•Dry the tray, otherwise it may stick to the bottom of the freezer.
•The best method to get ice cubes out of the tray is to hold the tray under cold tap water for a second.
•To eject the ice cubes from the trays, place over the ice bucket and twist slightly
THE FREEZER COMPARTMENT.
Freezing Fresh Foods
•Proper use of the appliance, adequately packed food, correct temperature and taking into account hygienic precautions will substantially influence the quality of freezing the food or string of the frozen foods.
•Carefully select food you intend to freeze; it should be of adequate quality and suitable for freezing.
•Use correct packaging and wrap it right.
•The packaging should be airtight and shouldn’t leak since this could cause substantial vitamin loss and dehydration of foods.
•Foils and bags should be soft enough to tightly wrap around the foods.
•When preparing foods to be frozen, consider sanitary precautions.
•Mark packages with following data: kind and amount of foods and the date of loading.
•It is most Important that the food is frozen as quickly as possible.
•If the loading amount is too large, the quality of freezing is reduced which affects the quality of frozen foods.
Freezing Procedure
•24 hours before loading the freezer with fresh foods to be frozen, set the thermostat to position 7. Put packages on the shelf and let them freeze 24 hours. After loading the packages of fresh foods reset the thermostat, if necessary, to operating temperature and reload the frozen packages to the bottom shelf.
•The next time you want to freeze fresh foods, repeat the freezing procedure and be careful that packages with fresh foods do not touch frozen packages.
•For freezing smaller amount of foods (up to 2 lbs.) there is no need to change the thermostat setting.
CARE AND MAINTENANCE
Cleaning Your Appliance
•Turn the temperature control to "OFF", unplug the appliance, and remove the food, shelves, and trays.
•Wash the inside with warm water and baking soda solution. The solution should be about 2 tablespoons of baking soda to a quart of water.
•Wash the shelves and trays with a mild detergent solution. Plastic parts cannot be washed in a dishwasher.
•The outside of the appliance should be cleaned with mild detergent and warm water.
•The condenser coils should be vacuumed when they are dusty or dirty.
•Clean the drain pan on the refrigerator compressor. Do not remove the drain pan.
•After cleaning, connect the appliance to power supply and reload the packages.
Maintenance of Your Appliance
Changing the Light Bulb
•Unplug the AC power cord from the wall.
•Remove the screw with a Phillips screwdriver.
•Remove the light bulb cover.
•Unscrew the bulb.
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