Cooking Guide

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: lat 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.

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

Food

Portion

Time

Standing

Instructions

 

 

(min.)

Time (min.)

 

Meat

 

 

 

 

Minced beef

500g

13-15

15-30

Place the meat on a flat ceramic

 

 

 

 

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

 

(2pc)

 

 

skin-side down, whole chicken

 

 

 

 

first breast-side-down on a flat

Whole chicken

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 with

 

 

 

 

aluminium foil. Turn over after

 

 

 

 

half of defrosting time!

 

 

 

 

 

Fruits

 

 

 

 

Berries

250g

6-7

5-10

Spread fruit on a flat, round

 

 

 

 

glass dish (with a large

 

 

 

 

diameter).

Bread

 

 

 

 

Bread rolls

2pc

1-1½

5-20

Arrange rolls in a circle or bread

(each ca. 50 g)

4pc

2½-3

 

vertically(like a tower) on kitchen

 

 

 

 

paper in the middle of turntable.

Toast/

250g

4½-5

 

Turn over after half of defrosting

Sandwich

 

 

 

time!

 

 

 

 

 

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