PLEASE READ THIS OWNER’S MANUAL THOROUGHLY BEFORE OPERATING.
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You cannot operate your oven with the door open due to the safety interlocks
built into the door mechanism. These safety interlocks automatically switch off
any cooking activity when the door is opened; which in the case of a
microwave oven could result in harmful exposure to microwave energy.
It is important not to tamper with the safety interlocks.
Do not place any object between the oven front face and the door or allow
food or cleaner residue to accumulate on sealing surfaces.
Do not operate your oven if it is damaged. It is particularly important that the
oven door closes properly and that there is no damage to the: (1) door(bent),
(2) hinges and latches (broken or loosened), (3) door seals and sealing
surfaces.
Your oven should not be adjusted or repaired by anyone except qualified
service personnel.
Precautions to avoid possible exposure to excessive microwave energy.
When heating liquids, e.g. soups, sauces and beverages in your microwave
oven, delayed eruptive boiling can occur without evidence of bubbling. This
could result in a sudden boil over of the hot liquid. To prevent this possibility
the following steps should be taken:
1 Avoid using straight sided containers with narrow necks.
2 Do not overheat.
3 Stir the liquid before placing the container in the oven and again halfway
through the heating time.
4 After heating, allow to stand in the oven for a short time, stir or shake
them(especially the contents of feeding bottles and baby food jars) again
carefully and check the temperature of them before consumption to avoid
burns (especially, contents of feeding bottles and baby food jars).
Be careful when handling the container.
Always allow food to stand after being cooked by
microwaves and check the temperature of them
before consumption. Especially contents of feeding
bottles and baby food jars.
Please ensure cooking times are correctly set as
over cooking may result in the FOOD catching fire
and subsequent damage to your oven.
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Precautions
Warning
Warning
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Precautions
Contents
Unpacking & Installing
Setting the Clock
Child Lock
Micro Power Cooking
Micro Power Level
Two Stage Cooking
Quick Start
Grill Cooking
Convection Cook
Combination Cooking
Cook
Auto
Auto Defrost
Crispy Reheat
Defrost & Bake
Lean Roast
By following the basic steps on these two pages you will be able to quickly check that your oven is operating
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correctly. Please pay particular attention to the guidance on where to install your oven. When unpacking your
oven make sure you remove all accessories and packing. Check to make sure that your oven has not been
damaged during delivery.
Unpacking &
Installing
Unpack your oven and place it on a flat level
surface.
HIGH RACK
GLASS TRAY
LOW RACK
ROTATING RIN G
Place the oven in the level location of your choice with
more than 85cm height but make sure there is at least
30cm of space on the top and 10cm at the rear for proper
ventilation. The front of the oven should be at least 8cm from the
edge of the surface to prevent tipping.
An exhaust outlet is located on top or side of the oven. Blocking the
outlet can damage the oven.
THIS OVEN SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL CATERING
PURPOSES
Plug your oven into a standard household socket. Make
The contents of feeding bottles and baby food jars shall
be stirred or shaken and the temperature checked
before consumption, in order to avoid burns.
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sure your oven is the only appliance connected to the
socket. If your oven does not operate properly, unplug it
from the electrical socket and then plug it back in.
Press the STOP/CLEAR button, and press
the START button one time to set 30
seconds of cooking time.
Open your oven door by pulling the DOOR HANDLE.
Place the ROTATING RING inside the oven and place
the GLASS TRAY on top.
Fill a microwave safe container with 300 ml (1/2 pint)
of water. Place on the GLASS TRAY and close the oven
door. If you have any doubts about what type of container to
use please refer to page .
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The DISPLAY will count down from 30 seconds. When it
reaches 0 it will sound BEEPS. Open the oven door and
test the temperature of the water. If your oven is operating the water
should be warm. Be careful when removing the container it may
be hot.
YOUR OVEN IS NOW INSTALLED
You can set either 12 hour clock or 24 hour clock.
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In the following example I will show you how to set the time for 14:35 when using the 24 clock.
Make sure that you have removed all packaging from your oven.
Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven asdescribed earlier
in this book.
Plug in your oven for the first time.
"24H" appears on the display.
(If you want to use different option,
If you want to change different option after setting clock,
you have to unplug and plug it back in.)
Turn DIAL
Setting the
Clock
.
When your oven isplugged in for the
first time or when power resumes after a
power cut, a ‘24H’ will be shown in the
display; you can reset theclock.
If the clock (or display) shows any
strange looking symbols, unplug your
oven from the electrical socket and plug
it back in and reset the clock.
Turn DIAL until display shows “14: ”.
START
START
for hour confirmation.
.
Press
Turn DIAL until display shows “14:35”.
Press
The clock starts counting.
Child
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Lock
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Your oven has a safety feature that
prevents accidental running of the oven.
Once the child lock is set, you will be
unable to use any functions and no
cooking can take place.
However your child can still open the
oven door.
Press and hold STOP/CLEAR until “L” appears on the display and
BEEP sounds.
The CHILD LOCK is now set.
The time will disappear on the display but will reappear on
the display a few seconds later.
If any button is pressed, “L” will appear on the display
To cancel CHILD LOCK press and hold STOP/CLEAR until “L” disappears.
You will hear BEEP when it’s released.
In the following example I will show you how to cook some food on 80% power for 5 minutes and 30 seconds.
“720” diaplay.
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Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven as described
earlier in this book.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Micro Power
Cooking
Your oven has five microwave Power
settings.
POWER
HIGH
MAX
MEDIUM
HIGH
MEDIUM
MEDIUM LOW
DEFROST
LOW
%
100%
80%
60%
40%
( )
20%
Power Output
900W
720W
540W
360W
180W
Press MICRO twice to select the 80% power.
Turn DIAL until display shows “5:30”.
Press START.
Micro Power
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Level
Your microwave oven is equipped with 5 power levels to give you maximum flexibility and control over
cooking. The table below shows the examples of food and their recommended cooking power levels for use
with this microwave oven.
POWER LEVEL
HIGH* Boil Water
MAX
* Brown minced beef
* Cook poultry pieces, fish, vegetables
* Cook tender cuts of meat
MEDIUM HIGH* All reheating
* Roast meat and poultry
* Cook mushrooms and shellfish
* Cook foods containing cheese and eggs
In the following example I will show you how to cook some food in two stages. The first stages will cook your
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food for 11 minutes on HIGH; the second will cook for 35 minutes on
Press STOP/CLEAR.
360W.
Two stage
Cooking
During two stage cooking the oven door
can be opened and food checked. Close
the oven door and press START and the
cooking stage will continue.
At the end of stage1, BEEP sounds and
stage 2 commences.
Should you wish to clear the programme
press STOP/CLEAR twice.
Set the power and the cooking time for stage1.
Pressonce to select HIGH power. MICRO
Turn DIAL until display shows “11:00”.
Set the power and the cooking time for stage2.
Press MICRO four times to selectpower.
Turn DIAL until display shows “35:00”.
Press START.
360
Quick
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Start
In the following example I will show you how to set 2 minutes of cooking on high power.
Press STOP/CLEAR .
The QUICK START feature allows you to
set 30 seconds intervals of HIGH power
cooking with a touch of the START
button.
Press START four times to select 2 minutes on HIGH power.
Your oven will start before you have finished the fourth press.
During QUICK START cooking, you can extend the cooking time by repeatedly
pressing the START button.
In the following example I will show you how to use the grill to cook some food for 12 minutes and 30 seconds.
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Press STOP/CLEAR .
Grill
Cooking
This model is fitted with a
HEATER, so preheating is not needed.
This feature will allow you to brown and
crisp food quickly.
The metal tray is placed between a glass
tray and a grill rack at the grill mode.
The grill rack(high rack) must be used
during grill cooking.
Press Grill.
Turn DIAL until display shows “12:30”.
Press START.
Convection
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Cooking
The convection oven has a temperature
range of 40°C and 100°C~
(180°C is automatically available when
convection mode is selected).
The oven has a ferment function at the
oven temperature of 40°C. You may wait
until the oven is cool because you cannot
use a ferment function if the oven
temperature is over 40°C.
Your oven will take a few minutes to
reach the selected temperature.
Once it has reached correct temperature,
your oven will BEEP to let you know that
it has reached the correct temperature.
Then place your food in your oven: then
tell your oven to start cooking.
230°C
In the following example I will show you how to preheat the oven at a temperature of 230°C.
1. To preheat.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Press
CONVECTION
TurnDIAL until display shows
Press START.
Press START.
Preheating will be started with displaying “ Pr-H”.
mode.
“230°C”.
In the following example I will show you how to cook some food at a
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2. To cook.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
temperature of
230°C
for 50 minutes.
Convection
Cooking
If you do not set a temperature your
oven will automatically select 180°C.
The cooking temperature can be
changed by turn the DIAL.
The convection rack(low rack) must be
used during convection cooking.
Press
CONVECTION
TurnDIAL until display shows
Press START.
Turn DIAL until display shows "50:00"
Press START.
mode.
230°C
“”
.
Combination
1. GRILLCOMBINATION.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
20
30
Microwave Power(%)40Output Power
180W
270W
360W
1. GRILL COMBINATION.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
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Cooking
In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with micro power
40% and grill for a cooking time of 25 minutes.
Your oven has a combination cooking
feature which allows you to cook food
with heater and microwave at the same
time or alternately. This generally means
it takes less time to cook your food.
Press COMBI
Press MICRO to select the 360W power.
Turn DIAL until display shows “25:00”.
Press START.
When cooking you can use by turning DIAL to increase or decrease
cooking time.
Be careful when removing your food because the container will be hot!
once to select Grill Combi.
1. GRILLCOMBINATION.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with micro power 360 power and at a
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convection temperature 200°C for a cooking time of 25 minutes.
2. CONVECTION COMBINATION.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Combination
Cooking
Your oven has a combination cooking
feature which allows you to cook food
with heater and microwave at the same
time or alternately. This generally means
it takes less time to cook your food.
You can set three kinds of micro power
level(180,270 and 360W) in combi mode.
Microwave Power(%)40Output Power
20
30
180W
270W
360W
Press COMBI
Turn DIAL until display shows “200 °C ” .
Press MICRO to select the 360 power.
Turn DIAL until display shows “25:00”.
Press START.
When cooking you can use by turning DIAL to increase or decrease
cooking time.
Be careful when removing your food because the container will be hot!
twice to select Conv. Combi.
“0.6kg”.
Auto
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Cook
AUTO COOK allows you to cook most of
your favorite food easily by selecting the
food type and entering the weight of the
food.
Category
Jacket potatotime
Fresh vegetable
Frozen vegetable
Rice
Press
AUTO COOK
times
times
times
In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.6kg of jacket potato .
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Press AUTO COOK key of the required food type
in this example press
“Ac -1” appears on the display.
Choose medium sized potatoes 200 -220g.
Wash and dry potatoes. Pierce the potatoes several times with fork. Place the
potatoes on the metal tray. Adjust weight and press start. After cooking,
remove the potatoes from the oven.
Let stand covered with foil for 5 minutes.
CAUTION: The grill and surrounding oven will get very HOT. Use gloves.
Place vegetables in a microwave-safe bowl. Add water.
Cover with wrap. After cooking, stir and allow to stand.
Add amount of water according to the quantity.
Place vegetables in a microwave-safe bowl. Add water.
Cover with wrap. After cooking, stir and allow to stand.
Add amount of water according to the quantity.
** Rice - After cooking, stand covered for 5 minutes or until water is absorbed.
** Pasta - During the cooking, stir several times. After cooking, stand 1 or 2
minutes. Rinse pasta with cold water.
Auto
“1.4kg”.
The temperature and density of food varies, I would recommend that the food is checked before cooking
commences. Pay particular attention to large joints of meat and chicken, some foods should not be
completely thawed before cooking. The BREAD programme is suitable for defrosting small items such as
rolls or a small loaf. These will require a standing time to allow the centre to thaw. In the following
example I will show you how to defrost 1.4 Kg of frozen poultry.
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Defrost
Your oven has four microwave defrost
settings:- MEAT, POULTRY, FISH and
BREAD; each defrost category has
different power settings. Repeated
presses of the
will select a different setting.
button
Category
CLOCK
CLOCK
/
AUTO DEFROST
/
AUTO DEFROST
Press
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Weight the food that you are about to defrost. Be certain to remove any
metallic ties or wraps; then place the food in your oven and close the
oven door.
AUTO DEFROST
Press
programme.
Enter the weight of the frozen food that you are about to defrost.
Turn DIAL until display shows
twice to select the POULTRY defrosting
MEAT
POULTRY
FISH
BREAD
time
times
times
times
Press START.
During defrosting your oven will “BEEP”, at which point open the oven door, turn food over and separate to
ensure even thawing. Remove any portions that have thawed or shield them to help slow down thawing. After
checking close the oven door and press START to resume defrosting.
Your oven will not stop defrosting (even when the beep sounded) unless the door is opened.
AUTO WEIGHT DEFROST GUIDE
0.1 ~ 0.5 kg
Paper towel
or flat plate
Sliced bread, Buns, Baguette, etc.
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* Food to be defrosted should be in a suitable microwave proof container and place uncovered on the glass turntable.
* If necessary, shield small areas of meat or poultry with flat pieces of aluminum foil. This will prevent thin areas
becoming warm during defrosting. Ensure the foil does not touch the oven walls.
* Separate items like minced meat and chops as soon as possible.
* When BEEP, at this point remove the food from the microwave oven, turn the food over and return to the microwave oven. Press start to continue. At the end
of the program, remove the food from the microwave oven, cover with foil and allow to stand until completely thawed. To thaw completely , for example joints
of meat and whole chickens should STAND for a minimum of 1 hour before cooking.