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Model
KCMS135H
Use & Care Guide
Microwave
Oven
A Note to You ................... 2
Microwave Oven
Safety ............................ 3-4
Installation
Instructions...................... 5
Getting to Know Your
Microwave Oven .............. 7
Standard Microwave
Cooking .......................... 18
Auto Sensor Cooking ... 27
Caring for Your
Microwave Oven ............ 30
Cooking Guide............... 31
Questions and
Answers ......................... 39
Troubleshooting ............ 40
Requesting As
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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. For assistance or service Call the Consumer Assistan
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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 injured if you don’t wDANGER follow ins
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Microwave Oven Safety IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS – Remove wire twist-ties from paper or plastic bags • Do not mount over a sink. before placing bag in oven. • Do not store anything directly on top of the – If materials inside the oven should ignite, keep microwave oven surface when the microwave oven is in operation. oven door closed, turn oven off, and disconnect the power cord, or shut off power at the fuse or • To reduce the risk of fire in the oven cavity: circuit breaker panel. – Do not
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Installation Instructions Before you begin operating the oven, carefully read the following instructions. 1. Empty the microwave oven and clean inside it with a soft, damp cloth. Check for damage such as a door that isn’t lined up correctly, damage around the door, or dents inside the oven or on the exterior. If there is any damage, do not operate the oven until a designated service technician has checked it and made any needed repairs. 2. Put the oven on a cart, counter, table, or shelf that is
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Installation Instructions Electrical requirements Observe all governing codes and ordinances. wWARNING A 120 Volt, 60 Hz, AC only, 15- or 20-amp fused electrical supply is required. (A time-delay fuse is recommended.) It is recommended that a separate circuit serving only this appliance be provided. Electrical Shock Hazard Plug into a grounded 3 prong outlet. Do not remove ground prong. Do not use an adapter. Do not use an extension cord. Failure to follow these instructions can result in de
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven 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 oven works Microwave ovens are safe. Microwave energy is not hot. It causes food to make its own heat, and it’s this heat that cooks the food. Microwaves are like TV waves or light waves. You cannot see them, but you can see what they do. Magnetron A
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven How your microwave oven works (cont.) Microwaves pass through most glass, paper, and The microwaves disturb water molecules in the food. As the molecules bounce around bumping into plastics without heating them so food absorbs each other, heat is made, like rubbing your hands together. This is the heat that does the cooking. the energy. Microwaves bounce off metal con- NOTE: Do not deep fry in the oven. Microwavable tainers so food does cookware is not suitabl
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Radio interference Using your microwave oven may cause interference • Moving the radio or TV away from the microwave to your radio, TV, or similar equipment. When there oven. is interference, you can reduce it or remove it by: • Plugging the microwave oven into a different • Cleaning the door and sealing surfaces of outlet so that the microwave oven and radio or the oven. TV are on different branch circuits. • Adjusting the receiving antenna of the radio or te
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Operating safety precautions Use hot pads. Microwave energy does not heat Never cook or reheat a whole egg inside the shell. Steam buildup containers, but the heat from the food can make in whole eggs may cause them to burst and the container hot.␣ possibly damage the oven. Slice hard-boiled eggs before heating. In rare cases, poached eggs have been known to explode. Cover poached eggs and allow a standing time of 1 minute before cutting into them. Do not over
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Operating safety precautions (cont.) Do not use newspaper or other printed paper in Do not operate the microwave oven unless the glass the oven. Do not dry turntable is securely flowers, fruit, herbs, in place and can rotate wood, paper, gourds, freely. The turntable can or clothes in the oven. rotate in either direction. Make sure the support base is all the way on the shaft in the oven cavity floor. Make sure the rollers are completely inside the center c
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Microwave oven features 3 6 8 2 7 4 5 1 Your microwave oven is designed to make your 5. Removable Turntable Support (under turntable). cooking experience enjoyable and productive. To 6. Cooking Guide Label. help get you up and running quickly, the following is 7. Control Panel. Touch pads on this panel to per- a list of the oven’s basic features: form all functions. See pages 13-14 for more 1. One-Touch Door Open Button. Push this button information. to open t
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Control panel features Your microwave oven control panel lets you choose the cooking function you want quickly and easily. All you have to do is touch the necessary command pad. The following is a list of all the command and 1 number pads located on the control panel. For more COOK OZ HEATER T/TABLE OFF information, see pages 15-29. 1. Display. This display includes a clock and indicators to tell you the time of day, cooking 3 time settings, quantities, and co
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Control panel features (cont.) 12. EASY MINUTE. Touch this pad to cook for Using the Child Lock 1 minute at 100% cook power or to add an The Child Lock locks the control panel so children extra minute to your cooking cycle (see cannot use the microwave when you do not want page 17 for more information). them to. 13. CANCEL/OFF. Touch this pad to erase an To lock the control panel: incorrect command or to cancel a program during cooking. This pad will
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Built-in kits You can build in your microwave oven by using one of the following trim kits.* These kits are available from your dealer. If your dealer does not stock the kit you can order it, by kit part number, by calling 1-800-422-1230 and following the instructions and telephone prompts you hear. FOR INSTALLATION OVER SIZE COLOR KIT MODEL NO. KITCHENAID OVEN MODEL Stainless Steel 24" MK1134XHS KEBI141D KEBS147D 27" Stainless Steel MK1137XHS KEBI171D
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Using the Minute Timer You can use your microwave oven as a kitchen timer. Use the Minute Timer for timing up to 99 minutes, 99 seconds. NOTES: • To see the time of day while the Minute Timer is counting down, touch CLOCK SET. • If you want to use other command pads while the Minute Timer is counting down, touch CANCEL/ OFF to cancel the Minute Timer. TOUCH YOU SEE 1. Touch TIMER. display scrolls the words “ENTER TIME IN MIN AND SEC” TIMER TOUCH YOU SEE 2. Ent
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Using EASY MINUTE EASY MINUTE lets you cook food for 1 minute at • If you touch EASY MINUTE during cooking, the oven will cook at the cook power you have set. 100% cook power or add an extra minute to your cooking cycle. You can also use it to extend cooking If you touch EASY MINUTE after cooking, the oven will cook at 100% cook power. time in one-minute amounts. • You can use EASY MINUTE only with timed NOTES: cooking and CUSTOM COOK. • Each time you touch EA
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Standard Microwave Cooking This section gives you instructions for standard microwave cooking. Please read these instructions carefully. Cooking at high cook power NOTE: If you use full power for more than 3 hours, the oven will stop on its own. 1. Put your food in the oven and close the door. 2. Set the cooking time. TOUCH YOU SEE Example for 1 minute, 30 seconds: 1 display scrolls the words “TOUCH START OR POWER” 3 0 3. Start the oven. TOUCH YOU SEE START COOK (display counts down cooking time
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Standard Microwave Cooking Cooking at different cook powers For best results, some recipes call for different cook The following chart gives the percentage of cook powers. The lower the cook power, the slower the power each number pad stands for, and the cook cooking. Each number pad also stands for a differ- power name usually used. It also tells you when to ent percentage of cook power. Many microwave use each cook power. Follow recipe or food package cookbook recipes tell you by number, perce
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Standard Microwave Cooking Cooking at different cook powers (cont.) 1. Put your food in the oven and close the door. TOUCH YOU SEE 2. Set the cooking time. Example for 7 minutes, 30 seconds: 7 display scrolls the words “TOUCH START OR POWER” 3 0 3. Set the cook power. TOUCH YOU SEE display scrolls the words POWER “ENTER POWER LEVEL 1 TO 10” LEVEL Example for 50% cook power: TOUCH YOU SEE 5 20
