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$etting 3 is used for most defrosting. Also, melting chocolate, making icings arid gkxzes,cheese
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roasting some meats with automatic temperature control, including some "Carefree
Roasting." Also, de~icde sauces, finish cooking some stews and soups, simmering dried peas
and beans.
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Soften butter to spreading consistency, raising yeast doughs, keeping heated foods warm u~ to
one hour.
The variable power control for your microwaveoven specifiesSetting 3 (LOW) as De-
frost. For most defrosting of normal size foods,this setting givesbest results.
However,when defrosting small foods,such as a singlefrozendoughnut, sweetroll,a few
hors d'oeuvres,one or two frankfurters, a higher power level may be used because of
these small food amounts Microwaveenergy can reach all inner and outer areas at the
same time thus, settings 8-9 may often be used with very goodand quick results.
Foods kept in Frozen Food Storage Compartment at the top of some single door refrig-
erators are at higher temperatures than most food freezers. These foods may take less
time to defrost than times givenin the cookbook.
In defrostingfroxenfoods,our HomeEconomistsnoticed a definiterelationshipof freezer
temperature to defrostingtime. That is, foods defrosted from freezers set at coldest set-
tings took longerto thaw than foodsfrom freezersat middleor high settings. DEFROST-
ING TIME MAY VARYACCORDING TO THE FREEZER TEMPERATURE AT
WHICH THE FOOD WASSTORED.
All
are normal with your microwave oven:
1, Steam or vapor
the door,
2, Light reflection
case.
escaping from around
3. Dull thumpingsound while cooking
at
powerlevelsotherthanhigh.
around
door or outer
4. Flickering
light, under iow voitage
conditions.
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