IMPORTANT: Do not expect your freezer to quick- freeze any large quantity of food. Put no more unfrozen food into the freezer than will freeze within 24 hours. (No more than 2 to 3 pounds of food per cubic toot of freezer space.) leave enough space tor air to circulate around pack- ages. Be careful to leave enough room at the front so the door can close tightly.
FOODSTORAGECHART
Storage times* will vary according to the qual- ity of the food, the type of packaging or wrap used (moisture and
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Fruit juice | concentrate | 12 months | ||||||
Commercially |
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Citrus | fruit | and | juices | 4 to 6 months | ||||
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CommerciaiiY |
| frozen | 8 months | |||||
Home | frozen | .............. | 8 to 12 months | |||||
MEAT |
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Bacon | .................... |
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| 4 weeks | or less | ||
Corned | beef |
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Frankfurters |
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| 1 month | ||||
Ground beef, iamb, veal ... 2 to 3 months | ||||||||
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lamb | and | veal | 6 to | 9 months | ||||
Pork | ..................... |
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Sausage, | fresh | ............. | 1 to | 2 months | ||||
Steaks | and | chops: |
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Beef | .................... |
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| 8 to | 12 months | ||
lamb, | veal, |
| pork | 3 to 4 months | ||||
FISH |
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Cod, flounder, |
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Blue fish, | salmon | 2 to 3 months | ||||||
Mackerel, | perch | 2 to 3 months | ||||||
Breaded | fish | (purchased). | ..... | 3 months | ||||
Clams, | oysters, | cooked |
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fish, | crab, | scallops | 3 to | 4 months | ||||
Alaskan | king | crab |
| 10 months | ||||
Shrimp, | uncooked |
| 12 months | |||||
POULTRY |
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Chicken | or | turkey, |
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whole | or parts |
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Duck | .......................... |
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| 6 months | ||
Giblets | .................... |
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Cooked |
| poultry | w/gravy | 6 months | ||||
Silces | (no gravy) |
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MAIN DISHES |
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and | flsh casserole | 2 to | 3 months | |||||
TV dinners | ................. |
| 3 to | 6 months |
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DAIRY PRODUCTS |
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Butter |
| 6 to 9 months | ||
Margarine | ..................... | 12 months | ||
Cheese: |
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Camembelt, | Mozzarella, |
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farmer’, |
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Creamed | cottage | DO NOT FREEZE | ||
Cheddar, | Edam, Gouda, |
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Swiss, | brick, | etc | 6 to | 8 weeks |
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ice cream, | ice milk, sherbet | ..... | 2 months | |
EGGS |
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Whole [mixed) | ................. | 12 months | ||
Whiles |
| 12 months | ||
Yolks |
| 12 months |
:Add sugarorsaltto yolks orwhole mixed eggs)
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Yeasf | breads | and roils | 3 months | ||
Baked | Brown | ‘N Serve roils | 3 months | ||
Unbaked breads |
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Quick | breads | .............. | 2 to 3 months | ||
Cakes, | unfroded | 2 to 4 months | |||
Cakes, | frosfed | ............ | B to | 12 | months |
Fruif cakes |
| 12 | months | ||
Cookie | dough | .................. |
| 3 months | |
Baked | cookies | ............ | 8 to | 12 | months |
Baked | pies | 1 to 2 monfhs | |||
Piedoughoniy | ............. | 4to6monfhs |
‘Based on U.S.D.A.and Michigan Cooperative Extension Service suggested storage times.
If electricity goes off
Call the power company. Ask how long powe will be off.
I. If service is to be interrupted 24 hours or les! keep both doors closed. This will help froze! foods to stay frozen.
2.If service is to be interrupted longer than 2d hours:
(a)Remove all frozen food and store in ( frozen food locker. Or...
(b]Place 2 Ibs (0.9 kg] of dry ice in freezer fc every cu. ft. of freezer space. This will keel frozen foods for 2 to 4 days. Wear gloves tc protect your hands from dry ice burns.
(c]If neither food locker storage nor dry ice i available, use or can perishable food c once.
3.A full freezer will stay cold longer than c partly filled one. A freezer full of meat will stab cold longer than a freezer full of bakec goods. If food contains ice crystals, it ma) be safely refrozen, although the quality ant flavor
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