What Your Oven Can Do
Cooking with your new oven offers a wide variety of food preparation options. Microwave cooking uses very short, high frequency radio waves. The movement of the microwaves through the food generates heat and cooks most foods faster than conventional methods, while retaining their natural texture and moisture. Microwave cooking heats food directly, not the cooking utensil or the interior of the oven. Reheating is easy and defrosting is particularly convenient because less time is spent in food preparation.
Convection cooking constantly circulates heated air around the food, creating even browning and sealed- in flavor by the constant motion of hot air over the food surfaces.
Your new oven also offers the option of combination cooking, using microwave energy along with convection cooking. You cook with
speed and accuracy, while browning and crisping to perfection.
You can use microwave cooking, convection cooking or combination cooking to cook by time. Simply preset the length of cooking time desired and your oven turns off automatically. Or you can cook by temperature, by these methods, using the temperature probe to determine the doneness by the internal temperature of the food. This method takes the guesswork out of cooking, shutting the oven off automatically when the food reaches the desired temperature.
The Automatic Cooking Control (AU~ COOK) feature does your microwave cooking for you. It’s easy and
Auto Roast is a combination cooking function that uses the temperature probe. You simply select from 8 Auto Roast codes, and the oven automatically adjusts power level, oven temperature and internal food temperature to cook the food the way you want it.
Auto Defrost automatically sets the defrosting time and power levels for you. You choose the appropriate code number from 1 to 3 from the food you are defrosting, then enter the food weight in pounds and tenths of a pound and touch Start. The oven calculates the defrosting time and changes power levels during defrosting to give even defrosting results.
The Auto Start Timer lets you program the oven to start cooking at a desired time, even if you’re not at home.
The following guide shows at a glance the difference between microwave, convection and combination cooking.
Comparison Guide
MicrowaveConvectionCombination
COOKING | Microwave energy is dis- | Hot air circulates around | Microwave energy and convection heat |
METHOD | tributed evenly throughout | food to produce browned | combine to cook foods in up to one- |
| the oven for thorough, fast | exteriors and seal in juices. | half the time of conventional ovens, |
| cooking of food. |
| while browning and sealing in juices. |
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HEAT | Microwave energy. | Circulating heated air. | Microwave energy and circulating |
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HEAT | Heat produced within | Heat conducted from | Food heats from instant energy |
CONDUCTION food by instant energy | outside of food to inside. | penetration and heat conducted from | |
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BENEFITS | Fast, high efficiency | Aids in browning and seals | Shortened cooking time for microwave |
| cooking. Oven and | in flavor. Cooks some foods | energy, plus browning and crisping |
| surroundings do not get | faster than conventional | from convection heat. |
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Read this book to learn the many different things your Microwave/Convection/Combination Oven can do. You will find a wide variety of cooking methods and programs designed to suit your lifestyle.
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