Whirlpool MW8550XL, MW8600XL User Manual

Microwave Oven Models MW8550XL and MW8600XL

Vents (Not Shown)

Control Panel

Model and Serial Number Plate

Copy Your Model and Serial Numbers Here

If you need service, or call with a question, have this

Information ready: 1 Complete Model and Serial Numbers (from the plate just

behind the microwave oven door on the oven frame).

2. Purchase date from sales slip (or date installed). Copy this information in these spaces. Keep this book,

your warranty and sales slip together in a handy place.

El-Level Cooklng Rack

(Model MW8600XL only)

Control Panel ON/OFF Switch

Model Number

Serial Number

Purchase/lnslallatlon Date

SerVlCe Company

and Phone Number

(not shown)

Contents

Page

Responslbllltles 2

Installation 2 Proper, Safe Use 3 Precautions to Avoid Possible

Exposure to Excessive Microwave Energy 3

‘Using the Mlcrowave Oven 4

Using the Minute Timer 5

The Safety Switch 5

Cooklng in One Cycle 6

High Cook Power 6 Lower Cook Powers 6

Defrosting

Foster or Slower Defrosting 8

Cooking in More Than One

Cycle ,........I..,.......I,..I. 9

Cooking Automatically after

Defrosting 11

Cooking with The Temperature

Probe 14

Changing or Cancelling

Instructions 16 Other Operating Instructions 16 Cleaning the Microwave Oven 16 Bi-Level Cooking Rat k 17 Replacing the Llght Bulb 17

Important InformatIon, 18 How Microwave Ovens Work 20 Bulldlng In Your Mlcrowave Oven 20 If You Need Service or Assistance. 27

I. Before Calling For Assistance. 21

2. If You Need Assistance 2 1

3. If You Need Service 22

4. If You Hove a Problem 22

Y&r respodbilities.. .

Fill out and return the “Mlcrowave Reglstratlon Cardl’attached to the oven door.

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1. Empty the microwave

oven and clean inside It with

a soft damp cloth.

4. For your safety, thls oven must be arounded. DO NOT REMOVE THE THIRD PRONG FROM THE PLUG. You must hove CI quaIlfled electrician pui in the right outlet If yours does not have the J-prong plug-in, or if the outlet IS not grounded accordtng to National Electncal Codes and local codes or ordinances.

The outlet must supply 120 volts, 60 Hz., A.C. When the oven is on, it will use about 1375 watts. It should not shore a circuit wlth another applrance.

2. Put the oven on a cart, counter, table or shelf that is strong enough to hold the oven. (The control side ot the unlt Is the heavy slde. Handllng can be trtcky.)

5. Put about one cup [250 ml] of cold water

In a gloss container in the oven. Close the door Make sure it locks Follow the drrections on page 4 to set the oven to COOK for 1’ I

Do not block vents on back of the oven. Blockrng vents con cause poor cooking results

minutes. When the time IS up, the water should be heated.

6. Fill out and return the “Mlcrowave Regls-

tratlon Card”attached to the oven door. If

the cord is missrng, please send the model pnd serial number of your microwave oven, with your name and address to.

Whirlpool Corporation Microwave Registration Deportment Admintstratrve Center 2000 US 33 North Benton Harbor, Michigan 49022

This information will help us reach you if

there

about your mrcrowove oven

ever a need to pass along information

Proper, safe use

Your microwave must be...

Installed according to the installation instructions.

Protected from the weather.

Used only for jobs expected of home micro-

wave ovens.

DO NOT cook or reheat whole eggs in the microwave oven. Steam build-

NEVER start the oven when

it’s empty. The oven can be

damaged.

up can cause an egg to burst. Damage to the oven or injury to the user may result.

Used only by people who can properly

Kept clean and in good repair.

DO NOT use the oven until you have read and understand ALL the information on safe use.

Operate

Using your microwave oven

MICROWRVE OVEN CONTROLS

When You first plug in the oven, the Display

WIII show “88:88”irthe Control Panel ON/OFF

swatch IS ON (see page 5). If the Display ever

again shows all 8’s, it means your electricity was off for a while or that the Control Panel ON! OFF Switch was turned OFF and then back ON. To clear the 8’s from the Display, touch CANCEL [the colon remarns on) or touch In cooking instructrons

One note. The Command and Number Pads are not buttons. You don’t have to push them...just touch them.

DIGITAL DISPLAY

When you are using the mrcrowave oven, this acts as a display It counts

down time settings and It shows you what

number pads You touched

COMMAND PADS AND SIGNAL LIGHTS

Touch Command Pads to tell the microwave oven what to do and in what order.

A few examples:

-COOK CYCLE 1 (or 2) tells the oven You are going to cook

-COOK POWER

tells the oven

you are going to cook at less than full power.

- START tells the oven to start. Each Command Pad has its own Signal

Light (except START and CANCEL). The Signal Light comes on when you touch the Command Pad.

While the oven is running, a Signal Light (or

lights) will be on to show what the oven is

doing.

L Control Panel ON!

NUMBER PADS

the oven what vou

OFF Switch

USING THE MINUTE TIMER

The Minute Timer does not start or stop cooking; it works like a kitchen timer. Set in minutes or seconds and you will hear a beep when the set time is up. The oven door must be closed before setting the Minute Timer.

DO THIS...

1. Touch

2. Touch Number Pads for minutes and seconds.

MINUTE TIMER.

THIS HAPPENS...

The MINUTE TIMER Signal Light will come on

and the Display will show a “0.” Within 5 seconds start touching number pads for the desired time.

The Display will show what numbers you touched in the order you touched them.

This example shows? minute, 45 seconds.

The MINUTE TIMER Signal Light will stay on to

show that the Minute Timer is running.

Touch START.

count

own

The Minute Timer can be used when the oven is cooking.

Opening the microwave oven door does not stop the Minute Timer.

The Display counts down the seconds to show how much time is left on the Minute Timer.

When the set time is up, you will hear a

beep and the Display will show a “0”. To

remove the “O”, touch CANCEL.

3. If you open oven door and reset the Minute Timer touch START twice to start the

Minute Timer and to restart the oven.

To change or cancel the Mlnute Tlmer:

1. Touch MINUTE TIMER.

2. Touch number 0 to cancel, or

2. Touch desired new number pads to change. Then:

3. Touch START.

THE CONTROL PANEL

ON/OFF SWITCH

Just Inside the microwave oven door, on the control panel frame, is a Control Panel ON/ OFF Switch The switch is designed to keep

“busy little fingen” from using the oven.

When the switch is OFF, the oven cannot be used and the Drsplay WIII be dark. The switch must be ON to cook in the mrcrowave oven and to use the Minute Trmer. The colon (:] stays

on when the switch

ON.

COOKING IN ONE CYCLE

Follow these steps to cook at one power level

HIGH COOK POWER

DO THIS... THIS HAPPENS...

Put food in the oven and close the door.

Touch COOK CYCLE 1.

Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you want.

The oven will automatically cook at high Cook Power.

The COOK CYCLE 1 Signal Lrght WIII come on and the Display WIII show 4 O’s

The Display will show the numbers you touched in the order you touched them.

This example shows 4 mrnutes. 30 seconds.

The COOK CYCLE 1 Signal Lrght WIII stav on to show that the oven IS cookrng in the first cycle.

The Display counts down the time to show how much cookrng time is left In the first cycle.

When the cooking time ends you 4 beeps. (You can stop the beeping by opening the oven door or touching CANCEL.) When the beeprng stops, the Display will show only the ” “.

LOWER COOK POWERS

For best results, some recipes call for lower Cook Powers Lowerrng the Cook Power

slows the cooking The lower the Cook Power, the slower the cookrng Each Number

Pad on Your microwave oven stands for a different percentage of Cook Power. Many

recipes In Your MICRO MENUS Cookbook tell you, by number, which Cook Power to use Recrpes In other books and magazines may tell by percentage (10%. 50%. 80%. etc )

The followrng chart gives you the percentage of Cook Power each Number Pad

stands for. and the Cook Power name usually used

automatic 100% of full power HIGH

9 0

7 6 5 4 3 2

90% of full power 80% of full power 70% of full power MED-HI 60% of full power 50% of full power MED 40% of full power 30% of full power MED-LO 20% of full power

10% of full power LOW

you

by name (HI. MED. LO, etc ) or

will

Tmk

hear

DO THIS...

Put food in the oven and

close the door.

2. Touch COOK CYCLE 1.

Touch Number Pads for

the cooking time you want.

Touch COOK POWER.

THIS HAPPENS...

The COOK CYCLE 1 Signal Light will come on and the Display will show 4 0’s.

The Display will show the numbers you touched in the order you touched them. This example shows 7 minutes, 30 seconds.

The COOK POWER Signal Light will come on

and the Display will show 2 O’s

Touch a Number Pad for

5. the Cook Power you want.

6. Touch START.

The COOK CYCLE 1 and COOK POWER Signal Lights will stay on to show that the oven is cookrng in the first cycle at a Cook Power other than high.

Count The Display counts down the time to show

own

how much cooking time is left in the frrst cycle.

For 2 of every 10 seconds, the Drsplay will

show the Cook Power you selected. When the cookrng time ends. you WIII hear

4 beeps. (You can stop the beeping by opening the door or by touchtng CANCEL) When the beeping stops, the Display WIII show only the” : ‘I

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