Whirlpool ETl8GK, ET18HK manual Foodstoragechart

IMPORTANT: Do not expect your freezer to quick- freeze any large quantity of food. Put no more unfrozen food into the freezer than will freeze within 24 hours. (No more than 2 to 3 pounds of food per cubic toot of freezer space.) leave enough space tor air to circulate around pack- ages. Be careful to leave enough room at the front so the door can close tightly.

FOODSTORAGECHART

Storage times* will vary according to the qual- ity of the food, the type of packaging or wrap used (moisture and vapor-proof), and the stor- agetemperature which should be 0°F( -17.8°C).

Food						Storage		Time
FRUITS
Fruit juice		concentrate					12 months
Commercially					frozen fruit	.....	12 months
Citrus	fruit		and		juices	4 to 6 months
Others	....................					8 to	12 months
VEGETABLES
CommerciaiiY					frozen		8 months
Home	frozen			..............		8 to 12 months
MEAT
Bacon	....................					4 weeks		or less
Corned	beef				.............	4 weeks		or less
(Salting meat shortens treezer Ilfe)
Frankfurters				.....................			1 month
Ground beef, iamb, veal ... 2 to 3 months
Roasts:
Beef	....................					6 to	t2 months
lamb	and			veal		6 to	9 months
Pork	.....................					4to8months
Sausage,		fresh			.............	1 to	2 months
Steaks	and		chops:
Beef	....................					8 to	12 months
lamb,		veal,			pork	3 to 4 months
FISH
Cod, flounder,					haddock
sole	.........................						6months
Blue fish,		salmon				2 to 3 months
Mackerel,		perch				2 to 3 months
Breaded		fish		(purchased).		.....	3 months
Clams,	oysters,				cooked
fish,	crab,		scallops			3 to	4 months
Alaskan		king		crab			10 months
Shrimp,	uncooked						12 months
POULTRY
Chicken		or	turkey,
whole		or parts					12 months
Duck	..........................						6 months
Giblets	....................					2to3months
Cooked		poultry			w/gravy		6 months
Silces	(no gravy)						1 month
MAIN DISHES
Stews;	meat,			poultry
and	flsh casserole					2 to	3 months
TV dinners			.................			3 to	6 months

Food			storage Time
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Butter			6 to 9 months
Margarine	.....................		12 months
Cheese:
Camembelt,		Mozzarella,
farmer’,				3 months
Creamed	cottage		DO NOT FREEZE
Cheddar,	Edam, Gouda,
Swiss,	brick,	etc	6 to	8 weeks
Freezing can change texture of
cheese.
ice cream,	ice milk, sherbet		.....	2 months
EGGS
Whole [mixed)		.................	12 months
Whiles			12 months
Yolks			12 months

:Add sugarorsaltto yolks orwhole mixed eggs)

BAKED GOODS
Yeasf	breads	and roils		3 months
Baked	Brown	‘N Serve roils		3 months
Unbaked breads					1 month
Quick	breads	..............	2 to 3 months
Cakes,	unfroded		2 to 4 months
Cakes,	frosfed	............	B to	12	months
Fruif cakes				12	months
Cookie	dough	..................		3 months
Baked	cookies	............	8 to	12	months
Baked	pies		1 to 2 monfhs
Piedoughoniy		.............	4to6monfhs

‘Based on U.S.D.A.and Michigan Cooperative Extension Service suggested storage times.

If electricity goes off

Call the power company. Ask how long powe will be off.

I. If service is to be interrupted 24 hours or les! keep both doors closed. This will help froze! foods to stay frozen.

2.If service is to be interrupted longer than 2d hours:

(a)Remove all frozen food and store in ( frozen food locker. Or...

(b]Place 2 Ibs (0.9 kg] of dry ice in freezer fc every cu. ft. of freezer space. This will keel frozen foods for 2 to 4 days. Wear gloves tc protect your hands from dry ice burns.

(c]If neither food locker storage nor dry ice i available, use or can perishable food c once.

3.A full freezer will stay cold longer than c partly filled one. A freezer full of meat will stab cold longer than a freezer full of bakec goods. If food contains ice crystals, it ma) be safely refrozen, although the quality ant flavor f-nay be affected. Use refrozen food: quickly If the condition of the food is poor OI if YOU feel it is unsafe, dispose of it,

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