Switching on the appliance
• Plug in the appliance.
• The green LED lights up (“Normal”).
• The red LED flashes to indicate that the
temperature inside the appliance is not yet
sufficiently low for food storage. The red LED will
normally switch off within the first six hours after the
appliance is switched on.
• Place food inside the product only when the red
LED has switched off.
Note:
Thanks to the efficient lid seal, the appliance lid will
not reopen easily immediately after closing.
Wait a few minutes before re-opening the lid of the
appliance.
FREEZING FOOD
Preparation of fresh food for freezing
• Before freezing, wrap and seal fresh food in:
Aluminium foil, cling film, air and water-tight plastic
bags, polyethylene containers with lids, provided
they are suitable for freezing foods.
• Food must be fresh, mature and of prime quality in
order to obtain high quality frozen food.
• Fresh vegetables and fruit should preferably be
frozen as soon as they are picked to maintain the full
original nutritional value, consistency, colour and
flavour.
• Always leave hot food to cool before placing in the
appliance.
Freezing fresh food
• Place foods to be frozen in direct contact with the
walls of appliance (Fig. 4)
A) - foods to be frozen,
B) - foods already frozen.
• Avoid placing foods to be frozen in direct contact
with food already frozen.
• For best and fastest freezing, foods should be split
into small portions; this will also be useful when the
frozen items are to be used.
1. At least 24 hours before storing fresh foods inside
the product for freezing, activate the fast freezing
function by pressing button c for approximately 3
seconds. All green LEDs (b) comes on.
2. Introduce the food to freeze inside the appliance,
and keep the door of the appliance closed for 24
hours. After this period the food will be frozen. The
fast freezing function can be deactivated pressing
button c for approximately 3 seconds.
If the fast freeze function is not manually deactivated,
it will be automatically deactivated by the appliance
after 50 hours.
FOOD STORAGE
Refer to the table on the appliance.
Classification of frozen foods
Put the frozen products into the appliance and
classify them; the storage date should be indicated
on the packs, to allow use within expiry dates listed
in months in Fig. 5 for each type of food.
Advice for storing frozen food
When purchasing frozen food products:
• Ensure that the packaging is not damaged (frozen
food in damaged packaging may have deteriorated).
If the package is swollen or has damp patches, it
may not have been stored under optimal conditions
and defrosting may have already begun.
• When shopping, leave frozen food purchases until
last and transport the products in a thermally
insulated cool bag.
• Once at home, place the frozen foods immediately
in the appliance.
• Avoid, or reduce temperature variations to the
minimum Respect the best-before date on the
package.
• Always observe the storage information on the
package.
Note:
Eat fully or partially defrosted foods immediately.
Do not refreeze unless the food is cooked after it
has thawed. Once cooked, the thawed food can
be refrozen. If there is a long power failure:
• Do not open the appliance lid except to place
ice packs (if provided) over the frozen foods on
the right and left of the appliance. This will slow
down the rise in temperature.
DEFROSTING THE APPLIANCE
The appliance should be defrosted when the
thickness of ice on the walls reaches 5-6 mm.
• Disconnect the appliance from the mains power
supply.
• Remove the packs of food from the appliance and
wrap them close together in newspaper and store in
a very cool place or thermally insulated bag.
• Leave the appliance lid open.
• Remove the internal defrost water drain plug
(depending on model) (Fig. 6)
• Remove the external defrost water drain plug
(depending on model) and reposition it as shown in
the figure 6
• Place a bowl beneath the drainage channel to
collect the residual water. If available, use the divider
(Fig. 6)
• Speed up defrosting by using a spatula to detach
the ice from the appliance walls.
• Remove the ice from the bottom of the appliance.
• In order to avoid permanent damage to the
appliance interior, do not use pointed or sharp metal
instruments for removing the ice.
• Do not use abrasive products or heat up the interior
artificially.
• Dry the interior of the appliance thoroughly.
• On completion of the defrosting, refit the plug.
