Storage Tips - Whirlpool WRIBT24WA Owner's Instructions Manual

STORAGE TIPS

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THE BUTLER SERIES – OWNER'S INSTRUCTIONS
Storage tips to keep your food fresh for Longer
Meat
Your Whirlpool will keep meat as fresh for months together as the day you put them in. You
should always wrap meat completely and tightly in plastic bags, foil or cling wrap. Unwrapped
meat quickly loses its moisture and nutrients, and causes your refrigerator to smell.
Once wrapped, place the meat in the Quick-Freezer to prevent tiny water
particles becoming larger ice crystals and damaging the cell structure.
Remove bones and surplus fat from meat. Fat usually becomes rancid,
and boneless meat needs roughly half as much freezer space.
Bigger portions of meat must be thawed before cooking. If you have a microwave,
you can thaw meat in minutes. If you don't, move the quantity you want to use
from the freezer to the top of the vegetable crisper, the night before.
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Allow hot food items to cool before storing
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Store fresh food in the refrigerator compartment
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Cut chicken, meat, fi sh, vegetables etc. into small pieces before picking them for freezing
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Do not store food items like bananas, which rot easily at low temperature
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Do not re-freeze food after defrosting
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Store liquids in the front of the refrigerator to avoid freezing
Vegetables
All vegetables should be blanched (quickly dipped in boiling water) before freezing Blanching
destroys enzymes, preserves fl avour, texture and vitamin content, and reduces micro-organisms.
After blanching, remove the vegetables and plunge them immediately into cold, icy water.
Follow these specifi c tips for the given vegetables to get maximum storage life out of them.