Lower Cook Powers Using AUTO SET AuroSetTlME Au+o Set TEMP Parts and features Model MW8650XS MODEL AND SERIAL NUMBER PLATE Copy your Model and Serial Numbers here... If you need service or call with a question, this informiltion ready: 1.
Fill out and return the “Microwave Registration missing, please send the model number Whirlpool Corporation Microwave Registration Department Administrative Center 2000 M-63 Benton Harbor, Michigan 49022 This information will help us reach you if there is ever a need to pass along...
Electric shock, fire or other haz- ards may result. 9. This appliance should be serviced by qualified service personnel. Whirlpool authorized TECH-CARE’ Service Company for examination, adjustment Do not cover or block any opening the appliance, for fire may result.
Using your microwave oven Microwave oven controls There are three parts in the control section: -The Digital Display/Clock, and Indicator - Command Pads - Number Pads Instructions for each control are covered following pages. Read them carefully. When you first plug in the oven, a tone sounds and the Display will show 88:88.
Programming tone Each time you touch a pad you will hear a tone. If you don’t hear a tone, it is because instruction is not correct, or because EXAMPLE: If you touch a Number Pad before you touch a Command hear a tone.
Using the minute timer The Minute Timer does not start or stop cooking. operating. It works like a kitchen timer. THIS HAPPENS... DO THIS... 1. Touch MINUTE TIMER. 2. Touch Number Pads for minutes and seconds. Touch START. Changing the minute timer -Touch MINUTE TIMER.
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Cooking in your microwave oven Be sure to read the MICRO MENUS’ Cookbook It contains information about: What microwave energy How food is cooked by microwave What affects cooking speed and cooking Safety tips. Utensils to us,e when cooking in a microwave Cooking times for different foods.
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Changing the cooking time Cooking time can be changed any time before touching 1 Touch COOK. 2. Touch numbers for the new time. 3. Touch START. Cook will continue cooking for the new time. Cooking at lower cook powers For best results, some recipes call for lower Cook Powers.
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Touch COOK POWER. 5. Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want. 6. Touch START. . .c- Changing cook power The Cook Power can be changed Touch COOK POWER Touch a number for the new Cook Power. Touch START The cycle will cook at the new Cook Power for the orlglnal OR...
Using AUTO SE? Auto Set TIME and TEMP are preset cooking times and probe temperature settings. Auto Set TIME Auto Set TIME provides ten preset times. One to nine minutes at HIGH cook power can be set by touching TIME and the corresponding method for setting commonly used cooking...
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5. Touch a Number pad for the Cook Power you want. 6. Touch START. You can set COOK to follow Auto Set TIME, if desired. your microwave oven:’ page 8; or “Cooking Changing the pre-programmed You can change the pre-programmed time and power you most often use.
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Auto Set TEMP Auto Set TEMP provides ten preset probe temperature one hundred ninety (190) degrees at 70% cook power can be set by touching the corresponding number pad l-9. This provides monly used probe temperatures. The AUTO SET chart included and the AUTO SET guide on the inner door panel items without having to look up the temperature.
6. Touch START. NOTE: You can set Auto Set TEMP to follow Auto Set TEMP can be programmed pause between the last Cook cycle you to plug in the probe. Changing the pre-programmed You can change the pre-programmed to the temperature and power you most often use.
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Defrosting Use QUICK DEFROST to thaw frozen food before cooking. the guide behind the oven door or in your MICRO MENUS” cookbook. THIS HAPPENS... DO THIS... Put frozen food in the oven and close the door. Touch QUICK DEFROST. 3. Touch Number Pads for the defrosting time you want.
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Changing or adding defrost You can change the defrosting time any time before or after touchrng . Touch QUICK DEFROST. Touch numbers for new time. Touch START Any new tlme setting made while QUICK DEFROST is operating defrosttng at only 20% of full power. The best time to change the setting is near the end of the QUICK DEFROST Cycle.
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Touch COOK POWER. (Opltons: Skfp to 8 if you want to cook at high power.) 7. Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want. Touch START. The COOK POWER Indicator come on and the Display “P-HI? This shows the oven is prepro- grammed to cook at full (HIGH] power.
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Cooking with the_ TEMPERATURE The Temperature Probe helps take guesswork seroles. The probe is designed to turn off the oven when it senses the temperature you chose. See your MICRO MENUS” Cookbook different types of food DO THIS... Insert at least 1/3 of the temperature probe into the...
Touch START. NOTE: “Err” will be displayed after START is touched, temperature has been selected (under Hints for using the temperature DO... use hot pads when removing probe from food or food from oven. stir foods durlng cooking when recommended. * stir soups, casseroles and drinks before serving.
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Changing the temperature When using the Temperature Probe, PROBE TEMPsettings or during operation: -Touch PROBE TEMP -Touch number for new temperature. -Touch START. The oven will continue temperature is lowerthan the temperature remperature probe cooking For casseroles, the tip of the probe should be in the center of the food Stir foods when recom-...
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Using KEEP WARM Hot, cooked foods can be safely kept warm in your microwave 99 seconds (about 1 hour, 40 minutes]. KEEP WARM can be used by itself, or it can automatically follow a cooking cycle THIS HAPPENS... DO THIS... Put cooked, hot food in oven and close door.
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Other operating hints 1. To double check settings while the oven is running: Touch the Command Pad for the setting you want to check. The instruction programmed for that pad will show on the display returns to showing what the oven is doing. 2.
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Bi-level cooking rack Use the metal Bi-Level Cooking Rack when cooking metal rack can be turned upside-down of the oven, See the MICRO MENUS@Cookbook First Posltlon Note: Do not store the metal rack in the oven. Arcing result if someone accidentally starts the oven.
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(The control side of the unit is the heavy when handling.) proximately 60 Ibs. (27 kg]. Whirlpool 4. Do not install the oven next to a conven- at the tional surface opening...
DO NOT remove the outer case, door, or con- trol panel at any time. The unit is equipped high voltage and should not be serviced by an authorized Whirlpool technician. (Time- grounded and po- a qualified and obligation grounded wall receptacle...
Build the microwave oven into a cabinet wall by itself or over built-in single ovens in the Whirlpool RDE, REE, RGE, RB and SB model 2. Attach the microwave oven to a wall by itself or with cabinets over it.
How your microwave oven works Microwave ovens are safe. Microwave heat, and it’s this heat that cooks the food. Microwaves are like TV A magnetron waves or light waves. you wave can’t see them, but you can waves. The microwaves see what they do move into the oven where they are scattered...
Operating safety precautions NEVER COOK OR REHEAT A WHOLE EGG. Steam build-up in whole eggs may cause them to burst and burn you, and possibly damage the oven. Slice hard boiled eggs be- fore heating. In rare in- stances, poached eggs have been known to explode.
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CAUTION: DO NOT use the oven until you have read and Onderstand prevent damage to the oven. DO NOT DO NOT OVERCOOK use the oven for storage. Do not leave paper POTATOES. products, books or cooking At the end of the recom- utensils in the oven when not mended in use.
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Is Cook Power set correctly? seem Is the Probe Temperature low or If you need company assistance?.. Call Whirlpool sistance telephone anywhere in the U.S.: 1-800-253-1301 down but and talk with one of ourtrained Consultants can instruct you in how to obtain...
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5. If you need FSP (L PARTS replacement FSP is a registered Corporation for quality 999-9999 bol of quality whenever ment part for your Whirlpool placement parts will fit right and work because they are made specifications used Whirlpool appliance.
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B. Repairs when microwave C. Pick up and delivery. This product D. Damage to microwave not approved by Whirlpool. E. Any labor costs during the limited WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL do not allow the exclusion...