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How to Use the Double Duty
Use the shelf only when
cooking foods on 2 levels.
Food microwaves best when
placed on the oven floor.
Do not store or cook with
shelf on floor of oven.
Product damage may result.
Use pot holders when
handling metal shelf and
cookware. They may be hot.
Do not store microwave
browning dish on metal
shelf.
Use of DOUBLE DUTY'''"
shelf with Popcorn program
is not recommended.
The wire shelf is specifically
designed for added capacity
heating and reheating in your
microwave oven. Now more
than one food may be heated
or reheated and reudy to serve
at the same time.
Batters and dough foods and also
uncooked foods which need to be
prepared from scratch should be
cooked without the oven shelf.
Positioning the Shelf
To position the DOUBLE DUTY''"
shelf, tip the back slightly and fit
the shelf support guides onto the
support guides located on each
side of the oven in the rear.
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Next, lower the front until the shelf
support guides fit onto the support
guides located at each side of the
oven in the front.
When properly positioned, the
shelf should fit snugly in place,
be level and not touch the back
or side wall of the oven.
shelf to cook more than one food
at the same time, turn the oven
off. Make sure the shelf is not
touching oven walls. To prevent
arcing, remove the shelf when
you are not using it.
How to Reheat Several
Different ~pes of Foods
Together
When heating several different
types of food together, foods which
should be served hot must be
placed on the shelf, while foods
which need only to be warmed
should be placed on the oven floor.
This is because microwave energy
enters the oven from the top only.
Also, it is important to remember
that foods absorb microwave
energy at different rates. Rates can
be affected by the size of the food,
and its starting temperature.
may need to start reheating a large
or dense food a few minutes ahead
of time, then add other smaller or
less dense foods. Alternately, if
one of the foods you are heating
seems undercooked but the others
Heat or reheat different types of
food at High ( 10). To determine
heating times, add times for all
Reheating Guide.) After half of
time, stir or rearrange foods (do
not reverse positions). Check
foods (especially those on oven
remove any which are done.
Continue cooking others.
Place on shelf large or dense
foods which need the most heating,
such as leftover fried chicken,
casseroles of canned or leftover
vegetables, rice or pasta. Place on
be warmed, such as bakery pies,
rolls, muffins or breads.
Pop popcorn on the microwave
oven floor only. Popcorn placed
on the oven shelf will not pop
properly. Use a special microwave
popcorn accessory or prepackaged
popcorn labeled for use in
microwave ovens.
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