Zanussi FMW 5613 Instructions For The Use And Care page 10

them through heating by microwaves or
conduction of heat from the food For further
information, see your microwave cookbook.
Tips on using the microwave oven
Be sure to carefully read your cookbook
and become familiar with the results to
expect
Always gtart with the minimum cooking
time given in the book and add time as
needed to obtain the doneness desired.
Each recipe gives you a suggested
cooking time and indication of the
desired result. Use the cooking time as a
guide and follow the desired result test
carefully.
The door can be opened at any time
during the cooking operation; the oven
will automatically stop cooking and the
time setting will maintain until the door
is closed, and the start button depressed.
A microwave oven is used for defrosting,
heating or cooking foods. It should not
be used for such things as drying non¬
food items such as flowers, canning or
cooking or re-heating hard cooked eggs
with or without shell.
Be sure to read each recipe carefully as
dish size, arrangements, stirring and
standing time are important in obtaining
good results.
Oven operation
The Variable Power Feature
Variable power includes settings from
10
for full power to 1. The 10 setting
provides the greatest speed of microwave
cooking. The settings between 10
and 1 represent decreasing amounts
of microwave energy.
This feature gives you total flexibility in
choosing the speed for microwave power
of cooking which will give you the best
result for each type of food.-As with
conventional cooking some foods require
slower or more gentle microwave cooking.
Other foods need to cook more slowly so
heat from the outside has enough time
to conduct into the centre of the food.
Variable power gives you the flexibility
to choose the microwave speed that is
right for the food you are cooking.
Basic uses are as follows:
Power
level
% power General uses
10
Holding food warm
1 20
Softening butter -
raising bread
*
30
Defrosting
6
40
Warming syrups
and sauces
50
Slow cooking
5 60
Heating frozen
meal dishes, eg. fish
pies, curries,
casseroles
70
Start cakes - cook
7
soups and stews
80
Reheat plated and
leftover food
90 Reheating larger
10
items
100
Full power for
vegetables, fish, hot
beverages, grill,
preheating
microwave browner
The oven light will show when the oven
is on whenever the control knobs are
turned, the indicator lamp 0 will glow
during the cooking time.
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