Packing frozen food, Suitable packaging, Unsuitable packaging – Siemens GS36NBI30 User Manual

Page 30: Items suitable for sealing packaged food, Shelf life of frozen food, Fish, sausage, ready meals and cakes and pastries, Up to 6 months, Cheese, poultry and meat, Up to 8 months, Vegetables and fruit

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Packing frozen food

To prevent food from losing its flavour

or drying out, place in airtight containers.
1. Place food in packaging.
2. Remove air.
3. Seal the wrapping.
4. Label packaging with contents

and date of freezing.

Suitable packaging:
Plastic film, tubular film

made of polyethylene, aluminium foil,

freezer containers.

These products are available

from specialist outlets.

Unsuitable packaging:
Wrapping paper, greaseproof paper,

cellophane, bin liners and used

shopping bags.

Items suitable for sealing packaged

food:
Rubber bands, plastic clips, string, cold-

resistant adhesive tape, etc.
Bags and tubular film

made of polyethylene can be sealed

with a film heat sealer.

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:
up to 6 months

Cheese, poultry and meat:
up to 8 months

Vegetables and fruit:
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

Fig.

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Press the super button 2 until the super

display 1 indicates “SU”.
Super freezing automatically switches off

after approx. 2½ days.

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