Automatic Defrost By Weight - Kenmore 565.693 Owner's Manual

AUTOMATIC DEFROST BY WEIGHT
The best defrosting time and power levels are automatically determined depending on
the food weight you enter. The feature provides two options:
FINE DEFROST: Use for thorough defrosting of frozen foods, when it is important to have
the center section defrosted as well as the outside. Examples for recommended use are:
whole chicken, roasts and steak.
QUICK DEFROST: Use to assist separation of frozen pieces of chicken or fish that need
preparation prior to cooking. Also, this defrost option is excellent for thawing items
such as frozen ground meat for use in spaghetti sauce or for taco meat.
Example: To thoroughly defrost 1.2 Ib of chicken pieces:
Step Procedure Keypad
Touch FINE DEFROST.
1
Enter the weight of food.
Weight must be programmed
in pounds and tenth of a
pound.
Conversion Chart
Convert oz. into tenths of a lb.
e.g. 1 lb. 4 oz., program,
.2 Ibs.
Tenths of
Ounces
a Pound
1 -2 0.1
3 - 4 0.2
5 0.3
6- 7 0.4
8 0.5
9- 10 0.6
1 1 - 12 0.7
13 0.8
14 - 15 0.9
Touch START.
3 Total defrost time appears in
the display.
Defrosting Techniques:
FINE
1 2
START
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• Remove food from wrapper to prevent holding steam and juice and place in a
microwave-safe baking dish or a roasting rack to catch drippings.
• Cover thin parts with aluminum foil to prevent overdefrosting.
• Because some food should be still icy in center, it is necessary to have standing time
after defrosting food in the oven to complete defrosting. Leave your food for a while
out of oven. The denser the food such as roasts, the longer standing time is required.
Note: • Weight can be entered up to 5.9 Ibs. If weight is entered more than 5.9 Ibs and
press START, a beep sounds to alert you to enter correct weight.
• The oven selects lib if a weight is not entered.
• Beep tone sounds 5 seconds during the defrosting cycle to signal that
food should be rearranged to improve defrosting performance. Open the
- door and rearrange the food. The oven continues the defrosting cycle to the
end if you do not open the door.
• Food can be defrosted in a styrofoam package.
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