Contents Contents _________________________________________________2 How the Microwave Function Works Important Safety Instructions_________________________________3 ~ 16 Precautions_______________________________________________17 Microwaves are a form of energy similar to radio and television waves and Unpacking & Installing _____________________________________18 ~ 19 ordinary daylight. Normally, microwaves spread outwards as they travel Control Panel _____________________________________________20 through the atmosphere and disappear without effect.
Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide does not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
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Please keep for future reference. Read and follow all instructions before using your oven to Important Safety prevent the risk of fire, electric shock, personal injury, or damage when using the oven. This guide do not cover all possible conditions that may occur. Always contact your Instructions service agent or manufacturer about problems that you do not understand.
Precautions Precautions to avoid possible exposure to excessive microwave energy. You cannot operate your oven with the door open due to the safety interlocks When heating liquids, e.g. soups, sauces and beverages in your oven with built into the door mechanism. These safety interlocks automatically switch off microwave function, delayed eruptive boiling can occur without evidence of any cooking activity when the door is opened;...
Unpacking & 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 Installing oven make sure you remove all accessories and packing.
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Plug your oven into a standard household socket. Make Press the STOP/CLEAR button, and press sure your oven is the only appliance connected to the the START/Q-START button one time to set socket. If your oven does not operate properly, unplug it 30 seconds of cooking time.
Control Panel 1. DISPLAY WINDOW: You can see the mode function, time of day, cooking 5. FUNCTION DIAL: You can select the operating function. time, power level and cooking categories. 6. CONTROL DIAL: 2. Aussie Cook/Steam Cook: • You can set cooking time, temperature, weight and cooking categories. •...
Setting the 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. Clock Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven as described earlier in this book.
Child Lock Press STOP/CLEAR. Press and hold STOP/CLEAR until “L” and appears on the display Your oven has a safety feature that and BEEP sounds. prevents accidental running of the oven. The CHILD LOCK is now set. Once the child lock is set, you will be unable to use any functions and no The time will disappear on the display but will reappear on the display cooking can take place.
Quick In the following example I will show you how to set 2 minutes of cooking on high power (900 W). Start Press STOP/CLEAR. Press START/Q-START four times to select 2 minutes on HIGH The Quick Start feature allows you to set power (900 W).
In the following example I will show you how to cook some food on 600 W power for 5 minutes and 30 Microwave(Micro) seconds. Note: Steam or condensation forming inside the door or display can indicate that the cooking time or power Power Cooking levels are excessive.
Micro Power This oven is equipped with 5 power levels to give you maximum flexibility and control over cooking. The table Level below shows the examples of food and their recommended cooking power levels for use with this oven. * Boil Water Low Rack HIGH * Cook poultry pieces, fish, vegetables...
Grill In the following example I will show you how to use the Grill-1 to cook foods for 12 minutes and 30 seconds. Cooking Press STOP/CLEAR. Turn FUNCTION dial to select grill ( This feature will allow you to brown and Press Enter/Clock for grill confirmation.
Convection In the following example I will show you how to use the convection mode to cook food for 50 minutes at a Cooking 220 °C temperature. The convection oven has a temperature 1. To Preheat 2. To Cook range from 100 °C to 230 °C. Smaller Press STOP/CLEAR.
In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven at micro power 360 W and grill for a Speed combi cooking time of 25 minutes. NOTE: We do not recommend the use of aluminium foil during any Microwave or Speed Combi mode, as it Cooking can cause arcing when used incorrectly with trays which will damage the oven and cause fire.
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Speed combi In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven for micro power 360 W and at a Cooking temperature 200 °C for a cooking time of 25 minutes. Speed Combi Press STOP/CLEAR. (Co-4) Turn FUNCTION dial speed combi ( ) to select speed combination mode (Co-4).
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Speed combi In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven for:- micro power 360 W and at a Cooking convection temperature 200 °C for a cooking time of 25 minutes. Speed Combi Press STOP/CLEAR. (Co-5) Turn FUNCTION dial speed combi ( ) to select convection combination mode (Co-5).
Aussie In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.6 kg of jacket potatoes (Ac 8). Cook Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Aussie Cook/Steam Cook once ( Aussie Cook menus allow you to cook most of your favorite food quickly by selecting the food type and the weight of the food.
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AUSSIE COOK GUIDE Weight Category Utensil Food Temp. Instructions Limit Remove all food packaging. Frozen Ac 1 0.3~0.5 kg Metal tray Frozen Place food on the metal tray. Choose the menu and weight, press start. Pizza Spread frozen potato products out on the baking paper on the high rack on the French High rack metal tray.
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Weight Category Instructions Utensil Food Temp. Limit Brush beef with melted butter or oil and season as desired. Roast Low rack Place food on the low rack on the metal tray. Choose the menu and weight, press Ac 7 0.8~1.8 kg Refrigerated Beef on the Metal tray...
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Weight Category Instructions Utensil Food Temp. Limit Ingredients 9 lasagne sheets 500 g spaghetti sauce 600 g cheese sauce 300 g grated mozzarella cheese 30 g grated parmesan cheese Cook lasagne sheets according to package directions and drain. Spread about 125 g of spaghetti sauce in a 26 X 17 cm baking dish. Layer the 3 lasagne sheets, 300 g of cheese sauce, 125 g of spaghetti sauce and 100 g of mozzarella cheese.
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Weight Category Instructions Utensil Food Temp. Limit Ingredients 600-650 g meat mixture 2 puff pastry sheets, thawed (180~200 g/ sheet) 1 egg, lightly beaten On a lightly floured surface, roll out 1 puff pastry sheet into a circle and line a 20 cm pie tin.
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Weight Category Instructions Utensil Food Temp. Limit Choose pork chops of 200 g weight and 2.5 cm thickness each. Season with salt and pepper or as desired. Pork High rack Ac 11 0.2~0.8 kg Refrigerated Place food on the high rack on the metal tray. Choose the menu and weight, Chops on the Metal tray press start.
Steam In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.6 kg of whole fish. Cook Press STOP/CLEAR. This feature allows you to Steam cook. CAUTION: Press Aussie Cook/Steam Cook twice ( 1. Always use oven gloves when removing the STEAMER from the oven.
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STEAM COOK GUIDE Weight Instructions Category Utensil Food Temp. Limit 1. Clean vegetables and cut into similar sized pieces. Steam cover 2. Pour 200 ml tap water into the steam water bowl. Place the steam plate on the Steam plate steam water bowl.
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Weight Category Instructions Utensil Food Temp. Limit 1. Clean the food and season as desired. 2. Pour 200 ml tap water into the steam water bowl. Place the steam plate on the Steam cover steam water bowl. Place the prepared food on the steam plate in a single Steam plate layer.
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Weight Category Instructions Utensil Food Temp. Limit Steam cover 1. Pour 200 ml tap water into the steam water bowl. Place the steam plate on the Steam plate steam water bowl. Place the eggs on the steam plate. Cover with the steam St 9 Eggs 2~9 eggs...
Grill temp The following example will show you how to use food dry at a temperature of 80 °C for 20 minutes. Cooking Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Grill Temp/Healthy Fry once ( Turn CONTROL dial knob until display shows “Gt 3”. * Grill temp Category Press Enter/Clock for category confirmation.
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GRILL TEMP CONTROL GUIDE Instructions Category Range Utensil This function maintains a relatively low temperature compared to other cooking methods (such as baking, boiling, and frying), for many hours allowing unattended cooking of pot roast, stew, and other suitable dishes. 90 °C (Low) Setting The low setting gently simmers food for an extended period of time without overcooking or burning.
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Category Instructions Range Utensil With this function, you can dry fruit, veggies, and beef into healthy and nutritional snacks and tasty jerky without chemicals and preservatives. Place baking paper on the low rack on the metal tray and spread food into a single layer. Food dry guide Food type Preparation...
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Instructions Category Range Utensil How to make yogurt • Pour a 1000 ml milk into a proper heat-resistant bowl with cover. • Boil it to proper temperature (up to 60~70 °C) and then cool down to about 40 °C • Add 150 ml natural yogurt into a bowl and stir well. •...
Healthy In the following example I will show you how to cook 0.4 kg of chicken nuggets. Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Grill Temp/Healthy Fry twice ( Healthy Fry cooking makes food frying convient and easy. The oven has been pre-programmed to automatically fry foods by following the Healthy Fry Guide and instructions.
HEALTHY FRY GUIDE Weight Category Instructions Utensil Food Temp. Limit Ingredients Chicken breasts of 150~200 g per each. 1 cup flour 2 eggs, lightly beaten 1 cup finely ground breadcrumbs Crisp tray Salt and pepper to taste Chicken 0.2~0.6 kg on the High rack Refrigerated Schnitzel...
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Weight Instructions Category Utensil Food Temp. Limit Choose hamburger patties of 100 g weight and 0.5~1 cm thickness each. Crisp tray Place food on the crisp tray on the high rack on the metal tray. Choose the Hamburger 0.1~0.4 kg on the High rack Refrigerated menu and weight, press start.
Sensor In the following example I will show you how to cook fresh vegetables using this function. Cook Press STOP/CLEAR. Press Sensor Cook/Auto Defrost once ( This function automatically adjusts the cooking time to various and amounts of food. Turn CONTROL dial knob until display shows “Sc 3”. Press START/Q-START.
SENSOR COOK GUIDE Instructions Category Weight Limit Utensil Food Temp. Place food in an appropriately sized microwave-safe bowl. Cover with plastic Microwave-safe bowl wrap and vent. 1~4 cups Sc 1 Reheat Rice on the Low rack Room Place the bowl on the low rack on the metal tray. Choose the menu, press (200~800 g) on the Metal tray start.
The temperature and density of food varies, I would recommend that the food is checked before cooking Auto Defrost commences. Pay particular attention to large joints of meat and chicken, some foods should not be completely thawed before cooking. For example fish is cooked so quickly that it is sometimes better to begin cooking while still slightly frozen.
DEFROSTING GUIDE * Food to be defrosted should be in a suitable microwave proof container and should be placed uncovered on the metal tray. * If necessary, shield small areas of meat or poultry with flat pieces of aluminum foil. This will prevent thin areas becoming warm during defrosting. Ensure the foil does not touch the oven walls.
More or Less In the following example I will show you how to change the preset Aussie Cook programmes for a longer or Cooking shorter cooking time. Press STOP/CLEAR. Set the required Aussie Cook programme. If you find that your food is over or *See Aussie Cook guide (page.
In the following example I will show you how to remove minor odours from the oven. Deodorize Please note that this function will not remove odours which are a result of burnt foods or Microwave utensils, nor will it replace good cleaning and maintenance practices. Press STOP/CLEAR.
Microwave-safe Utensils Never use metal or metal trimmed utensils in using microwave function Paper Microwaves cannot penetrate metal. They will bounce off any metal object in Paper plates and containers are convenient and safe to use for microwave the oven and cause arcing, an alarming phenomenon that resembles function, provided that the cooking time is short and foods to be cooked lightning.
Food characteristics & Microwave cooking Keeping an eye on things Moisture content of food Since the heat generated from microwaves tends to evaporate moisture, relatively dry food The recipes in the book have been formulated with great care, but your success in such as roasts and some vegetables should either be sprinkled with water prior to cooking preparing them depends on how much attention you pay to the food as it cooks.
Food characteristics & Microwave cooking Stirring To Clean Your Oven Stirring is one of the most important of all microwaving techniques. In conventional cooking, food is stirred for the purpose of blending. Microwaved food, however, is stirred 1. Keep the inside of the oven clean in order to spread and redistribute heat.
Questions & Answers Q What’s wrong when the oven light will not glow? Q Is it possible to cook popcorn in this oven? A Yes, if using one of the two methods described below A There may be several reasons why the oven light will not glow. 1 Using Popcorn-popping utensils designed specifically for microwave Light bulb has blown cooking.
Microwave 1700 watt supply network which supplies buildings used for domestic purposes. Grill max. 1750 watt Power • You can download an owner's manual at http://www.lg.com. Consumption Combination max. 2150 watt 2150 watt Convection...
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