“Stand-alone freezers used to be all about utility, with no-frills designs and an open-box interior that made it a challenge to keep foods organized,” says Consumer Reports. “Those bare-bones freezers are still available, […] but we’re also seeing a lot of improvements to the look and functionality of freezers. That might be important if you want your freezer to hold a variety items, from trays of homemade to lasagne to five-pound bags of frozen veggies from the warehouse club, or if you plan to keep the freezer in a living area, as opposed to a dark corner of the basement or garage.”
Here is the Consumer Reports’ selection of recommended freezers. The maximum overall score is 100, and “Best Buy” models offer more value.
Upright freezers
Self-defrost
Manual-defrost
Chest freezers
Manual-defrost
Consumer Reports is an American magazine published monthly since 1936. It features reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory and survey research centre. The magazine accepts no advertising, pays for all the products it tests, and, as a not-for-profit organisation, has no shareholders. It also publishes cleaning and general buying guides. (Wikipedia.)
Source: Consumer Reports
Last checked on: 6 October 2016
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