Story: Food and beverage manufacturing

Home freezer

Home freezer

Domestic deep freezers only became available from the 1950s. They were especially appealing to rural families who could use them to store perishable food. Deep freezers opened up a whole new range of food products for manufacturers, such as frozen vegetables.

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Reference: Helen Leach, The pavlova story: a slice of New Zealand’s culinary history. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2008, p. 118, illustration 8.3

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Sarah Wilcox, 'Food and beverage manufacturing - Changing technology and tastes', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/ephemera/22918/home-freezer (accessed 20 April 2024)

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 11 Mar 2010