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SPECIAL NOTES ABO UF MICRO WAVING
Make sure all cookware
used in your microwave oven is suitable tot
microwaving. Most glass
casseroles, cooking dislles,
measuring cups, custard
cups, pottery or china dinnerware wllicll does not
llave metallic trim or glaze witll a metallic slleen can
be used. Some cookware
is labeled "suitable tbr
microwaving."
How to test f0r a microwave- safe dish.
•If you are not sure if a dish is
measuring cup filled witll
1 cup of
measuring cup either in or next to the disll.
Microwave
at lligll. If tlle disll lleats, it sllould not be used lot
microwaving.
If tlle disll remains cool
and only tlle water in the
cup lleats, tllen tlle disll is
If you use a meat tllel=
mometer wllile cooking, make sure it is sale Jor
rise | ill microwave | O_llS. |
•Do not use recycled
paper products. P,ecycled paper towels, napkins
and waxed paper can
contain metal flecks wllicll may cause arcing
or ignite. Paper products
containing nylon or
nylon filaments should
be avoided, as tlley may also ignite.
•Some stvrol_/am tl_ay:s (like those tllat meat is
packaged on) have a tllin strip of metal embedded
in tlle bottom. YVllen
microwavcd, tile metal can burn the floor of tlle oven or ignite a paper towel.
•Do llOt/lse tile ii/icrowave to dry newspapers.
•Not all plastic wrap is
suitable tot use in micro- wave ovens. Clleck tile
package tot proper use.
• Paper towels, waxed paper and plastic wrap can be used to cover
dislles in order to retain
moisture and prevent
spattering. Be sure to vent plastic wrap so steam can escape.
• Cookware may become llot 1)ecause of lleat
transJcrred tiom tlle
lleated tbod. Pot llolders
m_ V be needed to llandle tile cookware.
• "Boilable" cooking
pouclles and tiglltly
closed plastic bags sllould
be slit, pierced or vented
as directed by package. If tlley are not, plastic
could burst during or
immediately after
cooking, possibly resulting in il/jury. Mso, plastic
storage containers sllould be at least partially
uncovered because they torm a tigllt seal. ¼"hen
cooking witll containers
tiglltly covered witll plastic wrap, remove
covering carefiflly and direct steam away tiom llands and lace.
