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MICROWAVE OVEN FOUR À MICRO-ONDES MAGNETRON OVEN BEDIENUNGSANLEITUNG OWNER’S MANUAL MANUEL DE L’UTILISATEUR MS-256E GEBRUIKERSHANDLEIDING MS-256EL Bitte lesen sie diese anleitung vor der inbetriebnahme. MS-257E Please read this owner’s manual thoroughly before operating. Lire attentivement le manuel avant d’utiliser le four.
Precautions Precautions to avoid possible exposure to excessive microwave energy. You cannot operate your oven with the door open due to the safety interlocks When heating liquids, e.g. soups, sauces and beverages in your microwave built into the door mechanism. These safety interlocks automatically switch off oven, delayed eruptive boiling can occur without evidence of bubbling.
Contents How the Microwave Oven Works Precautions Contents Microwaves are a form of energy similar to radio and television waves and Unpacking & Installing 28 ~ 29 ordinary daylight. Normally, microwaves spread outwards as they travel Setting the Clock through the atmosphere and disappear without effect. Microwave ovens, Child Lock however, have a magnetron which is designed to make use of the energy in microwaves.
Unpacking & By following the basic steps on these two pages you will be able to quickly check that your oven is operating correctly. Please pay particular attention to the guidance on where to install your oven. When unpacking your Installing oven make sure you remove all accessories and packing.
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Plug your oven into a standard household socket. Open your oven door by pulling the DOOR HANDLE. Make sure your oven is the only appliance Place the ROTATING RING inside the oven and place connected to the socket. If your oven does not operate the GLASS TRAY on top.
Setting the You can set either 12 hour clock or 24 hour clock. Clock In the following example I will show you how to set the time for 14:35 when using the 24 clock. Make sure that you have removed all packaging from your oven. Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven as described earlier in this book.
Child Auto Lock Cook Press STOP/CLEAR. Defrost Your oven has a safety feature that Press and hold STOP/CLEAR until “L” appears on the display and prevents accidental running of the oven. BEEP sounds. Once the child lock is set, you will be The CHILD LOCK is now set.
Micro Power In the following example I will show you how to cook some food on 80% power for 5 minutes and 30 seconds. Cooking Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven as described earlier in this book. Defrost Press STOP/CLEAR.
Micro Power Your microwave oven is equipped with 5 power levels to give you maximum flexibility and control over cooking. Level The table below shows the examples of food and their recommended cooking power levels for use with this microwave oven. OUTPUT POWER LEVEL 100%...
Two stage In the following example I will show you how to cook some food in two stages. The first stage will cook your food Cooking for 11 minutes on HIGH; the second will cook for 35 minutes on 40%. Press STOP/CLEAR .
Quick In the following example I will show you how to set 2 minutes of cooking on high power. Start Auto Cook Press STOP/CLEAR . Defrost The QUICK START feature allows you to Press START four times to select 2 minutes on HIGH power. set 30 seconds intervals of HIGH power Your oven will start before you have finished the fourth press.
Auto In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.6kg of jacket potato. Cook Press STOP/CLEAR . Defrost Auto Cook AUTO COOK allows you to cook most of Press AUTO COOK once. your favorite food easily by selecting the “Ac-1”...
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FOOD CATEGORY FOOD TEMP. UTENSILS WEIGHT LIMIT INSTRUCTIONS 1. JACKET POTATO Room temp. Glass tray 0.1 kg ~ 1.0 kg Wash, dry and prick potato with a fork several times. Place the potato with three pieces of paper towel in the centre of the glass tray.
The temperature and density of food varies, I would recommend that the food is checked before cooking Auto Auto commences. Pay particular attention to large joints of meat and chicken, some foods should not be completely Cook thawed before cooking. The BREAD programme is suitable for defrosting small items such as rolls or a small loaf. Defrost These will require a standing time to allow the centre to thaw.
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AUTO WEIGHT DEFROST SEQUENCE LIST SEQUENCE FOOD MIN./MAX. FOOD 1. MEAT Beef Minced beef, Fillet steak, Cubes for stew, Sirloin steak, Pot roast, Rump roast, Beef burger. 0.1/4.0 kg Chops(2.5 cm thick),Rolled roast. Lamb Chops(1.2 cm thick), Spareribs, Rolled roast, Sausage. Pork Cutlets(450 g, 1.2 cm thick) Veal...
Quick Use this function to thaw only 0.5kg of Minced meat, Chicken pieces, Fish fillets very quickly. This will require a standing time to allow the center to thaw. In the following example will show you how to defrost 0.5kg of forzen poultry. Defrost Auto Press STOP/CLEAR.
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AUTO WEIGHT DEFROST SEQUENCE LIST SEQUENCE FOOD MIN./MAX. FOOD 1. MEAT Minced meat Beef 0.5 kg Lamb Pork Veal 2. POULTRY Chicken Chicken pieces 0.5 kg Turkey Turkey pieces 3. FISH Fish Fillets 0.5 kg Shellfish Shrimp, Lobster tails, Scallops * The benefit of this Quick Defrost feature is automatic setting and control of defrosting, but just like conventional defrosting you must check the food during the defrosting time.
Timer In the following example I will show you how to set the timer for 15 minutes. Press STOP/CLEAR. Defrost Press KITCHEN TIMER. Your oven also has a Timer that can be used for noncooking functions. When Auto used as an independent timer, the oven Cook is not running.
Safety WARNING Please ensure cooking times are correctly set as over cooking may result in FIRE and Precautions subsequent DAMAGE to the OVEN. 1. Do not attempt to tamper with, or make any adjustments or repairs to the 10. Small amounts of food require shorter cooking or heating time. If normal door, control panel, safety interlock switches or any other part of the oven.
Microwave-safe Utensils Never use metal or metal trimmed utensils in your Paper microwave oven Paper plates and containers are convenient and safe to use in your microwave oven, Microwaves cannot penetrate metal. They will bounce off any metal object in the provided that the cooking time is short and foods to be cooked are low in fat and oven and cause arcing, an alarming phenomenon that resembles lightning.
Food characteristics & Microwave cooking Moisture content of food Keeping an eye on things Since the heat generated from microwaves tends to evaporate moisture, relatively dry food The recipes in the book have been formulated with great care, but your success in such as roasts and some vegetables should either be sprinkled with water prior to cooking preparing them depends on how much attention you pay to the food as it cooks.
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Food characteristics & Microwave cooking Stirring To Clean Your Oven Stirring is one of the most important of all microwaving techniques. In conventional cooking, food is stirred for the purpose of blending. Microwaved food, however, is stirred in order to spread and redistribute heat.
Questions & Answers Q. What’s wrong when the oven light will not glow? Q. Is it possible to pop corn in a microwave oven? A. There may be several reasons why the oven light will not glow. A. Yes, if using one of the two methods described below Light bulb has blown 1.
Plug wiring information/ Technical Specifications Warning Technical Specification This appliance must be earthed MS-256E/MS-256EL/MS-257E/MS-257EL The wires in this mains lead are colored in accordance with the following codes Power Input 230 V AC / 50Hz BLUE ~ Neutral Output 900 W (IEC705 rating standard) BROWN ~ Live GREEN &...
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P/No: 3828W5A1701 Printed in Korea Rev. 06/00...