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OWNER’S MANUAL
MICROWAVE OVEN
PLEASE READ THIS OWNER’S MANUAL THOROUGHLY BEFORE OPERATING.
MH704
(optional, please check model specification)
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MFL67800604
www.lg.com
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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.
Precautions
When heating liquids, e.g. soups, sauces and beverages in your microwave
oven, overheating the liquid beyond boiling point 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 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.
Warning
Warning
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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
Contents
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 2
Contents 3
Unpacking & Installing 4 ~ 5
Setting the Clock 6
Child Lock 7
Micro Power Cooking 8
Micro Power Level 9
Two Stage Cooking 10
Quick Start 11
Grill Cooking 12
Combination Cooking 13
Continental Menu
Arabic Menu
European Menu
Oriental Menu
Auto Defrost 30 ~31
Quick Defrost 32 ~ 33
Timer 34
Important Safety Instructions
Microwave - safe Utensils
Food characteristics & Microwave cooking
Questions & Answers
Plug Wiring Information/Technical Specifications
14 ~
18 ~
22 ~
26 ~
35 ~ 39
40
41 42 ~
43
44
17
21
25
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Place the oven in the level location of your choice with
more than 85cm height but make sure there is at least
20cm 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.
Unpacking &
Installing
Unpack your oven and place it on a flat level
surface.
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.
THIS OVEN SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL CATERING
PURPOSES
GLASS TRAY
GRILL
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Open your oven door by pushing the Release Button.
Place the ROTATING RING inside the oven and place
the GLASS TRAY on top.
Plug your oven into a standard household socket.
Make 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.
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 40 .
Press the
START button
once to set
30 seconds of
cooking time.
You will hear
a BEEP when
you press the button.
Your oven will start
after you have finished
the press.
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
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Setting the
Clock
You can set either 12 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 ‘0’ 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
(If you want to use a 12 hour clock, Press
If you want to change different option after setting clock,
you have to unplug and plug it back in.)
Press 10 MIN fifteen times.
Press 1 MIN three times.
Press 10 SEC five times.
Press
The clock starts counting.
SET CLOCK
SET CLOCK
once.
SET CLOCK
to set the time.
once more.
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Child
Lock
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 if you have set the clock.
“L” remains on the display to let you know that CHILD LOCK is set.
To cancel CHILD LOCK press and hold STOP/CLEAR until “L” disappears.
You will hear BEEP when it’s released.
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 STOP/CLEAR.
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Micro Power
Cooking
Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven as described earlier
in this book.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Press MICRO twice to select 80%(720W) power.
“720” appears on the display.
Press 1 MIN five times.
Press 10 SEC three times.
Press
Your oven has five microwave Power
settings. High power is automatically
selected but repeated presses of the
MICRO key will select a different power
level.
In the following example I will show you how to cook some food on 80% power for 5 minutes and 30 seconds.
POWER
HIGH
MEDIUM
HIGH
MEDIUM
MEDIUM LOW
LOW
Press
MICRO
time
times
times
times
times
%
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
Power
Output
900W
720W
540W
360W
180W
START/Q-START
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Micro Power
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
POWER LEVEL (%)
HIGH * Boil Water
* 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
MEDIUM * Bake cakes and scones
* Prepare eggs
* Cook custard
* Prepare rice, soup
USE POWER OUTPUT
100%
80%
60%
900W
720W
540W
MEDIUM LOW
LOW * Soften butter & cheese
* Melt butter and chocolate
* Cook less tender cuts of meat
* Soften ice cream
* Raise yeast dough
* All thawing
40% 360W
20% 180W
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Two stage
Cooking
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Set the power and the cooking time for stage1.
(You can omit this process for HIGH power.)
Press MICRO once to select HIGH power.
Press 10 MIN once.
Press 1 MIN once.
Set the power and the cooking time for stage2.
Press MICRO four times to select
power.
Press 10 MIN three times.
Press 1 MIN five times.
Press
During two stage cooking the oven door
can be opened and food checked. Close
the oven door and press
At the end of stage1, BEEP sounds and
stage 2 commences.
Should you wish to clear the programme
press STOP/CLEAR twice.
In the following example I will show you how to cook some food in two stages. The first stages will cook your
food for 11 minutes on HIGH; the second will cook for 35 minutes on
360
cooking stage will continue.
and the
START/Q-START
.START/Q-START
360
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Quick
Start
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Press
Your oven will start before you have finished the fourth press.
During QUICK START cooking, you can extend the cooking time up to 10
minutes by repeatedly pressing the
The QUICK START feature allows you to
set 30 seconds intervals of HIGH power
cooking with a touch of the START key.
In the following example I will show you how to set 2 minutes of cooking on high power.
START/Q-START
four times to select 2 minutes on HIGH power.
START/Q-START
key.
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Grill
Cooking
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Press GRILL.
Set the cooking time.
Press 10 MIN once.
Press 1 MIN twice.
Press 10 SEC three times.
This model is fitted with a QUARTZ
GRILL, so preheating is not needed.
This feature will allow you to brown and
crisp food quickly.
In the following example I will show you how to use the grill to cook some food for 12 minutes and 30 seconds.
Press
.START/Q-START
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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.
The quartz heater grills the surface of
the food while microwave heats inside.
Moreover, preheating your oven is not
necessary.
In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with combi mode Co-3 for a cooking time
of 25 minutes.
Press STOP/CLEAR.
Press COMBI three times.
“Co-3” appears on the display.
Set the cooking time.
Press 10 MIN two times.
Press 1 MIN five times.
Press
When cooking you can use MORE/LESS key to increase/decrease
cooking time.
Be careful when removing your food because the container will be hot!
.START/Q-START
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Continental
Menu
CONTINENTAL MENU allows you to cook
most of your favorite food easily
by selecting the food type and
entering the weight of the food.
Continental Menu once.
In the fo llowing exa mple I wi ll s how y ou how to cook 0.4 kg of Couscous .
Category
Couscous
Jollof Rice
Fufu
Potato Gratin
Chicken Tagine
Press
Continental Menu
time
times
times
times
times
four times to enter 0.4 kg.
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