Most refrigerator-freezers are essentially the same. That means we can generalize our approach. For instance, since the door bins spend a good bit of time swinging out into your nice, warm kitchen, only store items up here that you'll use quickly, or that are less likely to sustain damage from partial thawing and refreezing. Good examples would be nuts, coffee beans tightly wrapped, of course, butter, and bread.
Now for inside the main vessel ... [cuts out a in the back of the freezer compartment so we can see him better inside] Ahh. There. That's better. Now, the first thing I want you to promise me is that you will always keep a freezer thermometer inside here [freezer] so that you will know that your box is sticking to zero or colder. That is crucial.
Now unlike refrigerators, freezers work best when they are full. But if you just pack stuff in here, you'll never really be able to use the space. And you'll never be able to find anything. So you need some organization. What I do is I use organizational tools that I get at hardware and office supply store, wire shelving and what-not, so I can place things in different parts of the freezer and move things around. I also like to stash two to three water bottles in here, to take up space, and act as heat sinks in the unlikely event of a power outage. If I need more room, I just move these down to the refrigerator. All this means [is] that I can move stuff around and quickly get to the coldest spot, which is usually dead center in the bottom. That way, I can always slide in items to freeze, like our unwrapped steaks, which will fit right in on a pan. Now since the pan is aluminum, and aluminum is a great conductor, it will quickly pull the heat out of the steaks.
Now if your freezer isn't already on its very lowest setting, put it there now. If the doors stay shut, these steaks should be ready to package in four to six hours.
SALESMAN: [picks up AB's sawzall] Uh, is this yours?
AB: I've never seen that before in my life.
[cuts another bigger hole in another unit] Ahh. Where were we? Oh, yes, our peas. To freeze the peas, remove the now moist paper toweling and freeze uncovered in the pan, on the floor of the freezer if at all possible. If you can't get to the floor of the freezer, as is often the case with a side-by-side model, just keep in mind that a single layer is the most important thing. So divide them into two smaller vessels and layer them on the lowest shelves that you can access. Now when these are rock hard in about two hours, we'll talk about storage.
S: Uh, sir, if you're not going to purchase, we're going to have to ask you to stop cutting holes in the appliances.
AB: Oh, bother.