Can upright freezers and deep chest freezers have the same temps? I thought deep chest freezers were colder?
probably not quite as cold - but if you're looking at cooking a few weeks in advance and freezing meals to use regularly, they are the better option (IMO of course lol) - we used to do bulk cooking when DH worked away in the truck, and got rid of the chest freezer we had because it was a PITA trying to get a mix of meals for him to take when you had to dig to the bottom - and there was too much worry about how long ago stuff was stored. so we got an upright, and the drawers made it easier to use. had one "type" of meal on each shelf, so we could see what was running low, what he had heaps of - and when he was packing food, he could get a mix of stuff to take. nothing went to waste at all.