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You can use your freezer for freezing fresh food your-
self.
Important!
• The temperature in the freezer compartment
must be –18 °C or colder before freezing food.
• Please observe the freezing capacity given on
the rating plate. The freezing capacity is the
maximum quantity of fresh food that can be fro-
zen within a period of 24 hours. If you wish to fre-
eze food several days in a row, please observe a
maximum capacity of only 2/3 to 3/4 of that on
the rating plate. The quality of the food is best
preserved when it is frozen right through to the
core as quickly as possible.
• Allow warm food to cool down before freezing.
The warmth will cause increased ice formation
and increase the power consumption.
• Please note the maximum storage times speci-
fied by the manufacturer.
• Thawed foods which have not been processed
further (cooked into meals) may not under any
circumstances be frozen a second time.
• Containers with flammable gases or liquids can
leak at low temperatures. There is a risk of an
explosion! Do not store any containers with
flammable materials such as, for example, spray
cans, fire extinguisher refill cartridges etc in the
refrigerator/freezer.
Freezing and storing frozen food
• Bottles and cans must not be placed in the free-
zer. They can burst when the contents freeze, high
carbonate content drinks can even explode! Never
store lemonade, juices, beer, wine, sparkling wine
etc. in the freezer. Exception: high alcohol content
spirits can be stored in the freezer.
• All foods must be packed air tight prior to free-
zing, so that they do not dry out or lose their fla-
vour, and so that no flavour contamination of
other frozen goods occurs.
Caution! Do not touch frozen food with wet hands.
Your hands could freeze to the food.
1. Place the packed food in the drawers. Place food
to be frozen in the upper drawer equipped with its
own refrigerating unit. Unfrozen food must not
touch items already frozen, otherwise the frozen
food could begin to defrost.
2. Place frozen foods in the drawers sorted by type,
as far as possible.
Preparation of Ice Cubes
1. Fill the ice cube tray 3/4 full with cold water, place
it in the freezer compartment and leave to freeze.
2. To loosen the frozen cubes, either bend the ice
cube tray or hold it under running water for a few
seconds.
Important! Never try to free an ice tray that is frozen
to the freezer compartment using pointed or sharp
edged objects. Use the ice scraper supplied.
Defrosting
Refrigerator
Frost is automatically eliminated from the evaporator
of the refrigerator compartment every time the motor
compressor stops, during normal use. The defrost
water drains out through a trough into a special con-
tainer at the back of the appliance, over the motor
compressor, where it evaporates.
Freezer
The freezer compartment, however, will become pro-
grssively covered with frost. This should be removed
with the special plastic scraper provided, whenever
the tickness of the frost exceeds 4 mm. During this
