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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
Y2
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
su~ested
microwave
time per
casseroie-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
oftirne,
then add other
smaller or less dense foods.
Alternately, if one of the foods you
are heating seems undercooked but
the
ol:hers
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
cooktiook.
) 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
positi~ns
(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.
Place on floor larger or more
How to Reheat Several
dense foods which need the most
Different
~pes
of Foods
heating, such as
lefiover
fried
Together
chicken, casseroles of canned or
leftover vegetables, rice or pasta.
When heating several different
Place on oven shelf those foods
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
o-nthe”oven
floor, while
foods’which
breads.
are
ordy
warmed should be placed on
Pop popcorn on the microwave
the shelf. This is because microwave
energy enters the oven from the
oven floor only. Popcorn placed on
bottom only. Also, it is important
the oven shelf will not pop properly.
Use a special microwave popcorn
to remember that foods absorb
microwave energy at different rates.
accessory or popcorn labeled for
Rates can be affected by the size of
use in microwave ovens.
the food and its starting temperature.
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