IMPORTANT: Do not expect your freezer to quick- freeze any large quantify of food. Put no more unfrozen food into the freezer than will freeze wlfhln 24 hours. (No more than 2 to 3 pounds of food per cubic foot of freezer space.) leave enough space for 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
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FRUITS |
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Fruit juice | concentrate | 12 months | |||||
Commercially |
| frozen fruit | 12 months | ||||
Citrus | fruit and | Juices | 4 to 6 months | ||||
Others | .................... |
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| 8to | 12months | ||
VEGETABLES |
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Commercially |
| frozen | 8 months | ||||
Home | frozen | .............. | 8 to | 12 months | |||
MEAT |
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Bacon | .................... |
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| 4weeksorless | |||
Corned | beef | .............. | 4 weeks | or less | |||
(Salting meat shortens freezer Ilfe) |
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Frankfurters | ..................... |
| 1 month | ||||
Ground beef, lamb, veal .... 2 to 3 months | |||||||
Roasts: |
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Beef | .................... |
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| 6to12months | |||
lamb | and | veal | 6 to 9 months | ||||
Pork | ...................... |
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Sausage, | fresh | ............. | 1 to 2 months | ||||
Steaks | and chops: |
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Beef | .................... |
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| 8 to | 12 months | ||
lamb, | veal, | pork | 3 to 4 months | ||||
FISH |
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Cod, flounder, |
| haddock |
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sole | .......................... |
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| 6months | ||
Blue fish, | salmon | 2 to 3 months | |||||
Mackerel, | perch | 2 to 3 months | |||||
Breaded | flsh | (purchased) | 3 months | ||||
Clams, | oysters, | cooked |
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fish, | crab, scallops | 3 to 4 months | |||||
Alaskan | king | cmb | IO months | ||||
Shftmp, uncooked | 12 months | ||||||
POULTRY |
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Whole | ohlcken |
| or turkey | 12 months | |||
Duck | ........................... |
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| 6 months | ||
Giblets | ..................... |
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| 2 to | 3 months | ||
Cooked | poultry | w/gmvy | 6 months | ||||
Slices | (no gravy) |
| 1 month | ||||
MAIN DISHES |
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Stews; | meat, | poultry |
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and | fish casserole | 2 to 3 months | |||||
TV dinners |
| 3 to 6 months | |||||
Food |
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DAIRY PRODUCTS |
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| 6 to 9 months | ||
Butter |
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Margarlne | ..................... |
| 12 months | ||
Cheese: |
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Camemberf, | Mozzarella, |
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farmer’s |
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Creamed | cottage | ...... | DO NOT FREEZE | ||
Cheddar, | Edam, | Gouda, |
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Swiss, | brick, | etc | 6 to | 8 weeks | |
Freetlng can change texture of |
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cheese. |
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Ice cream, | Ice milk, | sherbet | |||
EGGS |
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| 12 months | |
Whole (mlxed) | ................. | ||||
Whites |
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| 12 months | ||
Yolks |
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| 12 months | ||
[Add sugar or salt to yolks or whole mixed eggs)
BAKED GOODS |
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| 3 months | |||
Yeast | breads | and rolls | ||||
Baked | Brown | ‘N Serve rolls | 3 months | |||
Unbaked | breads |
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| 1 month | ||
Quick | breads | .............. | 2 to 3 months | |||
Cakes, | unfrosted | 2 to 4 | months | |||
Cakeqfrosted | ............ | 8 to | 12 | months | ||
Fruit cakes | .................... |
| 12 | months | ||
Cookle | dough | .................. |
| 3 months | ||
Baked | cookies | ............ | 8 to | 12 | months | |
Baked | ples | 1 to 2 months | ||||
Ple dough | only | 4 to 6 months | ||||
*Based on U.S.D.A.and Mlchlgan Cooperative Extenslon Service suggested storage times.
If electricity goes off
Call the power company. Ask how long powe will be off.
1.If service is to be interrupted 24 hours or les: keep both doors closed. This will help froze1 foods to stay frozen.
2.If service is to be interrupted longer than 2, 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 freezerwill stay cold longerthana part11 filled one. A freezer full of meat will stay cok longer than a freezer full of baked goods. food contains ice crystals, it may be safe11 refrozen, although the quality and flavor ma1 be affected. Use refrozen foods quickly. If tht condition of the food is poor or you have an! suspicions, it is wise to dispose of it.
