Thanks everyone. I live in small NYC (Greenwich Village) apartment so my only freezer is the one in my refrigerator. It works great and we smoke ribs and butts when we are out of the city and bring home the results in vacuum sealed servings so our little freezer in full. FYI, here in NYC we do not find ribs and butts in our supermarkets like I see when I am everywhere else, so we have no opportunity to buy in quantity, freeze and save $$. I buy ribs and butts from the butcher around the corner, Ottomanelli's. Several years ago they began to carry Berkshire pork, from Heritage Farms in Iowa and D'Artagnan and I got hooked on the Berkshire pork chops. This was pork like I remembered from growing up in WVA. Over time, I felt more and more that supermarket pork chops were simply bland and gave up on them until one day I decided to give the Berkshire chops a try and was blown away by the rich flavor. Never looked back.
I know everyone in the rest of the country likes to hear the prices. we pay in NYC for stuff, so here you go--the pork chops were $9.99/lb and they recently went up to $10.99. Same price for tenderloins and 1 lb bacon. This is way less than the uptown butchers charge. Don't remember what I paid for the butts. All this is more expensive than many would pay, but, for us, it's still cheaper than eating such fare in a restaurant which is what many, many NYorkers do and, besides, the bbq here is not that great. Most folks here have no idea what real BBQ is,