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Cooking Guide (continued)
DEFROSTING
Microwaves are an excellent way of defrosting frozen food. Microwaves gently defrost
frozen food in a short period of time. This can be of great advantage, if unexpected guests
suddenly show up.
Frozen poultry must be thoroughly thawed before cooking. Remove any metal ties and
take it out of any wrapping to allow thawed liquid to drain away.
Put the frozen food on a dish without cover. Turn over half way, drain off any liquid and
remove any giblets as soon as possible. Check the food occasionally to make sure that it
does not feel warm.
If smaller and thinner parts of the frozen food start to warm up, they can be shield by
wrapping very small strips of aluminium foil around them during defrosting.
Should poultry start to warm up on the outer surface, stop thawing and allow it to stand for
20 minutes before continuing.
Leave the fish, meat and poultry to stand in order to complete defrosting. The standing
time for complete defrosting will vary depending on the quantity defrosted. Please refer to
the table below.
Hint:
lat food defrosts better than thick and smaller quantities need less
time than bigger ones. Remember this hint while freezing and
defrosting food.
For defrosting of frozen food with a temperature of about -18 to - 20°C, use the following
table as a guide.
All frozen food should be defrosted using defrosting power level (180 W).
Food
Portion Time
(min.)
Standing
Time (min.)
Instructions
Meat
Minced beef
Pork steaks
250g
500g
250g
6-7
10-12
7-8
15-30
Place the meat on a flat ceramic
plate. Shield thinner edges with
aluminium foil. Turn over after half of
defrosting time!
Poultry
Chicken pieces
Whole chicken
500g
(2pcs)
1200g
12-14
28-32
15-60
First, put chicken pieces first skin-
side down, whole chicken first
breast-side-down on a flat ceramic
plate. Shield the thinner parts like
wings and ends with aluminium foil.
Turn over after half of defrosting
time!
Fish
Fish fillets/
Whole fish
200g
400g
6-7
11-13
10-25
Put frozen fish in the middle of a flat
ceramic plate. Arrange the thinner
parts under the thicker parts. Shield
narrow ends with aluminium foil.
Turn over after half of defrosting
time!
Fruits
Berries
300g
6-7
5-10
Spread fruit on a flat, round glass
dish (with a large diameter).
Bread
Bread rolls
(each ca. 50 g)
Toast/
Sandwich
German bread
(wheat + rye
flour)
2pcs
4pcs
250g
500g
1-1½
2½-3
4-4½
7-9
5-20
Arrange rolls in a circle or bread
vertically(like a tower) on kitchen
paper in the middle of turntable.
Turn over after half of defrosting
time!
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