KitchenAid KMBD104GSS

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Overview

Function Description
Important Technical Specifications
Usage Features
Maintenance Features
Safety Precautions

This document is a user manual for a KitchenAid Microwave Drawer.

The KitchenAid Microwave Drawer is a versatile kitchen appliance designed for convenient and efficient cooking, reheating, and defrosting of various food items. It operates on a standard 120-volt, 60 Hz electrical supply, requiring a 15- or 20-amp individual, grounded circuit. The appliance is designed for built-in installation, offering a sleek and integrated look in modern kitchens.

Function Description:

The primary function of the microwave drawer is to heat food using microwave energy. It offers a range of cooking modes and features to accommodate diverse culinary needs:

Microwave Cooking: The core function, allowing users to cook a variety of dishes quickly and efficiently. The manual provides a "Microwave Cooking Power" chart with recommended power levels and cooking times for different food types and quantities.
Reheat (non-sensor): This mode is for reheating previously cooked foods. The manual includes a "Reheat (non-sensor)" chart with recommended quantities and instructions for various food items like fresh rolls, frozen rolls, and muffins.
Beverage Center: Specifically designed for heating beverages, offering options for reheating coffee or tea to a desired temperature.
Keep Warm: This feature maintains the temperature of cooked food, ensuring it stays warm until ready to serve. The manual provides instructions for using this function, emphasizing its utility for keeping plates of food and covered baked goods warm.
Melt/Soften/Warm: A specialized function for melting, softening, or warming specific ingredients like butter, chocolate, ice cream, cream cheese, syrup, and dessert toppings. The manual includes a detailed chart with recommended quantities, power levels, and instructions for each item.
Sensor Cooking: This advanced feature automatically adjusts cooking time and power levels based on the humidity detected from the food. It's particularly useful for cooking fresh vegetables, frozen vegetables, frozen entrées, baked potatoes, sweet potatoes, ground meat, fish/seafood, white rice, and brown rice. The manual provides a "Sensor Cook" chart with recommended quantities and instructions for these food categories.
Sensor Reheat: Similar to sensor cooking, this mode automatically reheats food based on detected humidity, ensuring optimal results without manual time adjustments.
Sensor Popcorn: Dedicated to popping popcorn, this function automatically adjusts cooking time based on the popcorn bag size, ensuring perfectly popped kernels.
Defrost: This mode is used for thawing frozen foods. The manual provides a "Defrost" chart with recommended food types, quantities, and instructions for items like ground meat, steaks/chops, boneless poultry, and bone-in poultry. The defrost function is time-based, with recommendations for turning or separating food during the process.
Doneness Adjustment: Allows users to adjust the cooking time for various functions (Microwave Cooking, Reheat, Defrost) to achieve desired doneness levels (MORE or LESS).

Important Technical Specifications:

Electrical Requirements: 120 Volts, 60 Hz, AC only, 15- or 20-amp electrical supply with a fuse or circuit breaker. A dedicated circuit is recommended.
Grounding: The appliance must be grounded to reduce the risk of electrical shock. It is equipped with a 3-prong grounding plug that must be plugged into an appropriate outlet.
Dimensions: The manual includes an illustration of the microwave drawer, indicating various components such as the microwave inlet cover, control panel, OPEN and CLOSE controls, drawer handle, and cooking guide label. Specific dimensions are not explicitly stated but are implied by the built-in installation requirement.
Magnetron: The microwave uses a magnetron to generate microwave energy for cooking.

Usage Features:

Display: An LED display shows cooking power, quantity, and/or prompts.
Control Panel: Features touch controls for various functions including Start, Stop/Clear, Open/Close, Clock, Timer, Setup, Demo Mode, and Help.
Start/Stop/Clear: Controls for initiating, pausing, or canceling cooking cycles.
Open/Close: Buttons to open and close the microwave drawer. The drawer can also be opened by pulling the handle.
Clock: A 12-hour clock (12:00-11:59) for setting the time.
Timer: A countdown timer that can be set in minutes and seconds.
Add 1 Min: Adds one minute of cooking time to a cycle.
Control Lock: Locks the control panel to prevent accidental operation.
Setup: Allows users to configure various settings, including tones (on/off), reminder tones (on/off), auto start (on/off), and demo mode (on/off).
Tones: Audible signals for end of cycle, reminder, and button presses.
Demo Mode: A feature for demonstration purposes, allowing the microwave to operate without generating microwave energy.
Help: Provides tips for automatic functions.
Food Characteristics: Guidelines on how food characteristics (amount, size, shape, starting temperature, composition, and density) affect cooking results.
Cookware and Dinnerware: Recommendations for suitable cookware and dinnerware materials, including aluminum foil, browning dishes, ceramic glass, glass, earthenware, melamine, paper towels, dinnerware, napkins, plastic wraps, bags, covers, dinnerware, containers, pottery and clay, silicone bakeware, straw, wicker, wooden containers, and wax paper. It also provides instructions on how to test cookware for microwave use.
Cooking in Stages: Allows for multi-stage cooking with different power levels and times.
Auto Start: Enables the microwave to start a cooking cycle at a preset time.

Maintenance Features:

General Cleaning: Regular cleaning is recommended for the microwave drawer to ensure optimal performance and hygiene.
Microwave Drawer Exterior: Clean with mild, nonabrasive soaps and detergents, rinsing with clean water and drying with a soft, lint-free cloth. Glass cleaner can be used for the glass window. Stainless steel surfaces should be cleaned with stainless steel cleaner and polish or mild soap and water.
Microwave Drawer Cavity: Clean with mild, nonabrasive soaps and detergents, rinsing with clean water and drying with a soft, lint-free cloth. For heavy soil, a mild abrasive cleaner or steel-wool pads can be used, followed by rinsing and drying.
Average Soil: For average soil, use mild, nonabrasive soaps and detergents.
Heavy Soil: For heavy soil, heat 1 cup (250 mL) of water for 2 to 5 minutes in the microwave drawer to create steam, then wipe with a soft cloth.
Odors: To remove odors, heat a mixture of lemon juice or vinegar and water in the microwave drawer.
Microwave Inlet Cover: This component should be kept clean.
Control Panel: Clean with a soft cloth and water.
Drawer Seals and Surfaces: Clean with mild soap and water.
Microwave Drawer Guides: Keep the drawer opening and closing smoothly by removing crumbs and debris. Wipe with a soft cloth.

Safety Precautions:

The manual emphasizes important safety instructions, including warnings about reducing the risk of burns, electric shock, fire, injury to persons, or exposure to excessive microwave energy. It advises against operating the oven if the door is damaged, if the door seals and sealing surfaces are damaged, or if the oven has been adjusted or repaired by anyone except properly qualified service personnel. It also provides precautions to avoid possible exposure to excessive microwave energy, such as not operating the oven when the door is open and not placing any object between the oven front face and the door or allowing soil or cleaner residue to accumulate on sealing surfaces.