COOKING GUIDES
- Advice for MICROWAVE -
Cooking Techniques |
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Arrange food carefully | Place the thickest areas toward outside of dish. |
Watch cooking time | Cook for the shortest amount of time indicated and add more time as needed. |
| Food severely overcooked can smoke or ignite. |
Cover foods before | Check recipe for suggestions: paper towels, microwave plastic wrap or a lid. |
cooking | Covers prevent spattering and help foods to cook evenly. (Helps keep oven |
| clean) |
Shield foods | Use small pieces of aluminium foil to cover thin areas of meat or poultry in |
| order to avoid overcooking. |
Stir foods | From outside to centre of dish once or twice during cooking, if possible. |
Turn foods | Foods such as chicken, hamburgers or steaks should be turned over once |
| during cooking. |
Rearrange foods | Like meatballs halfway through cooking both from top to bottom and from the |
| centre of the dish to the outside. |
Allow standing time | After cooking ensure adequate standing time. Remove food from oven |
| and stir if possible. Cover during standing time can allow the food to finish |
| cooking completely. |
Check for doneness | Look for signs indicating that cooking temperature has been reached. |
| Doneness signs include: |
| – Steam emits throughout the food, not just at edge; |
| – Joints of poultry can be torn apart easily; |
| – Pork and poultry show no pinkness; |
| – Fish is opaque and fl akes easily with a fork. |
Condensation | A normal part of microwave cooking. The humidity and moisture in food |
| will infl uence the amount of moisture in the oven. Generally, covered foods |
| will not cause as much condensation as uncovered foods. Ensure that the |
| ventilation openings are not blocked. |
Microwave safe plastic | For cooking food with high fat content, do not bring the wrap in contact with |
wrap | the food as it may melt. |
Microwave safe plastic | Some microwave safe plastic cookware are not suitable for cooking foods |
cookware | with high fat and sugar content. |
Cake/Meatloaf | For cooking cake or meatloaf, place the container on the glass tray in lower |
| position (position 2). |
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- Advice for defrosting -
Defrosting Techniques |
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Arrange | Arrange food in a single even layer on the shallow dish. This will ensure that |
| all parts of the food defrosts evenly. |
Separate | Foods may be stuck together when removed from the freezer. It is important |
| to separate foods as soon as possible during defrosting. |
| e.g. steaks, chops |
Stand | Standing time is necessary to ensure food is thoroughly defrosted. Food |
| must stand, covered, for a length of time to ensure the centre has completely |
| defrosted. |
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NOTE:
• Remove all packing and wrapping before defrosting.
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