I’ve been thinking about doing this for a long time, but finally got fed-up enough with coffee taking up food space in the freezer. It’s a cute 1.8 cubic foot (probably about a quarter albatross for those using the metric system) little cooler-style fridge/freezer. Justified it further since if I ever needed to it has a 12v dc adapter for car use (doubt I ever will). It does feel pretty special for the coffee to have its own storage unit, and it makes finding frozen fruits and meat in the standard freezer easier to sift through. A couple of times I even threw stuff out of the freezer to make room for coffee, so I knew it was time to try this.

  • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
    111·
    8 days ago

    Neat. I suppose if I had one of those old style USA fridge/freezer units where the freezer is just one large bin, this would make sense. Here in Vietnam, I have a large Japanese fridge freezer with 4 separate doors (two for the large fridge area and two for separate freezer areas that have multiple storage bins). I have one storage bin in one of the freezer areas just dedicated to beans.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
      31·
      8 days ago

      I was just thinking about those. I have a two-door setup, where the bottom half is just 100% freezer. Plenty of space for coffee, berries, veggies, etc. If you somehow need even more space, consider getting a proper chest freezer and use it for all sorts of long-term storage needs. As long as you have either one, there shouldn’t be any need for a tiny coffee freezer.

          • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 days ago

            That one is a bit larger than ours but ours is not small. I think ours is 545 liters of volume which is plenty for our family of four.

            I presented that image since it has almost the same layout as ours. Our freezer has a couple of smaller side by side drawers where the one in the image has larger single drawers on each side. We’ve had it for almost 6 years now and it has been a big improvement over the traditional style two door fridge.

            • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              7 days ago

              I can imagine. That setup looks very useful.

              Did you reserve one corner of a drawer for coffee? I have about 500 g of coffee in the freezer, so the beans occupy the same drawer where I keep my berries.

              • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world
                2·
                7 days ago

                I have one of the smaller drawers dedicated mainly to coffee. I have around 2kg currently in the freezer (four 500g bags of different different beans). Each bag has tape over the valve and each bag is in a ziplock bag. There are some single serving bags of udon noodles in there too. I don’t have anything in the drawer that could leak if we lose power for an extended period of time.