AEG SANTO Operating Instructions Manual

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Defrosting the freezer compartmentDuring use and when the freezer compartment door is opened, mois-ture is deposited in the freezer compartment as frost. Remove thisfrost from time to time with the soft plastic scraper. Under no circum-stances use hard or pointed objects to remove frost.The freezer compartment should always be defrosted when the layer offrost has reached a thickness of approx. 4 millimetres; however at leastonce a year. A good time for defrosting is when the appliance is emptyor contains only a small amount of food.Warning!• Do not use electrical heating appliances or any other mechanical orartificial devices to speed up the defrosting process, with the excep-tion of those recommended in these operating instructions.• Do not use defrosting sprays, they can be hazardous to your healthand/or contain substances that damage plastics.Caution! Do not touch frozen food with wet hands. Your hands couldstick to the food causing skin abrasions.+1. A few hours before defrosting, set the temperature controller to 6 inorder to create a refrigeration reserve in the frozen food.2. Remove frozen food, wrap it in sever-al layers of newspaper and store it,covered, in a cool place.3. Switch off the appliance and unplugit, or disconnect from the electricitysupply.4. Remove the stopper from the melt-water outlet and place a bowl under-neath it to catch the meltwater.Attention! After defrosting, replace18 AEG47DefrostingThe fridge defrosts automaticallyThe rear wall of the fridge covers with frost when the compressor isrunning, and defrosts when the compressor is off.The water from the thawing frost is collected in the drain channel onthe rear of the fridge, feed through the drain hole into the collectoron the compressor, and then evaporated.The water drainage hole must be cleaned regularly (see the section"Cleaning and Maintenance").