Maytag CME9010CAB Manual page 21

GUIDE TO USE OF THE OVEN SHELF
• Use the shelf only when cooking food on 2 • Use pot holders when handling metal shelf and
levels. Food microwaves best when placed cookware. They may be hot.
directly on the oven floor. • Do not store microwave browning dish on
• Do not store or cook with metal shelf on floor metal shelf.
of oven. Product damage may result. ° Do NOT use the shelf with the Popcorn
program.
The wire shelf is specifically designed for added Batters and dough foods and also uncooked foods
capacity during heating and reheating in your which need to be prepared from scratch should be
microwave oven. Now more than one food may be cooked without the oven shelf.
heated or reheated and ready to serve at the same Pop popcorn on the microwave oven floor only.
time. Food size should be considered; foods over 3½ Use prepackaged popcorn labeled for use in
inches high, or 3 pounds are not recommended for microwave ovens.
shelf cooking.
Positioning the Shelf
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properly positioned,
the
shelf should fit snugly in place,
be level and not touch the back
or side walls of the oven.
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If arcing occurs when using the
shelf to cook more than one food
To position the shelf, tip the back Next, lower the front until the shelf at the same time, turn the oven
slightly and fit the shelf support support guides fit onto the support off. Make sure the shelf is not
guides onto the support guides guides located at each side of the touching oven walls. To prevent
located at each side of the oven oven in the front, arcing, remove the shelf when
in the rear. you are not using it.
How to Reheat Several Different Types of Foods Together
When heating several different types of food together, Place on the
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foods which should be served hot must be placed on floor larger
the oven floor, while foods which need only to be or more dense
warmed should be placed on the shelf. This is because foods, which
microwave energy enters the oven from the bottom need the most
only. Also, it is important to remember that foods heating, such \\
absorb microwave energy at different rates. Rates can as leftover
be affected by the size of the food, and its starting fried chicken,
temperature, casseroles of
Because of the varying rates, you may need to start canned or leftover vegetables, rice or pasta. Place
reheating a large or dense food a few minutes ahead on the oven shelf those foods which need only to be
of time, then add other smaller or less dense foods, warmed, such as bakery pies, rolls, muffins or breads.
Alternately, if one of the foods you are heating seems
undercooked but the others are heated satisfactorily,
let the underheated food continue cooking.
Heat or reheat different types of food at High (10). To
determine heating times, add times for all foods
together. After half of time, stir or rearrange foods (do
not reverse positions). Check foods (especially those
on the oven floor) after 3/4 of total time and remove
any which are done. Continue cooking others.
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