Cooking Guide (continued)

DEFROSTING

Microwaves are an excellent way of defrosting frozen food. Microwaves gently defrost frozen food in a short period of time. This can be of great advantage, if unexpected guests suddenly show up.

Frozen poultry must be thoroughly thawed before cooking. Remove any metal ties and take it out of any wrapping to allow thawed liquid to drain away.

Put the frozen food on a dish without cover. Turn over half way, drain off any liquid and remove any giblets as soon as possible. Check the food occasionally to make sure that it does not feel warm.

If smaller and thinner parts of the frozen food start to warm up, they can be shield by wrapping very small strips of aluminium foil around them during defrosting.

Should poultry start to warm up on the outer surface, stop thawing and allow it to stand for 20 minutes before continuing.

Leave the fish, meat and poultry to stand in order to complete defrosting. The standing time for complete defrosting will vary depending on the quantity defrosted. Please refer to the table below.

Hint: Flat food defrosts better than thick and smaller quantities need less time than bigger ones. Remember this hint while freezing and defrosting food.

For defrosting of frozen food with a temperature of about -18 to - 20°C, use the following table as a guide.

All frozen food should be defrosted using defrosting power level (180 W).

Food

Portion

Time

Standing

Instructions

 

 

(min.)

Time (min.)

 

Meat

 

6-7

15-30

Place the meat on a flat ceramic

Minced beef

250g

 

500g

10-12

 

plate. Shield thinner edges with

 

 

 

 

aluminium foil. Turn over after

Pork steaks

250g

7-8

 

half of defrosting time!

 

 

 

 

 

Poultry

 

 

 

 

Chicken

500g

14-15

15-60

First, put chicken pieces first

pieces

(2pcs)

 

 

skin-side down, whole chicken

Whole chicken

 

 

 

first breast-side-down on a flat

1200g

32-34

 

ceramic plate. Shield the thinner

 

 

 

 

parts like wings and ends with

 

 

 

 

aluminium foil. Turn over after

 

 

 

 

half of defrosting time!

Fish

 

 

 

 

Fish fillets

200g

6-7

10-25

Put frozen fish in the middle of a

 

 

 

 

flat ceramic plate. Arrange the

Whole fish

400g

11-13

 

thinner parts under the thicker

 

 

 

 

parts. Shield narrow ends of

 

 

 

 

fillets and tail of whole fish with

 

 

 

 

aluminium foil. Turn over after

 

 

 

 

half of defrosting time!

 

 

 

 

 

Fruits

 

 

 

 

Berries

300g

6-7

5-10

Spread fruit on a flat, round

 

 

 

 

glass dish (with a large

 

 

 

 

diameter).

Bread

2pc

1-1½

5-20

Arrange rolls in a circle or bread

Bread rolls

(each ca. 50 g)

4pc

2½-3

 

horizontally on kitchen paper in

Toast/

250g

4-4½

 

the middle of turntable. Turn

Sandwich

500g

7-9

 

over after half of defrosting time!

German bread

 

 

(wheat + rye

 

 

 

 

flour)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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