GE Spacemaker JVM1730 Owner's Manual page 7

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Make sure all cook_are
used in your microwave
oven is suitable tor
n/icrowaving. Most glass
casseroles, cooking dishes,
l//easlll?il/g ClltIS , Cllstard
cups, potter} or china
dilnlerware which does not
have lnemllic u:im or glaze
with a metallic sheen can
be/lsed. Sortie cook_are
is labeled "suitable {or
microwm'ing."
How to test for a
microwave-safe dish.
• If you are not sure if a
dish is microwave-sale,
use fills test: Place in the
o_en
both
the dish you
are testing and a glass
nleasllriilg ctq) filled with
1 cup of water--set the
measm:ing ctq) either in
or Hext to the dish.
Microwave 30-45 seconds
at high. If the dish heats,
it should not tie used
tor microwaving.
If file dish remains cool
and only the water in the
CUll heats, then the dish
is microwa_ e-sati'.
• If VO/l /lse a l/lear
thermometer while
cooking, make sm:e it is
sat(' /k)r/lse ill lilicrowave
()VeilS.
• Do not use recycled
paper t/roducts. Recycled
paper towels, napkins
and waxed tlatler Call
contaill metal flecks
which mav cause arcing
or ignite. Paper products
contaiifing nyh)n or
mloll filaments should
be avoided, as they may
also ignite.
• Sol//e stvro/();-illl tr;-ivs
(like fllose that meat is
tia(kaged on) have a fllin
strip of metal enlt)edded
in the t)ottom. When
mi(ro_aved, the metal
(an bum the floor o/the
oven or ignite a paper
towel.
• I)o HOt use the mi(rowa_e
{o dr} newstlatli'rs.
• Not all tllastic wrap
is suitable/ill: use in
nficrowave ovens.
Check the tlackage
{or tlrotier use.
• Patler towels, waxed
tlat/er and t/lastic wrap
can tie used to (over
dishes in order to retain
l/loistllre aIld lirevellt
stlattering. Be sure to
veto l/lasdc wratl so
steal// Call
escalle.
• Cookware lilav becolile
hot because of heat
transti'rred/i'om the
heated/i)od. Pot holders
may be needed to handle
the cookware.
• "Boilable" cooking
t)ouches and tightly
closed plasdc bags should
be slit, t)ierced or _eHted
as (tire(te(t tiy t)a(kage.
If they are not, plastic
could burst (turillg or
immediately alter
(ookillg, 1)ossibly resulting
in iqjury. Also, t)lasti(
storage (ontainers should
be at least partially
m/covered because they
/i)rm a tight seal+ When
cooking with COlmfiners
tightly covered _*ith
t)lasti( wrap, remove
(overing (arehlllv and
dire({
sieal// aw_lv/i'Ol//
hallds and {hce.