I've been putting things in the freezer all summer and tonight decided I needed to pull it all out for a while and defrost. A box with newspaper in the bottom and lined with thick towels, a cooler, and working fast allowed me to finish in about 45 minutes (very little that was in there would even get soft in that time).

I used the hair dryer on high. I always am so happy to see the shiny shelves and bright inside, and to be able to arrange the contents by groups. I have gallon bags of veggies in the bottom pull-out bin and a shelf of meat (I'd lost track of some of the cuts of meat in there so now it's all in sight); a shelf with flour, grains, etc. a couple of shelves of smaller and older bags of veggies. I have a lot of frozen tomatoes and my Lidia's summer simmered sauce (tomatoes and eggplant, onions, basil).

The basil in the garden is robust right now after a lot of rain so I'll pick and freeze a bunch of that this weekend. I dry some also, but I find the dried is very good for some things and it's still a bright green.

SRS