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Cooking Guide
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 halfway, 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: Flat 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 fol-
lowing table as a guide.
All frozen food should be defrosted using defrosting power level (180 W).
Food
Portion
Time
Standing
Instructions
(min.) Time
(min.)
Meat
Minced beef
200 g
6
1
/
2
- 7
1
/
2
10 - 20
Place the meat on a flat ceramic plate.
400 g
11 - 13
Shield thinner edges with aluminium foil.
Turn over after half of defrosting time!
Pork steaks
250 g
7
1
/
2
- 8
1
/
2
Poultry
Chicken pieces 500 g 13
1
/
2
- 14
1
/
2
15 - 40
First, put chicken pieces first skin-side down,
(2 pc)
whole chicken first breast-side-down on a flat
ceramic plate. Shield the thinner parts like
Whole chicken
950 g
27 - 29
wings and ends with aluminium foil. Turn over
after half of defrosting time!
Fish
Fish fillets
200 g
6 - 7
10 - 20
Put frozen fish in the middle of a flat ceramic
(2 pc)
plate. Arrange the thinner parts under the
400 g
12 - 13
thicker parts. Shield narrow ends with aluminium
(4 pc)
foil. Turn over after half of defrosting time!
Fruits
Berries
250 g
6
1
/
2
- 7
1
/
2
5 - 10
Distribute fruits on a flat, round glass dish (with
a large diameter).
Bread
Bread rolls
2 pc
1
1
/
2
- 2
5 - 10
Arrange rolls in a circle or bread horizontally
(each ca. 50 g)
4 pc
3 - 3
1
/
2
on kitchen paper in the middle of turntable.
Toast/ Sandwich
250 g
5 - 5
1
/
2
Turn over after half of defrosting time!
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