Navon NMO-17BW, User Manual

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4 Operating your product
Placing the food Little suggestions
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You will get the best results if you scatter the
food into the plate. This may be achieved in va-
rious ways to get better results.
If you will cook too many pieces of the same
type (such as potatoes with skin) place themin
a circular form.
When cooking food with different shapes and
thicknesses, place the smallest and thinnest
part into the middle of your vessel. Thus, you
canhavethat piececookedlast.
To defrost:
• Shape of the package may change the defrost
time. Shallowrectangular packages will defrost
quicker thanthe deepvessels.
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Separatethepiecesfromeachotherastheyget
defrosted. Thus other pieces will defrost easier.
Cover the parts of the food that start heating
with small pieces of foil. Wood toothpicks will
helpkeepingthe foil in place.
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Place food with irregular shape such as fish in a
way that their tails will be in the middle of the
Amount of food
vessel.
Themorefoodyoucook themoretimeit will take.
When storing a meal in the refrigerator or hea- Double amount of food mean double amount of
tingit, placethethickanddenseonestooutand
thinandless denseones in.
time.
Moisture content
Cooking time will change depending of the
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Place thin sliced meat pieces on top of each
other.
Thicker pieces such as sausage and chopped
amount of juice as microwave is sensitive to
meat shouldnot beplacedcloseto eachother.
Heat broth and sauces in separate vessels. Pre-
fer narrow and long vessels to wide and long
ones. Do not fill more than 2/3 of the vessel
whenheatingbroth, sauceor soup.
If youwill cookwholefish, makesomecutsonit;
thus youwill prevent skinfrombursting.
moisture. Foodwithnatural juice(vegetables, fish
and poultry) will get cooked quickly and easily.
Addingwater is suggestedwhencookingdryfood
suchas riceandbeans in microwave.
Condensation
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Moisture in food items may sometimes cause
condensationinsidetheovenduringcooking. This
is normal. Generally, foods that are covered will
causeless condensation.
Cover the head and tail parts of the fish with
aluminumfoil to protect themagainst overcoo-
king.
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If you are using stretch wrap, bag or oil paper,
make a hole or leave a small opening in order to
allowsteamget out.
Sugar
Follow the suggestions in microwave cooking
books when cooking food items such as pudding
Food with small pieces will get cooked sooner or tart which contain too much sugar or butter.
than the ones with large pieces and the ones
withregularshapeswill getcookedsoonerthan
the ones with irregular shapes. Cut the food in
even sizes and regularly to cook them in the
best way possible.
If you exceed the suggested time, you may
cause the food item get burned or the oven get
damaged.
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