The food freezing time estimation methods developed by Cleland and Earle [4,5] performed well for infinite slabs and infinite cylinders.
The methods of Pham performed better with infinite slabs and infinite cylinders of food than they did for spherical food items.
The method of Ilicali and Saglam produced low prediction errors for cylindrical and spherical food items, but produced large prediction errors for infinite slabs of food.
The method of Lacroix and Castaigne performed best for infinite cylinders of food and produced high prediction errors for infinite slabs and spheres. The method of Salvadori and Mascheroni performed consistently with all three regular shapes, producing moderately large prediction errors.