Operating Your Product; Placing The Food; Useful Suggestions - Beko MGC20100S User Manual

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Operating your product

Placing the food

• You will get the best results if you scatter the
food into the plate. This may be achieved in va-
rious ways to get better results.
• If you will cook too many pieces of the same
type (such as potatoes with skin) place them in
a circular form.
• When cooking food with different shapes and
thicknesses, place the smallest and thinnest
part into the middle of your cookware. Thus, you
can have that piece cooked last.
• Place food with irregular shape such as fish in a
way that their tails will be in the middle of the
cookware.
• When storing a meal in the refrigerator or hea-
ting it, place the thick and dense ones to out and
thin and less dense ones in.
• Place thin sliced meat pieces on top of each
other.
• Thicker pieces such as sausage and chopped
meat should not be placed close to each other.
• Heat broth and sauces in separate cookware.
Prefer narrow and long cookware to wide and
long ones. Do not fill more than 2/3 of the
cookware when heating broth, sauce or soup.
• If you will cook whole fish, make some cuts on it;
thus you will prevent skin from bursting.
• Cover the head and tail parts of the fish with alu-
minum foil to protect them against overcooking.
• If you are using cling film, a cooking bag or
grease proof paper, make a hole or leave a small
opening in order to allow steam get out.
• Food with small pieces will get cooked sooner
than the ones with large pieces and the ones
with regular shapes will get cooked sooner than
the ones with irregular shapes. Cut the food in
even sizes and regularly to cook them in the best
way possible.
Microwave Oven / User Manual

Useful suggestions

To defrost:
• Shape of the package may change the defrost
time. Shallow rectangular packages will defrost
quicker than the deep cookware.
• Separate the pieces from each other as they get
defrosted. Thus other pieces will defrost easier.
• Cover the parts of the food that start heating
with small pieces of foil. Wood toothpicks will
help keeping the foil in place.
Amount of food
The more food you cook the more time it will take.
Double amount of food mean double amount of
time.
Moisture content
Cooking time will change depending of the
amount of juice as microwave is sensitive to mois-
ture. Food with natural juice (vegetables, fish and
poultry) will get cooked quickly and easily. Adding
water is suggested when cooking dry food such as
rice and beans in microwave.
Condensation
Moisture in food items may sometimes cause con-
densation inside the oven during cooking. This
is normal. Generally, foods that are covered will
cause less condensation.
Sugar
Follow the suggestions in microwave cooking
books when cooking food items such as pudding
or tart which contain too much sugar or butter. If
you exceed the suggested time, you may cause
the food item get burned or the oven get dam-
aged.
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