Precautions Precautions to avoid possible exposure to excessive microwave energy. When heating liquids, e.g. soups, sauces and beverages in your microwave You cannot operate your oven with the door open due to the safety interlocks built into the door mechanism. These safety interlocks automatically switch off oven, delayed eruptive boiling can occur without evidence of bubbling.
Contents Precaution s How the Microwave Oven Works Contents Microwaves are a form of energy similar to radio and television waves and Important Safety Instruc tions 5 ~ 9 ordinary daylight. Normally, microwaves spread outwards as they travel Unpacking & Installi ng 10 ~ 11 through the atmosphere and disappear without effect.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven toprevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact yourservice agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven toprevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact yourservice agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven toprevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact yourservice agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Important Safety Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven toprevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. Instructions This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact yourservice agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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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Open your oven door by pulling the DOOR HANDLE. Plug your oven into a standard household socket. Make sure your oven is the only appliance Place the ROTATING RING inside the oven and place the GLASS TRAY on top. connected to the socket. If your oven does not operate properly, unplug it from the electrical socket and then plug it back in.
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 Lock Press STOP/CLEAR . Your oven has a safety feature that Press and hold STOP/CLEAR until “L” appears in the display and BEEP prevents accidental running of the oven. 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. 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. POWER LEVEL OUTPUT 100%...
Two stage In the following example I will show you how to cook some food in two stages. The first stages will cook your Cooking 280. food for 11 minutes on HIGH; the second will cook for 35 minutes on Press STOP/CLEAR.
Quick In the following example I will show you how to set 2 minutes of cooking on high power. Start Press STOP/CLEAR. Press START four times to select 2 minutes on HIGH power. The QUICK START feature allows you to Your oven will start before you have finished the fourth press.
Energy Saving (ECO ON). Press STOP/CLEAR “0” appears on the display. (ECO ON). Press STOP/CLEAR ECO ON feature saves energy by turning off the display. The display will also turn off when the unit is not active for 5 minutes. Press any key to turn the display back on.
Grill Cooking In the following example I will show you how to use the grill to cook some food for 12 minutes and 30 seconds. Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Grill. This feature will allow you to brown and crisp food quickly. Set the cooking time.
Combination In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with combi mode Co-3 for a cooking time Cooking of 25 minutes. Press STOP/CLEAR . Press COMBI three times “Co-3” appears on the display. Your oven has a combination cooking feature which allows you to cook food with heater and microwave at the same Set the cooking time.
Auto In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.5 kg of jacket potato. Cook Press STOP/CLEAR. Press AUTO COOK one time. “Ac-1” appears on the display. AUTO COOK allows you to cook most of your favorite food easily by selecting the food type and entering the weight of the food by pressing the key.
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FUNCTION CATEGORY WEIGHT LIMIT UTENSIL FOOD TEMP. INSTRUCTIONS Choose medium sized potatoes 170 -200g. Room 0.1 kg ~ 1.0 kg AUTO 1. JACKET Wash and dry potatoes. Pierce the potatoes several times with fork. Place the potatoes on COOK POTATO (Ac-1) the glass turntable.
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.
AUTO WEIGHT DEFROST GUIDE * Food to be defrosted should be in a suitable microwave proof container and place uncovered on the glass turntable. * If necessary, shield small areas of meat or poultry with flat pieces of aluminum foil. This will prevent thin areas becoming warm during defrosting. Ensure the foil does not touch the oven walls.
Quick Use this function to thaw only 0.5kg of Minced meat very quickly. This will require a standing time to allow the center to thaw. In the following example will show you how to Defrost defrost 0.5kg of forzen minced meat. Press STOP/CLEAR.
QUICK DEFROST GUIDE Use this function to defrost quickly for minced meat. Remove the meat completely from it’s wrapping. Place the mince onto a microwave-safe plate. When BEEP, at this point remove the mince from the microwave oven, turn the mince over and return to the microwave oven. Press start to continue. At the end of the program remove the mince from the microwave oven, cover with foil and allow to stand 5-15 minutes or until completely thawed.
More or Less In the following example I will show you how to change the preset AUTO COOK programmes for a longer or Cooking shorter cooking time. Press STOP/CLEAR. If you find that your food is over or Set the required AUTO COOK programme. undercooked when using the AUTO (Select weight of food.) COOK or AUTO REHEAT programme,...
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 this 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 Light bulb has blown.
Disposal of your old appliance 1. When this crossed-out wheeled bin symbol is attached to a product it MB3942U/MH6042U/MH6043HAS means the product is covered by the European Directive 2002/96/EC. 2. All electrical and electronic products should be disposed of separately from...
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OΕΓΧΕΙΡΙΔΙΟ ΚΑΤΟΧΟΥ ΦΟΥΡΝΟΣ ΜΙΚΡΟΚΥΜΑΤΩΝ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΩ ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΠΡΟΣΕΚΤΙΚΑ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΟΠ ΕΓΧΕΙΡΙΔΙΟ ΚΑΤΟΧΟΥ ΠΡΙΝ ΤΕΘΕΙ ΣΕ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑ. MB3942U/MH6042U/MH6043HAS www.lg.com...
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Eξοικονόμηση Eνέργειας (ECO ON). ¶È¤ÛÙ «STOP/CLEAR» '' 0'' εμφανίζεται στην οθόνη. (ECO ON). ECO ON χαρακτηριστικό που ¶È¤ÛÙ «STOP/CLEAR» εξοικονόμει ενέργεια από την απενεργοποίηση της οθόνης. Η οθόνη θα σβήσει όταν η μονάδα δεν είναι ενεργή για 5 λεπτά. Πατήστε οποιοδήποτε πλήκτρο για να θέσετε την οθόνη πάλι σε λειτουργία.
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