re: So be honest, whose freezer looks like this?

Me too, if it’s properly packaged. I have three freezers: inside side by side, garage upper, and garage chest. Different stuff in each one. I dunno how you let it get so frozen over.

Pro tip: if you’re too lazy to defrost it properly, use a metal spatula to carefully separate chunks of that frost-over from the freezer walls. It’s quick and usually the ice will separate in fat chunks....unless you’ve allowed it to get to Antarctic glacier proportions. I do this w/my chest freezer every couple months.