IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued)
If by accident the oven should run empty a minute or two, no harm is done. However, try to avoid operating the oven empty at all
They could dehydrate and catch fire, causing damage to your oven.
●Do not use the oven for storage purposes. Do not leave
paper products, cooking utensils or food in the oven when not in use.
●If materials inside oven should ignite, keep oven door
closed, turn oven off, and disconnect power cord, or shut off power at the fuse or circuit breaker panel.
●Some products such as whole eggs and sealed
in this microwave oven. Such use of the microwave oven could result in injury.
Q Avoid heating baby food in glass jars, even without their lids; especially meat and egg mixtures.
●Don’t defrost frozen beverages in narrow necked bottles (especially carbonated beverages). Even if the container is opened, pressure can build up. This can cause the container to burst, possibly resulting in injury.
●Use metal only as directed in this book and the cookbook provided with your microwave oven. TV dinners may be microwaved in foil trays less than 3/4” high; remove top foil cover and return tray to box. When
using metal in the microwave oven, keep metal (other than metal shelfi at least 1 inch away from sides of oven.
●Cookware may become hot
because of heat transferred from the heated food. Pot holders may be needed to handle the cookware.
●Sometimes, the glass cooking tray can become too hot to touch. Be careful when touching
the tray during and after cooking.
●Foods cooked in liquids
(such as pasta) may tend to boil over more rapidly than foods containing less moisture. Should this occur, refer to page 33 for instructions on how to clean the inside of the oven.
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thermometer in food you are microwaving unless the thermometer is designed or recommended for use in the microwave oven.
●Remove the temperature probe from the oven when not using it to cook with. If you
leave the probe inside the oven without inserting it in food or liquid, and turn on microwave energy, it can create electrical arcing in the oven and damage oven walls.
c Plastic
may soften or char if subjected to short periods of overcooking, In longer exposures to overcooking, the food and cookware could ignite. For these reasons: 1) Use
●When cooking pork, follow
the directions exactly and always cook the meat to an internal temperature of at least 170°F. This assures that, in the remote possibility that trichina may be present in the meat, it will be killed and meat will be safe to eat.
●Do not boil eggs in a microwave oven. Pressure will
build up inside egg yolk and will cause it to burst, possibly resulting in injury.
●Foods with unbroken outer “skin” such as potatoes,
sausages, tomatoes, apples, chicken livers and other giblets, and egg yolks (see previous caution) should be pierced to allow steam to escape during cooking.
“Not all plastic wrap is suitable for use in microwave ovens.
Check the package for proper use.
●Spontaneous
removing the container from the microwave oven.
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