About Microwave Cooking; About Food - Electrolux EW27MO55H Use And Care Manual

About microwave cooking

• Arrange food carefully. Place thickest areas
towards outside of dish.
• Watch cooking time. Cook for the shortest amount
of time indicated and add more as needed. Food
severely overcooked can smoke or ignite.
• Cover foods while cooking. Check recipe or
cookbook for suggestions: paper towels, wax
paper, microwave plastic wrap or a lid. Cov-
ers prevent spattering and help foods to cook
evenly.
• Shield with small flat pieces of aluminum foil any
thin areas of meat or poultry to prevent over-
cooking before dense, thick areas are cooked
thoroughly.
• Stir foods from outside to center of dish once or
twice during cooking, if possible.
• Turn foods over once during microwaving to
speed cooking of such foods as chicken and

About food

Food
Eggs,
• Puncture egg yolks before cooking to
sausages, prevent "explosion".
nuts, seeds,
• Pierce skins of potatoes, apples, squash,
fruits &
hot dogs and sausages so that steam
vegetables
escapes.
Popcorn • Use specially bagged popcorn for
microwave cooking.
• Listen while popping corn for the
popping to slow to 1 or 2 seconds or use
special popcorn pad.
Baby food • Transfer baby food to small dish and
heat carefully, stirring often. Check
temperature before serving.
• Put nipples on bottles after heating and
shake thoroughly. "Wrist" test before
feeding.
General • Cut baked goods with filling after heating
to release steam and avoid burns.
• Stir liquids briskly before and after
heating to avoid "eruption".
• Use deep bowl, when cooking liquids or
cereals, to prevent boilovers.
Information You Need To Know
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hamburgers. Large items like roasts must be
turned over at least once.
Rearrange foods such as meatballs halfway
through cooking both from top to bottom and
from the center of the dish to the outside.
Add standing time. Remove food from oven
and stir, if possible. Cover for standing time
which allows the food to finish cooking without
overcooking.
Check for doneness. Look for signs indicating
that cooking temperatures have been reached.
Doneness signs include:
- Food steams throughout, not just at edge.
- Center bottom of dish is very hot to the
touch.
- Poultry thigh joints move easily.
- Meat and poultry show no pinkness.
- Fish is opaque and flakes easily with a fork.
Don't
• Cook eggs in shells.
• Reheat whole eggs.
• Dry nuts or seeds in shells.
• Pop popcorn in regular brown bags
or glass bowls.
• Exceed maximum time on popcorn
package.
• Heat disposable bottles.
• Heat bottles with nipples on.
• Heat baby food in original jars.
• Heat or cook in closed glass jars or air
tight containers.
• Can in the microwave as harmful
bacteria may not be destroyed.
• Deep fat fry.
• Dry wood, gourds, herbs or wet
papers.
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