Cooking - GE JET340D Use And Care Manual

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What Your Oven Can Do
Cooking with your new oven offers
a wide variety of food preparation
options. Microwave cooking uses
very short, high frequency radio
waves. The movement of the micro-
waves through the food generates
heat and cooks most foods faster
than conventional methods, while
retaining their natural texture and
moisture. Microwave cooking heats
food directly, not the cooking
utensil or the interior of the oven.
Reheating is easy and defrosting is
particularly convenient because less
time is spent in food preparation.
Convection cooking constantly cir-
culates heated air around the food,
creating even browning and sealed-
in flavor by the constant motion of
hot air over the food surfaces.
Your new oven also offers the
option of combination cooking,
using microwave energy along with
convection cooking. You cook with
speed and accuracy, while browning
and crisping to perfection.
You can use microwave cooking,
convection cooking or combination
cooking to TIME COOK. Simply
preset the length of cooking time
desired and your oven turns off
automatically. Or you can Temper-
ature Cook by these methods, using
the temperature probe to determine
the doneness by the internal tem-
perature of the food. This method
takes the guesswork out of cooking,
shutting the oven off automatically
when the food reaches the desired
temperature.
The Automatic Cooking Control
(AUTO COOK) feature does your
microwave cooking for you. It's
easy and convenient—just follow
the step-by-step instructions in this
manual. A sensor detects steam
from the food and automatically
adjusts cooking time and power
level for best results.
Comparison Chart
AUTO ROAST is a combination
cooking function that uses the tem-
perature probe. You simply select
from 8 Auto Roast Codes, and the
oven automatically adjusts power
level, oven temperature and inter-
nal food temperature to cook the
food the way you want it.
A Delay Start/Timer lets you pro-
gram the oven to start cooking at a
desired time, even if you're not at
home. It also serves as a convenient
kitchen timer.
The following chart shows at a
glance the difference between micro-
wave, convection and combination
cooking.
COOKING
METHOD
Microwave energy is distrib-
Hot air circulates around
Microwave energy and convection heat
uted evenly throughout the
food to produce browned combine to cook foods in up to one-
oven for thorough, fast
exteriors and seal in juices. half the time of conventional ovens,
cooking of food.
while browning and sealing in juices.
HEAT
Microwave Energy
Circulating heated air.
Microwave energy and circulating
SOURCE
heated air.
HEAT
Heat produced within food
Heat conducted from outside Food heats from instant energy pene-
CONDUCTION
by instant energy
of food to inside.
tration and heat conducted from out-
penetration.
side of food.
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Shortened cooking time from micro-
BENEFITS Oven and surroundings do
.
wave energy, plus browning and
faster than conventional
not get hot. Easy clean-up.
crisping from convection heat.
ovens.
Read this book to learn the many
different things your Microwave/
Convection/ Combination Oven can
do. You will find a wide variety of
cooking methods and programs
designed to suit your lifestyle.