What Your Oven Can Do
Cooking with your new oven
offers a wide variety of food
preparation options. Microwave
cooking uses very short, high
frequency radio waves. The
movement of the microwaves
through the food generates heat
and cooks most foods faster than
conventional methods, while
retaining their natural texture
and moisture. Microwave
cooking heats food directly, not
the cooking utensil or the interior
of the oven. Reheating is easy and
defrosting is particularly
convenient because less time is
spent in food preparation.
Convection cooking constantly
circulates heated air around the food,
creating even browning and
sealed-
in flavor by the constant motion of
hot air over the food surfaces.
speed and accuracy, while browning
and crisping to perfection.
You can use microwave cooking,
convection cooking or combination
cooking to cook by time. Simply
preset the length of cooking time
desired and your oven turns off
automatically. Or you can cook by
temperature, by these methods,
using the temperature probe to
determine the doneness by the
internal temperature of the food.
This method takes the guesswork
out of cooking, shutting the oven
off automatically when the food
reaches the desired temperature.
The Automatic Cooking Control
(AU~
COOK) feature does your
microwave cooking for you. It’s
easy and convenient—just follow
the step-by-step instructions in this
manual. A sensor detects steam
Auto Roast is a combination
cooking function that uses the
temperature probe. You simply
select from 8 Auto Roast codes,
and the oven automatically adjusts
power level, oven temperature and
internal food temperature to cook
the food the way you want it.
Auto Defrost automatically sets the
defrosting time and power levels
for you. You choose the appropriate
code number from 1 to 3 from the
food you are defrosting, then enter
the food weight in pounds and
tenths of a pound and touch Start.
The oven calculates the defrosting
time and changes power levels
during defrosting to give even
defrosting results.
The Auto Start Timer lets you
program the oven to start cooking
at a desired time, even if you’re not
Your new oven also offers the
from the food and automatically
at home.
option of combination cooking,
adjusts cooking time and power
using microwave energy along with
level for best results.
The following guide shows at a
convection cooking. You cook with
glance the difference between
microwave, convection and
combination cooking.
Comparison Guide
Microwave
Convection
Combination
COOKING
Microwave energy is
dis-
Hot air circulates around
Microwave energy and convection heat
METHOD
tributed
evenly throughout
food to produce browned
combine to cook foods in up to
one-
the oven for thorough, fast
exteriors and
seal
in juices.
half the time of conventional ovens,
cooking
of food.
while browning and sealing in juices.
HEAT
Microwave
energy.
Circulating heated air.
Microwave
energy and circulating
SOURCE
heated air.
HEAT
Heat produced within
Heat conducted from
Food heats from instant energy
CONDUCTION food by instant energy
outside of food to inside.
penetration and heat conducted from
penetration.
outside of food.
BENEFITS
Fast, high
efficiency
Aids in browning and seals
Shortened cooking time for microwave
cooking. Oven and
in flavor. Cooks some foods
energy, plus browning and crisping
surroundings do not get
faster than conventional
from convection heat.
hot. Easy clean-up.
ovens.
Read this
book to learn the many different things your Microwave/Convection/Combination Oven can do. You will
find a wide variety of cooking methods and programs designed to suit your lifestyle.
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