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USING THE AUTo PowEr DEfroST fEATUrE
The auto power defrost feature enables you to defrost meat, poultry, fish or
fruit/berry.
The defrost time and power level are set automatically. You simply select
the programme and the weight.
Use only dishes that are microwave-safe.
First, place the frozen food in the centre of the turntable and close the door.
1.
Press the
Power Defrost
button.
result :
The following indication is displayed:
2.
Select the food weight by pressing the
kg
or
100 g
button.
It is possible to set up to a maximum of 1500 g.
3.
Press the
Start
button.
result :
Defrosting begins.
The oven beeps halfway through
defrosting to remind you to turn the food over.
Press
Start
button again to finish defrosting.
You can also defrost food manually. To do so, select the microwave
cooking/reheating function with a power level of 180 W. Refer to the
section entitled “Cooking/Reheating” on page 9 for further details.
AUTo PowEr DEfroST SETTINGS
The following table presents the Power Defrost programme, quantities,
standing times and appropriate recommendations.
Remove all kind of package material before defrosting. Place meat, poultry
and fish on a flat ceramic plate.
food
Serving
size (g)
Standing
time (min.)
recommendations
meat
200-1500
15-60
Shield the edges with aluminium
foil. Turn the pieces over, when the
oven beeps.
This programme is suitable for
meat such as steaks, chops or
minced meat, chicken pieces,
whole chicken or fish fillets.
Poultry
fish
mULTISTAGE CookING
Your microwave oven can be programmed to cook food up to three stages.
Example:
You wish to defrost food and cook it without having to reset the
oven after each stage. You can thus defrost and cook a 500 g
fish in three stages:
Defrosting
Cook I
Cook II
You can set between two and three stages in multistage cooking.
If you set three stage, the first stage must be defrosting.
Don’t press
Start
button until you’ve set the final
stage.
1.
Press the
Power Defrost
button once or more
times.
2.
Set the weight by pressing the
kg
or
100 g
buttons
the appropriate number of times (500 g in the
example).
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