For our guides to the best freezers, we put in more than 40 hours of research. Although we weren’t able to test any of these freezers ourselves, we looked through hundreds of models and owner reviews, and we interviewed several experts, including Heather Marold Thomason, a butcher and founder of Primal Supply Meats in Philadelphia; Michael Dulock, butcher and owner of M.F. Dulock Pasture-Raised Meats in Somerville, Massachusetts; Benjamin Liebert, vice president of cold products at Frigidaire; Varun Rajasekaran, senior director of cold products at Electrolux; Jill A. Notini, vice president of communications and marketing at the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers; Tony Bouza, HVAC, water heating, and appliances technology manager at the US Department of Energy’s EERE Building Technologies Office; and Tim Ellis, merchandise senior manager of refrigeration at GE Appliances. We also consulted a few anonymous hunters in an online hunting forum.
