Warm & Hold; Tips For Convection Cooking - Kenmore 721.86012 Use & Care Manual

WARM & HOLD
You can safely keep hot, cooked food warm in
your microwave oven for up to 90 minutes (about
1 hour, 30 minutes). You can use Warm & Hold
by itself, or to automatically follow a cooking
cycle.
Example: To use the Warm & Hold.
Touch:
1.
2.
At the end of the warm & hold, "END" will be
displayed and four tones will sound.
To make Warm & Hold automatically follow
another cycle:
After entering cooking instructions, touch Warm
•
& Hold before touching START.
• When the last cooking cycle is over, you will
hear two tones. "Hold" will come on while the
oven continues to run.
• You can set Warm & Hold to follow Auto Defrost,
Cook, or two stage cooking.
NOTES
:
• Warm & Hold operates for up to 90 minutes.
Opening the oven door cancels Warm & Hold.
•
Close the door and touch Warm & Hold, then
touch START if additional Warm & Hold time is
desired.
• Food that is cooked covered should also be
covered during Warm & Hold.
• Pastry items (pies, turnovers, etc.) should be
uncovered during Warm & Hold.
• Complete meals kept warm on a dinner plate
should be covered during Warm & Hold.
• Do not use more than one complete Warm &
Hold cycle (about 1 hour, 30 minutes). The quality
of some foods will suffer with extended time.
Display Shows:
hold warm touch
start
90:00
hold warm


TIPS FOR CONVECTION COOKING

This section gives you cooking instructions and
procedures for operating each convection function.
Please read these instructions carefully.
Convection cooking circulates hot air through the
oven cavity with a fan. The constantly moving air
surrounds the food to heat the outer portion quickly,
creating even browning and sealed-in flavor by the
constant motion of hot air over the food surfaces.
Your oven uses convection cooking whenever you
use the Convection Button. DO NOT USE THE OVEN
WITHOUT THE TURNTABLE IN PLACE.
1. Always use the metal rack on the turntable
when convection cooking.
2. Do not cover turntable or metal rack with
aluminum foil. It interferes with the flow of air
that cooks the food.
3. Round pizza pans are excellent cooking utensils
for many convection-only items.
Choose pans that do not have extended handles.
4. Use convection cooking for items like soufflés,
breads, cookies, angel food cakes, pizza, and
for some meat and fish cooking.
5. Your oven comes equipped with metal tray
which can be used for cooking in convection
mode or combination mode.
6. You do not need to use any special techniques
to adapt your favorite oven recipes to
convection cooking; however, you need to lower
oven temperature by 25°F from recommended
temperature mentioned in package instructions
when cooking packaged food in convection
mode.
7. When baking cakes, cookies, breads, rolls,
or other baked foods, most recipes call for
preheating. Preheat the empty oven just as you
do a regular oven. You can start heavier dense
foods such as meats, casseroles, and poultry
without preheating.
8. All heat-proof cookware or metal utensils can
be used in convection cooking.
9. As in conventional cooking, the distance of
the food from the heat source affects cooking
results. Refer to the charts in this Use and Care
Guide.
10. Use metal utensils only for convection cooking.
Never use for microwave or combination
cooking since arcing and damage to the oven
may occur.
11. After preheating, if you do not open the
door, the oven will automatically hold at the
preheated temperature for 30 minutes.
PRECAUTIONS
• The oven cavity, door, turntable, roller rest,
metal tray, metal rack, and cooking utensils will
become very hot. USE THICK OVEN GLOVES
when removing the food, cooking utensils, metal
rack, metal tray, and turntable from the oven
after convection cooking.
• Do not use lightweight plastic containers, plastic
wraps, or paper products during any convection
cycle.
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