Use small pieces of aluminum foil to shield parts of food such as chicken wings, leg tips, fish tails, or areas that start to get warm. Make sure the foil does not touch the sides, top, or bottom of the oven. The foil can damage the oven lining.

For better results, let food stand after defrosting. (For more information on standing time, see “Micro- wave cooking tips” in the “Cooking Guide” section.)

Turn food over during defrosting or standing time. Break apart and remove food as required.

USING ADD MINUTE

ADD MINUTE lets you cook food for 1 minute at 100% cook power.

NOTES:

Each time you touch ADD MINUTE, it will add 1 minute.

You can enter ADD MINUTE only after closing the door or after touching OFF/CANCEL.

You can only use ADD MINUTE to start the oven if no other cooking function is running.

USING YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN

USING WARM HOLD

You can safely keep hot, cooked food warm in your microwave oven for up to 99 minutes, 99 seconds. You can use WARM HOLD by itself, or to automatically follow a cooking cycle.

NOTES:

WARM HOLD operates for up to 99 minutes, 99 seconds.

Opening the oven door cancels WARM HOLD. Close the door and touch WARM HOLD, then touch START/ENTER if additional WARM HOLD time is desired.

Food cooked covered should be covered during

WARM HOLD.

Pastry items (pies, turnovers, etc.) should be uncovered during WARM HOLD.

Complete meals kept warm on a dinner plate should be covered during WARM HOLD.

Do not use more than 1 complete WARM HOLD cycle (about 1 hour, 40 minutes). The quality of some foods will suffer with extended time.

1.Put the food in the oven and close the door.

2.Touch ADD MINUTE.

(each additional touch adds 1 minute of cooking time.)

3. At the end of the cooking time:

Display will show “END” and 4 tones will sound.

USING MORE OR LESS

If a preset cooking time is too long or too short, you can lengthen or shorten the cooking time during the cooking cycle.

NOTE: You can only use MORE and LESS with Auto Cook or regular timed cooking.

Touch MORE

(To add 10 seconds to a remaining cook time of 1 minute)

or

Touch LESS

(To subtract 10 seconds from a remaining cook time of 1 minute)

1.Put hot, cooked food in the oven and close the door.

2.Touch WARM HOLD.

3.Touch START/ENTER.

To make WARM HOLD automatically follow another cycle:

While you are entering cooking instructions, touch WARM HOLD before touching START/ENTER.

When the last cooking cycle is over, you will hear 2 tones. “WARM” will come on while the oven continues to run.

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Whirlpool GT1195SH, GT1196SH installation instructions Using Warm Hold

GT1195SH, GT1196SH specifications

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