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IMPORTANT SAFETY
To reduce the risk of fire in
the oven cavity:
—Do not use the oven for
storage purposes. Do not
leave paper products, cooking
utensils, or food in the oven
cavity when not in use.
—Do not overcook food.
Carefully attend appliance
if paper, plastic or other
combustible materials are
placed inside the oven to
facilitate cooking.
—Remove wire twist-ties from
paper or plastic bags before
placing bags in oven.
—Do not use your microwave
oven to dry newspapers.
products. Recycled paper
towels, napkins and waxed
paper can contain metal flecks
which may cause arcing or
ignite. Paper products
containing nylon or nylon
filaments should be avoided,
as they may also ignite.
—Do not pop popcorn in your
microwave oven unless in a
special microwave popcorn
accessory or unless you use
popcorn labeled for use in
microwave ovens.
—Do not operate the oven
while empty to avoid damage
to the oven and the danger of
fire. If by accident the oven
should run empty a minute or
two, no harm is done. However,
try to avoid operating the oven
empty at all times—it saves
energy and prolongs the life of
the oven.
—Do not overcook potatoes.
They could dehydrate and
catch fire, causing damage to
your oven.
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INSTRUCTIONS
—If materials inside oven
should ignite, keep oven door
closed, turn oven off, and
disconnect power cord, or shut
fuse or circuit
off power at the
breaker panel.
Some products such as whole
eggs and sealed containers—for
example, closed jars—will
explode and should not be heated
in this microwave oven. Such use
of the microwave oven could
result
in injury.
Avoid heating baby food in
glass jars, even without their
lids; especially meat and egg
mixtures.
Don't defrost frozen
beverages in narrow necked
bottles (especially carbonated
beverages). Even if the
container is opened, pressure
can build up. This can cause the
container to burst, possibly
resulting in injury.
Use metal only as directed in
this book. TV dinners may be
microwaved in foil trays less
than 3/4" high; remove top foil
cover and return tray to box.
When using metal in the
microwave oven, keep metal
(other than metal shel~ at
least 1 inch away from sides
of oven.
Cookware may become hot
because of heat transferred from
the heated food. Pot holders
may be needed to handle the
cookware.
Sometimes, the glass cooking
tray can become too hot to
careful
touch. Be
when
touching the tray during and
after cooking.
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Foods cooked in liquids
(such as pasta) may tend to boil
over more rapidly than foods
containing less moisture.
Should this occur, refer to the
Care and Cleaning section(s)
for instructions on how to clean
the inside of the oven.
Thermometer—Do not use a
thermometer in food you are
microwaving unless the
thermometer is designed or
recommended for use in the
microwave oven.
Remove the temperature
probe from the oven when not
using it to cook with. If you
leave the probe inside the oven
without inserting it in food or
liquid, and turn on microwave
energy, it can create electrical
arcing in the oven and damage
oven walls.
Plastic cookware—Plastic
cookware designed for
microwave cooking is very
useful, but should be used
carefully. Even microwave-safe
plastic may not be as tolerant
of overcooking conditions as are
glass or ceramic materials and
may soften or char if subjected
to short periods of overcooking.
In longer exposures to
overcooking, the food and
cookware could ignite. For these
reasons: 1 ) Use microwave-safe
plastics only and use them in
strict compliance with the
cookware manufacturer's
recommendations. 2) Do not
subject empty cookware to
microwaving. 3) Do not permit
children to use plastic cookware
without complete supervision.
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