Manual Cooking; Power Level Setting Guide - Kenmore 565.68380 Owner's Manual

MANUAL COOKING
This basic microwave cooking method allows you to cook food for a desired time.
In addition to the P-100 (maximum) power level, you can select different
microwave power from 9 levels, P-10 to P-90 (10-90% of P-100 power level).
Exam )le: To cook at power level P-80 for 40 seconds:
Step Procedu re
Touch TIME.
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Enter 40 seconds by touching
4 and 0.
Touch POWER LEVEL.
Touch 8 to select power level
P-80.
Touch START.
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Note: • Cooking time can be set up to 99 minutes 99 seconds.
• When you cook on P-t00 power, skip steps 3 and 4.
• Foods with high moisture content should be cooked on P-100 power.
• To check the power level during cooking, touch POWER LEVEL.
• The display will show P-t0 - P-100 to indicate the 10-100% power level.
Manual Defrosting (Without using Auto Defrost feature) :
Use power level P-30. To speed up the defrosting of dense foods over 1 pound
(450 g), you may start on P-100 for 2 minutes, then reduce to the level P-30.
Delay Start Cooking:
Use power level P- 0 (no power) for the first stage of multistage cooking. You can
delay cooking start time by up to 99 minutes 99 seconds.
POWER LEVEL SETTING GUIDE
P-10 •Softening cream cheese, butter. P-60 • Cooking scrambled eggs.
• Keeping casseroles warm. • Baking cakes.
P-2..6 • Softening chocolate. P-70 • Cooking cheese dishes.
• clarifying butter.
• Heating breads, rolls, pancakes,
tacos, tortillas, French toast.
P-30 •Completing the cooking cycle of P-80 • Reheating precooked or prepared
casseroles, stews, sauces, food quickly.
• Manual defrosting. • Cooking fish.
P-40 • Cooking less tender cuts of meat P-90 • Reheating rice and pasta.
in liquid or slow-cooking dishes.
• Completing the cooking cycle of
less tender roasts.
P-50 • Cooking custards and pasta. P-100 -Cooking poultry, vegetables, and
_ • Cooking rump roast,ham, veal, most casseroles. Boiling water.
_._ lamb. • Preheating a browning dish.
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