How To Broil In Your Conventional Oven; How To Set Oven For Broiling; How To Adjust Oven For A Lower Broil Rate - GE JKP77G Use And Care Manual

How to Broil in Your Conventional Oven
, See Broiiing
Chart on
page 43.
Broiling is cooking foods by intense
radiant
heat from the upper heating
unit in the oven. When food is
broiled, only one side at a time is
exposed to the heating source.
Most fish steaks or filiets and tender
cuts of meat such as steaks or
chops are best when broiied.
Your oven iets you choose between
two convenient broiiing methock
With the first method, you touch the
BROIL fM@ then the START pad
and the oven broiis on the fastest
Me (5) automatically.
The second method, or Variable
Broil, gives you the option of
choosing a lower broil rate (less
heat) from 1 to 4.
No matter which method you use,
the following suggestions apply:
. Place meat on the broiler rack on
the broiler pan. Always use the rack
so fat drips into the pan.
. Place pan in oven on shelf in
i position C. If your oven is con-
nected to 208 volts, rare steaks may
be broiled by preheating the broil
heater and placing the oven shelf
one position higher.
Leave the door ajar a few inches.
It stays open by itself. Proper tem-
perature is maintained in the oven
with the door partially open.
. Turn food only once during
cooking.
Broii Rate Settings
5-High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ioo%power
4-Medium High . . . . . . . ..97% power
3-Medium . . . . . . . ..o . . . ..90% power
2-Medium Low . . . . . . . . ..84% power
1-Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..78% power
How to Set Oven for Broiling
For regular broiling, like you've
always been used to, do this:
Step 1
:Touch the BROIL pad. Dis-
play shows BROIL
Step 2
Touch the START pad to
begin cooking. Oven is automati- '
tally set to broil at the high rate,
with 100% power.
.,
Step 3: When cooking is done,
touch the CLEAR/OFF pad. Serve
food immediately. Leave pan out-
side oven to cool for easy cleaning. -
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How to Adjust Oven for a
Lower Broil Rate
You can also set your oven to broil
at a lower rate from 1 (iow) to 4
(medium high). Foods broil siower,
and the broii flavor develops over a
longer time.
Step 1: Place food in oven on shelf
in C position. Touch the BROIL
pad. Display shows BROIL.
Step 2 Touch a number pad—1, 2,
3 or 4—for the desired Broil Rate.
Display shows BROIL RATE and the
selected code number.
Step 3: Touch the START pad to
begin cooking.
Step 4: Turn meat over when rec-
ommended broiling time for first
side is up.
Step 5: Touch CLEAR/OFF pad to
shut broil heater off when cooking
is finished.
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