Refrigerator Thawing Planning ahead is the key to this method because of the lengthy time involved. A large frozen item like a turkey requires at least a day (24 hours) for every 5 pounds of weight. Even small amounts of frozen food â such as a pound of ground meat or boneless chicken breasts â require a full day to thaw. When thawing foods in the refrigerator, there are variables to take into account. 1  Some areas of the appliance may keep food colder than other areas. 2  Food will take longer to thaw in a refrigerator set at 35 Â°F than one set at 40 Â°F. After thawing in the refrigerator, items such as ground meat, stew meat, poultry, seafood, should remain safe and good quality for an additional day or two before cooking; red meat cuts (such as beef, pork or lamb roasts, chops and steaks) 3 to 5 days.
Mandarin (/ËmÃ¦ndáµrÉªn/; simplified Chinese: å®è¯; traditional Chinese: å®è©±; pinyin: GuÄnhuÃ ; literally: speech of officials) is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
Chinese (æ¼¢èª) comprises of seven main dialects, Mandarin (å®è©±), Cantonese (å»£å·è©±, å»£åºè©±), Hakka (å®¢å®¶è©±), Wu (å³èª), Min (é©èª), Xiang (æ¹èª), and Gan (è´èª) (figure). The variety of Mandarin based on the speech in the capital Beijing is the official national language of mainland China and is termed PÅ­tÅnghuÃ  (æ®éè©±, Common language). The common language in Hong Kong and overseas Chinese communities is Cantonese. The major languages spoken in Taiwan are Mandarin, Taiwanese (a variety of Min), and Hakka. Six of the seven main dialects are in the southeast of Chinese, south of the Yangtze river. Mandarin is spoken in most of northern China and part of western China. The Chinese dialects are not mutually intelligible but are termed dialects from sociological and political points of view. Most of the dialects are themselves composed of a number of non-mutually-intelligible subvarieties.