BRAYER BR2503, Instruction Manual

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GENERAL RULES FOR FOOD COOKING IN
MICROWAVE OVENS
• During food cooking, use microwave-safe cookware by
putting it on the glass tray.
• For even heating of products, put thicker slices of
products near the edges of the cookware.
• To speed up cooking process turn over fast food, such
as hamburgers, and large pieces of meat once or
several times.
• When cooking bacon, do not put it immediately on the
glass tray, local overheating of the glass tray can lead
to appearance of cracks in it.
• Cook products under a microwave-safe lid, the lid will
prevent juice or fat spattering and help food to cook
evenly.
• Follow the cooking time. Set the shortest possible
cooking time, if necessary, you can increase cooking
duration.
• Do not exceed the cooking time, it can lead to burning
of the products.
• Do not forget to open hermetic or vacuum package of
products before heating or cooking them. Otherwise the
pressure that will be created inside the package can
burst the package.
• Shell eggs and hard-boiled eggs should not be cooked
and heated up in the microwave oven since they may
explode due to increase of inner pressure even after
the switching the oven off.
• Pierce heavy skins of products (such as potatoes,
vegetable marrows or apples) in several places before
cooking.
• Feeding bottles and baby food jars should be placed
in the oven without lids and teats. The contents of the
container should be stirred or shaken periodically. Before
feeding the baby, always check the temperature of the
product, to avoid burns.
RECOMMENDATIONS ON CHOOSING COOKWARE
• Use special cookware for cooking and heating up food in
microwave ovens.
• Material of cookware for microwave ovens should be
«transparent» for microwaves, it allows microwave
energy to pass freely through the cookware and to cook
or warm up food.
• Microwaves can not pass through metal, so do not use
metal cookware or cookware with metal finishing in the
microwave oven.
• Do not put the cookware made of recycled paper in
the oven, as it may contain metal inclusions which may
cause package burning.
• It is better to use round or oval dishes, and not square
or rectangular containers, as food in the corners of such
containers will overheat.
• You can use narrow stripes of aluminum foil to prevent
overheating of outstanding parts of the products. Be
careful, there should not be much aluminum foil and the
distance from foil to the oven process chamber walls
should be at least 2-3 cm.