GE 164 D2588P188, JVM231WL, JVM231BL, JVM230BL, 49-8388 manual

—Do not use the oven for storage purposes. Do not leave paper products, cooking utensils or food in the oven when not in use,

—Mmaterials 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 containe%for example, closed jars-will explode and should not be heated in this microwave oven. Such use of the microwave oven could result in injury.

. Avoid heatig baby food in glass jars, even without their tids; especitiy meat and egg mixtures.

●Don’t defrost fromn beverages in narrow necked bottles (especidy carbonated beverages). Even if the container is opened, pressure can build up. This can cause the container to burst, possibly resulting in injury.

●Use fofl ody as directed in this book. N dinners may be microwaved in foil trays less than 3/4” high; remove the top foil cover and return the tray to the box. Men using foil in the microwave oven, keep the foti at least 1 inch away from the sidm of the oven.

●Cookware may become hot because of heat transferred from the heated food. Pot holders may be needed to handle the cookware.

. Foods cooked in Mquids (such as pasta) may tend to boil over more rapidly than foods containing less moisture. Shodd this occur, refer to the Care and Cl-g section(s) for instructions on how to clean the inside of the oven.

●Thermometer-Donot use a thermometer in food you are microwaving unless the thermometer is designed or recommended for use in the microwave oven,

●Plastic cookwar*Plastic cookware designed for microwave cooking is very useful, but should be used carefully. Even microwave-safe plastic may not be as tolerant of overcooking conditions as are glass or ceramic materials and may soften or char if subjected to short periods of overcooking. k longer exposures to overcooking, the food and cookware could ignite. For these reasons: 1) Use microwave-safe plastics only and use them in strict compliance with the cookware manufacturer’s rwornmendations. 2) Do not subject empty cookware to microwaving.

3) Do not permit children to use plastic cookware without complete supervision.

●men 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 maybe present in the meat, it will be killed and meat will be safe to eat.

. Do not boiI eggs in a microwave oven. Pressure will build up inside egg yolk and will cause it to burs~ possibly resulting in injury.

●Foods with unbroken outer “skin” such as potatoes, sausages, tomatoes, apples, chicken livers and other giblets, and egg yoks (see previous caution) should be pierced to Mow steam to escape during cooking.

●Not A plastic wrap is suitable for use in microwave ovens. Check the package for proper use.

. Spontaneous boiling-Under certain special circumstances, liquids may start to boil during

m or shortly after removal from the microwave oven. To prevent burns from splashing liqui~ stir the liquid briefly before removing the container from the microwave oven.

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