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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/en/ephemera/22918/home-freezer (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 3 March 2010.