GE JVM240 Microwave Oven User Manual


 
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TO USE OF
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OWN
S~LF
Use the shelf only when cooking food on
Do not store microwave browning dish on
2 levels. Food microwaves best when placed
metal shelf.
directly on the oven floor.
Do NOT use the shelf with the Popcorn
Do not store or cook with metal
shelf
on floor of
program.
oven. Product damage may result
Use pot holders when handling metal shelf and
cookware. They may be
hot
The
wire
shelf is specifically designed for added Batters and dough foods and also uncooked foods
capacity heating and reheating in your microwave
which need to be prepared from scratch should be
oven. Now more than one food may be heated or
cooked without the oven shelf.
reheated and ready to serve at the same time.
Positioning the
SheE
men
properly
positione&
the
shelf should fit
snu@y
in place,
be level and not touch the back
or side wall of the oven.
H
arcing occurs when using the
shelf
to cook more than one food
To position the shelf, tip the back
Next, lower the front until the shelf
at the same
time,
turn the oven
slightiy
and fit the shelf support
support guides fit onto the support
off. Make sure the shelf is not
guides onto the support guides
guides located at each side of the
touching oven walls. To prevent
lomted at each side of
the
oven
oven in the front.
arcing, remove the shelf when
in the rear.
you are not using
iL
How to
Reh~t
Seveml
Different
~pes
of Foods Together
men
heating
severrd
different types of food together,
foods which should be served hot must be
plamd
on
the oven floor, while foods which need
ody
to be
warmed
should
be
pla~d
on the shelf. This is
because microwave energy enters the oven from the
bottom
ordy.
Nso,
it is important to remember that
foods absorb microwave energy at different rates.
Rates can be affected by the size of the
foo~ and its
starting temvrature.
Place on the
floor
larger
or more dense
foods,
which
need the most
heating, such
as leftover
fried chicken,
wseroles of
--
Beause
of the varying rates, you may need to start
canned or leftover vegetables, rice or pasta.
PIa&
reheating a large or dense food a few minutes ahead
on the oven shelf those foods which need
ordy
be
of time, then add other smaller or less dense foods.
warrne~
such as bakery pies, rolls, muffins or breads.
Atemately, if one of the foods you are heating seems
Pop popcorn on the microwave oven floor
undercooked but the others
are
heated satisfactorily,
only. Use prepackaged popcorn labeled for
let the
underheated
food
wntinue
cooking.
use in
mi~owave
ovens.
Heat or reheat different types of food at High (10).
To determine heating times, add times for all foods
together.
Mer
hdf
of time, stir or rearrange foods
(do not reverse positions). Check foods (especially
those on the oven floor) after 3/4 of total time and
remove any which are done. Continue cooking others.
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