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 halfway, 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 shielded 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.

GB

All frozen food should be defrosted using the defrosting power level

(180 W, ).

Food

Portion

Time

Standing

Instructions

 

 

(min.)

Time

 

 

 

 

(min.)

 

Meat

 

 

 

 

Minced beef

250g

6-7

5-25

Place the meat on a flat

 

500g

13-14

 

ceramic plate.

 

 

 

 

Shield thinner edges with

Pork steaks

250g

7½-8½

 

aluminium foil.

 

 

 

 

Turn over after half of

 

 

 

 

defrosting time!

 

 

 

 

 

Poultry

 

 

 

 

Chicken

500g

14½-15½

15-40

First, put chicken pieces skin-

pieces

(2pcs)

 

 

side down, whole chicken

Whole

 

28-30

 

breast-side-down on a flat

900g

 

 

ceramic plate. Shield the

chicken

 

 

 

thinner parts like wings and

 

 

 

 

ends with aluminium foil. Turn

 

 

 

 

over after half of defrosting

 

 

 

 

time!

Fish

 

 

 

 

Fish fillets/

200g

6-7

5-15

Put frozen fish in the middle of

Whole fish

(2pcs)

 

 

a flat ceramic plate.

 

400g

12-13

 

Arrange the thinner parts

 

(4pcs)

 

 

under the thicker parts.

 

 

 

 

Shield narrow ends of fillets

 

 

 

 

and tail whole fish with

 

 

 

 

aluminium foil. Turn over after

 

 

 

 

half of defrosting time!

 

 

 

 

 

Fruits

 

 

 

 

Berries

250g

6-7

5-10

Distribute fruits on a flat, round

 

 

 

 

glass dish (with a large

 

 

 

 

diameter).

Bread

 

 

 

 

Bread rolls

2pcs

½-1

5-20

Arrange rolls in a circle or

(each

4pcs

2-2½

 

bread horizontally on kitchen

ca. 50 g)

 

 

 

paper in the middle of

Toast/

250 g

4½-5

 

turntable.

Sandwich

 

 

 

Turn over after half of

German

500 g

8-10

 

defrosting time!

bread (wheat

 

 

 

 

 

 

+ ryeflour)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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