Manual Defrosting

Cooking Guide(continued)

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:	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 following 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	250g	6½ -7½	5-25	Place the meat on a flat
	500g	13-14		ceramic plate. Shield thinner
Pork steaks	250g	7½ -8½		edges with aluminium foil.
				Turn over after half of
				defrosting time!

Poultry
Chicken	500g	14½-15½	15-40	First, put chicken pieces first
pieces	(2 pcs)			skin-side down, whole chicken
Whole				first breast-side-down on a flat
Whole	900g	28-30		ceramic plate.
chicken				Shield the thinner parts like
				wings and ends with aluminium
				foil. Turn over after half of
				defrosting time!
Fish		6-7	5-15	Put frozen fish in the middle of
Fish fillets	200g	6-7	5-15	Put frozen fish in the middle of
	(2 pcs)			a flat ceramic plate.
	400g	12-13		Arrange the thinner parts under
	(4 pcs)			the thicker parts. Shield narrow
				ends with aluminium foil.
				Turn over after half of
				defrosting time!

Fruits
Berries	250g	6-7	5 - 10	Distribute fruits on a flat, round
				glass dish (with a large
				diameter).
Bread	2 pcs	½-1	5 - 20	Arrange rolls in a circle or bread
Bread rolls	2 pcs	½-1	5 - 20	Arrange rolls in a circle or bread
(each about	4 pcs	2-2½		horizontally on kitchen paper in
50 g)				the middle of turntable.
Toast/	250g	4½-5		Turn over after half of
Sandwich	500g	8-10		defrosting time!
German	500g	8-10
bread
(wheat+
rye flour)

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