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Model
KCMC155J
Use & Care Guide
Microwave Oven
A Note to You ............................................2
Microwave Oven Safety ..........................3
Installation Instructions............................5
Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven..7
How your microwave oven works........7
How convection cooking works ..........7
How combination cooking works ........7
Microwave cooking tips........................7
Radio interference ................................9
For the best cooking results
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A Note to You ® Thank you for buying a KITCHENAID appliance! KitchenAid designs the best tools for the most important room in your house. To ensure that you enjoy many years of trouble-free operation, we developed this Use and Care Guide. It contains valuable information concerning how to operate and maintain your new appliance properly. Please read it carefully. Also, please complete and mail the enclosed Product Registration Card. For assistance or service Call the Customer Interaction Center
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Microwave Oven Safety Your safety and the safety of others are very important. We have provided many important safety messages in this manual and on your appliance. Always read and obey all safety messages. This is the safety alert symbol. This symbol alerts you to potential hazards that can kill or hurt you and others. All safety messages will follow the safety alert symbol and either the word “DANGER” or “WARNING.” These words mean: You can be killed or seriously injured if you don't wDANGER
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Microwave Oven Safety IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Do not operate any heating or cooking appliance – Remove wire twist-ties from paper or plastic • bags before placing bag in oven. beneath the microwave oven. Do not mount microwave oven over or near any – If materials inside the oven should ignite, keep • oven door closed, turn oven off, and disconnect portion of a heating or cooking appliance. the power cord, or shut off power at the fuse or Do not mount over a sink. • circuit breaker panel.
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Installation Instructions Before you begin operating the oven, carefully read the following instructions. 1. Empty the microwave oven. Clean the inside with a soft, damp cloth. Check for damage such as a door that isn’t lined up correctly, damage around the door, or dents inside the oven or on the exteri- or. If there is any damage, do not operate the oven until a designated service technician has checked it and made any needed repairs. 2. Put the oven on a cart, counter, table, or shelf that is
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Installation Instructions Electrical requirements GROUNDING INSTRUCTIONS For all cord connected appliances: Do not use an extension cord. If the power supply • cord is too short, have a qualified electrician or The microwave oven must be grounded. In the serviceman install an outlet near the microwave oven. event of an electrical short circuit, grounding reduces the risk of electric shock by providing an For a permanently connected appliance: • escape wire for the electric current. The The m
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven This section discusses the concepts behind microwave cooking. It also shows you the basics you need to know to operate your microwave oven. Please read this information before you use your oven. How your microwave oven How combination cooking works works Microwave energy is not hot. It causes food to make its Sometimes combination microwave-convection cooking own heat, and it’s this heat that cooks the food. is suggested to get the proper cooking results. It
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Starting temperature of food The length of the standing time depends on how • much food you are cooking and how dense it is. The lower the temperature of the food being put • Sometimes it can be as short as the time it takes into the microwave oven, the longer it takes to you to remove the food from the oven and take it to cook. Food at room temperature will be reheated the serving table. However, with larger, denser food, more quickly than food at refrigerato
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Cooking you should not do in your Oven utensils guide microwave oven You can use a variety of utensils and materials in Do not do canning of foods in the oven. Closed • your microwave-convection oven. To prevent dam- glass jars may explode, resulting in damage to the age to utensils and your oven, choose appropriate oven. utensils and materials for each cooking method. The Do not use the microwave oven to sterilize objects • list below is a general guide to h
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven When you use a browning dish, the browning • 3 dish bottom must be at least ⁄16 in. (5 mm) above Testing your dinnerware the turntable. Follow the directions supplied with or cookware the browning dish. Test dinnerware or cookware before using. To test Never cook or reheat a whole egg inside the • a dish for safe use, put it into the oven with 1 cup shell. Steam buildup in whole eggs may cause (250 mL) of water beside it. Cook at 100% cook them to burst,
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Microwave oven features 2 6 1 5 7 3 4 8 Your microwave oven is designed to make your 7. Cooking Guide Label. cooking experience enjoyable and productive. To help 8. Model and Serial Number Plate. get you up and running quickly, the following is a list 9. Convection Rack. (Part No. 8172251) Use to of the oven’s basic features: convection or combination cook. 1. Door Safety Lock System. The oven will not work 10. Broiling Rack (Part No. 8172252) (shown below).
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Control panel features Your microwave oven control panel lets you select a desired cooking function quickly and easily. The following is a list of all the Command pads located on 1 the control panel. For more information on these features, see “Using your microwave oven” section. 1. Display. This display includes a clock and indicators to tell you the time of day, cooking time 2 4 settings, cook powers, quantities, weights, and 3 cooking functions. 7 5 2. AU
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Control panel features Using PERSONAL (cont.) CHOICE You can select or change the following functions or Interrupting cooking displays by touching PERSONAL CHOICE: You can stop the oven during a cycle by opening the Function Choice door. The oven stops heating and the fan stops, but the light stays on. To restart cooking, close the door Sound volume Change to low, medium, high or off. and Weight Change to standard (lbs) or Touch START. metric (kgs). If you do
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Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven Setting the clock Using the minute timer When you first plug in your microwave oven, the You can use your microwave oven as a kitchen timer. display shows “ : ”. If the electric power ever goes off, the display will again show “ : ” when the power 1. Touch TIMER. comes back on. 2. Touch Number pads for desired time NOTE: You can cook without setting the clock, but the in hours:minutes. display will show “ : ” again after the cooking is com- pleted. For example
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Using Your Microwave Oven This section gives you instructions for operating each function. Please read these instructions carefully. Cooking at high cook Cooking at different cook power powers 1. Put the food in the oven and close the 1. Put the food in the oven and close the door. door. 2. Touch COOK TIME. 2. Touch COOK TIME. 3. Touch Number pads for desired time in 3. Touch Number pads for desired time in hours:minutes. hours:minutes. For example: For 10 minutes, touch “1 0” 4. Touch COOK POWE
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Using Your Microwave Oven COOK POWER NAME WHEN TO USE IT 50 = 50% of full power Medium Cooking ham, whole poultry, and pot roasts • Simmering stews • 40 = 40% of full power Melting chocolate • Heating bread, rolls and pastries • 30 = 30% of full power Medium-Low, Defrosting foods, such as bread, fish, meats, • Defrost poultry, and precooked foods 20 = 20% of full power Softening butter, cheese, and ice cream • 10 = 10% of full power Low Keeping food warm • Taking chill out of fruit • 6. Repeat
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Using Your Microwave Oven Weight conversion chart Using CUSTOM You are probably used to food weights as being in pounds and ounces that are fractions of a pound DEFROST 1 (for example, 4 ounces equals ⁄4 pound [113.4 g]). You can defrost food by choosing a category and set- If the weight on the food package is in fractions of a ting a weight. CUSTOM DEFROST has preset times pound, you can use the following chart to convert the and cook powers for 6 categories: Meat, Poultry, Fish, weight to dec
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Using Your Microwave Oven Using EASY START Using Warm Hold EASY START lets you cook food for 30 seconds at 100% cook power or, during any manual program, wWARNING you can use it to add 30-second increments. Food Poisoning Hazard NOTES: Do not let food sit in oven more than one hour Each time you touch EASY START, it will add 30 • before or after cooking. seconds up to 3 minutes, then will add 1 minute up Doing so can result in food poisoning or to a total of 10 minutes. sickness. You can ente
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Auto Sensor Cooking Your microwave oven has a sensor that detects the humidity released by the food. The amount Using AUTO SENSOR of humidity detected tells the oven how long to cook or heat your food. The sensor is used by COOK 3 special functions: AUTO SENSOR COOK, AUTO SENSOR REHEAT, and AUTO SENSOR To use AUTO SENSOR COOK: POPCORN. The simple instructions for these functions are on the following pages. 1. Put the food in the oven and close the door. NOTES: If you want to cook by entering a
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Auto Sensor Cooking Using AUTO SENSOR Using AUTO SENSOR REHEAT POPCORN AUTO SENSOR POPCORN lets you pop commercially 1. Put the food in the oven and close the packaged microwave popcorn with just one touch. door. NOTES: Pop only 1 package at a time. • 2. Touch AUTO SENSOR REHEAT until If you are using a microwave popcorn popper, • desired food type is displayed. follow manufacturer's instructions. AUTO SENSOR REHEAT will start automatically after a short delay. 1. Place the bag in the center o
