Freezing foods / storing frozen foods
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Preparing ice cubes
• Fill an ice cube container to the ¾ level
with fresh drinking water and place it in
the freezer compartment.
• The ice cubes are best removed by
bending the ice cube container slightly or
holding it under running water for a short
while.
Tips for freezing
To maintain the taste and nutritional value
of your frozen foods and to make sure your
appliance does not use too much electricity
and the freezer does not need to be defrosted
unnecessarily often, please note:
– Frozen food requires a constant storage
temperature of –18 °C.
– A temperature setting that is too high or too
low can reduce the shelf life of your food.
This leads to greater food waste.
– Only freeze good quality food that has been
prepared, split into portions and packaged
as appropriate for its properties.
– Freeze meat, poultry and fish raw or pre-
pared into portions suitable for at home and
defrost them later in the fridge. Make sure
that meat, for example, is not immersed in
its own thawing liquid.
– Freeze fresh and prepared food dry and
unseasoned. Unsalted foods are more du-
rable.
– Allow prepared food to cool before freez-
ing. This not only saves power, but also
prevents excessive frost formation in the
freezer.
– To make sure frozen food does not dry out,
take on a strange taste or leak, use robust
packaging material that is impermeable to
air and liquids, is not too stiff and can be
closed easily and labelled.
– Observe the manufacturer’s instructions
when storing processed frozen foods.
– You should also freeze meals in portion siz-
es if possible. Small portions are quicker
to freeze to the core. As well as this, it is
more cost-efficient to freeze several small
portions than to throw away the remainder
of a large portion.
– Adhere to the recommended storage times
and temperatures.
– When storing fresh food, make sure that it
does not come into contact with food that
is already frozen, as this food may defrost.
– Make sure that food does not come into
contact with the rear wall of the freezer, as
it could end up freezing to the wall.
