GE JES735 Owner's Manual page 8

SPECIAL N07 2S ABOU£ MICRO WAVING
Make sure all cookware
used ill Your microwave
oven is suitable tbr
n/icrowaving. Most glass
casseroles, cooking dishes,
l//easllring Cilt)S , Cllstar(t
CllllS , t)otter}
or china
dinnerware which does not
have nletallic u:im or glaze
with a metallic sheen Call
be/lsed. Sol//e cook_are
is labeled "suitable [br
microwaving."
HOWto test for a microwave-
safe dish.
• If you are not sure if a
dish is microwave-sa/i,,
use this test: Place ill the
o_en botll tile dish you
are testing and a glass
measuring cup filled with
1 CUll of water--set the
measuring cup either
in or next to the dish.
Microwave 1 n/imlte at
high. If the dish heats,
it should not be used
tbr nlicrowaving.
If the dish remains cool
and only the water ill the
cup heats, then the dish
is microwa_ e-sati'.
• If roll/lse a meat
thermometer while
cooking, make sm:e
it is sa/i' tbr use in
microwave ovens.
• Do not use recycled
paper t/roducts. Reoaled
paper towels, napkins
all(t waxed paper Call
contain metal flecks
which may cause arcing
or ignite. Pal/er l/roducts
contailling nvlon or
m'lon filaments should
be avoided, as they him
also ignite.
• gOl//e stvro/oal// [l?21_is
(like those that n/eat is
packaged on) ha\e a thin
strip of metal embedded
ill tile bottom. When
lllicrowave(I, tile llletal C_l]l
burn the floor of the oven
or ignite a tlaper towel.
• Do not use tile microwa\e
to dr} newspapers.
• Not all plastic wrap is
suitable tor use ill
microwave o\ ens. Check
the t/ackage R)r t/rot/er/lse.
• Paller towels, waxed paper
and plastic
wra 11 can be
used to co_er dishes ill
order to retain moisture
and pre_ent spattering.
[_e Stlre to vent
l)lastic
wrap so steam
call escape.
• Cookware lilav becoli/e
hot because of heat
transterred/i'om the
heated/ood. Pot holders
n/m be needed to handle
the cookware.
• "Boilable" cooking
pouches and tightly
closed plastic bags should
be slit, pierced or vetoed
as directed by package.
If they are not, plastic
coukl tmrst during or
inunediatelv atter
cooking, l)ossillly resulting
ill il:{jur}. Also, plastic
storage containers should
be at least partially
uncovered becmlse they
/orm a tight seal. When
cooking with containers
tightly covered with
plastic wrap, remove
covering carehlllv and
direct
steal// aw_lv ]i'Ol//
hands
and time.