The Essential Appliance Guide: The big freeze

The primary advantage of chest freezers is not their capacity but their storage flexibility.

If you can see into the clear plastic drawers, you are likely to spend shorter periods of time with the door open warming up the interior and not having opened the drawers themselves, you are wasting less energy.

• Many drawer type freezers also have integrated freezing elements inside each drawer ensuring an efficient, even freeze. Some manufacturers offer a matching fridge for their upright freezers.