G~E TO USE OF ~ OWN S~LF
●Use the shelf only when cooking food on
2 levels. Food microwaves best when placed directly on the oven floor.
●Do not store or cook with metal shelf on floor of oven. Product damage may result
●Use pot holders when handling metal shelf and cookware. They may be hot
●Do not store microwave browning dish on metal shelf.
●Do NOT use the shelf with the Popcorn program.
The wire shelf is specifically designed for added capacity heating and reheating in your microwave oven. Now more than one food may be heated or reheated and ready to serve at the same time.
Batters and dough foods and also uncooked foods which need to be prepared from scratch should be cooked without the oven shelf.
Positioning the SheE
To position the shelf, tip the back slightiy and fit the shelf support guides onto the support guides lomted at each side of the oven in the rear.
Next, lower the front until the shelf support guides fit onto the support guides located at each side of the oven in the front.
men properly positione& the shelf should fit snu@y in place, be level and not touch the back or side wall of the oven.
H arcing occurs when using the shelf to cook more than one food at the same time, turn the oven off. Make sure the shelf is not touching oven walls. To prevent arcing, remove the shelf when you are not using iL
How to Reh~t Seveml Different ~pes of Foods Together
men heating severrd different types of food together, foods which should be served hot must be plamd on the oven floor, while foods which need ody to be warmed should be pla~d on the shelf. This is because microwave energy enters the oven from the bottom ordy. Nso, it is important to remember that foods absorb microwave energy at different rates. Rates can be affected by the size of the foo~ and its
starting temvrature.
Beause of the varying rates, you may need to start reheating a large or dense food a few minutes ahead of time, then add other smaller or less dense foods.
Atemately, if one of the foods you are heating seems undercooked but the others are heated satisfactorily, let the underheated food wntinue cooking.
Heat or reheat different types of food at High (10). To determine heating times, add times for all foods together. Mer hdf of time, stir or rearrange foods (do not reverse positions). Check foods (especially those on the oven floor) after 3/4 of total time and remove any which are done. Continue cooking others.
Place on the floor larger or more dense foods, which need the most heating, such as leftover fried chicken, wseroles of
canned or leftover vegetables, rice or pasta. PIa& on the oven shelf those foods which need ordy be warrne~ such as bakery pies, rolls, muffins or breads.
Pop popcorn on the microwave oven floor only. Use prepackaged popcorn labeled for use in mi~owave ovens.
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