KitchenAid KCMC155JWH Microwave Oven User Manual


 
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Convection and Combination Cooking
Custom convection
cooking
To preheat the oven for convection
cooking, follow steps 1-3 below.
To convection cook without preheating
the oven, skip step 3 below.
NOTE: For best results, many recipes require pre-
heating the oven before you begin cooking. Use
cooking utensils that will not melt or burn in the hot
oven. Do not use light plastic containers, plastic
wraps, or paper products during any convection or
combination cycle.
1. Touch CONVECT.
2. Touch Number pads for desired
temperature.
(If your recipe does not call for preheating, go to
step 4.)
3. Touch START to Preheat oven.
Two tones will sound when oven has reached
preheat temperature.
4. Place food in appropriate cookware on
Convection Rack.
5. Touch Number pads to enter cooking
time in hours:minutes.
For example: For 1 hour, touch “1 0 0”.
6. Touch START.
NOTE: It is not necessary to preheat the oven unless
your recipe calls for it.
Preheating temperature chart
Recommended temperature settings may vary. Refer
to your recipe for recommended temperature
settings.
Helpful hints for
convection cooking
For best results, place food on the Convection
Rack.
Do not cover Turntable or Convection Rack with alu-
minum foil. It interferes with the flow of air that
cooks the food.
Round pizza pans are excellent cooking utensils for
many convection-only items. Choose pans that do
not have extended handles.
Use convection cooking for items like souffles,
breads, cookies, angel food cakes, pizza, and most
meat and fish cooking.
You do not need to use any special techniques to
adapt your favorite oven recipes to convection cook-
ing. However, you may need to lower some temper-
atures or reduce some cooking times from the con-
vection oven cooking directions.
When baking cakes, cookies, breads, rolls, or other
baked foods, most recipes call for preheating.
Preheat the empty oven just as you do a regular
oven. You can start heavier dense foods such as
meats, casseroles, and poultry without preheating.
All heatproof cookware or metal utensils can be
used in convection cooking.
Use metal utensils only for convection cooking.
Never use for microwave or combination cooking
since arcing and damage to the oven may occur.
After preheating, if you do not open the door, the
oven will automatically hold at the preheated tem-
perature for 30 minutes.
Using the drip pan
NOTE: For any Convection, Combination or Broiling
cooking of foods that drip grease, such as steak or
hamburger, we recommend that you place the Drip
Pan (Part No. 8172250) under the rack to catch the
grease.
FOOD TEMP
Cookies 325°F (163°C)
Breads, Brownies 350°F (177°C)
Refrigerated Biscuits, Fresh Pies 375°F (191°C)
Fresh Pizza, Frozen Pies 400°F (204°C)
Muffins, Fresh Fish Fillets 425°F (218°C)
Fresh Biscuits 450°F (232°C)