Fresh Food Refrigeration; Movable Wire Shelves; Defrosting - Zanussi Z 18/8 K Instruction Booklet

Fresh food refrigeration

To obtain the best performance, do not store warm
food or evaporating liquids in the refrigerator; do
cover or wrap the food, particularly if it has a strong
flavour.
To help you use your refrigerator correctly, here are
some more useful hints:
Raw meat (beef, pork, lamb & wild fowl): wrap in polythene
bags and place on top of the salad crisper and, for
safety, only store in this way for one or two days at
the most.
Fruit & vegetables: these should be thoroughly cleaned
and placed in the bottom salad crisper.
Butter & cheese: these should be placed in special
airtight containers or wrapped in aluminium foil or
polythene bags to exclude as much air as possible.
Milk bottles: these should have a cap and should be
stored in the bottle rack on the door.
For better use of space, the front half-shelves can
lie over the rear ones.

Movable wire shelves

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Defrosting

Frost is automatically eliminated from the
evaporator of the refrigerator compartment every
time the motor compressor stops, during normal
use.
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The walls of the
refrigerator are
equipped with a
series of runners
so that the
shelves can be
positioned as
desired.
The defrost
water drains out
through a trough
into a special
container on the
back of the
appliance where it
evaporates.
The freezer compartment, however, will become
progressively covered with frost. This should be
removed with the special plastic scraper provided,
whenever the thickness of the frost exceeds 4 mm.
During this operation it is not necessary to switch
off the power supply or to remove the foodstuffs.
However, when the ice becomes very thick on the
inner liner, complete defrosting should be carried
out and it is advisable to carry out this operation
when the appliance is empty.
To carry out complete defrosting of the freezer
compartment (
Remove any stored food, wrap it in several layers of
newspaper and put it in a cool place.
Pull out the plug from the wall socket or turn the
thermostat knob to the «O» setting.
Leave the door open.
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When defrosting is completed, dry the interior
thoroughly.
Keep the scraper for future use.
Replace the plug in the socket and, after letting the
appliance run for at least half an hour, replace the
previously removed food into the compartment.
Important
A temperature rise of the frozen food packs, during
defrosting, may shorten their safe storage life.
Never use sharp metal tools to scrape off frost from
the evaporator as you could damage it.
) proceed as follows:
Introduce the
plastic scraper in
the appropriate
seating at the
bottom centre, as
shown in Figure,
place underneath
a basin to collect
the defrost water.