GE JES0736 Owner's Manual page 8

SPECIAL N07 2S ABOUF MICRO WAVING
Make sure all cookware
used in your microwave
oven is suitable tor
n/icrowaving. Most glass
casseroles, cooking dishes,
l//easllring Cilt)S , Cllstar(t
Clll)S , potter} or china
dimlevware which does not
have metallic u:im or glaze
with a metallic sheen Call
be/lsed. Sol//e cook_are
is labeled "suitaMe tor
microwaving."
How to test for a microwave-
safe dish.
• If you are not sure if a
dish is microwave-sale,
use this test: Place ill the
oven
both
tile dish you
are testing and a glass
measuring cup filled with
1 cup of water--set the
measuring cup either
in or next to tile dish.
Microwave 1 mimlte at
high. If the dish heats,
it should not be used
tor microwaving.
If the dish remains cool
and only the water ill the
cup heats, then the dish
is microwa_ e-satb.
• If VO/l /Ise a i/lear
thermometer while
cooking, make sm:e
it is sale tor use in
microwave ovens.
• Do not use recycled
paper products. Reoaled
paper towels, napkins
and waxed paper Call
contain metal flecks
which may cause arcing
or ignite. Paper products
contailling nvlon or
m'hm filaments should
be avoided, as they him
also ignite.
• Sol//e stvro/oal// tlT_l_is
(like those that n/eat is
t)ackaged on) haxe a thin
strip of metal elnbedded
ill tile bottom. Wl/en
lIliCrowave(I, tile lIletal Call
burn tile floor of tile oven
or ignite a t)aper towel.
• Do not use tile microwaxe
to (tr} newsl)al)ers.
• Not all plastic wrap is
suitable ti)r use in
microwave o\ ens. Check
the t)ackage tor proper use.
• Paper towels, waxed
paper and plastic wrap
Call t)e used to cover
dishes ill order to retain
moistHre and
1)lTevent
spattering. Be sure to
vent plastic wrap so stealll
Call escape.
• Cookware lilav becolile
hot because of heat
transterred/i'om the
heated/ood. Pot holders
n/m be needed to handle
tile (ookware.
• "Boilable" cooking
pouches and tightly
closed plastic bags should
be slit, pierced or vetoed
as directed by package.
If they are not, plastic
Co/lld t)llrst
during
or
inunediatelv atter
cooking, 1)ossibly resulting
in il_jur}. Also, plastic
storage containers should
be at least partially
uncovered because thev
/orn/ a tight seal. When
cooking with containers
tightly covered with
plastic wrap, remove
covering carehlllv and
direct steam away/i'om
hands and tace.