Super Freezing; Thawing Frozen Food; Refrigerator Compartment - Siemens KAN Série Notice De Montage Et D'utilisation

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Shelf life of frozen food
Storage duration depends on the type of food.
At a temperature of -18 °C:
Fish, sausage, ready meals and cakes and pastries:
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up to 6 months
Cheese, poultry and meat:
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up to 8 months
Vegetables and fruit:
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up to 12 months

Super freezing

Food should be frozen solid as quickly as possible
in order to retain vitamins, nutritional value, appearance
and flavour.
Several hours before placing fresh food in the freezer
compartment, switch on super freezing to prevent
an unwanted temperature rise.
As a rule, 4–6 hours is adequate.
This appliance runs constantly and the freezer
compartment drops to a very low temperature.
If the max. freezing capacity is to be used, super
freezing must be switched on for 24 hours before the
fresh produce is placed in the freezer compartment.
Smaller quantities of food (up to 2 kg) can be frozen
without "super freezing".
Note
When super freezing is switched on, increased
operating noises may occur.
Switching on and off
1. Select the freezer compartment area with the
selection button 1.
2. Keep pressing the temperature setting button 4 until
the super display 3 is lit.
Super freezing automatically switches off after approx.
2½ days.
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Thawing frozen food

Depending on the type and application, select one
of the following options:
at room temperature
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in the refrigerator
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in an electric oven, with/without fan assisted hot-air
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in the microwave
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Caution
Do not refreeze thawing or thawed food. Only ready
meals (boiled or fried) may be refrozen.
No longer store the frozen produce for the max.
storage period.

Refrigerator compartment

The refrigerator compartment is the ideal storage
location for meat, sausage, fish, dairy products, eggs,
ready meals and pastries.
Storing food
Store fresh, undamaged food. The quality and
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freshness will then be retained for longer.
In the case of ready-made products and bottled
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goods, observe the best-before date or use-by date
specified by the manufacturer.
To retain aroma, colour and freshness, pack
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or cover food well before placing in the appliance.
This will prevent the transfer of flavours and the
discolouration of plastic parts in the refrigerator
compartment.
Allow warm food and drinks to cool down before
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placing in the appliance.
Note
Avoid contact between food and rear panel. Otherwise
the air circulation will be impaired.
Food or packaging could freeze to the rear panel.
Note the chill zones in the refrigerator
compartment
The air circulation in the refrigerator compartment
creates different chill zones:
Coldest zone is between the vegetable container and
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the glass shelf situated above.
Note
Store perishable food (e.g. fish, sausage, meat)
in the coldest zone above the vegetable container.
Warmest zone is at the very top of the door.
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Note
Store e.g. hard cheese and butter in the warmest
zone. Cheese can then continue to release its flavour
and the butter will still be easy to spread.