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Kōrero: Food and beverage manufacturing

Home freezer

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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, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/22918/home-freezer (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Sarah Wilcox, i tāngia i te 3 March 2010.