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Monogram.
Use and Care Guide
for ZMC1090 Series
Built-In
Microwave/Convection Oven
TM
Monogram.
Microwave/Convection Oven
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Introduction Your new Monogram microwave/convection oven The Monogram microwave/convection oven was makes an eloquent statement of style, convenience designed to provide the flexibility to blend in with and kitchen planning flexibility. Whether you chose your kitchen cabinetry. it for its purity of design, practical cooking features The information on the following pages will help or assiduous attention to detail—or for all of you operate and maintain your microwave/convection these reasons—
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HELP US HELP YOU… Before using your oven, read this Write down the model and serial numbers. guide carefully. See the Features of Your Oven section for model and serial number location. These numbers are also on the It is intended to help you operate and maintain your new Consumer Product Ownership Registration Card that microwave oven properly. Keep it handy for answers to came with your microwave oven. Before sending in this your questions. card, please write these numbers here: If you don’t u
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Read all instructions before using this appliance. When using electrical appliances, basic safety • Do not operate this appliance if it has a precautions should be followed, including the damaged power cord or plug, if it is not following: working properly, or if it has been damaged or dropped. WARNING–To reduce the risk of • See door surface cleaning instructions in the Care burns, electric shock, fire, injury to persons and Cleaning section(s) of this guide. or
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—Do not use the oven for storage purposes. Do • Sometimes, the oven floor and walls can not leave paper products, cooking utensils or become too hot to touch. Be careful touching the food in the oven when not in use. floor and walls during and after cooking. —If materials inside oven should ignite, keep • Foods cooked in liquids (such as pasta) may tend oven door closed, turn oven off, and disconnect to boil over more rapidly than foods containing power cord, or shut off power at the fuse or le
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) • Foods with unbroken outer ‘‘skin’’ • Hot foods and steam can cause such as potatoes, sausages, tomatoes, burns. Be careful when opening any apples, chicken livers and other giblets, containers of hot food, including and egg yolks (see previous caution) popcorn bags, cooking pouches and should be pierced to allow steam to boxes. To prevent possible injury, escape during cooking. direct steam away from hands and face. • Avoid heating baby food in glass j
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MICROWAVING TIPS • Make sure all cookware used in your microwave • Paper towels, waxed paper and plastic wrap oven is suitable for microwaving. Most glass can be used to cover dishes in order to retain casseroles, cooking dishes, measuring cups, custard moisture and prevent spattering. Be sure to vent cups, pottery or china dinnerware which does not plastic wrap so steam can escape. have metallic trim or glaze with a metallic sheen • Some microwaved foods require stirring, rotating can be used
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YOUR TOUCH CONTROL PANEL The touch control panel allows you to set the oven controls with the touch of a finger. It’s designed to be easy to use and understand. With your new oven, you have several cooking options. In addition to microwave or convection cooking, you have combination cooking, which uses both methods. Also sensor microwave cooking (Sensor Cook) and sensor microwave defrosting (Sensor Defrost), and sensor combination temperature cooking (Combination Roast). Or you may make your
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4 5 6 8 10 1 2 3 7 9 11 MICROWAVE CONVECTION SELECTIONS SENSOR
SENSOR
AUTO
MICRO
POWER
DELAY
COMBINATION
1
2
3
4
5
START START POPCORN REHEAT DEFROST COOK COOK LEVEL EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK SOUND
KITCHEN
REMINDER CLOCK COOK LEVEL TIMER SENSOR
SENSOR
TIME
TEMP
COMBINATION
ADD
0
CLEAR
CODES: 0-1-2-3 6 7 8 9 MINUTE BEVERAGE COOK DEFROST COOK/HOLD 30 SEC ROAST DISPLAY ON/OFF OFF PROBE PROBE 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 When You
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FEATURES OF YOUR OVEN 4 5 Do not use for microwave-only cooking. MICROWAVE CONVECTION SELECTIONS CONVECTION COMBINATION MICROWAVE MICROWAVE SENSOR COOKING SENSOR
SENSOR
AUTO
MICRO
COMBINATION
TIME
POWER
MIN/SEC
POWER
DELAY
CLEAR
COOK 1
2
3CLOCK
4
1 5
2 3 START 4 START 5 POPCORN POPCORN REHEAT DEFROST COOK COOK DEFROST
LEVEL EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK TIMER EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK LEVEL OFF SOUND
KITCHEN
COOK TIME
COOK REMINDER POWER CLO AUTO
CK COOK
LEVEL
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WHAT YOUR OVEN CAN DO The Microwave Sensor Cooking Features (Sensor Cooking with your new oven offers a wide variety of food preparation options. Microwave cooking Cook, Sensor Reheat and Sensor Popcorn) do your microwave cooking for you. They are easy and uses very short, high frequency radio waves. The movement of the microwaves through the food convenient—just follow the step-by-step instructions generates heat and cooks most foods faster than in this manual. A sensor detects steam from the
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COOKWARE AND ACCESSORIES Cookware Microwave Convection Combination Heat-Resistant Glass, YES YES YES ® Glass-Ceramic (Pyrex , ® Fire King , Corning ® Ware , etc.) Ceramic YES YES YES (Cookware with no metal trim) Metal NO YES NO Non Heat-Resistant Glass NO NO NO Microwave-Safe Plastics YES NO YES* Plastic Films and Wraps YES NO NO Paper Products YES NO NO Straw, Wicker and Wood YES NO NO *Use only microwave cookware that is safe to 400°F. Cookware Tips Convection Cooking Combination Cooking META
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HOW TO USE THE KITCHEN TIMER The Kitchen Timer Using a Holding Time The Kitchen Timer has 3 timing functions: The Kitchen Timer can also be used to program a “holding time” between microwave cooking functions. • It operates as a minute timer. The time can range from 1 second to 99 minutes and • It can be set to delay cooking. 99 seconds. A holding or standing time may be found in some of your own recipes or in a cookbook. • It can be used as a hold setting after defrosting. The Kitchen Timer ope
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COOKING BY TIME Micro Cook I Because automatic Power Level 10 is recommended Micro Cook allows you to microwave for a preset amount of time. for this cup of coffee, there is no need to change the power level. (If Power Level 10 is not appropriate, Power Level 10 (High) is recommended for most see ‘‘How to Change Power Level’’ below.) cooking, but you may change this for more flexibility. Step 4: Touch START. See the Cooking Guide. START To become better acquainted with time cooking, make a cup
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The Express Cook Feature The Express Cook feature is a short-cut method to To Express Cook your food or beverage: set time for 1-5 minutes at Power Level 10. Touch a number pad (from 1 to 5) for 1 to 5 minutes of cooking at Power Level 10. For example, touch the 1
2
3
4
5
2 pad for 2 minutes of cooking time. No need to touch EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK EXPRESS COOK START, the oven will start immediately. The oven will signal and turn off automatically when finished.
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DEFROSTING BY TIME Time Defrost (Power Level 3) To become better acquainted with the defrost Time Defrost is designed for speedy thawing of frozen food and is one of the great advantages of a function, defrost a 10 oz. package of frozen strawberries by following the steps below. microwave oven. Use the Time Defrost setting to quickly thaw foods Step 1: Place a package of frozen strawberries in the oven and close door. Be sure package contains such as bread, rolls, vegetables, fruits and frozen
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COOKING BY TEMPERATURE Internal temperature is the best test of doneness Temp Cook/Hold takes the guesswork out of cooking for many foods. because the oven automatically switches to ‘‘Hold’’ setting after reaching the preset food temperature Use Temp Cook/Hold to cook a variety of foods to and maintains that temperature until you touch the the desired finished food temperature. The Micro CLEAR/OFF pad. Cook setting is recommended for batters, doughs, frozen foods and foods which are difficult t
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AUTO DEFROST Auto Defrost With the Auto Defrost feature, the oven Use the Auto Defrost Guide. Enter the food weight in automatically sets the defrosting times and power pounds and tenths of a pound (see Conversion Guide below). Then touch START pad. levels for you. The oven calculates defrosting time and changes power levels during defrosting to give even defrosting results. How to Set Auto Defrost Before you begin, check the Auto Defrost Guide Step 4: Touch START pad. Display shows located in t
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AUTO DEFROST GUIDE RECOMMENDED MIN.–MAX. FOODS WEIGHT FIRST SIGNAL SECOND SIGNAL STAND TIME Meat Chops 0.1 - 6.0 lbs. Turn over. Separate and shield 5 minutes where necessary. Frankfurters, Sausage 0.1 - 6.0 lbs. Separate. Remove defrosted 2 minutes pieces. Ground Meat 0.1 - 6.0 lbs. Turn over. Remove defrosted areas 5 minutes and break apart. Beef Patties 0.1 - 6.0 lbs. Turn over. Separate patties. 5 minutes Roast 0.1 - 6.0 lbs. Turn over and Shield if necessary. 30 minutes shield. Ribs 0.1 - 6
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SENSOR POPCORN Step 3: Touch SENSOR POPCORN SENSOR
NOTE: Do NOT use the metal shelf with the pad. No need to touch START, the oven POPCORN Sensor Popcorn program. will start immediately. The Sensor Popcorn feature is designed to be used After the popcorn sensor only with prepackaged microwave popcorn weighing detects steam, the oven 3.0 to 3.5 ounces. signals and displays POWER remaining cooking Step 1: Remove the outer wrapper from the COOK time needed. TIME microwave popcorn. Step 2: Open o
