GUIDE TO USE OF THE OVEN SHELF
● Use the shelf only when cooking food on 2
levels. Food microwaves best when placed
directly on the oven floor.
● Do not store or cook with metal shelf on floor
of oven. Product damage may result.
● Use pot holders when handling metal shelf
and cookware. They may be hot.
● Do not store microwave browning dish on
metal shelf.
● Use of the shelf with the Sensor Cook or
Sensor Reheat program is not recommended.
● Do NOT use the metal shelf with the Sensor
Popcorn program.
The wire shelf is specifically designed for added
capacity heating and reheating in your microwave
oven. Now more than one food may be heated or
reheated and ready to serve at the same time.
Batters and dough foods and also uncooked foods
which need to be prepared from scratch should be
cooked without the oven shelf.
Positioning the Shelf
I
I
I
ro position the shelf, tip the back
slightly and
fit
the shelf onto the
rear support guides.
When properly positioned, the
shelf should fit snugly in place,
be level and not touch the back
or side wall of the oven.
If arcing occurs when using the
IF
shelf to cook more than 1 food
Next, lower the front until the
sheh
fits onto the front support guides.
at the same time, turn the oven
off. Make sure the shelf is not
touching oven walls. To prevent
arcing, remove the shelf when
you are not using it.
How to Reheat Several Different
~pes
of Foods Together
When heating several different types of food together, Place on the
foods which should be served hot must be placed on floor larger
the oven floor, while foods which need only to be or more dense
warmed should be placed on the shelf. This is foods, which
because microwave energy enters the oven from the
need the most
bottom only. Also, it is important to remember that
heating, such
foods absorb microwave energy at different rates.
as leftover
Rates can be affected by the size of the food, and its
fried chicken,
starting temperature. casseroles of
Because of the varying rates, you may need to start
canned or leftover vegetables, rice or pasta. Place
reheating a large or dense food a few minutes ahead
on the oven shelf those foods which need only be
of time. then add other smaller or less dense foods.
warmed, such as bakery pies, rolls, muffins or breads
A-ltemately,
if one of the foods you are heating seems
Pop popcorn on the microwave oven
floor only.
undercooked but the others are heated satisfactorily,
Popcorn placed on the oven shelf will not pop
let the underheated food continue cooking.
properly. Use prepackaged popcorn labeled for
Heat or reheat different types of food at High (10).
use in microwave ovens.
“o
determine heating times, add
times for all foods
together. After half of time, stir or rearrange foods
(do not reverse positions). Check foods (especially
those on the oven floor) after 3/4 of total time and
remove any which are done. Continue cooking others.
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