Important Safety - GE Spacemaker D2092P129 Use And Care Manual

IMPORTANT SAFETY

ignite, keep oven door closed, turn
oven off, and disconnect power
cord, or shutoff power at the fise
or circuit breaker panel.
Some products such as whole
eggs and sealed con~iners-for
example, closed jars-w~ explode
and should not be heated in this
microwave oven. Such use of the
microwave oven could result in
injury.
Avoid heating baby food in
glass jars, even without their lids;
especially meat and egg mixtures.
beverages
in narrow necked
bottles (especially carbonated
beverages). Even if the container
is opened, pressure can buildup.
This can cause the container to
burst, possibly resulting in injury.
Use metil ody as directed in
this book and the cookbook
provided. TV
dinners maybe
microwaved in foil trays less than
3/4" high; remove top fofi cover
and return tray to box. When
using metal in the microwave
keep metil (other than
oven,
away from sides of oven.
Cookware may become hot
because of heat transferred from
the heated food. Pot holders may
be needed to handle the cookware.
become too hot to touch. Be
careful touching the floor during
and after cooking.
Foods cooked in liquids
as pasta) may tend to boil over
more rapidy than M contig
less moisture. Should this occur,
refer to page 19 fir instructions on
how to clean the inside of the oven.
INSTRUCTIONS
Thermometer—Do not use
a thermometer in
microwaving u~ess the
thermometer is designed or
recommended for use in the
microwave oven.
the temperature probe
Remove
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
create electrical arcing in the
oven and damage oven walls.
Plastic cookware—Plastic
cookware designed
cooking is very useful, but should
be usd -filly. Even microwave-
safe plastic may not be as tolerant
of overcooking conditions as are
glass or ceramic materials and
may soften or char if subjected to
short periods of overcooking. ln
longer exposures to overcooking,
the food and cookware could
ignite. For these reasons: 1) Use
microwave-safe plastics only and
use them in strict compliance
with the cookware manufacturer's
recommendations. 2) Do not
subject empty cookware to
microwaving. 3) Do not permit
children to use plastic cookware
without complete supervision.
When cooking pork,
the directions exactly 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
killed and meat will be safe to eat.
(such
Do not boil eggs in a microwave
oven. Pressure will build up inside
egg yolk and will cause it to burst,
possibly resulting in injury.
(continued)
Foods with unbroken outer
food you are
tomatoes, apples, chicken livers
and other giblets, and egg yolks
(see previous caution) should be
pierced to allow steam to escape
during cooking.
Not all plastic wrap is suitable
for use in microwave ovens.
Check the package for proper use.
. ~~Boilable" cooking pouches
energy, it can
and tightly closed plastic bags
should be slit, pierced or vented
as directed by package. If they are
not, plastic could burst during
or immediately after cooking,
for microwave
possibly resulting in injury. Also,
at lwt partidy uncovered because
they form a tight seal. When
cooking with containers tightly
covering caretifly and directs-
away from hands and face.
certain special circumstances,
liquids may start to boil during or
shortly after removal from the
microwave oven. To prevent burns
from splashing liquid, stir the
liquid briefly before removing the
container fmm the microwave oven.
follow
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such as potatoes, sausages,