Cooking Smart

Defrost

Put frozen food in a microwave-safe container without a cover. Turn over during defrosting, and drain off liquid and remove giblets after defrosting. For faster defrosting, cut the food into small pieces, and wrap them with aluminum foil before defrosting. When the outer surface of frozen foods begins to melt, stop defrosting and let stand as instructed in the table below.

Do not change the default power level (180 W) for defrosting.

	Food	Serving size (g)	Defrosting time	Standing time
	Food	Serving size (g)	(min.)	(min.)
			(min.)	(min.)

Meat	Minced meat	250	4-6	15-30
		500	9-11
	Pork steaks	250	7-8

Place the meat on the ceramic plate. Shield thinner edges with aluminium foil. Turn over after half of defrosting time!

Poultry	Chicken pieces	500 (2 pcs.)	12-14	15-60
	Whole chicken	1200	28-32

First, put chicken pieces first skin-side down, whole chicken first breast-side- down on ceramic plate. Shield the thinner parts like wings and ends with aluminium foil. Turn over after half of defrosting time!

Fish	Fish fillets	200	6-7	10-25
	Whole fish	400	11-13

	Put frozen fish in the	middle of ceramic plate. Arrange the thinner parts under
	the thicker parts. Shield narrow ends of fillets and tail of whole fish			With
	aluminium foil. Turn over after half of defrosting time!

Fruit	Berries	300	6-7	5-10

	Spread fruit on a flat, round glass dish (with a large diameter).

Bread	Bread rolls	2 pcs	1-1½	5-20
	(each ca. 50 g)	4 pcs	2½-3
	Toast/sandwich	250	4-4½
	German bread	500	7-9

Arrange rolls in a circle or bread horizontally on kitchen paper on the ceramic plate. Turn over after half of defrosting time!

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