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Food Preparation (continued)
8) THERMOMETERS
•
DO NOT
use a conventional
meat thermometer in your
oven. Arcing may occur.
Microwave safe thermometers
are available for both meat and
candy.
9) BABY FORMULA / BABY FOOD
•
DO NOT
heat baby formula or baby
food in the microwave oven. The glass
jar or surface of the food may appear
warm while the interior can be so
hot as to burn the infant’s mouth and
esophagus.
10) REHEATING PASTRY PRODUCTS
• When reheating pastry products, check temperatures of any
fillings before eating. Some foods have fillings, which heat
faster and can be extremely hot, while the surface remains
warm to the touch (for example, jelly donuts).
11) GENERAL OVEN USAGE GUIDELINES
•
DO NOT
use the oven for any purpose other than the
preparation of food. This oven is specifically designed to heat
or cook food.
DO NOT
use this oven to heat chemicals or other
non-food products.
• Before use, check that utensils/containers are suitable for use in
microwave ovens.
•
DO NOT
attempt to use this microwave oven to dry newspaper,
clothing or any other materials. They may catch fire.
• When the oven is not being used,
DO NOT
store any objects
other than oven accessories inside the oven in case it is
accidentally turned on.
• The appliance shall not be operated by Microwave or
Combination WITHOUT FOOD IN THE OVEN.
Operation in this manner may damage the appliance.
• If smoke or a fire occurs in the oven, touch
Stop/Reset
and leave
the door closed in order to extinguish the flames. Disconnect the
power cord, or shut off power at the fuse.
• During and after cooking with the steam function, do not open
the oven door when your face is very close to the oven. Care
must be taken when opening the door as steam may cause
injury.
CAUTION!: Hot steam will escape when the door is opened.
If there is steam in the oven, use caution when taking
containers out of the oven. Always use oven gloves to
remove items from the oven TO AVOID THE RISK OF
SCALDING. Do Not reach in with your bare hands.
• Extreme caution must be used when moving hot liquids.
• When handling cooking containers take care not to let the
contents spill.
• Avoid hot steam, serious burns and scalds could result.
• To prevent injury, do not allow anyone to lean, hang, sit or
place heavy items on the open door of the appliance.
Severe personal injury could result.
• Do not use a steam cleaner to clean this appliance. The steam
from the cleaning appliance could penetrate live components
and permanently damage the oven or cause injury.
• The use of accessories not recommended by Panasonic may
cause injury.
12) HEATER OPERATION
• Exterior oven surfaces, including air vents and the oven
door will get hot during
Steam
,
Convection Bake
,
Broil
or
Combination
functions. To prevent burns, take care when
opening or closing the door and when inserting or removing
food and accessories.
Attention: Hot Surfaces
• The oven has heating elements situated in top of the oven,
a steamer boiler situated in the left side of the oven and a
convection heater situated in the back of the oven. During
and after using either the
Steam
,
Convection Bake
,
Broil
or
Combination
functions, all inside surfaces of the oven will
be very hot. To prevent burns, care should be taken to avoid
touching the inside surfaces of the oven.
•
TO AVOID THE RISK OF SCALDING
, please use caution when
touching accessible parts when oven is operated in
Steam
,
Convection Bake
,
Broil
or
Combination
mode, because the
accessible parts may become extremely hot.
13) BEFORE USING YOUR OVEN
• Before using the oven for the first time, wipe excessive oil off
in the oven cavity and operate the oven without food and
accessories on
Convection Bake
at 445 °F (230 °C), for 10
minutes. This will allow the oil that is
used for rust protection
to be burned off. This is the only time the oven is used
empty.
(with the exception of preheating on Convection Bake.)
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