How to UseTemp HoId
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Temp Hold is an especially handy feature of your mi- crowave oven. It lets you hold foods at serving tem- perature, keeping them
With the Temp Hold feature:
1.You can select a holding temperature between 90° and 200”F.
2.You can select any Power Level you want.
Because foods tend to stay moist and tender during microwaving, Temp Hold is the perfect way to keep vegetables, casseroles, and even scrambled eggs piping hot and ready to serve. Roasts, ham and poultry, too, may be kept juicy and table ready with this feature.
You can even warm up leftovers!
If you wish, you can set your oven to automatically defrost, hold, time or temperature cook, and then Temp. Hold. You must be sure, when you combine Time Cook and Temp Hold, that the temperature probe is placed in the food before starting the microwave oven.
For temperature cooking and holding, you can choose one finished temperature and power level for e cooking and if you want another temperature and
4$wer level for the Temp Hold cycle. Temp Hold does
not turn off automatically so you can control the holding time. (Allow foods to hold only as long as
safe. Times vary depending on food type and amount.)
Things to remember when setting your oven to microwave
Temp Hold.
●TO prevent spoilage, do not hold foods except solid roasts at temperatures below 150° for more than 2 hours.
HOW TO TEMPERATURE HOLD
. Solid (not rolled) roasts may be held below 150°. However, during the microwave roasting process, a great amount of heat is stored in the roast. Keep- ing the roast in the warm oven cavity during TEMP/HOLD can cause a greater increase in in- ternal temperature than when allowing the roast to stand outside the oven on a kitchen counter. Tem- peratures of up to 20° to 30° above the TEMP/ HOLD setting are possible. Because of this heat storage, it is not possible to hold roasts at a rare degree of doneness.
It is suggested that you first remove the roast from the oven and let it stand, uncovered, for about 10 to
15 minutes before returning to TEMP/HOLD. Or, if you know before cooking that you intend to hold a solid roast at serving temperature, you may com-
pensate for the stored heat by undercooking the roast. See your Cookbook for details.
How to speed up
Automatic Simmer recipes
The Automatic Simmer recipes in the Mcrowave Guide and Cookbook were especially developed for long slow cooking. However, you can speed up the cooking process by using the Temp Hold feature and following the instructions as given in the cookbook. You can cut the time in half for most
temperature probe you do not exceed the recom- mended temperature,
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1. Insert probe in food and attach probe to oven. (If vou have iust Tem~
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2.Touch TEMP HOLD. Read out displays: O . Select the holding tem- perature. Oven will automatically microwave the food until it reaches
3.Select POWER LEVEL. Oven will automatically use High unless you select another level. See cookbook for suggested power levels.
4.Press START. The oven will not shut off until you touch the CLEAR/ OFF Pad.
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