Whirlpool ET20AK manual Food Storagechart, Vegetables, Do not Freeze, Baked Goods

MPORTANT: Do not expect your freezer to quick- treeze 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 foot of freezer space.) leave enough space for air to circulate around pack- ages. Be careful to leave enough room at the front so the door can close tightly.

FOOD STORAGECHART

Storage times’ will vary according to the qual-

ity of the food, the type of packaging or wrap used (moisture and vapor-proof], and the stor- age temperature which should be 0°F ( P17.8”C).

Food						Storage		Time
FRUITS
Fruit juice		concentrate				.....	12 months
Commercially					frozen fruit		12 months
Citrus	fruit		and		juices	4 to 6 months
Others	....................					8 to	12 months
VEGETABLES
Commercially					trozen		8 months
Home	frozen			..............		8 to 12 months
MEAT
Bacon	....................					4 weeks		or less
Corned		beef		.............		4 weeks		or less
(Salting meat shortens freezer life)
Frankfurters				.....................			lmonth
Ground beef, lamb, veal ... 2 to 3 months
Roasts:
Beef	....................					6 to 12 months
lamb		and		veal		6 to 9 months
Pork	.....................					4toSmonths
Sausage,		fresh			.............	1 to 2 months
Steaks	and		chops:
Beef	....................					Sto12months
lamb,		veal,		pork		3 to 4 months
FISH
Cod, flounder,					haddock
sole	.........................						6months
Blue fish,		salmon				2 to 3 months
Mackerel,			perch			2 to 3 months
Breaded		fish		(purchased).		.....	3 months
Clams,	oysters,				cooked
fish,	crab,		scallops			3 to 4 months
Alaskan		king		crab			10 months
Shrimp,		uncooked					12months
POULTRY
Chicken		or turkey,					12 months
whole		or parts
Duck	..........................						6 months
Giblets		....................				2to3months
Cooked		poultry			w/gravy		6 months
Slices	(no gravy)						1 month
MAIN DISHES
Stews;	meat,			poultry
and	fish		casserole			2 to 3 months
TV dinners			.................			3 to 6 months

Food				Storage Tlme
DAIRY PRODUCTS				6to9months
Butter	......................
Margarine					12 months
Cheese:
Camembert,			Mozzarella,		3 months
farmer’s		....................
Creamed		cottage		DO NOT FREEZE
Cheddar,		Edam, Gouda,
SWISS,brick, etc				6 to B weeks
Freezlng can change texture of
cheese.				.....	2 months
Ice cream,		ice	milk, sherbet
EGGS					12 months
Whole	(mixed)		.................
Whites	.........................				12 months
Yolks					12 months
(Add sugar or salt to yolks oFwhole mixed eggs)
BAKED GOODS					3 months
Yeast	breads		and rolls
Baked	Brown		‘N Serve rolls		3 months
Unbaked breads					1 month
Quick	breads		..............	2 to 3 months
Cakes,	untrosted			2 to 4 months
Cakes,	trotted		............	8 to	12 months
Fruit cakes		....................			12 months
Cookle	dough		..................		3 months
Baked	cookies		............	8 to	12 months
Baked	pies	.................		1 to 2 months
Pledoughonly			.............	4to6months

‘Based on U.S.D.A. and Michigan Cooperative Extension Sewlce suggested storage times.

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1.I! service IS to be Interrupted 24 hours or less, keep both doors closed. This will help frozen foods to stay frozen.

2.11service is to be interrupted longer than 24 * hours:

(a)Remove all frozen food and Store in a frozen food locker. Or...

(o]Place 2 Ibs (0.9 kg) of dry ice in freezer for every cu. ft of freezer space. This will keep frozen foods for 2 to 4 days. Wear gloves to protect your hands from dry ice burns.

(c)If neither food locker storage nor dry ice iS available, use or can perishable food at once

3.A fuli freezer WIII stay cold longer than a partly filled one. A freezer full of meat will stay cold longer than a freezer full of baked goods. If food contains ice crystals, it may be Safely refrozen, although the quality and flavor may be affected. Use refrozen foods quickly. If the condition of the food is poor or If you feel it is unsafe, dispose of it.