Smeg FM38X manual Using the Microwave for automatic defrosting, Recommendations

Using the Microwave for automatic defrosting

Thanks to your microwave oven, the hours of waiting for your food to defrost are over!

The microwave is the deep-freeze's bestGB ally, as it enables you to defrost your frozen food up to ten times quicker than by just leaving it in the open air.

Recommendations :

-Defrosting times vary depending on the type of appliance. They also depend on the size, shape, initial temperature and quality of the food.

-Make sure that you remove any metallic attachments on food packaging when defrosting.

-If there are any ice crystals on the food, scrape them off beforehand with a knife. Otherwise the ice will create a screen and slow down defrosting.

-Put meat or fish on an overturned saucer for defrosting. This enables any juice liable to trigger off a cooking process by being in contact with the food to drip away.

-To make defrosting as homogeneous as possible, separate chicken escalopes, fish fillets, or pieces of meat as soon as you can.

-Turn the food over or mix it up when it is half-defrosted.

-Leave food to rest after defrosting it. Normally the rest time = defrosting time.

-Never refreeze any defrosted food before it has been cooked.

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