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Use and Care Guide
Table of Contents
(complete) ................. 2
A Note to You............... 3
Microwave Oven
Safety .........................4-6
Getting to Know Your
Microwave Oven .......... 7
Microwave Cooking .... 20
Cooking with CRISP
and BROIL .................. 40
Caring for Your
Microwave Oven ........ 46
Cooking Guide ........... 48
Questions and
Answers...................... 52
Troubleshooting ........ 54
Requesting Assistance
or Service .................... 56
Index ..............
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able of Contents T A Note to You ........................................... 3 Using CUSTOM REHEAT .................. 26 Microwave Oven Safety ........................ 4-6 Custom reheat chart ........................... 26 Important safety instructions ................ 4 Using CUSTOM DEFROST ................ 31 Precautions to avoid possible exposure Custom defrost chart .......................... 31 to excessive microwave energy ............ 5 Defrosting tips ....................................
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Note to You A 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 operations, 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 record your model’s information. If you need
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icrowave Oven Safety M 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 follow instructio
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M icrowave Oven Safety • Do not immerse cord or plug in water. • To reduce the risk of fire in the oven cavity: • Keep cord away from heated surfaces. – Do not overcook food. Carefully attend • Do not let cord hang over edge of table the microwave oven if paper, plastic, or or counter. other combustible materials are placed • See door surface cleaning instructions in inside the oven to facilitate cooking. the “Caring for Your Microwave Oven” – Remove wire twist-ties from paper section. or plasti
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M icrowave Oven Safety Electrical requirements Observe all governing codes and ordinances. A 120 Volt, 60 Hz, AC only, 15 amp fused wWARNING 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 death, fire,
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etting to Know Your G 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. wWARNING Explosion Hazard Do not store flammable materials such as gasoline near the microwave oven. Doing so can result in death, explosion, or fire. How your microwave oven works Microwave ovens are safe. Microwave energy is not hot. It causes food to make its own h
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Microwaves pass through most glass, paper, and plastics without heating them so food absorbs the energy. Microwaves bounce off metal containers so food does not absorb the energy. Microwaves do heat the CRISPWARE* Crisper Pan, however. The rubberized pad on the bottom of the Crisper Pan is made of a special material which absorbs microwaves. This heats the pan very rapidly, browning and crisping the bottom of the food. The Crisper Pan reaches 436°F (210°C) HEA
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven For the best cooking results • Always cook food for the shortest • If you do not have a cover for a dish, cooking time recommended. Check to use wax paper or microwave-approved see how the food is cooking. If needed, paper towels or plastic wrap. Turn back a touch the easy minute pad while the corner of the plastic wrap to vent steam oven is operating or after the cooking during cooking. cycle is over (see the “Using EASY MINUTE” section). • Stir, turn over, o
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Testing your dinnerware or cookware Test dinnerware or cookware before using. To test a dish for safe use, put it into the oven with a cup of water beside it. Cook at 100% cook power for one minute. If the dish gets hot and water stays cool, do not use it. Some dishes (melamine, some ceramic dinnerware, etc.) absorb microwave energy, becoming too hot to handle and slowing cooking times. Cooking in metal containers not designed for microwave use could dam- age
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Use hot pads. Microwave energy does not heat containers, but heat from the food can make the container hot. NOTE: Heat from the broil element will cause container and oven parts to become hot. Also, the Crisper Pan always becomes very hot when used. Use oven mitts when touching containers, oven parts, and pan after broiling to prevent burns. Do not overcook potatoes. Fire could result. At the end of the recommended cooking time, potatoes should be slightly fir
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Do not try to melt paraffin wax in the oven. Paraffin wax will not melt in a microwave oven because it allows microwaves to pass through it. Do not operate the microwave oven unless the glass turntable is securely in place and can rotate freely. The turntable can rotate in either direction. Make sure the turntable is correct-side up in the oven. Carefully place the cookware on your turntable to avoid possibly breaking it. Make sure support base is all the way
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Microwave oven features 10 9 8 NIGHT LIGHT DELAY START DELAY 1 2 3 ENTER TEMP CRISP COOK CLOCK SET PROBE TEMP TIME CONTROL AUTO SENSOR DEFROST SET START F RAISING CHECK STOP F LOCK START? PREHEAT TIMER BREAD FOOD AT AT TIME HR 123 LBS MIN NO. SEC TIMER DEHYDRATE CONVECTION CLOSE PWR ON ENTER STANDARD COOK TIME CLOSE CONTROLLOCK ON DOOR 4 5 6 IN. SET START CANCEL CANCEL EASYCONVECT COOK TEMP CLEAN TIME DOOR LOCKED START ? EASYCONVECT LOCKED OZ 7 8 9 MICRO OVEN
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Control panel features 1 CLOCK 1 2 3 ENTER TEMP CRISP COOK 2 SET START AUTO SENSOR DEFROST CONTROL START? PREHEAT TIMER LOCK 23 LBS MIN NO. SEC HR 1 TIMER PWR 3 4 5 6 SET START CANCEL CANCEL IN. OZ 4 MICRO OVEN 7 8 9 7 POPCORN CUSTOM CUSTOM CUSTOM EASYMINUTE 9 (3 SIZES) REHEAT DEFROST COOK START CONVECT 8 0 OVEN OVEN MICRO MICROWAVE OVEN FULL KEEP COOK BROIL LIGHT LIGHT CRISP MEAL QUANTITY CANCEL POWER WARM 5 11 12 13 15 10 6 14 Your microwave oven control pan
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven 13. KEEP WARM. Touch this pad to keep Interrupting cooking hot, cooked food safely warm in your You can stop the oven during a cycle by microwave oven for up to 99 minutes. opening the door. The oven stops heating KEEP WARM can be used by itself, or it and the fan stops, but the light stays on. can automatically follow a cooking cycle. To restart cooking for all cycles, close See page 39 for more information. the door and 14. MICROWAVE OVEN CANCEL. Touch TOUCH
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Utensils Your microwave oven comes with two useful cooking utensils. Please review this chart to become familiar with their use. wWARNING Burn Hazard Use oven mitts when removing broiling grid and CRISPWARE* Crisper Pan. Use Crisper Pan handle when removing Crisper Pan. Failure to do so can result in burns. HOW TO USE IT UTENSIL Broiling Grid Use for faster browning of small amounts of food. Place the broiling grid securely on the turntable. Using the broiling
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Setting the clock When your microwave oven is first plugged NOTES: in or after a power failure, the colon and time • You can only set the clock when the of day will flash for 5 minutes. “PF” will show lower oven and the microwave oven are on the lower oven Temperature Display until not cooking food and when the Minute any pad is touched. Timer is not counting down. • You can clear the time of day from the Display by touching and holding CLOCK SET•START for 5 s
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Using the Minute Timer NOTE: You can use other Command pads while the Minute Timer is counting down. 1. Choose the Minute Timer. TOUCH YOU SEE NOTE: The Timer does not start or stop ENTER TIMER the microwave oven. It works like a TIMER SET START MIN SEC regular kitchen timer. It can be set in hours and minutes up to 99 hours and once for 59 minutes, or in minutes and seconds minutes and seconds up to 99 minutes and 59 seconds. OR OR ENTER TIMER twice for HR MI
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Using EASY MINUTE EASY MINUTE lets you cook food for NOTES: 1 minute at 100% cook power or add an • To extend cooking time in multiples of extra minute to your cooking cycle. You 1 minute, touch EASY MINUTE during can also use it to extend cooking time in cooking. multiples of 1 minute, up to 99 minutes. • You can enter EASY MINUTE only after closing the door. • You can use EASY MINUTE with all timed cooking. • If the door has been opened during cook- ing, you
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icrowave Cooking M This section gives you instructions for operating each microwave function. Please read these instructions carefully. Cooking at high cook power 1. Put food in oven and close the door. TOUCH YOU SEE 2. Set cooking time. ENTER COOK Example for 1 minute, 30 seconds: 1 TIME NOTE: During setup, if you want to PWR change the cooking time you have 3 entered, you must touch four digits. For CONTROL example, to change 1 minute and 30 LOCK seconds to 1 minute and 45 seconds, 0 touch Num
