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INSTRUCTION BOOKLET Recipe Booklet Reverse Side ® CMW-55 Series Cuisinart Compact Microwave For your safety and continued enjoyment of this product, always read the instruction book carefully before using. IB-8083...
This is called delayed eruptive boiling. Visible bubbling or boiling when the container is removed from the microwave oven is not always present. THIS COULD RESULT IN VERY HOT LIQUIDS SUDDENLY BOILING OVER WHEN THE CONTAINER IS...
Use extreme care when inserting a spoon or other utensil into the container. This may also cause delayed eruptive boiling. e. After heating, allow the container to stand in the microwave oven for at least 20 seconds before removing the container. SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS...
Warranty ..... . 15 INTRODUCTION Congratulations on choosing a very smart microwave oven! Your Cuisinart Compact Microwave requires very little counter space to perform a huge variety of functions! You’ll find the interior big...
The foil should be at least 1 inch (2.5cm) away from the oven walls. Use a browning dish in this microwave oven only if your browning dish is supplied with a microwave trivet that will...
May cause a fire in the oven. Plastic foam may melt or contaminate the liquid inside when exposed to high temperature. Wood will dry out when used in the microwave oven and may split or crack. Never place the glass turntable upside down.
One side must be open. 4. Remove any protective film found on the microwave oven cabinet sur- face. 5. Do not remove the light brown mica cover “wave guard” that is attached to the oven cavity to protect the magnetron.
2. KITCHEN TIMER 1. Press touchpad 9/KITCHEN TIMER. LED will display 00:00. 2. Press the number keys to enter the desired cooking time. Enter hours and/or minutes as corre- sponding 00 is flashing on dis- play. The maximum cooking time is 99 minutes and 99 seconds.
the defrost by time function; screen will display dEF2. 2. Press number keys to enter defrosting time. The time range is 00:01–99:99. 3. Press START/+30SEC. to start defrosting. The LED will show the remaining defrosting time. Notes a. If the time entered is not within 00:01–99:99, the setting will not work.
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Soup 1. Press SOUP repeatedly until the number you wish appears in the display. 4.0, 8.0,12.0,16.0 will be displayed in sequence. For example, press SOUP twice; 8.0 appears in the display. 2. Press START/+30 SEC. to cook. 3. Buzzer sounds five times when cooking is finished.
10. MULTI-STAGE COOKING This microwave oven can be set for 2 stages of cooking. If one stage is to defrost, either by weight or time, it will placed at the first stage auto- matically.
Door is open. Oven will not start c. Wrong operation is set. a. Materials to be avoided in microwave oven were used. b. The oven was operated when empty. Arcing or sparking c. Spilled food remained in the interior.
WARRANTY LIMITED THREE-YEAR WARRANTY This warranty is available to consumers only. You are a consumer if you own a Cuisinart Compact Microwave that was purchased at retail for personal, family or household use. Except as otherwise required under applica- ble law, this warranty is not available to retail- ers or other commercial purchasers or owners.
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Cook Microwave. dish completely until Whisk smooth. with bowl mustard leaves yolks, Place orange slightly, cool high fresh Cuisinart ® with Cover sure. pepper butter Place ¼ divided ½ large Provence ½ chopped about Makes olive vegetables makes making –...
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1½-quart minutes butter Heat min- reserve. high; Microwave 2-cup broth circle threads saffron Compact about boiling, towels paper Cuisinart fork with ® water Place Transfer peas Defrost white ⁄ ½ black ⁄ fresh) tarragon ½ mustard into cups ¼...
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Cover bowl. shallow water broccoli minutes. stand wrap microwave, from Remove setting potato microwave Compact Cuisinart ® Prick them. well potatoes (optional) crumbled bacon, microwaved crispy pepper black white ground freshly teaspoon salt kosher teaspoon...
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Microwave, sat. • fat. • pepper Calories lemon honey, toasted with cov- Leave Stir beans. Drain tender, high taste. done Cuisinart minutes after ® micro- Microwave microwaveable taste green Place cooking through mustard uncovered with Sprinkle juice toss plate seconds...
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immedi- cooked should edges cover foil food center small with steaks roast still sections small stage, minutes. 10-20 stand nearly that food remove rearrange stage, refrigerator. minutes covered, stand, foil. strips narrow with portions shield again stage, second aluminum strips narrow warm shield...
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cooking. during tender, until minutes, Microwave Cover. water. with dish casserole/baking minutes rest tender. 16-21 (PL-10) High Cover. water. ¼ with down side halves, cooking. once stirring minutes, Microwave Cover. water. with dish casserole/baking tender. until (PL-10) High Microwave tablespoons with dish casserole/baking...
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cooking. during tender, until minutes, Microwave Cover. water. with dish casserole/baking further. cooked will that dish undercook – minutes Microwave Cover. water. with dish casserole/baking cooking. during twice stirring uncovered (PL-10) High taste. Season coat. toss mushrooms sliced ounces (PL- High seconds microwave-...
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cooking. once stirring minutes, High Microwave water. with dish casserole/baking during once stirring julienned, sliced, minutes Microwave Cover. water. with dish casserole/baking cooking. during once stirring High Microwave ¼ with dish casserole/baking water. refresh times cooking shorter dish, another salad cooking.
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immedi- served peas while completed, cooking minutes five counter stand potato baked come they after cooking vegetables foods large necessary time (standing time standing food, denser time. cooking halfway vegetables whole rear- stir cooking, even from them prevent cooking spots squash, veg- unpeeled...
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covered. minutes, stand plate. with Cover lemon and/or butter melted Season plate. microwave-safe layer single Arrange covered. minutes rest plate. with cover outside, portion (head) meaty microwave-safe flat Arrange serving. before minutes stand inch. ¾ thickness create over serving. before minutes paper.
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minutes. stand half time cooking when over Turn wrap. plastic vented with Cover rack. roasting down fat-side roast Place minutes. stand half time cooking when over Turn paper. with Cover rack. roasting down fat-side roast Place DIRECTIONS time. during rise will food tempera-...
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seconds. (PL-5) Medium microwaving cream freezer-hard difficult. less greatly will yield juice seconds (PL-10) microwave limes Place citrus. from juice Medium seconds microwave placing uncovering honey Decrystallize instruc- recipe according pro- microwave from volume. doubled until microwave steamy rise door Close micro- dough...
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