Whirlpool MTZ080XY User Manual

User’s Manual
Model and serial number label
Auto &t guide
Doorbtches
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MICROWAVE OVENS
MTZ080xY
\-93
You are responsible for:
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Installing and leveling the oven on a surface strong enough to support its weight, and where it is protected from the elements.* The micro­wave oven should be at a temperature above 50°F (10%) for proper operation.
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Properly connecting the oven to electrical sup­ply and grounding it.*
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Operating the oven with the turntable in place.
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Making sure the oven is not used by anyone unable to operate it properly.
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Properly maintaining the oven.
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Using the microwave oven only for jobs expected of a home microwave oven.
* See the Installation Instructions on page 30.
PRECAUTIONS To AVOID POSSIBLE EXPOSURE To EXCESSIVE MICROWAVE ENERGY...
Do not attempt to operate this oven with the door open since open-door operation can result in harmful exposure to microwave energy. It is important not to defeat or tamper with the safety interlocks.
Do not place any object between the oven front face and the door or allow soil or cleaner resi­dure to accumulate on sealing surfaces.
Do not operate the oven if it is damaged. It is particualrly important that the oven door close 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.
Do not operate the microwave oven if the door window is broken.
The microwave oven should be checked for microwave leakage by qualified service person­nel after a repair is made.
The oven should not be adjusted or repaired by anyone except properly qualified service personnel.
Do not operate the microwave oven with the outer cabinet removed.
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Getting Acquainted

Microwave oven features

Your microwave oven is designed to make your cooking experience as enjoyable and productive as possible. To help get you up and running quickly, the following is a list of the oven’s basic features:
1. Door Button. Push button to open door. Door must be pressed firmly shut for oven to operate.
2. Door Safety Lock System.
3. Window with Metal Shield. Shield prevents microwaves from escaping. It is designed as a screen to allow you to view food as it cooks.
4. Glass Turntable. This turntable turns food as
it cooks for more even cooking. It must be in
oven during operation for best cooking
results. See page 36 for more details.
Model and Serial Number Label.
5. Defrost Guide.
6. Control Panel. Touch pads on this panel to
7. perform all functions. See page 6 for more details.
Light. Automatically turns on when oven is
6. operating.
Auto Set Guide.
9. External Oven Air Vents (on side).
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Getting Acquainted Continued

Control panel features

Your microwave oven control panel lets you select the desired cooking function quickly and easily. All you have to do is touch the necessary Command
Pad. The following is a list of all the Command and Number Pads located on the conlrol panel. For
more information, see pages 9-29.
1. Digital Display. This display includes clock and indicator lights to tell you time of day, cooking time settings and cooking functions selected. See page 9 for more information.
2. AUTO SET. Touch this pad to select up to ten preset cooking times, at the Cook Powers of your choice. AUTO SET provides a short-cut method for setting commonly-used cooking times. See pages 14 -16 for more information.
COOK 1. Touch this pad when cooking at only
3. one Cook Power or cooking automatically after defrosting. Touch COOK 1 to set the first Cook cycle when cooking at more than one Cook Power. This Command Pad is also the first pad touched when setting the Minute Timer or a delayed start time. See pages 12, 13, 18, 20, 27
and 28 for more information.
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COOK 2. Touch this pad to set the second Cook cycle when cooking at more than one Cook Power. Also use this pad to change standing time and to set the Cook cycle after a delayed start time has been set with COOK 1. See pages 17, 20 and 28 for more information.
QUICK DEFROST. Touch this pad followed by
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Number Pads to thaw frozen food before
cooking. See pages 16-17 for more information.
COOK POWER. Touch this pad followed by
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a Number Pad to set the amount of micro-
wave energy released to cook the food. The
higher the number, the higher the power or “heat”. See page 13 for more information. See Cooking Guide on page 39 for specific Cook Powers to use for the foods you are cooking.
7.
KEEP WARM. Touch this pad to keep food
warm for up to 99 minutes, 99 seconds. See
page 26 for more information.
8.
PAUSE. Touch this pad when you want the
oven to pause between Cook cycles. Pausing
between cycles gives you time to stir, turn over or rearrange the food, or to add ingredients. See pages 23-25 for more information.
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CLOCK SET. Touch this pad followed by Number Pads to set time of day. See pages
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Number Pads. Touch a Number Pad after
touching a Command Pad to tell the oven what time or Cook Power you wish to enter.
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“0” Number Pad. Touch this Number Pad when setting the Minute Timer or Delayed Start. See pages 27-29 for more information.
12. START. Touch this pad after setting a function on the microwave oven to start the function.
13. CANCEL. Touch this pad once to stop the oven or to cancel a reminder tone. Touch it twice to
remove the programming tone, reminder tone
and Minute Timer signal completely. See page
10 for more information.
14. DOOR OPEN BUTTON.
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Type of cooking
Pause
Keep warm
Delayed start
How you use it
1. Put food In the oven and close the door.
2. Touch in the deslred cooking instructlon
3. Touch PAUSE.
4. Touch in the desired cooking
instructlone tar COOK 2.
5. Touch START.
1. Put cooked, hot toad In the oven and
close the door.
2. Touch KEEP WARM.
3. Touch START.
1. Put in iood and close the door.
2. Touch COOK 1.
3. Touch Number Pads lor the length 01 delay you want.
4. Touch COOK POWER.
5. Touch “0” Number Pad.
6. Touch COOK 2.
7. Touch in the cooking time and Cook
Power.
6. Touch START.
for
COOK 1.
Why you use it
This mode lets you set the oven to pause between cycles for stirring. turning over or rearranging food, as well as for adding mgredlenls.
This mode lets you keep food warm ln your microwave oven for about 1 hour,
40 minutes.
This mode lets you set the mlcrowave oven to start aulomatbzally at a later time.
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Using Your Microwave Oven

Microwave oven controls

There are three parts in the control section:
- Digital Display/Clock and Indicator Lights
- Command Pads
- Number Pads Instructions for each control are covered on the
following pages. Read them carefully.
When you first plug in the oven, a tone will sound and the Display will show 88% If after you set the Clock (pages 10-l l), the Display again shows all 8’s, it means your electricity was off for a while. Reset the Clock.
Digital display/clock and indicator lights When you are not using the microwave oven, this
is an accurate digital clock.
When you are using the microwave oven, it displays time settings, temperature settings, and Indicator Lights.
Command pads Touch Command Pads to tell the microwave oven
what to do and in what order. A few examples:
- CLOCK SET tells the oven you are going to set
the clock.
- START tells the oven to start.
(See page 10 for information on the tone you hear when touching any pad.)
Each Command Pad (except START, CANCEL, and CLOCK SET) lights an Indicator Light when you touch the Command Pad.
While the oven is running, an Indicator Light (or lights) will be on to show what the oven is doing.
Number pads Once you’ve touched a Command Pad to tell the
oven what you want it to do, you’ll touch Number Pads to tell it...
- a time,
- a Cook Power.
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Audible signals

Audible signals are available to guide you when setting and using your oven. A programming tone will sound each time you touch a pad. Two beeps will sound between cycles. A reminder tone will sound every 30 seconds after cooking is done to remind you that something has been left in the oven. Four beeps signal the end of the Minute Timer function and a Cook or Defrost cycle. If you don’t hear a tone, it is because of incorrectly entered instructions or because the tones have been removed. For example, a tone will not sound if you touch a Number Pad before you touch a Command Pad.
To remove the programming tone:
1. Open the door.
2. Touch CANCEL twice, then touch START.
3. Programming and reminder tones will be cancelled.
To replace the tones:
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Repeat the steps above.
To remove all tones:
1. Open the door.
2. Touch CANCEL twice, touch 0, then touch
START.
3. All audible tones (including Minute Timer signal)
will be cancelled.
NOTE: Do not remove all tones if you use the Minute Timer.
To replace the tones:
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Repeat the steps above.
NOTE: If your electricity goes off, the audible signals will come back on. Repeat steps above if you want to remove them again.
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Setting the clock

When the oven is first plugged in, a tone sounds and the Display shows E&88. If the electric power ever goes off, the Display will again show all 8’s when the power comes back on.
You can cook without setting the clock, but the
Display will be blank after cooking.
1. To set the clock, touch CLOCK SET. The Display will show a “0” and the colon will
start to flash. The first Number Pad must be touched within 5 seconds or the Display will go blank. If the Display goes blank, touch CLOCK SET again and continue.
2. Touch Number Pads for the correct time of day. The Display will show what numbers you touched in the order you touched them. This example shows 3:25.
3. Touch START. The colon will stop flashing. The Clock is set.
If you have touched in an incorrect time, such as 12:65, “Err” will show on the Display. Touch CLOCK SET and start over.
NOTE: To M the clock, touch CLOCK SET. The current time will show on the Display and the colon will flash. Continue to set the clock as shown
above.
Cooking in your microwave
Although a new rating method’ rates these ovens at 550-600 watts, you may use a reliable cookbook with recipes developed for 500 watt microwave ovens.
Important things to remember to get the best cooking results.
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ALWAYS cook food for the minimum recommended cooking time. If necessary, add time in one or two minute periods, then check for doneness to avoid overcooking the food.
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Stir, turn over or rearrange the food being cooked about halfway through the cooking time for most even doneness with all recipes.
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If a glass cover is not available, use waxpaper, paper towels or microwave approved plastic wrap. Turn back a corner to vent steam during cooking.
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ALWAYS cook food with turntable in place.
* The IEC-705 Test Procedure Wattage Rating. The IEC-705 Test Procedure is an internationally­recognized method of rating microwave wattage output and does not represent an actual change to output power or cooking performance.
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Using Your Mlcrowave Oven Continued

Cooking at high cook power

Follow these steps lo cook at HIGH power:
Put food in the oven and close the door.
Touch COOK 1. The COOK 1 Indicator Light will come on and the Display will show four O’s
Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you want The Display will show the numbers you touched in the order you touched them. The example shows 1 minute. 30 seconds.
Touch START. The oven will automatically cook at HIGH Cook Power.
The COOK 1 Indicator Light will stay on to
show that the oven is cooking in the first cycle.
The Display counts down the time to show
how much time is left in the first cycle.
When the cooking time ends, “End” will show on the Display and 4 beeps will sound. (You can stop the beeping by opening the door or by touching CANCEL.) “End” will remain on the Display and a reminder tone will sound every 30 seconds (to remind you that food is lefl in the oven) until the door is opened or CANCEL is touched. The Display will then show the time of day.
Changing the cooking time Cooking time can be changed any time before or
after touching START:
1. Touch COOK 1.
2. Touch Number Pads for new time.
3. Touch START. Cook 1 cycle will continue cooking for the
new time.
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Touch START. The COOK 1 and COOK POWER Indicator Lights will stay on to show that the oven is cooking in the first cycle at a Cook Power other than HIGH.
The Display counts down the time to show
how much cooking time is left in the first cycle
For 2 of every 10 seconds, the Display will
show the Cook Power you selected.
When the cooking time ends, “End” will show on the Display and 4 beeps will sound. (You can stop the beeping by opening the door or by touching CANCEL.) “End” will remain on the
Display and a reminder tone will sound every 30 seconds (to remind you that food is left in the oven) until the door is opened or CANCEL is touched. The Display will then show the time of day.
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Changing the cook power The Cook Power can be changed any time before
or after touching START:
1. Touch COOK POWER.
2. Touch a Number Pad for the new Cook Power.
3. Touch START. The cycle will cook at the new Cook Power for the original time. OR..
1. Touch COOK POWER twice if you want to change a lower Cook Power to HIGH.
2. Touch START.

Using AUTO SET

Auto Set provides ten preset times. One to nine minutes at HIGH Cook Power can be selected by touching AUTO SET and the corresponding
Number Pad (l-9). You don’t need to touch any additional Number Pads as you do when using COOK 1 or COOK 2. This provides a short-cut method for setting commonly used cooking times.
The AUTO SET chart included with your microwave oven and the AUTO SET guide on the inner door panel helps you cook various food items without having to look up the cooking times.
A preset time of 2 minutes, 30 seconds at HIGH Cook Power is available by touching just the AUTO SET pad. The time may be changed to any time from O-99 minutes, O-99 seconds, allowing you to store your favorite cooking time and Cook Power, or to preprogram the oven forsomeone else to cook an already prepared dish at a later time. See page 16 for instructions.
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Changing the preprogrammed setting You can change the preprogrammed cooking time
and Cook Power in AUTO SET to the time and power you most often use. To change the AUTO SET setting, follow these steps:
1. Touch AUTO SET twice.
2. Touch the Number Pads for the new desired cooking time. If HIGH Cook Power is desired, skip to Step 5.
3. Touch COOK POWER.
4. Touch the Number Pad for the desired Cook
Power.
5. Touch AUTO SET. Touch CANCEL. The oven will remember that time and Cook Power for
future use.
NOTE: If electric power ever goes off, the oven will go back to the preprogrammed 2 minutes, 30 seconds at HIGH Cook Power setting.

Defrosting

Use QUICK DEFROST to thaw frozen food before cooking. For suggested defrost times, see
the guide behind the oven door.
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1. Put frozen food in the oven and close the door.
3. Touch Number Pads for the defrosting time you
want. The Display will show the numbers you touched in the order you touched them. This example shows 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
4. Touch START. The QUICK DEFROST Indicator
Light will stay on to show that the oven is in the
Quick Defrost cycle.
The Display counts down the time to show
how much defrosting time is left.
When the defrost time ends, “End” will show on the Display and 4 beeps will sound. (You can stop the beeping by opening the door or by touching CANCEL.) “End” will remain on the Display and a reminder tone will sound every 30 seconds (to remind you that food is left in the
oven) until the door is opened or CANCEL is
touched. The Display will then show the time of day.
Using PAUSE with QUICK DEFROST If the defrosting instructions call for stirring or
turning over the food in the middle of the defrost cycle, program PAUSE after QUICK DEFROST. See pages 24-25 for more information.
Standing time after defrosting For best results, allow the food to stand for a while
after defrosting. This helps equalize the tempera­ture of the food to provide more even defrosting.
When COOK 1 follows QUICK DEFROST, the oven automatically provides a standing time equal to the time touched in for QUICK DEFROST. COOK 1 will begin after the automatic standing time. See “Cooking automatically after defrosting, I’ page 16.
For a different standing time:
1. Touch QUICK DEFROST and the desired time.
2. Touch COOK 2.
3. Touch Number Pads for the desired standing
time.
4. Touch COOK POWER.
5. Touch “0” for zero Cook Power.
6. Touch START.
When QUICK DEFROST is over, the oven will shut off. Two beeps will sound. The Display will count down the new standing time programmed.
About the Quick Defrost cycle The microwave oven automatically divides the time
set for the Quick Defrost cycle into three equal parts:
First part 60% of full Cook Power
Second part ._.... 50% of full Cook Power
Third part . . . . . . . . 20% of full Cook Power
This automatic step-down in Cook Power helps
defrost food quickly and completely.
Changing or addlng defrost time You can change the defrosting time any time
before or after touching START.
1. Touch QUICK DEFROST.
2. Touch Number Pads for new time.
3. Touch START. Any new time settlng made while Quick Defrost
is operating will continue the defrosting at only 2O?h of full power.
The best time to change the setting is near the end of the Quick Defrost cycle.
1. Open the door.
2. Check the food with a long-tined fork; if center area is hard frozen, set additional time. R4 member that standing time is necessary to complete defrosting.
3. Close the door and touch START to continue the cycle if no additional time is needed. OR... Touch in new instructions for additional defrost­ing time.
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Select a Cook Power. To cook at HIGH power, skip to Step 10. To select another Cook Power, touch COOK POWER. The COOK POWER Indicator Light will come on and the Display will show “P-HI”. This shows the oven is prepro­grammed to cook at full (HIGH) power.
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Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want in the second cycle. The Display will show what you touched. This example shows you touched Number Pad 4 for 40% of full power.
Touch START. When you touch START, the
10. COOK 1 Indicator Light will stay on while the oven is cooking in the first cycle. The COOK POWER Indicator Light will be on if you are using a Cook Power other than HIGH. All other Indicator Lights will go off.
The Display counts down the cooking time to
show how much time is left in the first cycle.
For 2 of every 10 seconds, the Display will show the Cook Power you selected, if you are using a Cook Power other than HIGH.
You will hear 2 beeps at the end of the Cook 1 cycle. You can either open the door to check, stir or turn over the food, etc., or you can let the oven start the next cycle. If you do dpen the door, touch START after closing the door to restart the oven.
The COOK 2 Indicator Light will be on during the second cycle. The COOK POWER Indicator Light will also be on if you are using a Cook Power other than HIGH.
The Display counts down the time to show how much time is left in the second cycle.
For 2 of every 10 seconds, the Display will show the Cook Power you selected, if you are using a Cook Power other than HIGH.
When the Cook 2 cycle ends, “End” will show on the Display and 4 beeps will sound. (You can stop the beeping by opening the door or by touching CANCEL.) “End” will remain on the Display and a reminder tone will sound every 30 seconds (to remind you that food is left in the oven) until the door is opened or CANCEL is touched. The Display will then show the time of
day.
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