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USING YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN
MICROWAVE POWER LEVELS
Your microwave oven has 10 cook power levels to let
you cook or heat a wide variety of foods. Refer to the
table below for suggestions:
Microwave Power Level Table
• Boiling water.
• Making candy.
• Cooking poultry pieces, fish, and
vegetables.
• Cooking tender cuts of meat.
• Whole poultry.
• Reheating rice, pasta, and vegetables.
• Reheating prepared foods quickly.
• Reheating sandwiches.
• Cooking egg, milk, and cheese dishes.
• Cooking cakes, breads.
• Melting chocolate.
• Cooking veal.
• Cooking whole fish.
• Cooking puddings and custard.
• Cooking ham, whole poultry, and lamb.
• Cooking rib roast, sirloin tip.
• Thawing meat, poultry, and seafood.
• Cooking less tender cuts of meat.
• Cooking pork chops, roast.
• Taking chill out of fruit.
• Softening butter.
• Keeping casseroles and main dishes warm.
• Softening butter and cream cheese.
• Standing time.
10
(High)
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Use
Power
Level
For best results, some recipes call for different cook
powers during different stages of a cook cycle. You
can program your oven for 2 stages, so that it will
switch from one power level to another during the
cook cycle.
Example: To set a 2-stage cook cycle.
Touch:
Display Shows:
MULTI-STAGE COOKING
1.
2.
5.
3.
4.
6.
to set a 7 minute cook
time for second stage.
to set a 3 minute cook
time for first stage.
7.
9.
::
ENTER COOKING TIME
::
ENTER COOKING TIME
3
::
00
TOUCH START
OR POWER
7
::
00
TOUCH START
OR POWER
3
::
00
ENTER POWER
LEVEL 1 TO 10
7
::
00
ENTER POWER
LEVEL 1 TO 10
3
::
00
POWER 80
TOUCH START
8.
to set a 50%
cook power for
the second
stage.
to set an 80%
cook power for
the first stage.
7
::
00
POWER 50
TOUCH START
When the first stage is over, you will hear two
short tones as the oven begins the second
cook stage.
10.
Time counting down
and POWER 80.
NOTE: You may program standing time as the second
stage in multi-stage cooking.
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