Complete Meal Cooking - Maytag Microwave oven User Manual

Complete Meal Cooking
• Use tbesbeffouly when
Positioning the Shelf How to Reheat Several
cooking food on 2 levels.
Different Types of Foods
Food microwaves best .
Together
when placed directly on ].. "_ _____ /
the oven floor. When heating several different
types of food together, foods
• Do not store or cook with which should be served hot must
metal shelf on floor of oven. be placed on the oven floor, while
Product damage may result, foods which need only to be
• Use pot holders when warmed should be placed on the
handling metal shelf and To insert shelf, tip the back shelf. This is because microwave
eookware. They may be hot. slightly and fit the shelf support energy enters the oven from the
Do not store microwave guides onto the support guides bottom only. Also, it is important
i browning dish on metal shelf, located on each side of the oven to remember that foods absorb
Use of the shelf with in the rear. microwave energy at different
rates. Rates can be affected by the
Popcorn program is not size of the food, and its starting
recommended. _ temperature.
Because of the varying rates, you
The two-position wire shelf is
specifically designed for added _ may need to start reheating a large
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or dense food a few minutes ahead
capacity heating
and
reheating in
J of time, then add other smaller or
your microwave oven. Now more less dense foods. Alternately, if
than one food may be heated or one of the foods you are heating
reheated and ready to serve at the Next, lower the front until the shelf seems undercooked but the others
same time. Food size should be support guides fit onto the support are heated satisfactorily, let the
considered; foods over 3½ inches guides located at each side of the underheated food continue cooking.
high, or 3 pounds are not oven in the front.
Heat or reheat different types of
recommended for shelf cooking. When properly positioned, the food at High (10). To determine
Batters and dough foods and also shelf should fit snugly in place, heating times, add times for all
uncooked foods which need to be be level and not touch the back foods together. After half of time,
prepared from scratch should be or side wall of the oven. stir or rearrange foods (do not
cooked without the oven shelf. If arcing occurs when using the reverse positions). Check foods
shelf to cook more than one food (especially those on the oven floor)
at the same time, turn the oven after 3/4 of total time and remove
off. Make sure the shelf is not any which are done. Continue
touching oven walls. To prevent cooking others.
not using it. i
/ _ y_C2ngr_removethe shelf when
foods heated together with your J_
oven shelf, especially when
heating larger amounts of food
in 8 inch square or other 2 quart
size casseroles. The extra steam Place on the floor larger or more
generated from multiple food dense foods, which need the most
cooking may make cookware heating, such as leftover fried
hotter than with regular chicken, casseroles of canned or
microwaving, leftover vegetables, rice or pasta.
Place on the oven shelf those foods
which need only be warmed, such
as bakery pies, rolls, muffins
or breads.
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