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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 199°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 that
the temperature probe is placed in the food
before starting the microwave oven.
Temp Hold keeps a pre-set temperature level
inside the food for as long as you like.
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 TEMPIHOLD 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 theoven and let it stand, uncovered, for
about 10
to
15
minutes before n?turning
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.
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. "Enter Ternp" flashes
on the readout panel. Power Level
10
and
0
Deg are also displayed on panel.
4. Select the holding temperature you want.
Your oven will automatically microwave the
food until it reaches the pre-set t'emperature
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 c'3mes 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 TE:MP 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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