GE SpacemakerXL JVM1631 Owner's Manual page 8

SPECIAL NOTF, S ABOUF MICRO WAVING
Make sure all cookware
used in your nlicrowave
oven is suitable tbr
n/icrowaving. Most glass
casseroles, cooking dishes,
l//e_stlril/g CtlpS, custard
cups, potter} or china
dinnerware which does not
have metafli( trim or glaze
with a n/etaflit sheen tall
be/Ised+ Sol//e Col)kid, are
is labeled "suitable tor
nficrowm'iilg."
How to test for a
microwave-safe dish.
• II_ou are not sure il_t
dish is microl_axe-sa/i',
ttse this test: Plate iu the
oven both the dish vott
are testing and a glass
measuring cup filled with
[ cup ofwawr--set the
l/le;+sttril/g
€till either
ill or next to the dish.
Microwave 30-45 seconds
at high. /f the dish heats.
it shouh| not t)e ttsed /or
lnicrol'v_+_vitlg.
If the dish remains cool
and only the water ill the
(till heats, then die dish
is microwave-sat('.
• If rOll /Ise a l/lear |her:
lnolneter while cookillg,
make sure it is sale tbr
use in microwave ovens.
• Do not use recycled
paper products. Recycled
paper towels, napkins
_lll(t waxe(t tlaller Call
(ontaill metal flecks
which may cause arcing
or ignite. Pat/er products
contailling I/_lOl/ or
ll+dlm filaments should
l>e avoided, as they mm
also ignite.
• Sol//e stvro/()i41// trw<s
(like those that n/eat is
packaged on) time a thin
strip of n/etal embedded
ill tile bottom. When
lnit roll, wed, tile metal tan
burn tile/loor of tile oven
or ignite a paper towel.
• Do llOt use the mit rowa\e
to dFv I/ewsl)apers.
• Not all plastic wrap is
suitable/or use in mit ro-
wave ovens. Chetk the
t/ackage/or proper use.
• Patler towels, waxed
paper and plastic wrap
call be used to cover
dishes ill order to retain
n/oistttre and prevent
spauering. Be sure to
veilt plastic wrap so stealll
Call
escape.
• Cookware lilav become
hot because of heat
transli'rred /ir)m the
heated/ood. Pot holders
ma +,be needed to handle
the cookware.
• "Boilable" cooking
pouches and tightly
t losed t/lastic llags should
be slit, pielx ed or vented
as direr ted by tla_ kage.
If they are not, plastic
could bin:st during or
immediately atter
cooking, l)ossitily resulting
in il_iUl+y.Also, plastic
storage containers should
be at least partially
uncovered because they
/bnn a tight seal. When
cooking with containers
tightly covered with
plastic wrap, remove
covering carefltlh' and
direct
steal// aw_( _, /i'Ol//
hands
and thce.