15
Using Your Appliance
Storing frozen foods
When storing commercially frozen foods, please follow these
guidelines.
Always follow manufacturers guidelines for the length of
time you should store food for. Do not exceed these
guidelines!
Try to keep the length of time between purchase and
storage as short as possible to preserve food quality.
Buy frozen foods which have been stored at a temperature
no higher than –18°C.
Do not buy food which have ice or frost on the packaging –
this indicates that the products might have been partially
defrosted and re-frozen at some point – temperature rises
affect the quality of food.
When consuming ice cream or water ices allow them to
warm a little first to prevent freezer burns on hands or
tongue.
Should there be a power cut, or the freezer / refrigeration
appliance fail for any length of time you may need to
remove food from the freezer and store in a cold, hygienic
place (i.e. garage or out house area) until the power is
restored, or the appliance repaired. To prevent undue
temperature rises; you should wrap the foods in layers of
newspaper to help to maintain their temperature. It is also
important that any food affected by this situation should be
either consumed or cooked and re-frozen (where suitable)
soon afterwards in order to prevent health risks.
Layers of newspaper can also be used to help keep foods
cold while you are defrosting the freezer (see cleaning your
appliance).
Storage charts
On the following pages we have supplied an approximate
guide for storing both fresh and frozen food within this
appliance. This is for both the refrigerator and the freezer
compartments.
