Do you speak American?

[marypcbuk]

Could some kind soul explain what popular idiom I'm failing to understand here?
"As exciting as the new version of Visio is, the new version of Project is also a very exciting release. I was trying to – I asked Mike backstage, c'mon, between us chickens, tell me, so to speak, is this a breadbasket or a refrigerator or is it something in between, bigger than a breadbasket, smaller than a refrigerator. Mike says this is a sub zero, this is the biggest set of innovations we've done in Project in a long, long, long time."
Steve Ballmer