If you’re pleased that your freezer isn’t filled to the gills with foods that you’ve stuffed in there and forgotten about, you might want to rethink that. Yes, a freezer that’s always full of food is carrying an inventory of edibles that cost a lot.
But an empty freezer has to work much harder to stay cold than a filled one. Once your freezer is loaded and all those items are at their frozen temperature, they will help keep the freezer cold.
A mostly empty freezer will fill with warm air every time you open it, and then will have to get cold again. There may be a good compromise between a full and empty freezer that will serve you best.
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