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■Foods left outside the freezer for more than 20 minutes or
frozen ready-made food should not be defrosted using the
Custom Defrost feature, but should be defrosted manually.
■Use small pieces of aluminum foil to shield parts of food s uch
as chicken wings, leg tips and fish tails. See “Aluminum Foil
and Metal” first.

DEFROST CHART

The Custom Defrost system has six categories: Meat, Poultry,
Fish, Bagel, Fruit Juice, and Roll/Muffin. Use the following chart
as a guide.
*See Preparation chart at end of “Defrost” section for cuts, sizes,
and instructions.
**Bagel quantity settings 1 and 2 may appear to have longer
defrost times than necessary; however, longer times use less
cooking power.

To use Defrost:

1. Touch DEFROST.
2. Touch the number pad from the Defrost chart to select food
or
Touch DEFROST repeatedly to scroll through foods.
3. Touch number pads from the Defrost chart to select the
weight or quantity
or
Touch QUANTITY (number pad “0”) repeatedly to select
quantity.
4. Touch START/ADD A MINUTE or wait 5 seconds and the
microwave oven will start automatically.
The display will count down the defrost time. For better
results, a preset standing time is included in the defrosting
time. This may make the defrosting time seem longer than
expected.
When the cycle ends, “End” will appear in the display, 4 end-
of-cycle tones will sound, and then reminder tones will sound
every minute.
5. Touch upper oven OFF/CANCEL or open the door to clear the
display and/or stop reminder tones.
The cook time can be changed during the defrosting cycle
without interrupting cooking.

MEAT, POULTRY AND FISH DEFROST PREPARATION

Use the following chart as a guide when defrosting meat, poultry,
or fish. When setting the Custom Defrost cycle, the net weight
must be entered in pounds and tenths of pounds.
Popcorn
■Do not use regular paper bags or glass utensils.
■Pop only one package of popcorn at a time.
■Follow manufacturer’s instructions when using a microwave
popcorn popper.
■Listen for popping to slow to 1 pop every 1 or 2 seconds.
Do not repop unpopped kernels.
■Use fresh bags of popcorn for optimal results.
■Cooking results may vary by brand and fat content.
Popping time has been preset based on commercially packaged
microwave popcorn. The oven is preset for the 3.5 oz (99 g) size,
but can be changed. Use the following chart as a guide.

To Pop Popcorn:

1. Touch POPCORN (3 SIZES).
The microwave oven will be set to automatically begin t he
pop setting for the 3.5 oz (99 g) bag size.
Touch POPCORN (3 SIZES) repeatedly to scan and select
bag size
or
Touch number pad from chart to manually select bag size.
FOOD
SETTING CODE WEIGHT OR QUANTITY
*Meats 1 0.1 to 6.6 lbs (45 g to 3 kg)
*Poultry 2 0.1 to 6.6 lbs (45 g to 3 kg)
*Fish 3 0.1 to 4.4 lbs (45 g to 1.34 kg)
**Bagel 4 1 to 6 pieces
Fruit Juice 5 6, 12 or 16 oz (170, 340 or 454 g)
Roll/Muffin 6 1 to 6 pi eces
MEAT
Beef: ground, steaks, roast,
stew The narrow or fatty areas of
irregular shaped cuts should
be shielded with foil before
defrosting.
Do not defrost less than
¹⁄₄ lb (113 g) or two
4oz(113g) patties.
Place all meats in
microwavable baking dish.
Lamb: stew and chops
Pork: chops, ribs, roasts,
sausage
POULTRY
Chicken: whole and cut up Place in microwavable
baking dish, chicken breast
side up.
Remove giblets from whole
chicken.
Cornish hens
Turk ey: breast
FISH
Fillets, Steaks, Whole,
Shellfish Place in microwavable
baking dish.
BAG SIZE CODE TOUCH PAD
3.5 oz (99 g) 1 Once
3.0 oz (85 g) 2 Twice
1.75 oz (50 g) 3 Three times