GE JES82TW Use & Care & Cooking Manual page 4

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (C~nt~RUed)
the oven cavity:
Carefully attend appliance if
paper, plastic or otier cornbu$tible
oven to facilita$~ cooking.
twist-ties
oven to dry newspapers.
products.
Recycled paper towels,
napkins and waxed paper can
contain metal flecks which may
cause arcing or ignite. Paper
products containing nylon or
nylon filaments should be
avoided, as they may also ignite.
—Do not pop popcorn in your
microwave oven
unless in a
special microwave popcorn
accessory or unless you use
popcorn labeled for use in
microwave ovens.
while empty to avoid damage to
the oven and th~ danger of fire.
run empty a minute or two, no
harm is done. However, try to
avoid operating the oven empty
at dl times-it saves energy and
prolongs the life of the oven.
could dehydrate and catch
Do not use the oven for storage
purposes. Do
not leave paper
products, cooking utensils or food
in tie oven when not in use.
If materkds inside
ignite,
keep oven door closed,
turn oven off, and disconnect
power cord, or shutoff power at
the fuse or circuit breaker pafiel.
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eggs a~d sealed
example, closed jars-will
explode and should not be heated
in this microwave oven. Such use
of the microwave oven could
result in injury.
Avoid heating baby food
from
especially meat and egg mixtures.
in narrow necked
bottles (especially carbonated
beverages). Even if the container
is opened, pressure can build up.
This can cause the container to
burst, possibly resulting in injury.
Use metal only as
this book, W
microwaved in foil trays less than
3/4" high; remove top foil cover
keep mekl at least 1 inch
oven,
away fram sides of oven.
Cookware may become hot
because of heat transfed from
be needed to hande the cookware.
Sometimes, the turntable can
careful touching the turntable
during and aftsr cooking.
*Foods
as pasta) may tend to boti over
more rapidy than foods
containing less moisture. Should
this occur, refer to page 27 for
inside of the oven.
Thermometer-Do
thermometer in food you are
microwaving unless the
thermometer is designed or
microwave oven.
containers-for
in
directed in
dinners maybe
Be
(such
not use a
Remove the. temperature
probe from the oven when not
using it to cook with.
If you
leave the probe inside the oven
without inserting it in food or
liquid, and turn on microwave
energy, it can create electrical
arcing in the oven and damage
oven walls.
Plastic
cookware designed for
microwave cooking is very
useful, but should be used
carefully. Even microwave-safe
plastic may not be as tolerant of
overcooking conditions as are
may soften or char if subjected to
longer exposures to overcooking,
the food and cookware codd
ignite, For these reasons: 1) Use
use them in strict compliance
with the cookwme manufacturer's
subject empty cookware to
microwaving. 3) Do not permit
children to use plastic cookware
without complete supervision.
the directions exactiy and always
cook the meat to an internal
temperature of at least 170°F.
This assures that, in the remote
possibility that trichina may be
present in the meat, it will be
Do not boil eggs in a
Pressure will
microwave oven.
build up inside egg yolk and will
cause it to burst, possibly
resulting in injury.
unbroken outer
*Foods with
such as potatoes, sausages,
tomatoes, apples, chicken livers
and other giblets, and egg yolks
during cooking.
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