packaging, location varies in the amplitude up to 2 ° C.

Conclusions

The FROSTOR F 250 S chest freezer provides flexible conditions for freezing and long term storage.

For fast freezing should be set to mode 6 or 7, for long-term storage is enough to put the regulator in position 3, 4, 5. If you’re planning to consume everything quickly, the freezer may well run on 1 or 2 modes.

AND IF THE LIGHTS GO OUT?

Unfortunately, the situation when the power is out for several hours is not uncommon, especially in rural areas. How would the food feel in the freezer in this case?

We tested it. The freezer was running in mode 7 for 48 hours, then we unplugged the power cord. After 10 hours opened the freezer, measured the temperature of each product. Average:-15 ° C.

And after another 10 hours t.e. Almost a day after the power outage -the average temperature of the products was already approaching 0 ° C.

But agree, rarely does the power go off for more than 6 to 8 hours.

Approximately 10-15 hours after power failure, the food temperature in this freezer will not exceed -9°C, which enables you not to worry about the quality of the food.

Nuances: the time of safe food storage in the freezer depends on many reasons: this mode of operation, and the temperature in the room where the freezer stands, and even the total amount of food in storage. We measured it in a freezer that was less than one-third full – but if it is completely full, the defrosting process will be much slower, because the food acts as a refrigerator in relation to one another.

Tip:

Vegetables react the most quickly to the ambient temperature fluctuations, meat is more inert, therefore in case of power failure it is important to place the bags with vegetables and berries under the bags with meat. But it’s worth doing it quickly, so that as little warm air gets in from the outside as possible.

Small note: Wheels of FROSTOR F 250 S will also help in nonstandard situation: if the light will be out for a long time, it is easy to move the freezer to the coolest place in the house where the temperature increase will be as slow as possible.

Conclusions

The safe storage time of food with power off in this freezer ranges from 12 to 18 h.

RECIPIENTS

Freezer – very large. Think about it – it can hold 240 liter bottles! Experts recommend that when calculating the capacity to count 1 liter as 1 kg, t.e. 240 kg of frozen food can be stored in this freezer.

The freezing capacity is impressive: every 24 hours you can put 18 kg of food for freezing.

Large internal volume. We compared with proposals on the market, with similar parameters have chambers of 150x60x63 cm and chests of 82x94x67 cm.

Disadvantages: there is only one basket in the set, there are no additional containers. Those.. freezer bags have to be simply stacked one on top of the other, which can make it difficult to find what you need with the variety of frozen.

Conclusions

The FROSTOR F 250 S is more compact than most chest freezers and cabinets of the same interior volume. It’s also more mobile than many, thanks to the presence of wheels.

Video – movie about the freezer

Specifics of use

• Freezer FROSTOR F 250 S can not be left in unheated cottage or installed on the unheated balcony. In terms of climate class, it can operate at a room temperature of +12 ° C. The manufacturers claim that the temperature can be below 10 ° C, but above 0.
• The freezer requires manual defrosting, but you need to do it only a couple of times a year, maybe less. In any case, in the month we tested it, there wasn’t a single millimeter of ice frozen in the freezer.

TOTALS

Good ratio of overall dimensions/internal volume, mobility, quick response to working temperatures, variety of temperature modes, fast freezing, high freezing power, long enough time for safe food storage when the power is off. Reasonable price, American production. Long service life, which indicates the reliability of the device.

Due to design features, the temperature switch is not located in the most convenient place one basket is included, the required amount can be purchased. Only one year of warranty service.