LG MC8486NL User Manual

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MICROWAVE/GRILL/CONVECTION OVEN

OWNER’S MANUAL

PLEASE READ THIS OWNER’S MANUAL THOROUGHLY BEFORE OPERATING.

MC8486NL

P/No: MFL33306602

Precautions

Precautions to avoid possible exposure to excessive microwave energy.

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.

Warning

Please ensure cooking times are correctly set as over cooking may result in the FOOD catching fire and subsequent damage to your oven.

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:

1Avoid using straight sided containers with narrow necks.

2Do not overheat.

3Stir the liquid before placing the container in the oven and again halfway through the heating time.

4After 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.

Warning

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.

Contents

How the Microwave Oven Works

Microwaves are a form of energy similar to radio and television waves and ordinary daylight. Normally, microwaves spread outwards as they travel through the atmosphere and disappear without effect. Microwave ovens, however, have a magnetron which is designed to make use of the energy in microwaves. Electricity, supplied to the magnetron tube, is used to created microwave energy.

These microwaves enter the cooking area through openings inside the oven. A turntable or tray is located at the bottom of the oven. Microwaves cannot pass through metal walls of the oven, but they can penetrate such materials as glass, porcelain and paper, the materials out of which microwave-safe cooking dishes are constructed.

Microwaves do not heat cookware, though cooking vessels will eventually get hot from the heat generated by the food.

A very safe appliance

Your microwave oven is one of the safest of all home appliances. When the door is opened, the oven automatically stops producing microwaves. Microwave energy is converted completely to heat when it enters food, leaving no “left over” energy to harm you when you eat your food.

Precautions

Contents

Unpacking & Installing

4 ~ 5

Custom Set (Setting the Clock)

Child Lock

Quick Start

Micro Power Cooking

Micro Power Level

Two Stage Cooking

Grill Cooking

Grill Combination Cooking

Keep Warming

EZ Clean

Speed Hot Air Preheat

Speed Hot Air Cooking

Convection Combination Cooking

Convection Preheat

Convection Cooking

Auto Cook

21 ~ 25

Speed Cook

26 ~ 28

Auto Reheat

29 ~ 30

Auto Defrost

31 ~ 32

Heating or Reheating Guide

Fresh Vegetable Guide

Defrosting Guide

Grill Cooking Guide

Convection Cooking Guide

37 ~ 38

Metal Tray Cooking Guide

39 ~ 40

Speed Hot Air Cooking Guide

Important safety instructions

42 ~ 43

Microwave-safe Utensils

Food characteristics & Microwave cooking

45 ~ 46

Questions & Answers

IEC Test Lists

Plug Wiring Information/Technical Specifications

Unpacking &

Installing

By following the basic steps on these two pages you will be able to quickly check that your oven is operating 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.

level location of your choice with but make sure there is at least

on the top and 10cm at the rear for proper

front of the oven should be at least 8cm from the surface to prevent tipping.

outlet is located on top or side of the oven. Blocking damage the oven.

HIGH RACK

LOW RACK

GLASS TRAY

		THIS OVEN SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL CATERING
METAL TRAY	ROLLER REST	PURPOSES

socket. Make
connected to the
properly, unplug it	time.
socket and then plug it back in.
DOOR HANDLE.	The DISPLAY will count down from 30 seconds. When it
and place the	reaches 0 it will sound BEEPS. Open the oven door and
GLASS TRAY on top.	temperature of the water. If your oven is operating the water
	warm. Be careful when removing the container it may
safe container with 300 ml (1/2 pint)
on the GLASS TRAY and close the oven
If you have any doubts about what type of container to
to page 44.

YOUR OVEN IS NOW INSTALLED

baby food jars shall temperature checked

in order to avoid burns.

Custom Set

Setting the Clock

You can set either12 hour clock or 24 hour clock.

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.

When your oven is plugged in for the first time or when power resumes after a power cut, a ‘88:88’ will be shown in the display; you will have to reset the clock.

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.

Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven as described earlier in this book.

Press Stop/Clear.

Press Custom Set once.

Turn Dial to select the clock setting.

Press Dial (display shows Turn Dial to select 12-HOUR or 24-HOUR).

Turn Dial to select the 24H.

Press Dial for hour confirmation.

Custom Set Function Table

No.	Function	Choices	Default

1	Clock	On(12H, 24H)	Off

2	Scroll	Slowest, Slow,	Normal
	Speed	Normal,
		Fast, Fastest

3	Language	GB/DE/FR/	GB
	Select	ES/IT/RU/NL

Turn Dial until display shows “14:00”.

Press Dial for hour confirmation.

Turn Dial until display shows “14:35”.

Press Dial.

The clock starts counting.

Child

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 “CHILD LOCKED” appears on the display and BEEP sounds.

The CHILD LOCK is now set.

To cancel CHILD LOCK press and hold Stop/Clear until “CHILD LOCKED” disappears. You will hear BEEP when it’s released.

Quick

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 Quick Start button.

Press Quick 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 up to 9 minutes 59 seconds by repeatedly pressing the Quick Start button and upto 99 minutes 59 seconds by using Dial.

In the following example I will show you how to cook some food on 800W(80%) power for 5 minutes and 30 seconds.

Micro Power

Cooking

Your oven has ten microwave Power settings.

Power Level	Power Output

10	1000W(Max.)
9	900W
8	800W
7	700W
6	600W
5	500W
4	400W
3	300W( )
2	200W
1	100W

Caution

Never use High rack, Low rack alone in Microwave mode

Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven as described earlier in this book.

Press Stop/Clear.

Turn Mode Dial to select Micro.

Turn Dial until display shows “800W”.

Press Dial for power confirmation.

Turn Dial until display shows “5:30”.

Press Start.

When cooking you can increase or decrease cooking time by turning

Dial.

Micro Power

Level

Your microwave oven is equipped with 10 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		USE	POWER OUTPUT
10 ( High)	• Boiling water.		1000W(Max.)

•Making candy.

•Cooking poultry pieces, fish, and vegetables.

•Cooking tender cuts of meat.

•Whole poultry.

9	• Reheating rice, pasta, and vegetables.	900W
8	• Reheating prepared foods quickly.	800W
	• Reheating sandwiches.

7	• Cooking egg, milk, and cheese dishes.	700W
	• Cooking cakes, breads.
	• Melting chocolate.

6	• Cooking veal.	600W
	• Cooking whole fish.
	• Cooking puddings and custard.

5	• Cooking ham, whole poultry, and lamb.	500W
	• Cooking rib roast, sirloin tip.
4	• Cooking less tender cuts of meat.	400W
	• Cooking pork chops, roast.

3	• Thawing meat, poultry, and seafood.	300W (	)

2	• Taking chill out of fruit.	200W
	• Softening butter.

1	• Keeping casseroles and main dishes warm.	100W
	• Softening butter and cream cheese.

In the following example I will show you how to cook some food in two stages. The first stage will cook your food for 5 minutes and 30 seconds on 800W(80%) the second will cook for 35 minutes on 400W(40%).

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.

In case of Auto Defrost cooking, you can cook the food in maxium three stages. (Auto Defrost + Stage 1 + Stage 2) Therefore you can Auto Defrost the food and cook it without resetting the oven at each stage.

Set the power and the cooking time for stage1.

Press Stop/Clear.

Turn Mode Dial to select Micro.

Turn Dial until display shows “800W”.

Press Dial for power confirmation.

Turn Dial until display shows “5:30”.

Press Dial.

( X 2 )

Set the power and the cooking time for stage2.

Turn Dial until display shows “400W”.

Press Dial for power confirmation.

Turn Dial until display shows “35:00”.

Press Start.

Grill

Cooking

In the following example I will show you how to use the grill to cook some food for 12 minutes and 30 seconds.

Press Stop/Clear.

Turn Mode Dial to select Grill.

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.

Turn Dial until display shows “12:30”.

Press Start.

When cooking you can increase or decrease cooking time by turning

Dial.

In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with micro power 200W(20%) and grill for a cooking time of 25 minutes.

Grill 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(20%, 40% and 60%) in combi mode.

Microwave Power

(%)(Watts)

20	200

40	400

60	600

Press Stop/Clear.

Turn Mode Dial to select Grill Combi.

Turn Dial until display shows “200W”.

Press Dial for power confirmation.

Turn Dial until display shows “25:00”.

Press Start.

When cooking you can increase or decrease cooking time by turning

Dial.

Be careful when removing your food because the container will be hot!

Keep

Warming	In the following example I will show you how to keep warming at the temperature of 90°C for 30 minutes.
Warming
	Press Stop/Clear.

Turn Mode Dial to select Keep Warm.

The oven has a temperature range of

30 °C~90 °C when keep warming is

selected.

When you press keep warming, 60 °C is

set initially.

If you press Start directly after keep

Turn Dial until display shows “90°C”.

warming was pressed, 99:59 is set

Press Dial.

automatically.

Your oven will take a few minutes to reach

Turn Dial to set keep warming time until display shows “30:00”.

the selected temperature.

Once it has reached correct temperature,

your oven will BEEP to let you know that

it has reached the correct temperature.

Press Start.

When cooking you can increase or decrease cooking time by turning Dial.

In the following example I will show you how to remove smell in the oven.

The oven has a special function to remove the smell in the oven with one touch.

You can use the EZ Clean function without food in the oven.

Press Stop/Clear.

Turn Mode Dial to select ez Clean.

Press Start.

(Time counts down automatically)

Clean

Speed Hot Air
Preheat	In the following example I will show you how to preheat the oven at a temperature of 230°C.

	Press Stop/Clear.

The oven has a temperature range of 100°C ~ 250°C. (180°C automatically available when speed hot air mode is selected.)

Turn Mode Dial to select Speed Hot Air.

Turn Dial until display shows “230°C”.

Press Start.

Preheating will be started with displaying “ PREHEAT”.

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