Automatic cooking control is a fully automatic control
system that lets your microwave oven do the cooking
for you. The guides in this section are designed to
help you make the most of this truly new feature.
Standard cooking techniques require setting the oven
for a specified cooking time or a selected finished
temperature. And that means looking up recipes
in a cookbook... trying to convert old recipes for
microwave
just resorting to guesswork.
This control method works on an entirely different
basis—with a special electronic sensor that detects
steam from cooking food. The oven “knows” how the
food is cooking; so it can automatically set the correct
cooking time and maintain the proper power level for
different types and amounts of food.
NOTE: Oven will not accept “Auto Cook code”
if the oven is hot. If the word “Hot” appears, you
must cool the oven before using Auto Cook or you
may choose to use time or temperature microwave
cooking.
Easy to Use
Simply touch two control
COOK and
Appropriate containers and coverings help assure
the desired code number—and then START. Refer
good cooking results. Containers should match in
to cooking guide for a complete list of codes for
size to the size of the food being cooked. Coverings
frequently prepared foods. The display shows “Auto”
such as plastic wrap secured on all sides, the lid that
until steam is sensed and then signals, and displays
came with the container, or microwave-safe plastic
time counting down. During Auto, oven should not
domes are
be opened, but when oven signals, most foods should
be turned, stirred, or rotated. Check the Automatic
Cooking Guide for suggestions.
Foods Recommended
A wide variety of
foods including
meats, fish,
casseroles,
vegetables,
leftovers, and
convenience
foods can be
Auto Cooked.
Match container
size with the food,
cover securely, and do not open door during Auto
cycle. When oven signals, turn, rotate or stir as
recommended in recipe or in the Automatic Cooking
Control Guide.
Foods Not Recommended
Recipes and foods
which must be cooked
uncovered, or which
require constant
attention, or adding
ingredients during
cooking should be
microwaved by
microwave time
cooking (see Microwave Time Cooking section). For
foods that microwave best using temperature probe, use
Cook, or Auto Roast. Foods requiring a dry or
crisp surface after cooking cook best with microwave
temperature cooking (see Microwave Temperature
Cooking section), convection cooking (see Convection
Time Cooking, Convection Temperature Cooking, and
Convection Broiling sections) or combination cooking
(see Combination Time Cooking, Combination
Temperature Cooking, and Combination Auto Roast
sections). Note the Cooking Reference Guide.
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