GE JTP85 Use And Care Manual

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Aluminum Foil................... 6, 27, 31-33, 35

Features....................................................... 8, 9

Lower Oven........................................... 19-37

Baking................................................. 25-27

Broiling, Broiling Guide ................... 33, 34

Control Panel .................................... 19-23

Oven Control, Clock and Timer .... 19-23

Preheating.................................. 26, 32-34

Roasting/Guide ................................ 31, 32

Self-Cleaning Instructions ............. 35-37

Shelves.......6, 24, 26, 31, 33-35, 37, 39

Special Features of Your Control....21-23

Timed Baking .................................... 28, 29

Microwave Oven ................................. 10-18

Add 30 Seconds...................................... 11

Auto Sensor Controls ..................... 14-17

Control Panel ............................................ 10

Defrosting................................... 13, 14, 17

Popcorn...................................................... 15

Power Level .............................................. 11

Timed Cooking.................................. 12, 13

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Microwave Cooking Center

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Problem Solver

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Thermostat Adjustment-

Do It Yourself............................................ 30

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Page 1: Table Of Contents
...... 41, 42 ....2–6 Thermostat Adjustment– Do It Yourself..........30 More questions ?…call Operating Instructions, Tips GE Answer Center® 800.626.2000 Aluminum Foil....6, 27, 31–33, 35 Features............8, 9 Lower Oven........... 19–37 Care and Cleaning ....38–40 Baking..........25–27 Broiler Pan and Grid........
Page 2 If you don’t understand something or need more help, call: Please check with your supplier to be sure he has done ® GE Answer Center so; also send in your Consumer Product Ownership 800.626.2000 Registration Card. If you move, or if you are not the...
Page 3: Safety Instructions
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Read all instructions before using this appliance. IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE • This appliance should be serviced only by qualified service personnel. Contact nearest The California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic authorized service facility for examination, repair Enforcement Act requires the Governor of or adjustment.
Page 4: Important Safety Instructions
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) • Always keep dish towels, dish cloths, pot holders, Microwave Oven: and other linens a safe distance from your oven. • Read and follow the specific “Precautions to • Always keep wooden spoons and plastic Avoid Possible Exposure To Excessive utensils and canned food a safe distance Microwave Energy”...
Page 5 • Avoid heating baby food in glass jars, even with • Hot foods and steam can cause the lid off. Make sure all infant food is thoroughly burns. Be careful when opening any cooked. Stir food to distribute the heat evenly. Be containers of hot food, including careful to prevent scalding when warming popcorn bags, cooking pouches and boxes.
Page 6: Save These Instructions
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) Self-Cleaning Lower Oven: • Do not clean the oven door gasket. The door gasket is essential for a good seal. Care should be • Stand away from the cooking center when taken not to rub, damage or move the gasket. opening the oven door.
Page 7: If You Need Service
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Page 8 FEATURES OF YOUR COOKING CENTER Glass Feet tray Roller ring Roller assembly Pulley shaft Microwave oven bottom The three feet on the glass tray must fit in between the notches of the pulley shaft. MICROWAVE OVEN AUTO SENSOR CONTROLS CANNED FROZEN FRESH FISH...
Page 9 Explained Features on Page 1 Inside Door Latches—Microwave Oven 2 Window with Metal Shield—Microwave Oven Allows cooking to be viewed while keeping microwaves confined in the oven. Do not remove the protective mylar film. 3 Model and Serial Numbers 4 Vent—Microwave Oven 5 Light—Microwave Oven —...
Page 10 MICROWAVE OVEN CONTROL PANEL MICROWAVE OVEN AUTO SENSOR CONTROLS FISH CHICKEN MORE CANNED FROZEN FRESH REHEAT POTATOES FILLETS PIECES LESS VEGETABLES VEGETABLES VEGETABLES AUTO DEFROST POPCORN 1 LB 1 OZ 30 SEC KITCHEN POWER LEVEL TIMER MIN/SEC CLEAR START 1. DISPLAY. Displays the time during cooking 06.
Page 11 MICROWAVE OVEN CONTROL AND TIMER Timer The timer serves three functions; a kitchen timer, sets You may program the microwave timer to time a delay start time and sets a hold or standing time. cooking or other household activities for up to 99 minutes and 99 seconds.
Page 12: Auto Sensor Controls
TIMED MICROWAVE COOKING How to Time Cook The microwave oven control allows you to turn the microwave oven on or off automatically at specific times that you set using power levels you prefer. Examples of Immediate Start (microwave turns on now and you set it to turn off at a preset time), Delay Start (setting the oven to turn on automatically at a later time), defrosting and reheating will be described.
Page 13 Timed Defrosting Even though your new control is equipped with NOTE: AUTO DEFROST, you also have the option of setting • Foods frozen in paper or plastic can be defrosted in your own defrost time. the package. Tightly closed packages should be slit, To set your own defrost time: pierced or vented after foods have partially defrosted.
Page 14 TIMED DEFROSTING CHART Food Defrost Time (min. per pound) Comments Fish Fillets 6 to 8 minutes Turn the fillets over and rearrange halfway through the defrosting time. Shrimp 8 to 10 minutes Break apart halfway through the defrosting time. Remove medium defrosted shrimp.
Page 15 Notes on Auto Sensor Cooking • Do not use the Auto Sensor Controls for foods that • The Auto Sensor Controls work by detecting a build-up of steam on the sensor. As foods cook are less than 4 ounces. Foods less than 4 ounces steam is produced.
Page 16: Features
AUTO SENSOR CONTROLS (continued) Using Auto Sensor Reheat Use Auto Sensor Reheat when foods need a quick For best results when using Auto Sensor Reheat warm-up. The reheat feature reheats one to three follow these recommendations: servings of previously cooked foods. To use this •...
Page 17 Using Auto Sensor Defrosting Conversion Chart for Auto Defrost AUTO DEFROST allows you to defrost meat, poultry Ounces Hundredths of a Pound and seafood by weight using the auto sensor of your .96–.05 microwave oven. When you set the exact weight of the foods the sensor automatically sets just the right 1–2 .06–.15...
Page 18 MICROWAVE TIPS • Make sure all the cookware used in your • Non-recycled paper towels, wax paper and plastic microwave oven is suitable for microwaving. wrap can be used to cover dishes in order to retain Most glass casseroles, cooking dishes, measuring moisture and prevent spattering.
Page 19: Control Panel
FEATURES OF YOUR LOWER OVEN CONTROL PANEL LOWER OVEN OVEN TIME CONTROLS COOKING DELAY BROIL BAKE TIME START HI/LO KITCHEN OVEN SELF CLOCK LIGHT CLEAN TIMER HR/MIN CLEAR START MICROWAVE FAN MAY OPERATE WHILE LOWER OVEN IS IN USE. 01. DISPLAY. Shows the operations you have selected, 08.
Page 20: Power Failure
LOWER OVEN CONTROL, CLOCK AND TIMER Clock To Set the Clock The clock must be set before 1. Press CLOCK. 3. Press START. This the controls for the lower oven CLOCK enters the time and START will work. starts the clock. 2.
Page 21 The control has a series of tones that will sound at different times. These tones may sound while you set the control for an oven function or at the end of the oven function. They will also alert you when an incorrect time or temperature has been entered or if there is a problem with the oven.
Page 22: Special Features
SPECIAL FEATURES OF YOUR LOWER OVEN CONTROL (continued) 12 Hour Shut-Off Cook and Hold With this feature, should you forget and leave the oven Your new control has a cook and hold feature that on, the control will automatically turn off the oven keeps cooked foods warm for up to 3 hours after the after 12 hours during baking functions or after 3 hours cooking function is finished.
Page 23 Control Lockout Your control will allow you to lock down the touch pads so they cannot be activated when pressed. 1. Press BAKE and BROIL HI/LO at the same time for BROIL BAKE 2 seconds until the display shows “SF.” HI/LO 2.
Page 24: Shelves
USING YOUR LOWER OVEN Before Using Your Oven 1. Look at the controls. Be sure you understand how NOTE: to set them properly. • You may notice a “burning” or “oily” smell the first 2. Check the oven interior. Look at the shelves. few times you turn your oven on.
Page 25 BAKING Your oven temperature is controlled very accurately If you think an adjustment is necessary, see the Adjust using an oven control system. It is recommended that the Oven Thermostat section. It lists easy Do It you operate the oven for a number of weeks using the Yourself instructions on how to adjust the thermostat.
Page 26 BAKING (continued) Preheating Preheat the oven if the recipe calls for it. Preheat Preheating is necessary for good results when baking means bringing the oven up to the specified cakes, cookies, pastry and breads. For most casseroles temperature before putting the food in the oven. and roasts, preheating is not necessary.
Page 27: Aluminum Foil
Aluminum Foil Never entirely cover a shelf with aluminum foil. This will disturb the heat circulation and result in poor baking. A smaller sheet of foil may be used to catch a spillover by placing it on a lower shelf several inches below the food.
Page 28: Timed Baking
TIMED BAKING How to Set Your Oven for Time Bake The oven control allows you to turn the oven on or off NOTE: An attention tone will sound if you are using automatically at specific times that you set. Examples Timed Baking and do not press START after entering of Immediate Start (oven turns on now and you set it the baking temperature.
Page 29 How to Set Delay Start and Automatic Stop If you would like to check the times you DELAY Easy Steps: have set, press DELAY START to check START 1. Press BAKE. the start time you have set or press COOKING TIME to check the length of 2.
Page 30: Do It Yourself
ADJUST THE OVEN THERMOSTAT— DO IT YOURSELF! You may find that your new oven cooks differently To Adjust the Thermostat: than the one it replaced. We recommend that you 1. Press BAKE and BROIL HI/LO BROIL use your new oven for a few weeks to become more BAKE at the same time for 2 seconds HI/LO...
Page 31: Use Of Aluminum Foil
ROASTING Roasting is cooking by dry heat. Tender meat or Most meats continue to cook slightly after being poultry can be roasted uncovered in your oven. removed from the oven. The internal temperature will Roasting temperatures, which should be low and rise about 5°...
Page 32: Questions And Answers
ROASTING (continued) Questions and Answers Q. Is it necessary to check for doneness with Q. Do I need to preheat my oven each time I cook a meat thermometer? a roast or poultry? A. Checking the finished internal temperature at the A.
Page 33 BROILING Broiling is cooking food by intense radiant heat from Position a shelf on recommended shelf position as the upper broil element in the oven. Most fish and suggested in the Broiling Guide. Most broiling is done tender cuts of meat can be broiled. Follow these on E position, but if your oven is connected to 208 directions to keep spattering and smoking to a volts, you may wish to use a higher position.
Page 34 BROILING GUIDE • Always use the broiler pan and grid that comes with • When arranging food on the pan, do not let fatty your oven. It is designed to minimize smoking and edges hang over the sides because the dripping fat spattering by trapping the juices in the shielded will soil the oven bottom.
Page 35 OPERATING THE SELF-CLEANING OVEN Normal Cleaning Time: 4 hours Before a Clean Cycle 1. Remove the broiler pan, broiler grid, all cookware 3. Clean spatters or soil on the oven front frame and and any aluminum foil from the oven—they can’t the oven door outside the gasket with a dampened withstand the high cleaning temperatures.
Page 36 OPERATING THE SELF-CLEANING OVEN (continued) How to Set Oven for Cleaning The door locks automatically. The display will show Easy Steps: the clean time remaining. It will not be possible to 1. Press SELF CLEAN. open the oven door until the temperature drops below the lock temperature and the LOCKED DOOR light 2.
Page 37 To Stop a Clean Cycle 1. Press CLEAR/OFF. 2. When the oven has cooled below the locking temperature and the LOCKED DOOR light goes CLEAR off, open the door. After Self-Cleaning You may notice some white ash in the oven. Just wipe NOTE: it up with a damp cloth after the oven cools.
Page 38: Care And Cleaning
CARE AND CLEANING Proper care and cleaning are important so your BE SURE ELECTRIC POWER IS OFF AND ALL cooking center will give you efficient and satisfactory SURFACES ARE COOL BEFORE CLEANING service. Follow these directions carefully in caring for ANY PART OF THE COOKING CENTER.
Page 39 Oven Light Bulb NOTE: The glass cover should be removed only when cold. Wearing latex gloves may offer a better grip. The light bulb is located on the top of the oven. Socket Before replacing the bulb, disconnect electrical power to the cooking center at the main fuse or circuit Bulb breaker panel.
Page 40 CARE AND CLEANING (continued) Lift-Off Oven Door (lower oven) The oven door is removable, • The area outside the gasket can be cleaned with a but it is heavy. You may need soap-filled scouring pad. help removing and replacing • Do not rub or clean the door gasket—the fiberglass the door.
Page 41: Lower Oven Door
QUESTIONS? USE THIS PROBLEM SOLVER PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE “F–AND A NUMBER • This is a function error code. Press CLEAR/OFF. Allow the oven to cool one OR LETTER” FLASH hour. Place the oven back into operation. IN THE DISPLAY • Disconnect all power to the oven for 5 minutes and then reconnect power. If the failure code repeats, call for service.
Page 42 LOWER OVEN DOOR • When the temperature has fallen below the locking temperature the door WILL NOT OPEN AFTER can be opened. A SELF-CLEAN CYCLE If you need more help…call, toll free: ® GE Answer Center 800.626.2000 consumer information service...
Page 43: Consumer Services
We’ll Be There With the purchase of your new GE appliance, receive the assurance that if you ever need information or assistance from GE, we’ll be there. All you have to do is call—toll-free! GE Answer Center® 800.626.2000 ® Whatever your question about any GE major appliance, GE Answer Center information service is available to help.
Page 44: Warranty
To know what your legal rights are in your state, consult your local or state consumer affairs office or your state’s Attorney General. Warrantor: General Electric Company If further help is needed concerning this warranty, write: Manager—Consumer Affairs, GE Appliances, Louisville, KY 40225 Recycled Paper JTP85 Part No.

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