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Before Using Your Microwave Oven
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Read This Use and Care Book
it contains detailed information on the operation and
recommended maintenance of your new Microwave
Oven. Once YOU have read the book, keep it handy to
answer any questions you may have.
If you have any additional questions concerning the
operation of your Microwave Oven, write—including
your phone number—to:
Consumer Affairs
General Electric Company
Appliance Park
Louisville, Kentucky 40225
IF YOU RECEIVED A DAMAGED OVEN, immediately
contact the retail dealer (or builder) from whom you
purchased it. They have been informed of the proper
procedure to take care of such matters and can
handle it for you.
Before You Call for Service:
Check “Common Problems” section. (See Table of
Contents for page number.) It lists many minor causes
of operating problems that you can correct yourself
and may save you an unnecessary service call.
Need Service?
In many cities, there’s a General Electric Factory Service Center. Call, and a radio-dispatched truck will
come to your home by appointment—morning or
afternoon. Charge the work, if you like. All the centers
accept both Master Charge and Visa cards. (See Fac-
tory Service Centers in Table of Contents.)
Or look for General Electric franchised Customer
Care@ servicers. You’ll find them in the Yellow Pages
under “GENERAL ELECTRIC CUSTOMER CARE@
SERVICE”.
Register Your Oven
It is important that we the manufacturer know the
location of the Microwave Oven you are now using
should a need occur for adjustments.
Please check with your supplier to be sure he has
registered you as the owner; also send in your Purchase Record Card. If you move, or if you are not the
original purchaser please write to US, stating model
and serial numbers. This appliance must be regis-
tered. Please be certain that it is.
Write to:
General Electric Company
Product Service Section
Range Marketing Operation
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Appliance Park
Louisville, Kentucky 40225
Record Model and Serial Numbers
Your General Electric Microwave Oven has a nameplate on which is stamped the model number and
serial number. (See page 9 for location.)
Model and serial numbers are also on the Purchase
Record Card which came with your Microwave Oven.
Before sending in this card, please record the numbers
in the space provided, or get them from the nameplate
described above, and record here.
Please refer to both model and serial numbers in any
future correspondence or product service calls concerning your Microwave Oven.
Model Number
Serial Number
Date Purchased
KEEP PURCHASE RECEIPT WITH THIS BOOK FOR
FUTURE REFERENCE.
Steps to Follow for Further Help
First, ‘contact the people who serviced your m[cro-
wave oven. Explain why you are dissatisfied. In most
cases, this will solve the problem.
Next, if you are stilr dissatisfied, write all the details—
including your phone number—to:
Manager, Consumer Relations
General Electric Company
WCE-312
Appliance Park
Louisville, Kentucky 40225
Finally, if your problem is still not resolved, write:
Major Appliance Consumer Action Panel
20 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606
This panel, known as MACAP, is a group of independent consumer experts under the sponsorship of
several industry associations. Its purpose is to study
practices and advise the industry of ways to improve
customer service. Because MACAP is free of industry
control and influence, it is able to make impartial
recommendations, considering each case individually.
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Table of Contents
Before Microwaving ..... ..... ....... ..... .... .. .... ....... .. .. ........ ..........
Grounding Instructions&Precautions ......... .... .... ........ ..... ........3
Safety Tips . .. .. .... ...
Introduction to Oven
Touch Control Panel
How to Defrost ...... .
How to Time Cook ..
How to Temp Cook..
The Temperature Probe ............ ........... ..... .... .. ...... .. .. ....... ....ll
Howto Sim'n Cook ..... ..... .. . .. .. ......... .. ......... .. .. ........ .. .........l2
Howto Temp Hoid . .. .. ..... ....... . .... ....... .
Howto Use Memory . .. .. ... ..... .. .......
Howto Use Hold/Timer ........ . .. ...
The Exhaust Feature . ..... .. ..... .. ..
Care of Your Oven
Problems & Solutions . ..... ......... ..... .
Factory Service Centers ....... ....... .. ....... .. .. ..... ........... ..... .... ...2l
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Grounding Instructions
For personal safety, this appliance must be properly
grounded. The power cord of this appliance is equipped with
a three-prong (grounding) plug which mates with a standard
three-prong (grounding) wall receptacle. (See picture, left. )
To minimize the posslbildy of severe or fatal electric shock
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hazard from this appliance, the customer should have the wall
receptacle and circuit checked by a qualified electrician to
make sure the receptacle is properly grounded.
Where a standard two-prong wall receptacle is encountered,
it is the personal responsibility and obligation of the customer
to have a qualified electrician replace it with a properly
grounded three-prong wall receptacle.
Do not, under any circumstances, cut or remove the third
(ground) prong from the power cord.
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Safetv Tim to Follow
1. For personal safety the oven must be properly
grounded. See grounding instructions on Page 3 of
this book.
2. Cooking utensils may become hot because of
heat transferred from the heated food. This is espe-
cially true if plastic wrap has been covering the top
and handles of the utensil. Pot holders may be
needed.
3. Sometimes, the oven shelf can become too hot to
touch. Be careful when touching the shelf during and
after cooking.
4. “Boilable” cooking pouches and tightly closed
plastic bags should be slit, pricked or vented as di-
rected in Cookbook. If they are not, plastic could
burst during or immediately after cooking, possibly
resulting in injury. Also, plastic storage containers
should be at least partially uncovered because they
form a tight seal. When cooking with containers,
tightly covered with plastic wrap, remove covering
carefully
face.
5. Don’t defrost frozen beverages in narrow necked
bottles especially carbonated ones. Even if the con-
tainer is opened, pressure can build up. This can
cause the container to burst, resulting in injury.
6. Don’t overcook. Excessive overcooking dehy-
drates potatoes, and may cause them to catch fire
causing damage.
7. If food shouid ever ignite, keep the oven door
closed. Turn off the power immediately. Touch
CLEAR/OFF or disconnect power cord or shut off
power at the fuse or circuit breaker panel.
8. Remove the temperature probe from the oven
when not using it to cook with. If you leave the probe
inside the oven without inserting it in food or liquid
and turn on microwave energy, it can create electrical arcing in the oven, and damage oven walls or
shelf.
9. Remove wire twist-ties on paper and plastic
bags before placing in oven. Twist-ties sometimes
cause bag to heat, and may cause fire.
10. Boiiing eggs (in or out of the sheil) is not recom-
mended for microwave cooking. Pressure can build
up inside egg yolk and cause it to burst, resulting in
injury.
11. Do not pop popcorn in your microwave oven
unless in a special microwave popcorn accessory or
unless you use popcorn in a package labeled for
microwave ovens. Because of the heat generated,
without these precautions, the container could catch
fire.
12. Use metai oniy as directed in cookbook. Metal
strips as used on meat roasts are helpful in cooking
food when used as directed. Metal trays may be used
and direct steam away from hands and
for TV dinners. However, when using metal in the
microwave oven, keep metai at least l-inch away
from sides of microwave oven.
13. Do not use any thermometer in food you are
microwaving unless that thermometer is designed or
recommended for use in the microwave oven.
14. Do not store flammabie materiais in an oven.
Also, do not use flammable fluids in the vicinity of
your oven.
15. Do not use your microwave oven to dry news-
papers. If overheated, they can catch fire.
16. Piastic Utensiis–Plastic utensils designed for
microwave cooking are very useful, but should be
used carefully. Even microwave plastic may not be as
tolerant of overcooking conditions as are glass or
ceramic materials and may soften or char if subjected to short periods of overcooking. In longer exposures to overcooking, the food and utensils may
even ignite. For these reasons: 1) Use microwave
plastics only and use them in strict compliance with
the utensil manufacturer’s recommendations. 2) Do
not subject empty utensils to microwaving. 3) Do not
permit children to use plastic utensils without complete supervision.
17, Don’t operate the oven whiie empty in order t
prolong the life of the oven and save energy. If, by
accident, the oven should run empty a minute or two,
no harm is done.
THE HOOD:
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Have it instailed and properly grounded by a qual-
ified instaiier. See the special installation booklet
packed with the microwave oven.
2. The vent fan in your Spacemaker oven wiii oper-
ate automatically under certain conditions (see
Automatic Fan Feature, page 7). Whiie the fan is operating caution is required to prevent the starting
and spreading of accidental cooking fires whiie the
vent fan is in use. For this reason:
A. Never ieave surface units unattended at high
heat settings. Boilover causes smoking and greasy
spillovers that may ignite and spread if vent fan is
operating. To minimize automatic fan operation,
use adequate sized utensils and use high heat settings only when necessary.
B. in the event of a grease fire, smother flaming
pan on surface unit by covering pan completely
with well-fitting lid, cookie sheet or flat tray.
C. Never frame foods under the oven with the vent
fan operating because it may spread the flames.
D. Keep hood and grease fiiters clean, accordin
to instructions on pages 17 and 19, to maintain
good venting and avoid grease fires.
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9 (. Door Handle. Oven doesn’t operate unless door is
securely latched.
2. Door Latch. Push in to open door. 13. Hold/Timer. Two functions. Use as a kitchen
3. Window with Metal Shield. Screen allows cooking
to be viewed while leaving microwaves confined in,
oven.
4. Oven Light. Goes on when door is opened or
when oven is operating and during the hold timer
function. 15. Number Pads. Touch to enter Time or Temper-
5. Plastic Stirrer Cover. Protects the mode stirrer
which distributes microwave energy into the oven.
6. Oven Vent.
7. Oven Sheif.
8. Micro-ThermometerTM Temperature Probe. Use
with Temperature Cook, Temp Hold and Simmer ‘N
CookTM features only.
9. Receptacle for Temperature Probe.
10. Time or Temperature Dispiay. During cooking,
shows cooking times in minutes and seconds or tem-
perature in degrees.
11. Power Levei Dispiay. Shows Power Level being
used in diaits from 1 to 10.
2. Cooking Function lets you know which of six
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TEMP COOK, DEFROST, SIM ‘N’ COOKTV TEMP
HOLD or HOLD/TIMER.
timer or to program a no-heat period before cooking
or between defrost and cook. (See pages 6 and
16.)
14. Function Pads. See pages 6 and 7 for detailed
description of the functions and their uses.
ature and Power Level.
16. Ciear/Off. Stops the oven and erases all set-
tings. Press to erase PF (Power Failure) from display
when first plugged in.
17. Power Levei Guide. Words above numbers indicate corresponding power levels in your Microwave Guide and Cookbook.
18. Start. Press after setting controls. Prevents acci-
dental starting. Always press Start last.
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Grease Fiiters.
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Cooktop Light.
21.
Hood Controis:
Fan Switch. Press once for high speed. Press
twice for low speed. Press again for off.
Lamp Switch. Push and hold lamp switch until
fluorescent lamp lights.
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Features of Your Micr(
The Touch Control Panel allows you to set the oven
controls electronically with a press of the finger. It’s
designed to be easy to understand and use. Follow
these steps:
1. SELECT A MICROWAVING METHOD by touching
one of these basic cooking function pads. (The func-
tions and their uses are explained in this book.)
Use the following special function pads for extra flexibility. (This book tells you when to use each pad.)
2. SET TIME OR TEMPERATURE by touching the
corresponding number pads, which give the oven
numerical instructions.
TIME-TEMPERATURE DISPLAY —
When the oven is not in use, display is dark. During
Time functions, display shows minutes and seconds.
During Temperature cooking, display shows -90° or
the internal temperature of food in degrees F. between 90° and 200:
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POWER LEVEL DISPLAY
Shows what Power Level is being used. The guide
above the Power Level Pad tells you which Power
Level numbers correspond to High, Medium-High,
Medium, Low and Warm which are Power Levels
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referred to in the cookbook.
3. CHANGE POWER LEVEL if you want a Power
Level other than automatic 10 (cooking) or 3 (defrost-
ing). Touch Power Level pad, then number pad
needed.
4. PRESS START BAR LAST.
THE NO-HEAT TIME FUNCTION
This function provides digit time display without microwave energy.
Touch HOLD/TIMER and enter numbers to program
a no-heat period before cooking or between Defrost
and Cook. When oven is not in use, can be used as a
kitchen timer. Touch HOLD/TIMER, enter time and
press Start. (See pagel 6.)
THE MEMORY FUNCTION
The memory function allows you to store simple instructions or complete 2, 3 or 4-step programs for future use. Use the oven for other microwaving while it
remembers.
Touch MEMORY ENTRY/RECALL to store instructions or when you are ready to use stored instructions or want to check information in memory. (See
pages 14 and 15.)
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- THE TIME FUNCTIONS
The oven lets you mic~owave by time in 2 different
ways. Program Time Cook and Defrost with Hold for
even greater flexibility.
Touch DEFROST and enter time for uniform defrost-
ing with little or no attention. Automatic Power Level
of 3 can be changed after time entry. Display counts
DOWN in seconds. (See page 8.)
Touch TIME COOK, then enter numbers and micro-
wave to an exact time. The automatic Power Level of
10 can be changed, but only after time is entered.
Display counts DOWN in seconds. (See page 9.)
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THE TEMPERATURE FUNCTIONS
Use the automatic temperature probe to cook by
temperature in 2 ways. Temperature Cook can be
programmed with Hold for delayed start or with
Defrost.
Touch TEMP COOK then enter numbers to microwave to desired internal temperature. The automatic
Power Level of 10 can be changed after temperature
is entered. Display shows internal temperature of
food in 1 degree F. increments. Oven shuts off when
preset temperature is reached. (See page 10.)
Touch SIM ‘N COOK ‘Mfor slow, temperature-con-
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trolled simmering. Temperature and Power Level are
set automatically. Cook for as long as you like. There
is no automatic shut-off. (See page 12 and cookbook
for special slow-cook recipes.)
Touch TEMP HOLD when you want to hold just-
cooked foods at serving temperature, or to warm up
leftovers. The holding temperature between 90° and
200”F must be selected as well as a, lower Power
Level if using instead of the automatic (10) High.
There is no automatic shut-off. (See page13.)
,THE NUMBER PADS
Touch NUMBER PADS to enter Time, Temperature,
or Power Level.
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CLEAR/OFF stops the oven and erases all settings.
Press START after setting controls when you are
ready to use the oven.
THE POWER LEVEL FUNCTION
The oven microwaves at 10 different power levels for
complete flexibility. If no power level is set, oven
automatically selects Power Level High (10) for time
and temperature cooking (except when using Sim ‘N
Cook cycle).
Touch POWER LEVEL and enter desired number’ to
select a new power level after completing the cooking function entry. Power Level can be changed at
any time during microwaving, except when using Sim
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AUTOMATIC FAN FEATURE
Cooking appliances instaiied under the oven might,
under some heavy usage conditions, cause temperatures high enough to overheat some internai parts
of the microwave oven.
To prevent overheating from taking piace, the vent
fan is designed to automatically turn on at low speed
if excessive temperatures occur. Shouid this happen,
the fan cannot be manuaily turned off, but it wiii auto-
matically turn off when the internai parts have
cooied. The fan may stay on up to approximateiy 30
minutes after the range and microwave oven controis
have been turned off.
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