Kenmore 795.7937 - Manual (Page 18)

USING YOUR REFRIGERATOR
STORING FROZEN FOOD
NOTE: For further information about preparing food for
freezing or food storage times, check a freezer guide or a
reiiabie cookbook.
Packaging
Successful freezing depends on correct packaging.
Close and seal packages so no air or moisture can
pass in or out. If it does, you could have food odor
and taste transferred throughout the refrigerator
and freezer, and food in freezer package could
dry out.
Packaging recommendations:
• Rigid piastic containers with tight-fitting iids
• Straight-sided canning/freezing jars
• Heavy-duty aiuminum foii
• Piastic-coated paper
• Non-permeabie piastic wraps
• Specified freezer-grade seif-seaiing piastic bags
Foiiow package or container instructions for proper
freezing methods.
Freezing
Your freezer wiii not quick-freeze any iarge quantity of
food. Do not put more unfrozen food into the freezer than
wiii freeze within 24 hours (no more than 2 to 3 ibs of food
per cubic foot of freezer space). Leave enough space in
the freezer for air to circuiate around packages. Be carefui
to ieave enough room at the front so the door can ciose
tightiy.
Storage times wiii vary according to the quaiity and type
of food, the type of packaging or wrap used (airtight and
moisture-proof) and the storage temperature. Ice crystals
inside a seaied package are normai. This simpiy means
that moisture in the food and air inside the package has
condensed, creating ice crystais.
NOTE: Aiiow hot foods to cooi at room temperature for
30 minutes, then package and freeze. Cooiing hot foods
before freezing saves energy.
Do not use
• Bread wrappers
• Non-poiyethyiene piastic containers
• Containers without tight iids
• Wax paper or wax-coated freezer wrap
• Thin, semi-permeabie wrap
0CAUTION: Do not keep beverage cans or piastic beverage
containers in the freezer compartment. They may break
if they freeze.
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