Whirlpool ED22DW manual Foodstoragechart, Fruits, Meat, Fish, Eggs

IMPORTANT: Do not expect your freezer to qulck- freeze any large quanfify of food. Put no more unfrozen food Into the freezer than will freeze wlfhln 24 hours. (No more than 2 to 3 pounds of food per cubic foot of freezer space.) leave enough space for alr to clrculafe around pack- ages. Be careful to leave enough room af the front so the door can close flghfiy.

FOODSTORAGECHART

Storage times will vary according to the quality of the food, the type of packaging or wrap used (moisture and vapor-proof], and the storage temperature which should be 0°F( - 17.8%).

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						frozen		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					.....................			1 month
Ground beef, lamb, veal ... 2 to 3 months
Roasts:
Beef		....................					6fol2monfhs
lamb		and			veal		6 to 9 months
Pork		.....................					4to8months
Sausage,			fresh			.............	1 to 2 months
Steaks		and		chops:
Beef		....................					8to12months
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		klng			crab			10 months
Shrimp,		uncooked						12 months
POULTRY
Chicken		or		turkey,				12 months
whole		or parts
Duck	..........................							6 months
Giblets		....................					2to3monfhs
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 Time
DAIRY PRODUCTS			6to9monfhs
Buffer
Margarlne	.....................		12 months
Cheese:
Camembert,		Mozzarella,		3 months
farmer’s
Creamed	cottage		DO NOT FREEZE
Cheddar,	Edam, Gouda,		6 to	8 weeks
Swiss,	brick,	etc
Freezlng can change texture of
cheese.			.....	2 months
ice cream,	ice milk, sherbet
EGGS			12 months
Whole (mixed)		.................
Whites			12 months
Yolks			12monfhs

(Add sugar or salt to yolks or whole 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,	unfrosfed			2 to 4		months
Cakes,	frosted		............	8 to	12	months
Fruit cakes		....................			12	months
Cookle	dough		..................		3 months
Baked	cookies		............	8 to	12	months
Baked	pies			1 to 2 months
Pie dough		only		4 to 6 months

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

If electrlclfy goes off

Call the power company. Ask how long power will be off.

1.If service is to be interrupted 24 hours or less, keep both doors closed. This will help frozen foods to stay frozen.

2.If service is to be interrupted longer than 24 hours:

(a]Remove all frozen food and store in a frozen food locker. Or...

(b)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.

(d)Ice bin may need to be emptied if ice has thawed into a solid mass.

3.A full freezer will stay colder 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 fla- vor may be affected. If the condition of the E; is poor or if you feel it is unsafe, dispose

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