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How to Heat or Reheat
Similar
~pes
of Food
Two plates of leftovers maybe
reheated together. Arrange thick
or dense foods to outside edges of
plate and cover with plastic wrap.
Microwave at High (10) for 2 to 3
minutes. Reverse position of plates
(top to bottom) and rotate 1/2 turn.
Continue microwaving at High (10)
for 2 to 3 minutes. Continue
heating, if necessary, until hot.
Reheating two casseroles (height
should be less than 3
V2
inches) is
possible. Cover with plastic wrap.
Use staggered arrangements of
food, placing food on right side of
shelf and left side of floor. Refer to
Heating or Reheating Guide in
cookbook for suggested microwave
time per casserole and add the times
together. Microwave at High (10)
reversing position of foods (top to
bottom) after half of time. Several
small bowls of leftovers may be
heated in the same way, stirring and
reversing positions after half of time.
Two frozen individual entrees
(5 to 7 oz. each) or two TV
dinners (10 to
U
oz. each) are
both ready to serve at the same
time. Remove trays
of food from
their boxes. If there are foil covers,
Because of the varying rates, you
may need to
start
reheating larger or
more dense foods a few minutes
ahead of time, then add other
smaller or less dense foods.
Alternately, if one of the foods you
are heating seems undercooked but
the others are heated satisfactorily,
let the
underheated food continue
cooking.
Heat or reheat different types of
food at High (10). To determine
heating times, add times for all
foods together. (See Heating Guide
remove them and return the trays of
food to their boxes. (Battered foods
in
cook~ook.
) After half of;ime,
stir or rearrange foods (do not
should be removed from the trays
reverse positions). Check foods
and cooked conventionally. ) Place
(especially those on oven floor)
in oven with one TV dinner or
after 3/4 of total time and remove
entree on right side of shelf and the
any which are done. Continue
second dinner or entree on left side
of floor. Microwave at High (10) for
cooking others.
7 minutes. Reverse positions (top to
bottom) and rotate foods 1/2 turn.
Continue microwaving at High (10)
for 7 minutes. Check dinners for
heating. If one dinner seems less
done than desired, return it to the
box and continue heating on floor
1 to 2 more minutes.
How to Reheat Several
Different
~pes
of Foods
Together
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Place on floor larger or more
dense foods
which need the most
heating, such as leftover fried
chicken, casseroles of canned or
leftover
ve~e~bles, rice or
pasta.
When heating several different
Place on
o~en
shelf those
fbods
types of food together, foods which
which need only be warmed, such
should be served hot must be
Dlaced
as bakery pies, rolls, muffins or
on the oven floor, while
foods’which
are only warmed should be placed on
the shelf. This is because microwave
energy enters the oven from the
bottom only. Also, it is important
to remember that foods absorb
microwave energy at different rates.
Rates can be affected by the size of
the food and its starting temperature.
breads.
Pop popcorn on the microwave
oven floor only. Popcorn placed on
the oven shelf will not pop properly
Use a special microwave popcorn
accessory or popcorn labeled for
use in microwave ovens.
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