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 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 shielded 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 the defrosting power level (180W).

Food	Portion	Time	Standing	Instructions
		(min.)	Time
			(min.)
Meat
Minced beef	250g	6-7	5-25	Place the meat on a flat
	500g	13-14		ceramic plate.
				Shield thinner edges with
Pork steaks	250g	7½-8½		aluminium foil.
				Turn over after half of
				defrosting time!

Poultry
Chicken	500g	14½-	15-40	First, put chicken pieces skin-
pieces	(2pcs)	15½		side down, whole chicken
				breast-side-down on a flat
Whole	900g	28-30		ceramic plate. Shield the
chicken				thinner parts like wings and
				ends with aluminium foil. Turn
				over after half of defrosting
				time!
Fish
Fish fillets/	200g	6-7	5-15	Put frozen fish in the middle of
Whole fish	(2pcs)			a flat ceramic plate.
	400g	12-13		Arrange the thinner parts under
	(4pcs)			the thicker parts.
				Shield narrow ends of fillets and
				tail whole fish 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
Bread rolls	2pcs	½-1	5-20	Arrange rolls in a circle or bread
(each	4pcs	2-2½		horizontally on kitchen paper in
ca. 50 g)				the middle of turntable.
Toast/	250 g	4½-5		Turn over after half of
Sandwich				defrosting time!
German	500 g	8-10
bread (wheat
+ ryeflour)