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.
Super freeze
Switch the super freeze function on be-
fore putting fresh food into the freezer.
Super freeze is not necessary:
– when putting in frozen food.
– when freezing up to 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
4 - 6 hours
beforehand.
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 appli-
ance.
Switching super freeze off
The super freeze function will switch off
automatically after approx. 50 hours.
The super freeze indicator light will go
out and the appliance will continue to
operate at normal power.
To save energy the super freeze
function 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
button. The super freeze indicator
light will go out and the appliance will
continue to operate at normal power.
Super freeze
15
