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USING YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN
USING AUTO DEFROST
You can defrost food by choosing a category and set-
ting a weight. AUTO DEFROST has preset times and
cook powers for 3 categories: Meat, Poultry, and Fish.
1. Put the food in the oven and close the
door.
2. Touch AUTO DEFROST.
Select menu 1-3. (See the following chart or
cooking guide behind door.)
3. Touch Number pad to choose the type
of food.
4. Touch Number pad(s) to enter the weight.
5. Touch START/ENTER.
6. At the end of the defrosting time:
Display will show “END” and 4 tones will sound.
NOTES:
•
To defrost items not listed in the “Auto defrost
chart,” use 30% cook power. Refer to a reliable
cookbook for defrosting information.
•
During defrosting, 5 tones sound and the display
will ask you to turn food over. After you do so,
close the door and touch START/ENTER to
continue defrosting. See the “Auto defrost chart”
later in this section for instructions on what to do
when you see this message.
•
The shape of the package affects how quickly food
will defrost. Shallow packages will defrost more
quickly than a deep block.
•
As food begins to defrost, separate the pieces.
Separated pieces defrost more evenly.
•
Use small pieces of aluminum foil to shield parts of
food such as chicken wings, leg tips, fish tails, or
areas that start to get warm. Make sure the foil does
not touch the sides, top, or bottom of the oven.
AUTO DEFROSTING CHART
Weight conversion chart
You are probably used to food weights as being in
pounds and ounces that are fractions of a pound
(for example, 4 ounces equals
1
⁄4 pound [113.4 g]).
If the weight on the food package is in fractions of a
pound, you can use the following chart to convert the
weight to decimals.
DEFROSTING TIPS
•
Before starting, make sure you have removed any of
the metal twist-ties which often come with frozen
food bags, and replace them with strings or elastic
bands.
•
Open containers such as cartons 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 suitable container.
•
Slit the skins, if any, of frozen food such as
sausage.
•
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 affects how quickly
food will defrost. Shallow packages will defrost
more quickly than a deep block.
•
As food begins to defrost, separate the pieces.
Separated pieces defrost more evenly.
OUNCES GRAMS
1.6 45.4
3.2 90.7
4.0 113.4
4.8 136.1
6.4 181.4
8.0 226.8
9.6 272.2
11.2 317.5
12.0 340.2
12.8 362.9
14.4 408.2
16.0 453.6
Equivalent Weight
DECIMAL WEIGHT
.10
.20
.25 One-Quarter Pound
.30
.40
.50 One-Half Pound
.60
.70
.75 Three-Quarters Pound
.80
.90
1.00 One Pound
WEIGHTS YOU CAN SET
(tenths of a pound)
.1 to 6.0
.1 to 6.0
.1 to 6.0
FOOD
Meat
Poultry
Fish
TOUCH
NUMBER PAD
1
2
3