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time. This is not a fault, this warning shall
be removed when the food is cooled down
or when any key is pressed.
3. Freezer Compartment Temperature
Setting Key
Temperature setting is made for freezer
compartment. Pressing the key will enable
the freezer compartment temperature to be
set at -18 °C,-20 °C,-22 °C, and -24 °C val-
ues.
7.2 Freezing Fresh Foods
It is recommended to place the food in the
refrigerator by wrapping it or covering it.
Hot food should be cooled to room temper-
ature before placing it in the refrigerator.
The food items you want to freeze must be
of good quality and fresh.
Food items should be divided into portions
according to the family's daily or meal por-
tion requirements.
Even if the food items will be stored for a
short time, they should be packed in an air-
tight manner to prevent them from drying
out.
The materials used in packaging the food
should be resistant to cold, moisture, tear-
ing, odour, oil and acid and should be air-
tight.
In addition, it should properly cover it, and
be of useful and deep material.
Frozen food items must be used immedi-
ately after defrosting and must not be
frozen again.
To obtain the best result, apply the follow-
ing instructions:
1. Do not freeze large amounts of food at
the same time. The best possible way
to preserve the quality of food is to
freeze them deeply as quickly as pos-
sible.
2. When hot food is placed in the freezer
compartment, the cooling system
works continuously for a while to cool
these foods until they are completely
hardened.
3. Take special care not to mix frozen
food with fresh food.
7.3 Freezing Fresh Foods
• Foods to be frozen must be divided into
portions according to a size to be con-
sumed, and frozen in separate packages.
In this way, all the food should be preven-
ted from being re-frozen by thawing.
• In order to protect the nutritional value,
the aroma and the colour of the foods as
much as possible, vegetables should be
boiled for a short period of time before
freezing. (Boiling is not necessary for
foods such as cucumber, parsley.) Cook-
ing time of the vegetables frozen in this
way is shortened by 1/3 than that of the
fresh vegetables.
• To extend the storage times of frozen
foods, boiled vegetables must first be
filtered and then hermetically packaged
as in the all types of foods.
• Foods should not be placed in the freezer
compartment without package.
• The packaging material of the food to be
stored should be air-tight, thick and dur-
able and should not deform with cold and
humidity. Otherwise, the food that is
hardened by freezing might pierce the
package. Sealing the package well is also
important in terms of securely storing the
food.
The Following Packaging Types Are
Suitable to Freeze Food:
Polyethylene bag, aluminium foil, plastic
foil, vacuum bags and cold-resistant stor-
age containers with caps.
The Use of Following Types of Pack-
aging Is Not Recommended to Freeze
Food:
Packaging paper, parchment paper, cello-
phane (gelatin paper), garbage bag, used
bags and shopping bags.
• Hot foods should not be placed in the
freezer compartment without cooling.
• When placing unfrozen fresh foods in the
freezer compartment, please note that it
does not contact with frozen foods. Cool-
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