If you are afraid to plug your freezer into a GFCI protected receptacle the simple solution is to just not have a freezer,
Might we avoid being simplistic about it? This is not MY freezer. It is not even a freezer we are discussing.
This is the property of the CLIENT. The installation is for the benefit of the CLIENT, not me. It is not MY food that will be spoiled if the gfi trips. It is not even MY fridge that will be made useless by housing rotting food for weeks on end. You cannot get that stench out.
All that happens to the CLIENT. Not to ME.
So, no, I am not afraid to plug in "MY" freezer, because, see, it is not "MY" freezer.
I am, however, interested in giving my client good service. It is my judgement that it is STUPID to plug a fridge or freezer into a gfi receptacle. I will take it up with my local code board, although they only have authority over 110 thousand people.
And JW, let me save you the effort: you are going to lecture me as how it is best service to do EVERYTHING to code.
Everybody is entitled to an opinion, I suppose.
But as long as the inspector is going to let me plug the fridge into other than a gfi or arcfault circuit, I'm doing it. Nobody is going to plug a toaster into that receptacle and then drop it into the sink.
And how, pray tell, does a dedicated circuit negate the requirement that the gfi be visible? It could be a breaker in the box.
One other question: how am I to be sure that I am in compliance with the jurisdiction's rules if I do not ask the inspectors when I am in doubt?
Los Angeles County has 80 cities. The County regulates code in unincorporated areas in the county. Each of those cities has its own enforcement. That is 81 authorities that I might need to understand. And each expects me to buy a business license to do business there.
Oddly, the City of Los Agneles gives the business license away for free, under 300,000 gross receipts. The smaller cities that I tend to work in want about $100 each per year.