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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, overheating the liquid beyond boiling point can occur without evidence of bubbling.
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Contents How the Microwave Oven Works Precautions Contents Microwaves are a form of energy similar to radio and television waves and Unpacking & Installing 4 ~ 5 ordinary daylight. Normally, microwaves spread outwards as they travel Parts of Your Oven through the atmosphere and disappear without effect.
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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 ROLLER REST inside the oven and place the connected to the socket. If your oven does not operate GLASS TRAY on top.
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Parts of Your Oven CONTROL PANEL OVEN OVERVIEW 1. DIGITAL DISPLAY: This display includes a 24 hour clock or displays the cooking time. Oven Front Plate 2. AUTO DEFROST: Used to select the auto Window Door Screen weight defrost. 3. AUTO COOK: Used to cook the food listed by Door Seal one touch.
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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.
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Child Lock Press STOP/CANCEL. Your oven has a safety feature that Press and hold STOP/CANCEL until “L” appears on the display and one BEEP is heard. prevents accidental running of the oven. Once the child lock is set, you will be The CHILD LOCK is now set.
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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. Press STOP/CANCEL.
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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%...
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In the following example I will show you how to set 2 minutes of cooking on high power. Start Press STOP/CANCEL. Press JET START four times to select 2 minutes on HIGH power. The JET START feature allows you to set Your oven will start before you have finished the fourth press.
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Auto In the following example I will show you how to cook rice. Cook Press STOP/CANCEL. AUTO COOK allows you to cook most of Press AUTO COOK button of the required food type. your favorite food easily by selecting the In this example press FOOD TYPE once.
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AUTO COOKING GUIDE Category Food Food Weight Utensil Methods Food Type Rice 350g Rice, deep and Wash rice and pour water into a deep & large 550ml water large bowl/lid microwavable bowl(about 3 ).Cook with cover.After cooking,stir lightly and stand with cover for for 5 minutes. Porridge 100g Rice,1200ml water deep and...
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The temperature and density of food varies, I would recommend that the food is checked before cooking Auto commences. Pay particular attention to large joints of meat and chicken, some foods should not be completely thawed before cooking. For example fish cooks so quickly that it is sometimes better to begin cooking while still slightly frozen.
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AUTO WEIGHT DEFROST FOOD AMOUNT UTENSIL FOOD Meat 0.1 ~ 4.0kg MEAT Microwave ware Minced beef, Fillet steak, Cubes for stew, Sirloin steak, Pot roast, Rump roast, Beef burger (Flat plate) CHICKEN Pork chops, Lamp chops, Rolled roast, Sausage, Cutlets(.2cm) FISH Turn food over at beep.
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Kitchen Timer In the following example I will show you how to set the timer for 15 minutes. Press STOP/CANCEL. Your oven also has a Timer that can be Press KITCHEN TIMER. used for noncooking functions. When used as an independent timer, the oven is not running.
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WARNING Important safety instructions Please ensure cooking times are correctly set as over cooking may result in FIRE Read carefully and keep for future reference and 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.
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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.
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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 1 Keep the inside of the oven clean spread and redistribute heat.
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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 Light bulb has blown below Door is not closed...
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Plug wiring information/ Technical Specifications Warning Technical Specification This appliance must be earthed P2503 The wires in this mains lead are colored in accordance with the following codes Power Input 220/230 V AC / 50Hz BLUE ~ Neutral Output 900 W (IEC60705 rating standard) BROWN ~ Live GREEN &...
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Star Service Hotline 24069138 www.whirlpool.com.hk IFU0208P2503 P2503 P/No. 3828W5A2743...
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