Super freeze
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 im-
paired.
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.
In practice this means that the food
loses a large degree of its moisture.
The rest collects around the food.
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. There will be
very little water around the defrosted
food.
Super freeze
This function should be used when
freezing more than 2 kg of fresh food at
once.
Super freeze is not necessary:
– when putting in frozen food.
– when freezing up to 2 kg fresh food
daily.
Switching on super freeze
Switch the super freeze function on be-
fore putting fresh food into the freezer.
When freezing small quantities of food
in the freezer, the super freeze function
should be switched on
4 – 6 hours be-
forehand
. When freezing
the maxi-
mum load of food
the super freeze
function should be switched on
24
hours
beforehand
.
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.
Switching super freeze off
To save energy the super freeze func-
tion can be switched off once a
constant
temperature of at least -18 °C
has been reached in the freezer.
To switch it off press the super freeze
switch. The super freeze indicator
light will go out.
The appliance will continue to operate
at normal power.
Super freeze
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