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Freezing fresh food
Fresh food should be frozen as quickly
as possible. This way the nutritional
value of the food, its vitamin content,
appearance and taste are not impaired.
Food which takes a long time to freeze
will lose more water from its cells,
which then shrink.
During the defrosting process only
some of this water is reabsorbed by the
cells. The rest collects around the food.
In practice this means that the food
loses a large degree of its moisture.
If food is frozen quickly, the cells have
less time to lose moisture, so they
shrink less. As there is not so much
moisture, it is easier for the food to
reabsorb it during the defrosting
process, and there will be very little wa-
ter around the defrosted food.
Super freeze
Switch the Super freeze function on
before putting fresh food into the
freezer.
Exceptions:
– when putting in frozen food.
– when freezing less than 2 kg fresh
food daily.
Switching on Super freeze
When freezing small quantities of food
in the freezer, the Super freeze function
should be switched on
6 hours
beforehand . When freezing the
maximum load of food the Super
freeze function should be switched on
24 hours beforehand .
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Press the Super freeze button; the
Super freeze indicator light will come
on.
The appliance works at full power to
lower the temperature in the freezer.
It can take up to 8 minutes for the
compressor to switch on after the
Super freeze button has been
pressed. This is due to a built-in
delay switch, which helps prolong
the life of the appliance.
Super freeze
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