Super freeze
Freezing fresh food
Fresh food should be frozen as quickly as possible. This way the nutritional value of the food, its vitamin content, appearance and taste are not impaired.
Food which takes a long time to freeze will lose more water from its cells which then shrink.
During the defrosting process only some of this water is reabsorbed by the cells. The rest collects around the food. In practice this means that the food loses a large degree of its moisture.
If food is frozen quickly the cells have less time to lose moisture so they shrink less. As there is not so much moisture it is easier for the food to reabsorb it during the defrosting process and there will be very little water around the defrosted food.
Super freeze is not necessary:
–when putting in frozen food.
–when freezing up to 2 kg fresh food daily.
Switching on super freeze
Switch the super freeze function on before putting fresh food into the freezer.
When freezing small quantities of food in the freezer the super freeze function should be switched on 4 - 6 hours beforehand. When freezing the maximum load of food the super freeze function should be switched on 24 hours beforehand.
^Press the super freeze button. The super freeze indicator light will come on.
The appliance works at full power to lower the temperature in the freezer.
Switch super freeze off once you have loaded the freezer.
Switching super freeze off
^Press the super freeze button. The super freeze indicator light will go out.
The freezer wll now operate at normal power.
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