Microwave Oven Models MW8550XL and MW8600XL Vents (Not Shown) Control Panel El-Level Cooklng Rack (Model MW8600XL only) Model and Serial Number Plate Copy Your Model and Serial Numbers Control Panel ON/OFF Switch (not shown) Here have this Model Number 1 Complete Model and Serial Numbers (from the plate behind the microwave oven door on the oven frame). 2. Purchase date from sales slip (or date installed).
. Contents Page Responslbllltles Installation Proper, Safe Use Precautions to Avoid Possible Exposure to Excessive Microwave Energy ‘Using the Mlcrowave Oven Using the Minute Timer The Safety Switch Cooklng in One Cycle High Cook Power Lower Cook Powers Defrosting Foster or Slower Defrosting Cooking in More Than One Cycle ,........I..,.......I,..I. 3 4 5 5 6 6 6 8 8 9 Y&r respodbilities..
Proper, safe use Your microwave must be... l Installed according to the installation instructions. l Protected from the weather. l Used only for jobs expected of home microwave ovens. NEVER start the oven when it’s empty. The oven can be damaged. l l Used only by people who can properly Kept clean and in good repair. DO NOT cook or reheat whole eggs in the microwave oven. Steam buildup can cause an egg to burst. Damage to the oven or injury to the user may result.
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.
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. THIS HAPPENS... DO THIS... 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. 1. Touch MINUTE TIMER.
COOKING IN ONE CYCLE Follow these steps to cook at one power level HIGH COOK POWER DO THIS... 1. THIS HAPPENS... Put food in the oven and close the door. The COOK CYCLE 1 Signal Lrght WIII come on and the Display WIII show 4 O’s 2. Touch COOK CYCLE 1. The Display will show the numbers you touched in the order you touched them. This example shows 4 mrnutes. 30 seconds. Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you want. The oven will automatically cook at high Cook Power.
DO THIS... 1. THIS HAPPENS... Put food in the oven and close the door. The COOK CYCLE 1 Signal Light will come on and the Display will show 4 0’s. 2. Touch COOK CYCLE 1. The Display will show the numbers you touched in the order you touched them. This example shows 7 minutes, 30 seconds. 3. Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you want. The COOK POWER Signal Light will come and the Display will show 2 O’s 4. Touch COOK POWER. 5. Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want. 6. Touch START.
DEFROSTING Use DEFROST CYCLE to thaw frozen food before cookrng For suggested check the guide on the inside of the oven door or In your MICRO MENUS DO THIS... 1. defrost trmes Cookbook Tmk THIS HAPPENS... Put frozen food in the oven and close the door. The DEFROST CYCLE Signal Light will come on and the Display will show 4 O’s 2. Touch DEFROST CYCLE. The Display WIII show the numbers you touched in the order you touched them. This example shows 2 mrnutes, 30 seconds. 3.
COOKING IN MORE THAN ONE CYCLE For best results, some recrpes call for one Cook Power for a certain length of trme, and another Cook Power for another length of time Your oven can be set to change from one to the other, automattcally. DO THIS... 1. THIS HAPPENS... Put food in the oven and close the door. The COOK CYCLE 1 Signal Light will come on and the Display WIII show 4 O’s 2. Touch COOK CYCLE 1. The Drsplay will show the numbers you touched in the order you touched them.
COOKING IN MORE THAN ONE CYCLE CONTINUED The COOK POWER Srgnal Lrght WI/I come and the Drsplay WIII show 2 O’s or- Touch COOK POWER. (If you want the high Cook Power, skip to step IO.) Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want in the second cycle. 10. Touch START.
COOKING AUTOMATICALLY The controls can be set so the mlcrowave the Cook Cycles you have touched In. DO THIS... 1. AFTER DEFROSTING oven goes automatically from defrosting to THIS HAPPENS... Put frozen food in the oven and close the door. The DEFROST CYCLE Signal Light WIII come on and the Display ~111show 4 O’s 2. Touch DEFROST CYCLE. 3. Touch Number Pads for defrosting time you want.
COOKING AUTOMATICALLY AFTER DEFROSTING CONTINUED The Display WIII show what you touched This example shows 60% of full power 7. Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want in the first cooking cycle. The COOK CYCLE 2 Signal Lrght WIII come on and the Drsplay will show 4 O’s 8. Touch COOK CYCLE 2. (Option: Touch START if cooking in only one cycle after defrosting.) 9. Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you want in the second cooking cycle.
count d own P count down When the defrost time ends, the microwave oven automatically lets the food stand for the same amount of time used for defrosting. The Display counts down the standing time. During the countdown, the oven will be dark ond the fon w//l be off The defrost Signal Light will be on. When the standing trme is over, you will hear a beep and the first cooking cycle will start The Display counts down the time to show how much time IS left in the first cooking cycle.
COOKING WITH THE TEMP ERATURE PROBE Probe takes guesswork out of cookrng roasts and The MEAL SENSOR Temperature larger casseroles. The probe IS desrgned to turn off the oven when rt senses the temperature you want. For suggested temperatures for different foods, see your MICRO MENUS Cookbook Final food temperature settrngs are printed on Number Pads. DO THIS... 1. Insert at least 1 , of the temperature probe Into the food DO THIS... 2.
The COOK TEMP and COOK POWER LlgntS will stay on 8. Touch START. The left number on the display shows what temperature (number] you selected The right number shows you how the temperature IS nsrng In the food For 2 of every 10 seconds. the Display will show the Cook Power you selected If you are ustng a Cook Power other than high When the probe senses the temperature you selected.
CHANGING OR CANCELLING INSTRUCTIONS To change or cancel any lnstructlons you have touched, simply touch CANCEL, All instructrons WIII be cancelled The Display WIII show ” : ” and you can start over, If you want to change or cancel rnstructrons before you have touched START, simply touch In the new instructions They WIII cancel the old ones OTHER OPERATING HINTS These are a number of things you can do with your mrcrowave oven Some ~111be reminders Others WIII be mentioned for the first time 1 To double chec
BI-LEVEL COOKING RACK (Model MW86OOXL only) Use the Br-Level Cooking Rack when cookrng In more than one contarner The rack can be turned upslde-down to help fit taller containers on the bottom of the oven See the MICRO MENUS’ Cookbook provided wrth your oven. First Posltlon: Use the rack only when heating more than one container of food. Do not let a container touch the top of the oven. CLEANING SPECIAL CAUTIONS l l l l l l l Do not use with browning dish.
_I.MPORT?LNT INFORMATION Before you start using your rnlcrowave oven, read /nformot/on w/l help yo;&oid domoge lo your oven Metallic Metolllc Glaze carefully rhis Trim / Cookrng In metal containers can damage the oven. So can contarners with hldden metal (twist-ties.
Rough or harsh cleaners DO NOT store things In the can scratch or dull the oven oven frnlsh. DO NOT USE THEM. 2 ‘*r I// / \’ ‘j, P ,
HOW MICROWWE OVENS WORK Mtcrowave ovens are safe. Microwave energy IS not hot It causes make its own heat, and it’s this heat that cooks the food Mode Mixer \ food to Ceramic Magnetron / Bottom Oven .Cavity Metal Mrcrowaves are lake TV waves or lrght waves You can’t see them, but you can see what they do A magnetron in the microwave oven produces microwaves. The microwaves move into the oven where they are scattered or stirred by a mode mixer (like a fan).
If you need sertice or assistance, we suggest you follow these four steps: 1. Before calhg for assis tame.. . Performance problems often result from little things you can find and fix yourself without tools of any kind. If nothing operates: IS the oven correctly plugged into a live clrcult wrth the proper voltage? (See page 2.) .
3 l 4 If you need service ’ . . . Whirlpool has a nationwide network of franchised TECH-CARE service technicians are trained to fulfill the ~RAHCHISED SERVICE j product warranty and provide afterwarranty service, anywhere in the United States.