Whirlpool GSC308 YGSC308 manual Popcorn, MEAT, Poultry and Fish Defrost Preparation, Defrost Chart

■Foods left outside the freezer for more than 20 minutes or frozen ready-made food should not be defrosted using the Custom Defrost feature, but should be defrosted manually.

■Use small pieces of aluminum foil to shield parts of food such as chicken wings, leg tips and fish tails. See “Aluminum Foil and Metal” first.

MEAT, POULTRY AND FISH DEFROST PREPARATION

Use the following chart as a guide when defrosting meat, poultry, or fish. When setting the Custom Defrost cycle, the net weight must be entered in pounds and tenths of pounds.

MEAT

DEFROST CHART

The Custom Defrost system has six categories: Meat, Poultry, Fish, Bagel, Fruit Juice, and Roll/Muffin. Use the following chart as a guide.

FOOD	CODE	WEIGHT OR QUANTITY
SETTING
*Meats	1	0.1 to 6.6 lbs (45 g to 3 kg)

Beef: ground, steaks, roast, stew

Lamb: stew and chops

Pork: chops, ribs, roasts, sausage

The narrow or fatty areas of irregular shaped cuts should be shielded with foil before defrosting.

Do not defrost less than ¹⁄₄ lb (113 g) or two

4 oz (113 g) patties.

Place all meats in microwavable baking dish.

*Poultry	2	0.1 to	6.6 lbs (45 g to 3 kg)
*Fish	3	0.1 to	4.4 lbs (45 g to 1.34 kg)
**Bagel	4	1 to 6 pieces
Fruit Juice	5	6, 12 or 16 oz (170, 340 or 454 g)
Roll/Muffin	6	1 to 6 pieces

*See Preparation chart at end of “Defrost” section for cuts, sizes, and instructions.

**Bagel quantity settings 1 and 2 may appear to have longer defrost times than necessary; however, longer times use less cooking power.

To use Defrost:

1.Touch DEFROST.

2.Touch the number pad from the Defrost chart to select food

or

Touch DEFROST repeatedly to scroll through foods.

3.Touch number pads from the Defrost chart to select the weight or quantity

or

Touch QUANTITY (number pad “0”) repeatedly to select quantity.

4.Touch START/ADD A MINUTE or wait 5 seconds and the microwave oven will start automatically.

The display will count down the defrost time. For better results, a preset standing time is included in the defrosting time. This may make the defrosting time seem longer than expected.

When the cycle ends, “End” will appear in the display, 4 end- of-cycle tones will sound, and then reminder tones will sound every minute.

5.Touch upper oven OFF/CANCEL or open the door to clear the display and/or stop reminder tones.

The cook time can be changed during the defrosting cycle without interrupting cooking.

POULTRY

Chicken: whole and cut up	Place in microwavable
	baking dish, chicken breast
Cornish hens	side up.
	Remove giblets from whole
Turkey: breast
	chicken.
FISH
Fillets, Steaks, Whole,	Place in microwavable
Shellfish	baking dish.

Popcorn

■Do not use regular paper bags or glass utensils.

■Pop only one package of popcorn at a time.

■Follow manufacturer’s instructions when using a microwave popcorn popper.

■Listen for popping to slow to 1 pop every 1 or 2 seconds. Do not repop unpopped kernels.

■Use fresh bags of popcorn for optimal results.

■Cooking results may vary by brand and fat content.

Popping time has been preset based on commercially packaged microwave popcorn. The oven is preset for the 3.5 oz (99 g) size, but can be changed. Use the following chart as a guide.

BAG SIZE	CODE	TOUCH PAD
3.5 oz (99 g)	1	Once
3.0 oz (85 g)	2	Twice
1.75 oz (50 g)	3	Three times

To Pop Popcorn:

1.Touch POPCORN (3 SIZES).

The microwave oven will be set to automatically begin the pop setting for the 3.5 oz (99 g) bag size.

Touch POPCORN (3 SIZES) repeatedly to scan and select bag size

or

Touch number pad from chart to manually select bag size.

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