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SPECIAL NOTES ABO UT MICR O WA VING
Make sure all cookware
used in your microwave
oven is suitable tor
microwaving.
Most glass
casseroles,
cooking dishes,
measuring
cups, custard
cups, potm U or china
dinner,rare
which does not
have metallic trim or glaze
with a metallic sheen can
be used. Some cookware is
labeled
"suitable *or
microwaving."
How to test for a microwave-
safe
dish.
* If you are not sure ifa
dish is microwave-sate,
use this lest: Place in tile
oven both tile dish you
are testing and a glass
measming
cup filled with
1 cup of water--set
tile
measuring
cup either in
or next to tile dish.
Microwave
1 minute
at
high. If tile dish heats, it
should not be used for
microwaving.
If the dish remains cool
and only tile water in tile
cup heats, then tile dish
is microwave-safe.
If you use a meat
ther-
mometer
while
cooking,
make
sure it is safe for
use in microwave
ovens.
* Do not use recycled
paper products.
Recycled
paper towels, napkins
and waxed paper can
contain
metal flecks
which may cause arcing
or ignite. Paper products
containing
nyhm or
nylon filaments
should
be avoided,
as they may
also ignim.
e Solne
styrof()aln
trays
(like those that meat is
packaged
on) have a thin
strip of metal embedded
in tile bottom. When
microwaved,
tile metal
can burn the floor of the
oven or ignite a paper
towel.
Do not use tile
ulicrowave
to d U newspapers.
Not all plastic wrap is
suitable tor use in micro-
wave ovens. Check tile
package for proper use.
* Paper towels, waxed
paper and plastic wrap
can be used to cover
dishes in order to retain
moisture
and prevent
spattering.
Be sure to
vent plastic wrap so steam
can escape.
* Cookware
may become
hot because of heat
transferred
flom tile
heated food. Pot holders
may be needed
to handle
the cookware.
"Boilable"
cooking
pouches
and tightly
closed plastic bags should
be slit, pierced
or vented
as directed
by package.
If
they are not, plastic could
burst during or immed-
iately after cooking,
possibly resuhing in il_juU.
Also, plastic storage
containers
should be at
least partially uncovered
because
they f_rm a tight
seal. When cooking with
containers
tightly covered
with plastic wrap, remove
covering caretully and
direct steam aw W fiom
hands and face.
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