Cooking Guide (continued)

GB 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 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

 

Minced beef

200g

Place the meat on a flat ceramic

 

400g

10-12

 

plate. Shield thinner edges with

Pork steaks

250g

7- 8

 

aluminium foil. Turn over after half of

 

 

 

 

defrosting time!

 

 

 

 

 

Poultry

 

 

 

 

Chicken pieces

500g

14-15

15-60

First, put chicken pieces first skin-side

 

(2 pcs)

 

 

down, whole chicken first breast-side-

 

 

 

 

down on a flat ceramic plate. Shield

Whole chicken

1200g

32-34

 

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

Whole fis

400g

11-13

 

ceramic plate. Arrange the thinner

 

 

 

 

parts 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

Spread fruits on a flat, round glass

 

 

 

 

dish (with a large diameter).

Bread

2pcs

1-1½

5-20

Arrange rolls in a circle or bread

Bread rolls

(each ca. 50 g)

4pcs

2½-3

 

horizontally on kitchen paper in the

Toast/ Sandwich

250g

4-4½

 

middle of turntable. Turn over after

German bread

500g

7-9

 

half of defrosting time!

(wheat + rye flour)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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