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The freezer in your kitchen is what you go in/out of daily.
On a weekly/monthly basis you move stuff from deep freeze to kitchen freezer.
You want to minimize the amount of times you open/close the deep freeze.
Think of it like your hard drive, and the kitchen freezer as your ram.
Only on the fediverse can I expect to see someone explain how to manage their kitchen with a computer analogy and not the other way around
It's good advice though, I have no notes
While that's what people I've seen tend to do for convenience
using chest freezers in out of the way places because they already have a combination fridge/freezer in their kitchen, in terms of energy cost of opening the door, it's the other way around. Opening a chest freezer doesn't cause as much loss of cold air as a side-opening freezer. The heavier cold air doesn't spill out the side.
kagis
https://www.sustainability.ucsb.edu/blog/just-facts-labrats/chest-vs-upright-freezers-which-more-efficient-lab
If you have room for it in a kitchen, it'd be totally reasonable to use a chest freezer for day-to-day use. I wouldn't have space for one, myself.
EDIT: To extend the analogy, the upright freezer is more like a small internal solid state drive on a SATA bus that came in a desktop from the OEM
you probably already have one, but it has limited capacity and there is a higher access cost
and the chest freezer is like NVMe.
That's not the concern, deep freezes are way more efficient.
The problem is allowing moist air to enter.
Ice builds up, but it keeps running, eventually you'll have ice inches deep and it's liable to rip the insulation off the lid when you open it.
Normally that takes years, but if you're going into it multiple times a day, you're going to need to do full thaws a lot more regularly.