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USING YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN
Defrosting tips
• Before starting, make sure you have
removed any metal twist-ties and replace
them with strings or elastic bands.
• Open containers before they are placed
in the oven.
• Always slit or pierce plastic pouches or
packaging.
• If food is foil wrapped, remove foil and
place it in a microwave safe container.
• Slit the skins, if any, of frozen food such as
sausage or hot dogs.
• Bend plastic pouches of food to ensure
even defrosting.
• Always underestimate defrosting time. If
defrosted food is still icy in the center,
return it to the microwave oven for more
defrosting.
• The length of defrosting time varies
according to how solidly the food is frozen.
• The shape of the package alters the
defrosting time. Shallow, rectangular
packets defrost more quickly than a deep
block.
• Separate pieces as they begin to defrost.
Separated pieces defrost more easily.
• You can use small pieces of aluminum
foil to shield foods like chicken wings, leg
tips, and fish tails, but the foil must not
touch the side of the oven. Foil can
damage the oven lining.
• Shield areas of food with small pieces of
foil if the food begins to get warm. Make
sure the foil does not touch the sides, top,
or bottom of the oven.
• For better results, let food stand after
defrosting. (For more information on
standing time, see “Microwave cooking
tips” in the “Cooking Guide” section.)
• Turn food over during defrosting or
standing time. Break apart and remove
food when required.
Using DEFROST
Your microwave oven lets you defrost food
by simply entering defrosting time. A 30%
cook power is preset.
NOTE: Refer to a reliable cookbook for
defrosting times.
1. Put the frozen food in the oven
and close the door.
2. Touch DEFROST.
NOTE: You can use defrost instead of a
cook cycle when cooking with more than
one cycle.
3. Enter the defrosting time.
4. Start the oven.
At end of defrosting time:
Four tones will sound and the display will
show “End”.
TOUCH
9
TOUCH
START
ENTER
(defrosting time
counts down)
TOUCH
DEFROST
TIMER
0
TIMER
0
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