J
WORTAm
Smm
~STRUCTIONS
(continued)
—Do not pop popcorn in your microwave oven
unless in a special microwave popcorn accessory
or
udess
you use popcorn labeled for use in
microwave ovens.
—Do not
ovemook
potatoes.
~ey
could dehydrate
and catch fire, causing damage to your oven.
—Do not operate the oven while empty to avoid
damage to the oven and the danger of fire.
If
by accident the oven should run empty a minute
or two, no harm is done. However, try to avoid
operating the oven
empty
at
dl
times—it saves
energy and prolongs the life of the oven.
—Do not use the oven for storage purposes.
Do not leave paper products, cooking utensils
or food in
the
oven when not in use.
—Mmaterids
inside oven
shotid
ignite,
keep
oven door closed, turn oven off, and disconnect
power cord, or shut off power at the fuse or
circuit breaker panel.
●
Some products such as whole eggs and sealed
containers-for example, closed jars-will
explode and should not be heated in this
microwave oven. Such use of the microwave
oven could result in injury.
●
Avoid heating baby food in glass jars, even
without their lids; especially meat and egg
mixtures.
●
Don’t
defrost frozen beverages
in narrow
necked bottles
(especiaHy
carbonated beverages).
Even if the container is opened, pressure can build
up.
~is
can cause
the
container to
burst
possibly
resulting in injury.
●
Use foil only as directed in this book.
W
dinners may be microwaved in foil trays less than
3/4”
high; remove the top foil cover
and
return the
tray to the box.
men
using foil in the microwave
oven,
keep it at least 1 inch away from the sides
of the oven.
. Cookware may become hot
because of heat transferred from
the heated food. Pot holders may
be
n~ded
to handle the
cookware.
●
Sometimes, the oven tray
ean
become too hot
to touch.
Be careful touching
the
tray during and
after cooking.
●
Foods cooked in liquids
(such as pasta) may
tend to boil over more rapidly than foods
containing less moisture. Should this occur,
refer to the Care
and
Cleaning section(s) for
instructions on how to clean the inside of
the oven.
●
~ermometer-Do
not use a thermometer in
food you are microwaving unless the thermometer
is designed or recommended for use in the
microwave oven.
●
Plastic
cookwar~lastic
cookware designed
for microwave cooking is very useful, but should
be used
cmefully.
Even microwave-safe plastic
may not be as tolerant of overcooking conditions
as are glass or ceramic materials and may
soften or char if subjected to short periods of
overcooking.
In
longer exposures to overcooking,
the food and cookware could ignite. For these
reasons: 1) Use microwave-safe plastics only
and use them in strict compliance with the
cookware manufacturer’s recommendations.
2) Do not subject empty cookware to
microwaving. 3) Do not permit children to use
plastic cookware without complete supervision.
●
Men
cooking pork,
follow the directions
exactly and always cook
tie
meat to
an
internal
temperature of at least
170°F.
~is
assures that,
in the remote possibility that trichina maybe
present in the meat, it will be killed and meat
will be safe to eat.
Q
Do not
boil
eggs in a microwave oven,
Pressure
will build up inside egg yolk
md
will cause it to
burst, possibly resulting in injury.
-
●
Foods with unbroken outer
“skin”
such as potatoes,
sausages, tomatoes, apples,
chicken livers and other giblets,
and egg yolks (see previous
caution) should be pierced to
allow
steam to escape during
cooking.
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