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Let Your Refrigerator Help in Planning
for this Ramadan
Make food shopping and storage a lot easier with Samsung’s Twin Cooling Plus refrigerators.
The Holy month of Ramadan is often a time
for homecoming, when family members
come together from various parts of the
world. It is also a time when considerable,
sometimes drastic, lifestyle changes are
made, especially when it comes to cooking
meals.
Bulk-buying, mainly to prepare for iftars
when neighbors and friends are invited,
is commonplace in the region with
many opting to freeze foodstuff to last
throughout the month. Such a buying
and cooking trend is seen to continue
into Eid. Authorities constantly caution
against random shopping, especially
during Ramadan, and urge consumers to
plan sensibly before setting about grocery
shopping in order to avoid food wastage.
When food is bought in such volumes, it calls
for the latest technology innovations to
ensure your family’s safety and wellbeing.
Conventional fridges often do not give
users the flexibility to adjust to such a
time. With searing summer temperatures
predicted for the month, raw meat, poultry,
seafood or produce cannot be allowed
to be outside a refrigerated environment
for more than an hour; not forgetting, of
course, that they would have undergone

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some damage in transit or transport as your
car temperature is characteristically hotter
than regular room temperature.
Spills, especially from meats, risk crosscontamination so ensure that you always
keep your refrigerator spotlessly clean.
Using covered containers or sealed storage
bags and checking leftovers daily for
spoilage is a great practice. Even food that
is just cooked needs to be refrigerated
or frozen within two hours. To help just
cooked food cool faster, it is recommended
to separate it into smaller containers
before putting them in the refrigerator.
Marinating is also best done inside the
fridge. As soon as you bring in perishables
from the store, you can employ accelerated
cooling or freezing in Samsung’s new Twin
Cooling Plus refrigerator range. Samsung’s
Twin Cooling Plus has two independent
cooling systems, with separate airflows in
both the fridge and freezer. The cooling
system ensures that the right temperature
and moisture level (up to 70%) is maintained
throughout the fridge to ensure your
vegetables and fruits stay fresh for longer. It
also prevents unpleasant smells from foods
moving between the fridge and freezer,
ensuring the original flavor of ingredients

stored in the freezer is perfectly preserved
and odorless. When in a rush, Power cool
and Power freeze buttons can set the
temperature to the lowest level (1℃ and -23℃
respectively) and let the compartments
cool down as quickly as possible. Any germs
are killed by the activated carbon filter that
is covered by antibacterial mesh.
Easily customizable, the independent
cooling system allows turning the freezer
into a fridge when required in five easy
modes, including Freezer-Fridge, Energy
Saving, Vacation, Fridge Max and Mini
mode. The Fridge Max mode works best
for Ramadan for families cooking food in
sizable quantities, with the largest of the
range reaching a capacity of 850 liters.
Maintaining your refrigerator temperature
at a standard of 4.4°C is considered ideal .
The cooling is effective even if the door is
opened repeatedly or the compartments
are filled to capacity. The lineup is
introduced in 18 different models starting
from a capacity of 390 liters and a price of
AED 1,699.