GE JVM152J Microwave Oven User Manual


 
How to Heat or Reheat
Similar
~pes
of Food
Using Time Cook
Note:
Use of metal shelf with Auto
Reheat is
N~
recommended.
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.
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Two frozen individual entrees
(5 to 7 oz. each) or two TV
dinners (10 to
~
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
olftime, then add other
smaller or less dense foods.
Alternately,
if
one of the foods you
are heating seem undercooked but
the others are heated satisfactorily,
let the
underheated foods 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
r
remove them and return the trays of
food to their boxes. (Battered foods
in cookbook. ) After half of time,
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
whi{ch
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.
How to Reheat Several
Different
~pes
of Food
Together
Place on floor larger or more
dense foods
which need the most
heating, such as leftover fried
chicken, casseroles of canned or
leftover vegetables, rice or pasta.
Reheating two casseroles (height
should be less than 3
Y2
inches) is
possible. Cover with plastic wrap.
Use staggered arrangement of
foods, placing food on right side of
shelf and left side of floor. Refer to
Heating or Reheating Guide in
cookbook for suggested microwave
When heating several different
Place
onl
oven shelf those foods
types of food together, foods which
which
nl~ed
only be warmed, such
should be served hot must be placed
as bakery pies, rolls, muffins or
on the oven floor, while foods which
breads.
are only warmed should be placed on
Pop
po~~corn
on the microwave
the shelf. This is because microwave
oven floor only. Popcorn placed on
energy enters the oven from the
time per casserole and add the times
bottom only. Also, it is important
the oven shelf will not pop properly.
Use a special microwave popcorn
together. Microwave at High (10)
to remember that foods absorb
reversing position of foods (top to
microwave energy at different rates.
accessory or popcorn labeled for
bottom) after half of time. Several
Rates can be affected by the size of
use in microwave ovens.
small bowls of leftovers
may
be
the food
and
its starting temperature.
heated in the same way,
stir~ing
and
reversing positions after half of time.