GE JET105 Use And Care Book Manual page 16

Setting your oven
to microwave
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with Temp Hold
Temp Hold is an especially handy feature of
your microwave oven. It lets you hold foods at
serving temperature, keeping them
"juSt-
cooked" hot and fresh.
With the Temp Hold feature:
1. You can select a holding temperature be-
tween 90° and 200° F.
2.
You can select any Power Level you want.
Because foods tend to stay moist and tender
during microwaving, Temp Hold is the perfect
way to keep vegetables, casseroles, and even
scrambled eggs piping hot and ready to
serve. Roasts, ham and poultry, too, may be
kept juicy and table ready with this feature.
You can even warm up leftovers!
If you want, you can set your oven to automat-
ically defrost, hold, time or temperature cook,
and then Temp Hold. You must be sure, when
you time cook, that the temperature probe is
placed in the food before starting the micro-
wave oven.
Temp Hold keeps a pre-set temperature level
inside the food for as long as you like. If your
oven does not have an automatic simmer set-
ting, you can achieve the same flavorful, slow-
cooked tenderness by setting the Temp Hold
cycle to 180° and medium (5) power level.
Use the automatic simmer recipes from your
cookbook.
Things to remember when setting
your oven to microwave
Temp Hold.
To
prevent spoilage, do not hold foods ex-
cept solid roasts at temperatures below
150° for more than 2 hours.
Solid (not rolled) roasts may be held below
150° for up to 2 hours.
However, during the microwave roasting
process, a great amount of heat is stored in
the roast. Keeping the roast in the warm
oven cavity during TEMP/HOLD can cause
a greater increase in internal temperature
than when allowing the roast to stand out-
side the oven on a kitchen counter. Temper-
atures of up to 20° to 30° above the TEMP/
HOLD setting are possible. Because of this
heat storage, it is not possible to hold roasts
at a rare degree of doneness.
It is suggested that you first remove the roast
from the oven and let it stand, uncovered, for
about 10 to 15 minutes before returning to
TEMP/HOLD. Or, if you know before cooking
that you intend to hold a solid roast at serving
temperature, you may compensate for the
stored heat by undercooking the roast. See
your Cookbook for details.
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1. Insert probe in food.
(If you have just Temp
Cooked your food, steps one and two are
already done).
2.
Attach probe to oven. (See
probe instruc-
tions under Temperature Cooking.)
3.
Touch TEMP HOLD.
The signal light on the
display above TEMP HOLD comes on. Read-
out displays :0.
4.
Select the holding temperature you want.
Your oven will automatically microwave the
food until it reaches the pre-set temperature
and keeps the food at this temperature.
5.
Select Power Level. Your oven will auto-
matically use High unless you select another
level. See your cookbook for suggested
power levels for various foods.
6.
Push START.
The inside light comes on. A
fan starts. If you also selected a TIME COOK
or TEMP COOK cycle, together with TEMP
HOLD cycle, the oven will first cook the food
and then automatically go into the TEMP
HOLD cycle. (TIME COOK or TEMP COOK
always precedes TEMP HOLD.)
7.
During the TEMP HOLD cycle, the oven
will not shut off until you touch the CLEAR/
OFF pad.
(You can interrupt microwaving by
opening the oven door. The cycle resumes
when you close the door and press START.)
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