So, it turns out that when you buy four hundred and numfty-mumph pounds of beef, organization matters.
My freezer, as you can see, is a chest freezer. One large space, with drawers hanging on the sides.
I filled these drawers stem to stern with one-pound packages of ground beef. Still, I had ground to spare.
So I lined the bottom of the freezer with packages of ground. Figuring, I wouldn’t need to access these packages for a very long time, since I had four full drawers of ground beef.
So all’s hunky dory, yes?
Kinda.
You see, fitting the rest of the meat into the freezer is something of a feat. It’s like a giant game of meat Tetris. If I do it right, I have millimeters to spare. If I do it wrong, the lid won’t close. So I fit everything else in there as best I can.
So my meat is stored with a very high degree of geometrical order, and a very low degree of logical order.
Which means, of course, that whatever I’m looking for at any given time is at the very bottom of the chest.
This means I have to displace a large amount of meat to find that tiny piece of top round or flank or <Insert Bit Here> that’s invariably nestled between a three-bone standing rib roast and a giant chuck roast somewhere near the Earth’s mantle.
Where'd I put that oxtail....
Displace that meat haphazardly, and you get a Beefalanche. A cascade of ice-cold, rock-hard, relatively heavy, irregular shapes tumbling onto the ground, the dog, your feet, and worst of all, back into the Beefchasm you’ve already created in your freezer, causing you to lose your place and begin again.
Please, god... I'll be good...
If anybody has any tips for keeping everything organized, I’d love to hear it.
