32 818 37 09-01/6FreezingExcept for the bottom drawer, which serves only for storage purposes,all compartments and drawers in the freezer compartment are suitablefor freezing fresh food.Warning!• Before foods are frozen, the actual temperature in the freezercompartment must be -18 °C or colder.• Please observe indicated freezing capacity on the rating plate. Thefreezing capacity represents the maximum amount of fresh goodsthat can be frozen within 24 hours. If you freeze goods on severaldays, one after the other, freeze amounts equal to 2/3 to 3/4 of thecapacity indicated on the rating plate.• When freezing large amounts of frozen food, place the frozen freezerblock at the front of the middle drawer in the freezer section on thealready frozen food.• Thawed foods which have not been processed further (cooked intomeals) may not under any circumstances be frozen a second time.0 1. Place the packaged frozen foodstuffs in the bottom drawer. Packtogether as tightly as possible , to prevent loss of coldnessand place thefreezer block on top.Take care: Do not touch frozen foods with wet hands. Your handscould freeze onto them.2. Before freezing, wrap up all foodstuffs to be frozen in airtightpackaging, so that they do not dry out, do not lose their taste and therecan be no transfer of taste to other frozen foods. Place the food to befrozen in the top drawer(s). Non-frozen goods must not touch alreadyfrozen goods, as otherwise the frozen goods can defrost.3 When using the max. freezer capacity, set the operating modeFROSTMATIC for 24 hours before freezing – with smaller amounts 4 to6 hours are sufficient.The FROSTMATIC mode need not to be set for freezing of smallquantities of up to 3 kg.3 The appliance electronics automatically switch the FROSTMATIC oper-ating mode off after a period of approx. 52 hours at the latest. You canalso stop the FROSTMATIC operating mode manually, by switching tonormal operation.