- General Electric Microwave Oven Owner's Manual

How to UseTemp HoId
Temp Hold is an especially handy feature of your mi-
crowave oven. It lets you hold foods at serving tem-
perature, keeping them “just-cooked” hot and fresh.
With the Temp Hold feature:
1. You can select a holding temperature between
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90° and 200”F.
2. You can select any Power Level you want.
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Because foods tend to stay moist and tender during
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microwaving, Temp Hold is the perfect way to keep
vegetables, casseroles, and even scrambled eggs
piping hot and ready to serve. Roasts, ham and
poultry, too, may be kept juicy and table ready with
this feature.
You can even warm up leftovers!
If you wish, you can set your oven to automatically
defrost, hold, time or temperature cook, and then
Temp. Hold. You must be sure, when you combine
Time Cook and Temp Hold, that the temperature
probe is placed in the food before starting the
microwave oven.
For temperature cooking and holding, you can
choose one finished temperature and power level for
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e cooking and if you want another
wer level for the Temp Hold cycle.
not turn off automatically so you
holding time. (Allow foods to hold
safe. Times vary depending on
amount.)
temperature and
Temp Hold does
can control the
only as long as
food type and
Things to remember when setting
your oven to microwave
Temp Hold.
● TO prevent spoilage, do not hold foods except
solid roasts at temperatures below 150° for more
than 2 hours.
HOW TO TEMPERATURE HOLD
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1. Insert probe in food
and attach probe to oven.
(If vou have iust Tem~
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“eked you; food, steps
.ne and two are already
done)
2. Touch TEMP HOLD.
Read out displays: O .
Select the holding tem-
perature. Oven will
automatically microwave
the food until it reaches
pre-set temperature, then
maintains temperature.
. Solid (not rolled) roasts may be held below 150°.
However, during the microwave roasting process,
a great amount of heat is stored in the roast. Keep-
ing the roast in the warm oven cavity during
TEMP/HOLD can cause a greater increase in in-
ternal temperature than when allowing the roast to
stand outside the oven on a kitchen counter. Tem-
peratures of up to 20° to 30° above the TEMP/
HOLD setting are possible. Because of this heat
storage, it is not possible to hold roasts at a rare
degree of doneness.
It is suggested that you first remove the roast from
the oven and let it stand, uncovered, for about 10 to
15 minutes before returning to TEMP/HOLD. Or, if
you know before cooking that you intend to hold a
solid roast at serving temperature, you may com-
pensate for the stored heat by undercooking the
roast. See your Cookbook for details.
How to speed up
Automatic Simmer recipes
The Automatic Simmer recipes in the Mcrowave
Guide and Cookbook were especially developed for
long slow cooking. However, you can speed up the
cooking process by using the Temp Hold feature and
following the instructions as given in the cookbook.
You can cut the time in half for most simmer-cooking
recipes with no risk of toughening because with the
temperature probe you do not exceed the recom-
mended temperature,
3. Select POWER LEVEL.
Oven will automatically
use High unless you
select another level. See
cookbook for suggested
power levels.
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4. Press START. The
oven will not shut off until
you touch the CLEAR/
OFF Pad.
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