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OWNER’S MANUAL MICROWAVE/GRILL/CONVECTION Please read this owner’s manual thoroughly before operating. The manufacturers are not liable for any problems caused by the user’s failure to observe these instructions. MC-9280XC MC9280XC MC9280XC1 www.lg.com MFL65219801_08...
Contents How the Microwave Oven Works Contents ..................2 Important Safety Instructions ............3 ~ 16 Microwaves are a form of energy similar to radio and television waves and Precautions ................17 ordinary daylight. Normally, microwaves spread outwards as they travel Unpacking &...
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or Instructions manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide does Instructions not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide does Instructions not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide does Instructions not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
Precautions Precautions to avoid possible exposure to excessive microwave energy. You cannot operate your oven with the door open due to the safety interlocks When heating liquids, e.g. soups, sauces and beverages in your microwave built into the door mechanism. These safety interlocks automatically switch off oven, delayed eruptive boiling can occur without evidence of bubbling.
Unpacking & By following the basic steps on these two pages you will be able to quickly check that your oven is operating correctly. Please pay particular attention to the guidance on where to install your oven. When unpacking your Installing oven make sure you remove all accessories and packing.
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Plug your oven into a Open your oven door Fill a microwave standard household by pressing the safe container with socket. Make sure your oven is DOOR OPEN BUTTON. Place the 300ml ( pint) of water. the only appliance connected to ROTATING RING inside the oven Place on the GLASS TRAY and the socket.
Setting the You can set either12 hour clock or 24 hour clock. Clock In the following example I will show you how to set the time for 14:35 when using the 24 clock. Make sure that you have removed all packaging from your oven. Press STOP/CLEAR.
Child Lock Press STOP/CLEAR. Your oven has a safety feature that Press and hold STOP/CLEAR until “CHILD LOCKED” appears on the prevents accidental running of the oven. display and BEEP sounds. Once the child lock is set, you will be The CHILD LOCK is now set.
Micro Power In the following example I will show you how to cook food on 80 % power for 5 minutes and 30 seconds. Cooking NOTE: Do not use aluminium foil during any Microwave or Combi mode, as it can cause arcing when used with trays which will damage the oven and cause fire.
Micro Power Your microwave oven is equipped with 5 power levels to give you maximum flexibility and control over cooking. Level The table below shows the examples of food and their recommended cooking power levels for use with this microwave oven. POWER LEVEL POWER LEVEL (%) POWER OUTPUT...
Quick In the following example I will show you how to set 2 minutes of cooking on 900 W power. Start Press STOP/CLEAR. The QUICK START feature allows you to Press START/Q-START four times to select 2 minutes on 900W power. set 30 second intervals of HIGH power Your oven will start before you have finished the fourth press.
Grill In the following example I will show you how to use the grill to cook some food for 12 minutes and 30 seconds. Cooking Press STOP/CLEAR. This model is fitted with a QUARTZ Press Grill. GRILL, so preheating is not needed. The following indication is displayed: “...
Convection In the following example I will show you how to preheat the oven at a temperature of 230°C. Preheat Press STOP/CLEAR. The convection oven has a temperature Press Conv. range of 40°C and 100°C~250°C The following indication is displayed: “ “...
Convection In the following example I will show you how to preheat the oven first, then cook food at a temperature of 230°C Cooking for 50 minutes. Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Conv. The following indication is displayed: “ “ If you do not set a temperature your oven will automatically select 180°C, the cooking temperature can be changed by turning the MENU / TEMP dial.
Convection Combination In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with micro power Cooking 60% and at a convection temperature 200°C for a cooking time of 25 minutes. Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Combi button once until display shows “540W”. The following indications are displayed: “...
Grill Combination In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with micro power 20 % and grill for a cooking time of 25 minutes. Cooking Press STOP/CLEAR. Your oven has a combination cooking Press Combi button six times until display shows “180W”. feature which allows you to cook food The following indications are displayed: “...
SteamChef In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.3kg of green beans. Cook NOTE: the STEAMER is required for this function. Press STOP/CLEAR. This feature allows you steamed cook. CAUTION: 1. Always use oven gloves when removing the STEAMER from the oven.
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions SteamChef Broccoli 0.1-0.4kg Steam cover Room 1. Clean vegetables and cut into similar sized pieces. Cook Steam plate 2. Pour 300ml tap water into the steam water bowl. Steam water bowl Place the steam plate on the steam water bowl. Place prepared food on the steam plate in a single layer.
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions SteamChef Eggs 2-9 Pc Steam cover Refrigerated 1. Clean the food. Cook Steam plate 2. Pour 300ml tap water into the steam water bowl. Steam water bowl Place the steam plate on the steam water bowl. Place the prepared food on the steam plate in a single layer.
Lean In the following example I will show how to cook 0.7kg of roast beef. Roast Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Lean Roast. This Lean Roast feature is designed to give cooking results of low fat, low calorie for roasting meats and poulty. Turn MENU/TEMP dial until display shows “1”...
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Lean Roast Roast 0.5-1.5kg Low rack Refrigerated Brush beef with melted butter or oil and season as Beef on the Metal tray desired. Place food on the low rack on the metal tray. Choose the menu and weight, press start.
Healthy In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.4kg of chicken breasts. Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Healty Fry. Healthy Fry cooking make food fry convient and easy to use. The oven has been pre-programmed to automatically fry food. Turn MENU/TEMP dial until display shows “1”...
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Healthy Chicken 0.2-0.6kg Crisping tray Refrigerated Brush chicken breasts with melted butter or oil and Breasts on the High rack season as desired. Place food on the crisping tray on the high rack. Choose the menu and weight, press start.
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Healthy Chicken 0.2-0.8kg High rack on the Refrigerated Skewers Metal tray Ingredients Chicken wings Skewers (metal or wood) For Marinade : cup soy sauce cup honey 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1.
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Healthy Hamburger 0.2-0.4kg Crisping tray Refrigerated Choose hamburger of 100g weight and 0.5-1cm thickness each. Brush Patties on the High rack surface of hamburger with oil. Place food on the crisping tray on the high rack. Choose the menu and weight, press start.
Aussie In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.4kg of pork chops. Cook Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Aussie Cook. Aussie Cook allows you to cook most of your favorite food easily by selecting the food type and entering the weight of the food.
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Aussie Roast 0.2-0.6kg Crisping tray Room Ingredients Cook Vegetables on the High rack Eggplants, cut into 1-2cm thickness Zucchinis, cut into 1-2cm thickness Onions, cut into wedges Sweet peppers, cut in half lengthwise and discard seeds Whole cherry tomatoes Mushrooms, cut in half Slice vegetables into large pieces.
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Aussie Meat Pie 20cm Room Ingredients Cook pie tin 600-650g meat mixture on the Low rack 2 puff pastry sheets, thawed (180~200g/sheet) 1 egg, lightly beaten For Meat mixture : 1 onion, chopped 500g steak, finely chopped 2 tablespoons plain flour 250ml bouillon...
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Aussie Pork Chops 0.2-0.8kg High rack Refrigerated Choose pork chops of 200g weight and 2.5cm thickness each. Season Cook on the Metal tray with salt and pepper or as desired. Place food on the high rack on the metal tray. Choose the menu and weight, press start.
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Aussie Potato Gratin 0.5-1.2kg Microwave-safe Room For example of 1.0kg potato gratin Cook baking dish Ingredients on the Low rack Potato mixture 300ml heavy cream 350g grated Gruyere cheese For Potato mixture : 1kg potatoes 400ml milk teaspoons salt...
Crispy In the following example I will show you how to reheat 0.2kg of pizza. Reheat Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Crispy Reheat. Crispy reheat allows you to reheat leftover foods easily by selecting the food type and entering the weight of the food. Turn MENU/TEMP dial until display shows “3”...
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Crispy Roasted Meat 0.2-0.6kg Crisping tray Refrigerated Cut leftover roasted meat into thin slices. (under 2.5cm thic kness) Place Reheat on the High rack food on the crisping tray on the high rack. Choose the menu and weight, press start.
Sensor In the following example I will show you how to cook Jacket Potatoes using this function. Cook Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Sensor Cook. Turn MENU/TEMP dial until display shows “4” (JACKET POTATOES). Press START/Q-START. (Do not need to set cooking time. It sensor automatically)
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Sensor Rice/ Pasta – 2 cups Microwave-safe Room Place rice/pasta and water with to 1 teaspoon salt in a deep and Cook bowl large bowl(3L). Cover with a vented plastic cover. Place bowl in the oven.
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Function Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Sensor Fresh 1-4 cups Microwave-safe Room Place vegetables in a microwave-safe bowl. Cook Vegetables (1 cup = 130g) bowl Add the amount of water according to the quantity. ** 1-2 cups : 2 tablespoons of water ** 3-4 cups : 4 tablespoons of water Cover with 2cm vented plastic wrap.
Auto The temperature and density of food varies, I would recommend that the food is checked before cooking commences. Pay particular attention to large joints of meat and chicken, some foods should not be completely thawed before cooking. For example fish cooks so quickly that it is sometimes better to begin cooking while still slightly frozen.
Auto weight defrost guide * Food to be defrosted should be in a suitable microwave proof container and placed uncovered on the glass turntable. * If necessary, shield small areas of meat or poultry with flat pieces of aluminum foil. This will prevent thin areas becoming warm during defrosting. Ensure the foil does not touch the oven walls as it will arc and cause damage to the unit.
Kitchen In the following example I will show you how to set the kitchen timer for 3:30. Timer Press Kitchen Timer/Clock. Your microwave oven can be used as a Turn TIME/WEIGHT dial until display shows “3:30”. kitchen timer. You can set up to 99:00. Press START/Q-START.
Heating or Reheating To heat or reheat successfully in the microwave, it is important to follow several guidelines. Measure the amount of food in order to determine the time needed to reheat. Arrange the food in a circular pattern for best results. Room temperature food will heat faster than refrigerated food.
Grill Cooking Guide Directions for grilling meat on grill Directions for grilling fish and seafood • Trim excess fat from meat. Cut fat, making sure you do not cut into the meat. Place fish and seafood on the rack. Whole fish should be scored diagonally on both sides (This will stop the fat curling.) before grilling.
Microwave-safe Utensils Never use metal or metal trimmed utensils in your microwave oven unless Paper Paper plates and containers are convenient and safe to use in your microwave oven, instructed to do so in this user manual. Microwaves cannot penetrate metal. They will bounce off any metal object in the provided that the cooking time is short and foods to be cooked are low in fat and oven and cause arcing, an alarming phenomenon that resembles lightning.
Food characteristics & Microwave cooking Keeping an eye on things Moisture content of food The recipes in the book have been formulated with great care, but your success in Since the heat generated from microwaves tends to evaporate moisture, relatively dry food preparing them depends on how much attention you pay to the food as it cooks.
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Food characteristics & Microwave cooking Stirring To Clean Your Oven Stirring is one of the most important of all microwaving techniques. In conventional cooking, food is stirred for the purpose of blending. Microwaved food, however, is stirred in order to 1 Keep the inside of the oven clean spread and redistribute heat.
Questions & Answers Q What’s wrong when the oven light will not glow? Q Is it possible to pop corn in a microwave oven? A There may be several reasons why the oven light will not glow. A Yes, if using one of the two methods described Light bulb has blown below Door is not closed...
Outside Dimension 574 mm(W) X 376 mm(H) X 520 mm(D) domestic purposes. Power Consumption • You can download a owner's manual at http://www.lg.com. Microwave 1400 watts Grill max. 2150 watts (1350 watts) Combination max.
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