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Use and Care Guide
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A Note to You..................2
Microwave Oven
Safety...............................3
Getting to Know Your
Microwave-Convection
Hood Combination .........6
Microwave Cooking......18
Convection Cooking.....40
Combination
Cooking .........................51
Caring for Your
Microwave-Convection
Hood Combination .......60
Cooking Guide..............63
Questions and
Answers.........................68
Troubleshooting ...........69
Requ
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 2 A Note to You ® Thank you for buying a KITCHENAID appliance! KitchenAid designs the best tools for the most important room in your house. To ensure that you enjoy many years of trouble-free operation, we developed this Use and Care Guide. It contains valuable information concerning how to operate and maintain your new appliance properly and safely. Please read it carefully. Also, please complete and mail the enclosed Product Registration Card. Please r
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 3 Microwave Oven Safety Your safety and the safety of others is very important. We have provided many important safety messages in this manual and on your appliance. Always read and obey all safety messages. This is the safety alert symbol. This symbol alerts you to hazards that can kill or hurt you and others. All safety messages will be preceded by the safety alert symbol and the word “DANGER” or “WARNING.” These words mean: You will be killed or seriously
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 4 Microwave Oven Safety IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS • The microwave oven should be serviced – Remove wire twist-ties from paper only by qualified service personnel. or plastic bags before placing bags Call an authorized service company for in oven. examination, repair, or adjustment. – If materials inside the oven should • See door surface cleaning instructions ignite, keep oven door closed, turn oven off, and disconnect the power cord, or in the “Cari
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 5 Microwave Oven Safety GROUNDING INSTRUCTIONS For all cord connected appliances: completely understood, or if doubt exists The microwave oven must be grounded. as to whether the microwave oven is In the event of an electrical short circuit, properly grounded. grounding reduces the risk of electric Do not use an extension cord. If the power shock by providing an escape wire for supply cord is too short, have a qualified the electric current. The microwave ov
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 6 Getting to Know Your Microwave- Convection Hood Combination This section discusses the concepts behind microwave cooking. It also shows you the basics you need to know to operate your microwave oven. Please read this information before you use your oven. How your microwave Radio interference Using your microwave oven may cause oven works interference to your radio, TV, or similar Microwave ovens are safe. Microwave equipment. When there is interference,
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 7 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination • Never cook or reheat a whole egg inside the shell. Steam buildup in whole eggs Testing your dinner- may cause them to burst, and possibly ware or cookware damage the oven. Slice hard-boiled eggs before heating. In rare cases, poached Test dinnerware or cookware before eggs have been known to explode. Cover using. To test a dish for safe use, put it into poached eggs and allow a standing time of t
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 8 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination Microwave oven features 3 MICROWAVE MICROWAVE MICRO COOK EASY COOK POWER MINUTE CUSTOM TEMP KEEP DEFROST PROBE WARM SENSOR SENSOR AUTO COOK SLOWCOOK AUTO ROAST SIMMER 8 POPCORN BEVERAGE BAKED POTATO CONVECTION CONVECTION BAKE BROIL COMBINATION COMBINATION BAKE AUTO COMBI ROAST 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 FAN FAN 0 LIGHT LIGHT HIGH•LOW•OFF HIGH•LOW•OFF ON•NIGHT•OFF ON•NIGHT•OFF CLOCK CLOCK TIMER T
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 9 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination Control panel features Your microwave oven control panel lets you To disable audible signals: select the desired cooking function quickly • Touch and hold Number Pad 1 for and easily. All you have to do is touch the 4 seconds to disable programming tones. necessary Command Pad. Below are OR descriptions of some basic functions you • Touch and hold Number Pad 2 for should know about. These descrip
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 10 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination 1. Display. The Display includes a clock and ENTER DELAY indicators to tell you time of day, cooking SENSOR 1 OZ PREHEAT LBS WEIGHT time settings, and cooking functions COOK AUTO COOK DEFR TEMP CONV 2 3 4 ROAST PWR QTY PROBE COMB START? TIMER selected. 3 MICROWAVE 2. MICRO COOK. Touch this pad followed MICRO COOK EASY by Number Pads to set a cooking time. 4 2 COOK POWER MINUTE See pages 19, 21, 22
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 11 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination 12. BEVERAGE. Touch this pad to reheat a 21. LIGHT. Touch this pad once to turn the cup of a beverage at a preset Cook cooktop/countertop light on at high power, Power. See page 36 for more information. twice to turn the cooktop/countertop light on at low power as a night light, and three 13. BAKED POTATO. Touch this pad to bake times to turn the cooktop/countertop light a potato at a preset Cook
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 12 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination Using the exhaust fan 1. Choose fan speed. TOUCH NOTE: If the temperature gets too hot FAN HIGH•LOW•OFF around the microwave oven, the exhaust fan in the vent hood will automatically (once for high, twice for low) turn on at the LOW setting to protect the oven. It may stay on up to an hour to cool the oven. When this occurs, the Fan Pad will not turn the fan off. 2. Turn off fan when desired. TO
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 13 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination 3. Set stop time. TOUCH YOU SEE ENTER DELAY Example to stop the fan at 5 o’clock, 5 SENSOR OZ PREHEAT LBS WEIGHT when time of day is 12 o’clock: COOK AUTO COOK DEFR TEMP CONV 234 ROAST PWR QTY PROBE COMB START? TIMER NOTE: You can set the stop time up 0 to the next 12 hours. 0 4. Start timer. TOUCH YOU SEE ENTER DELAY SENSOR OZ PREHEAT LBS START WEIGHT COOK AUTO COOK DEFR TEMP CONV 234 ROAST PWR Q
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 14 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination To set light to be on for a specific time: TOUCH 1. Turn on light. LIGHT ON•NIGHT•OFF (once for high, twice for low) 2. Choose timer. TOUCH YOU SEE ENTER DELAY NOTE: If both the fan and light are TIMER SENSOR OZ PREHEAT LBS WEIGHT • SET START COOK operating and the TIMER SET • START AUTO COOK DEFR TEMP CONV 234 ROAST PWR QTY PROBE COMB START? TIMER Pad is touched twice, both the fan and ligh
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 15 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination Using the metal rack The Metal Rack (Part No. 4359242) gives Notes: you extra space when cooking in more than • Do not store the Metal Rack in the oven. one container at the same time. The metal Arcing and damage to the oven could result rack must not be turned upside-down inside if someone accidentally starts the oven. the oven. The feet must be positioned at the • Use rack only in the microwave
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 16 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination Setting the clock When your microwave oven is first plugged NOTES: in or after a power failure, the Display will • You can only set the clock if the oven is show “888:88”. For the first 30 seconds not cooking food. after the power is on, you can set the clock • If you touch in an incorrect time and time without touching CLOCK SET • touch CLOCK SET • START, three tones START. After 30 seconds have
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 17 Getting to know your microwave-convection hood combination Using the Minute Timer You can use your microwave oven as a NOTE: The oven can operate while the Minute Timer is in use. To see the Minute minute timer. Use the Minute Timer for timing up to 99 minutes, 99 seconds. Timer while the oven is cooking, touch TIMER SET • START. The Display will return to the cooking time countdown after 3 seconds. 1. Touch TIMER SET • START. TOUCH YOU SEE ENTER DELAY
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 18 Microwave Cooking This section gives you instructions for operating each function. Please read these instruc- tions carefully. IN THIS SECTION Getting the best cooking results....18 Using AUTO ROAST..........................32 Cooking at high cook power ..........19 Auto roast chart ................................33 Cooking at different Using DELAY START ........................34 cook powers ....................................20 Using AUTO COOK ......
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 19 Microwave cooking Cooking at high cook power 1. Put food in oven and close the door. TOUCH YOU SEE 2. Set cooking time. ENTER DELAY SENSOR MICRO OZ PREHEAT LBS WEIGHT COOK COOK AUTO COOK DEFR TEMP CONV 234 ROAST PWR QTY PROBE COMB START? TIMER TOUCH YOU SEE Example for 1 minute, 30 seconds: ENTER DELAY SENSOR 1 OZ PREHEAT LBS WEIGHT COOK AUTO COOK DEFR TEMP CONV 234 ROAST PWR QTY PROBE COMB START? TIMER 3 0 TOUCH YOU SEE 3. Start oven. ENTER DELAY SENSO
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4359916v08c101 9/11/98 3:44 PM Page 20 Microwave cooking Cooking at different cook powers For best results, some recipes call for differ- The following chart gives the percentage of ent cook powers. The lower the cook power, cook power each Number pad stands for, and the slower the cooking. Each Number pad the cook power name usually used. It also also stands for a different percentage of tells you when to use each cook power. cook power. Many microwave cookbook Follow recipe or food package
