TKY or 9 KwToMAKEAHoML~ UseAndCare Tabe of Contents (compete)....2 A Note to You... 3 Microwave Oven Safety... 4 Instaation Instructions... 9 Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven... 11 Using Your Microwave Oven..... 18 Caring for Your Microwave Oven....27 Cooking Guide....28 Questions and Answers..... 31 Troubeshooting....32 Requesting Assistance or Service....34 Index... 35 Warranty....36 1-800-253-I 301 Ca us with questons or comments. MICROWAVE OVEN MODELS MT7076XD M7078XD PART NO. LIM-07111400/4392950 Rev. A MT7116XD MT7118XD
Tabe of Contents A Note to You... 3 Microwave Oven Safety... 4 Important safety instructions... 4 Precautions to avoid possibe exposure to excessive microwave energy....6 Operating safety precautions... 7 nstaaton Instructions... 9 Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven... 11 How your microwave oven works... 11 Microwave oven features... 13 Contro pane features..... 14 Setting the cock... 16 Using ADD MINUTE... 17 Usng Your Microwave Oven... 16 Getting the best cooking resuts... 16 Cooking at high cook power... 18 Cooking at different wok powers... 19 Cooking with more than one cook cyce... 21 Using BAKED POTATOES... 22 Using POPCORN... 23 Using FROZEN ENTREE... 24 Using DEFROST... 25 Defrosting Tips... 26 Carng for Your Mcrowave Oven... 27 Cookng Guide... 28 Reheating tips..... 28 Microwave cooking tips... 26 Questons and Answers... 31 Troubeshootng... 32 Requestng Assistance or Servce... 34 Index... 35 Warranty... 36 2
A Note to You Thank you for buying a WHIRLPOOL@ appiance. Because your ife is getting busier and more compicated, WHIRLPOOL microwave ovens are easy to use, save time, and hep you manage your home better. To ensure that you enjoy years of troube-free operation, we deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It is fu of vauabe information about how to operate and maintain your appiance propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Aso, pease compete and mai in the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. The card heps us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Pease record your mode s information. Whenever you ca to request service for Mode Number your appiance, you need to know your Seria Nrmber compete mode number and seria number. You can find this information on the mode Purchase Date and seria number pate (see diagram on Deaer Name page 13 for ocation of pate). Deaer Address Pease aso record the purchase date of your appiance and your deaer s name, Deaer Phone address, and teephone number. Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. I Our Consumer Assistance Center 1-800-253-1301 1 number is to-free 24 hours a day. 3
Microwave Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety statements under warning symbos. Pease pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the use of the symbo. Oven Safety This symbo wi hep aert you to such dangers as fire, eectrica shock, burns, and oersona iniurv. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Microwave ovens have been thoroughy tested for safe and efficient operation. However, as with any appiance, there are specia instaation and safety precautions which must be foowed to ensure safe and satisfactory operation and prevent damage to the unit. Read a instructions before using the microwave oven. Read and foow the specific PRE- CAUTIONS TO AVOID POSSIBLE EXPOSURE TO EXCESSIVE MICRO- WAVE ENERGY found on page 6. This appiance must be grounded. Connect ony to propery grounded outet. See GROUNDING INSTRUC- TIONS found on page 10. Insta or ocate this appiance ony in accordance with the provided Instaation Instructions found on page 9. Some products such as whoe eggs in the she and seaed containers - for exampe, cosed gass jars - coud expode and shoud not be heated in this oven. Do not heat, store, or use fammabe materias in or near the oven. Fumes coud create a fire hazard or exposion. Use this appiance ony for its intended use as described in this manua. Do not use corrosive chemicas or vapors in this appiance. This type of oven is specificay designed to heat or cook food. It is not designed for industria or aboratory use. To reduce the risk of fire, eectrica shock, burns, injury to persons, exposure to excessive microwave energy, or damage when using the microwave oven, foow basic precautions, inciudina the foiiowina: As with any appiance, cose supervision is necessary when used by chidren. Do not operate this appiance if it has a damaged cord or pug, if it is not working propery, or if it has been damaged or dropped. Eectrica shock, fire, or other hazards coud resut. This appiance shoud be serviced ony by quaified service personne. Ca an authorized Whirpoo service company for examination, repair, or adjustment. Do not cover or bock any opening on the appiance. Fire coud resut. Do not store or use this appiance outdoors. Do not use this product near water - for exampe, near a kitchen sink, in a wet basement, or near a swimming poo, and the ike. Do not immerse cord or pug in water. Keep cord away from heated surfaces. Do not et cord hang over edge of tabe or counter. See door surface and interior ceaning instructions on page 27. 4
@To reduce the risk of fire in the oven cavity: - Do not overcook food. Carefuy attend appiance if paper, pastic, or other combustibe materias are paced inside the oven to faciitate cooking. Paper coud char or burn, and some pastics coud met if used when heating foods. - Do not deep fry in oven. Microwavabe utensis are not suitabe and it is difficut to maintain appropriate deep frying temperatures. - If materias inside the oven shoud ignite, keep oven door cosed, turn oven off, and disconnect the power cord or shut off power at the fuse or circuit breaker pane. - Test dinnerware or cookware before using. To test a dish for safe use, put it into the oven with a cup of water beside it. Cook at 100% cook power for one minute. if the dish gets hot and water stays coo, do not use it. Some dishes (meamine, some ceramic dinnerware, etc.) absorb microwave energy, becoming too hot to hande and sowing cooking times. Cooking in meta containers not designed for microwave use coud damage the oven, as coud containers with hidden meta (twist-ties, foi ining, stapes, metaic gaze or trim). - Remove wire twist-ties from paper or pastic bags before pacing bag in oven. - Do not use the cavity for storage purposes. Do not eave paper products, cooking utensis, or food in the cavity when not in use. - Do not operate any heating or cooking appiance beneath this appiance. - Do not mount unit over or near any portion of a heating or cooking appiance. - Do not mount over a sink. - Do not store anything directy on top of the appiance when appiance is in operation. Read and foow Operating safety precautions starting on page 7. 1. A short power-suppy cord is provided to reduce the risks resuting from becoming entanged in or tripping over a onger cord. 2. Longer cord sets or extension cords are avaiabe and may be used if care is exercised in their use. continued on next page 5
3. If a ong cord or extension cord is used temporariy, (a) the marked eectrica rating of the cord set or extension cord shoud be at east as great as the eectrica rating of the appiance, (b) the extension cord must be a grounding-type, 3-wire cord that has a 3-bade grounding pug and a 3- sot receptace that wi accept the pug on the appiance, and (c) the onger cord shoud be arranged so that it wi not drape over the countertop or tabetop where it can be pued on by chidren or tripped over accidentay. 4. A quaified eectrician must insta a propery grounded and poarized 3-prong receptace near the appiance. - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - PRECAUTIONS TO AVOID POSSIBL EXPOSURE TO EXCESSIVE MICROWAVENERGY... Do not attempt to operate this oven with the door open since open-door operation can resut in harmfu exposure to microwave energy. It is important not to defeat or tamper with the safety interocks. Do not pace any object between the oven front face and the door or aow soi or ceaner residue to accumuate on seaing surfaces. Do not operate the oven if it is damaged. It is particuary important that the oven door cose propery and that there is no damage to the: (1) Door (bent), (2) Hinges and atches (broken or oosened), (3) Door seas and seaing surfaces. Do not operate the microwave oven if the door window is broken The microwave oven shoud be checked for microwave eakage by quaified service personne after a repair is made. The oven shoud not be adjusted or repaired by anyone except propery quaified service personne. Do not operate the microwave oven with the outer cabinet removed. 6
Operating safety precautions To reduce the risk of fire, eectrica shock, burns, injury to persons, or damage when using the microwave oven, foow the precautions on pages 7-8. Never cook or reheat a whoe egg inside the she. Steam buidup in whoe eggs may cause them to burst and burn you, and possiby damage the oven. Sice hard-boied eggs before heating. In rare instances, poached eggs have been known to expode. Cover poached eggs and aow a standing time of one minute before cutting into them. Never ean on the door or aow a chid to swing on it when the door is open. Injury coud resut. Use hot pads. Microwave energy does not heat containers, but the hot food does. Stir before heating For best resuts, stir any iquid severa times before heating or reheating. Liquids heated in certain containers (especiay cyindrica containers) may become overheated. The iquid may spash out with a oud noise during or after heating or when adding ingredients (coffee granues, tea bags, etc.) resuting in harm to the oven and possibe persona injury. Do not overcook potatoes. Fire coud resut. At the end of the recommended cooking time, potatoes shoud be sighty firm because they wi continue cooking during standing time. After microwaving, wrap potatoes in foi and set aside for 5 minutes. They wi finish cooking whie standing. continued on next page 7
Do not start a microwave oven when it is empty. Product ife may be shortened. If you practice programming the oven, put a container of water in the oven. Do not use newspaper or other printed paper in the oven. Fire coud resut. Do not dry fowers, fruit, herbs, wood, paper, gourds, or cothes in the oven. Fire coud resut. Do not operate in the microwave mode uness the gass turntabe is securey in pace and can rotate freey. The turntabe can rotate in either direction. Make sure the turntabe is correct-side up in oven. Carefuy pace cookware on turntabe to avoid possibe breakage. Hande turntabe with care when removing from oven to avoid possibe breakage. If turntabe cracks or breaks, contact your Whirpoo deaer for a repacement. When you use a browning dish, the browning dish bottom must be at east % inch above the turntabe. Foow directions suppied with browning dish. Genera information Circuit breaker or (! fuse box Do not try to met paraffin wax in the oven. Paraffin wax wi not met in a microwave oven because it aows microwaves to pass through it. if your eectric power ine or outet votage is ess than 110 vots, cooking times may be onger. Have a quaified eectrician check your eectrica system. 6
Instaation Instructions Before you begin operating the oven, carefuy read the foowing instructions. 1. Empty the microwave oven and cean inside it with a soft, damp coth. Check for damage such as misaigned door, damage around the door, or dents inside the oven or on the exterior. If there is any damage, do not operate the unit unti it has been checked by an authorized Whirpoo service technician and any repairs made. Air intake openings/ exhaust vents NOTE: Do not bock the exhaust vents or rear air intake openings. Aow a few inches of space at back of oven where intake openings are ocated. Bocking the air intake openings and exhaust vents coud cause damage to the oven and poor cooking resuts. Make sure the microwave oven egs are in pace to ensure proper airfow. If vents are bocked, a sensitive therma safety device automaticay turns the oven off. The oven wi not work unti it has cooed enough. 2. Put the oven on a cart, counter, tabe, or shef that is strong enough to hod the oven and the food and utensis you put in it. (The contro side of the unit is the heavy side. Use care when handing.) The weight of Modes MT7076XD and MT7078XD is about 34 Ibs. The weight of Modes MT71 16XD and MT71 18XD is about 44 Ibs. The microwave oven shoud be at a temperature above 50 F (10%) for proper operation. Fire Hazard Do not insta the oven next to or over a heat source (for exampe, a cooktop or range). Aso, do not insta oven in any area where excessive heat and steam are generated. Faiure to foow the above coud resut in fire, eectrica shock, other persona injury, excessive exposure to microwave energy, or damage to the outside of the cabinet. continued on next page 9
3. Eectrica requirements Observe a governing codes and ordinances. A 120 Vot, 60 Hz, AC ony, 15 amp fused eectrica suppy is required. (Time-deay fuse is recommended.) It is recommended that a separate circuit serving ony this appiance be provided. *GROUNDING INSTRUCTIONS Eectrica Shock Hazard Improper use of the grounding pug can resut in a risk of eectrica shock. DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUM- STANCES, REMOVE THE POWER SUPPLY CORD GROUNDING PRONG. 5. For your persona safety, this appiance It is the persona responsibiity and obigamust be grounded. In the event of an tion of the customer to have a propery eectrica short circuit, grounding re- grounded and correcty poarized 3-prong duces the risk of eectrica shock by wa receptace instaed by a quaified providing an escape wire for the eectric eectrician. current. This appiance is equipped with Consut a quaified eectrician if the a poarized 3-prong grounding pug. It grounding instructions are not competey must be pugged into a correcty poar- understood, or if doubt exists as to whether ized mating 3-prong grounding type the appiance is propery grounded. wa receptace, propery instaed and it is not recommended to use an grounded in accordance with the extension cord with your microwave Nationa Eectrica Code and oca codes oven, but if you find it necessary to and ordinances. If a mating wa recep- do so temporariy (unti a propery tace is not avaiabe or if you are not grounded and poarized, 3-prong sure if the wa receptace is propery receptace is instaed), use ony a grounded and poarized, have it checked heavy duty, UL isted, 3-wire grounding by a quaified eectrician. type extension cord containing three 16-3-prong grounding gauge (minimum) copper wires. It must type wai receptace I/ not be onger than 10 feet (cords onger than 10 feet may affect the cooking perfor- 3-prong grounding 0 (IA mance of your microwave oven). The pug Pug on the extension cord must fit into a 3-prong.A j 0 qp grounding type wa receptace (as shown Power - \ on this page) and the receptace end of the suppy cord! / extension cord must accept the 3-prong Grounding grounding pug of the microwave oven. / prong To test the oven, pug it into the proper eectrica outet. Put about one cup (250 ml) of cod water in a gass container in the oven. Cose the door. Make sure it atches. Foow the directions on page 18 to set the oven to cook for 2 minutes. When the time is up, the water shoud be heated. 7. This microwave oven is designed for use in the househod ony and must not be used for commercia purposes. Do not remove the door, contro pane, or cabinet at any time. The unit is equipped with high votage and shoud be serviced by an authorized Whirpoo service technician. - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - 10
Getting to Know Your Microwave Oven This section discusses the concepts behind microwave cooking and introduces you to the basics you need to know to operate your microwave oven. Pease read this information before use. How your microwave oven works Magnetron Microwave ovens are safe. Microwave energy is not hot. It causes food to make its own heat, and it s this heat that cooks the food. Microwaves are ike TV waves or ight waves. You cannot see them, but you can see what they do. Oven\cavty A magnetron in the microwave oven produces microwaves. The microwaves move into the oven where they contact food as it turns on the turntabe. 11
Gass turntabe Metai foor The gass turntabe of your microwave oven ets microwaves pass through. Then they bounce off a meta foor, back through the gass turntabe, and are absorbed by the food. Microwaves pass through most gass, paper, and pastics without heating them so food absorbs the energy. Microwaves bounce off meta containers so food does not absorb the energy. Microwaves may not reach the center of a roast. The heat spreads to the center from the outer, cooked areas just as in reguar oven cooking. This is one of the reasons for etting some foods (for exampe, roasts or baked potatoes) stand for a whie after cooking, or for stirring some foods during the cooking time. The microwaves disturb water moecues in the food. As the moecues bounce around bumping into each other, heat is made, ike rubbing your hands together. This is the heat that does the cooking. Radio interference Operation of the microwave oven may cause interference to your radio, TV, or simiar equipment. When there is interference, it may be reduced or eiminated by taking the foowing measures: Cean door and seaing surfaces of the oven. AdJust the receiving antenna of radio or teevision. Move the receiver away from the microwave oven. Pug the microwave oven into a different outet so that the microwave oven and receiver are on different branch circuits. 12
Microwave oven features (Modes MT7076XD and MT71 16XD shown - your mode may have different stying) d 2 Your microwave oven is designed to make your cooking experience as enjoyabe and productive as possibe. To get you up and running quicky, the foowing is a ist of the oven s basic features: 1. One-Touch Door Open Button. Push to open door. 2. Door Safety Lock System. The oven wi not operate uness the door is securey cosed. 3. Window with Meta Shied. Shied prevents microwaves from escaping. It is designed as a screen to aow you to view food as it cooks. 4. Gass Turntabe. This turntabe turns food as it cooks for more even cooking. It must be in the oven during operation for best cooking resuts. See pages 8, 12, and 27 for more detais. 5. Turntabe Support (under turntabe). 6. Contro Pane. Touch pads on this pane to perform a functions. See pages 14 and 15 for more information. 7. Light. Automaticay turns on when door is opened or when oven is operating. 8. Cooking Guide Labe. 8. Mode and Seria Number Pate (on back). 13
Contro pane features Your microwave oven contro pane ets you seect the desired cooking function quicky and easiy. A you have to do is touch the necessary Command Pad. The foowing is a ist of a the Command and Number Pads ocated on the contro pane. For more information, see pages 16-25. 1. Dispay. This dispay incudes a cock and indicators to te you time of day, cooking time settings, and cooking functions. 2. COOK TIME. Touch this pad foowed by Number Pads to enter cooking times or Minute Timer countdown times. See pages 18, 20, or 21 for more information. 3. COOK POWER. Touch this pad foowed by a Number Pad to set the amount of microwave energy reeased to cook the food. The higher the number, the higher the power or cooking speed. See page 19 for more information. 4. CLOCK. Touch this pad to enter the correct time of day. See page 16 for more information. 5. DEFROST. Touch this pad foowed by Number Pads to thaw frozen food. See page 25 for more information. 6. ADD MINUTE. Touch this pad to cook for one minute at 100% cook power or to add an extra minute to your cooking cyce. See page 17 for more information. 7. Number Pads. Touch Number Pads to enter cooking times and cook information. 6. BAKED POTATOES. Touch this pad to cook 2 or 3 baking potatoes (up to 16 oz tota weight) in your microwave oven. The oven wi automaticay cook for a preset time at a preset cook power. See page 22 for more information. 08 (Modes M7076XD and M71 16XD shown - your mode may have dfferent stying) 14
9. 10. 11. POPCORN/FROZEN ENTREE. Touch this pad to pop a 3.5 oz bag of commerciay packaged microwave popcorn or to cook an 8 to 12 oz frozen entree in your microwave oven. See pages 23 and 24 for more information. START/ENTER. Touch this pad to start a function that you have set. If you open the door after the oven begins to cook, retouch START/ENTER. OFF/CANCEL. Touch this pad to erase an incorrect command or to cance a program during cooking. This pad wi not erase time of day. NOTES: If you touch two Command Pads for the same cyce (for exampe, BAKED POTATOES and POPCORN), the second command wi cance the first. If you attempt to enter unacceptabe instructions, Erro wi appear on the Dispay. Touch OFF/CANCEL and re-enter the instructions. Audibe signas Audibe signas are avaiabe to guide you when setting and using your oven: A programmng tone wi sound each time you touch a pad. Fve tones signa the end of a cooking cyce. Interrupting cooking You can stop the oven during a cyce by opening the door. The oven stops heating and the fan stops, but the ight stays on. To restart cooking, cose the door and TOUCH If you do not want to continue cooking: Cose the door and the ight goes off. OR TOUCH NOTE: Before setting a function, touch OFF/CANCEL to make sure no other function is on. 15
Setting the cock When your microwave oven is first pugged in, or after a power faiure, the Dispay wi show 88:88. If a time of day is not set, 88:88 wi stay on the Dispay unti you set the cooking time. NOTES: You can ony set the cock if the oven is not cooking food. If you enter an incorrect time, Erro wi appear on the Dispay. Touch CLOCK and enter the correct time. If you touch OFF/CANCEL whie setting the cock, the cock wi be ceared and the Dispay wi go bank. To set time: 1. Choose setting. TOUCH YOU SEE 2. Enter time of day. TOUCH YOU SEE Exampe for 5:30: 16
Using ADD MINUTE ADD MINUTE ets you cook food for one minute at 100% cook power or add an extra minute to your current cooking cyce. You can aso use it to extend cooking time in mutipes of one minute, up to 99 minutes. NOTES: To extend cooking time in mutipes of one minute, touch ADD MINUTE repeatedy during cooking. You cannot use ADD MINUTE with the POPCORN/FROZEN ENTREE or BAKED POTATOES pads. If you touch ADD MINUTE during cooking, the oven wi cook at the currenty seected cook power. 1. Make sure food is in oven and door is cosed. 2. Choose setting. TOUCH YOU SEE once for one mnute 1 :OO TOUCH YOU SEE 2:OO a second time for two mnutes TOUCH YOU SEE 3:Oo a third time for three mnutes 3. Start oven. TOUCH YOU SEE :ZLpe for 3 minutes) 17
Using Your Microwave Oven This section gives you instructions for operating each microwave function. Pease read these instructions carefuy. Getting the best cooking resuts ALWAYS cook food for the minimum recommended cooking time. If necessary, touch ADD MINUTE whie the oven is operating (see page 17). Then check for doneness to avoid overcooking the food. Stir, turn over, or rearrange food being cooked about hafway through the cook time for most even doneness with a recipes. Cooking at high cook power 1. Put food in oven and cose door. if a gass cover is not avaiabe, use wax paper, paper towes, or microwaveapproved pastic wrap. Turn back a corner to vent steam during cooking. Athough a new rating method* rates this oven at 850 watts, you may use a reiabe cookbook and recipes deveoped for microwave ovens previousy rated at 700-800 watts. IEC-705 Test Procedure. The IEC-705 Test Procedure is an internationay recognized method of rating microwave wattage output and does not represent an actua change to output power or cooking performance. 2. Set cooking time. TOUCH YOU SEE :O Exampe for 1 minute, 30 seconds: TOUCH YOU SEE I 1 1:30 3. Start oven. TOUCH YOU SEE 18 At end of cooking time: Five tones wi sound. YOU SEE END foowed by time of day
Cooking at different cook powers For best resuts, some recipes ca for different cook powers. The ower the cook power, the sower the cooking. Each Number Pad aso stands for a different percentage of cook power. Many microwave cookbook recipes te you by number, percent, or name which cook power to use. The foowing chart gives the percentage of cook power each Number Pad stands for, and the cook power name usuay used. It aso tes you when to use each cook power. Foow recipe or food package instructions if avaiabe. NOTE: Refer to a reiabe cookbook for cooking times and power eves. COOK POWER Automatic 100% of fu power NAME High WHEN TO USE IT Quick heating many convenience foods and foods with high water content, such as soups and beverages Cooking tender cuts of meat, ground meat, poutry pieces, fish fiets, and vegetabes 9=90% of fu power 8=80% of fu power Heating cream soups Heating rice, pasta, or casseroes 7=70% of fu power 6=60% of fu power Medium-High Cooking and heating foods that need a cook power ower than high (for exampe, whoe fish and meat oaf) or when food is cooking too fast Reheating a singe serving of food Cooking requiring specia care, such as cheese and egg dishes, pudding, and custards Finishing cooking casseroes 5=50% of fu power Medium Cooking ham, whoe poutry, and pot roasts Meting chocoate 4=40% of fu power Simmering stews Heating pastries 3=30% of fu power Medium-Low, Defrosting foods, such as bread, fish, Defrost meats, poutry, and precooked foods 2=20% of fu power Softening butter, cheese, and ice cream 1 =O% of fu power Low Keeping food warm Taking chi out of fruit 19
1. Put food in oven and cose door. 2. Set cooking time. Exampe for 7 minutes, 30 seconds: I 7 7:30 c 3 n 0 3. Set cook power. TOUCH YOU SEE P-1 0 Exampe for 50% cook power: TOUCH I 5 YOU SEE P-5 4. Start oven. TOUCH YOU SEE At end of cooking time: Five tones wi sound. YOU SEE END foowed by time of day To see cook power during cooking: rouch YOU SEE P-5 (exampe for 50% - cook power) 20
Cooking with more than one cook cyce For best resuts, some recipes ca for one cook power for a certain ength of time, and another cook power for another ength of time. Your oven can be set to change from one to another automaticay, for up to 4 cyces. 1. Put food in oven and cose door. NOTE: Refer to a reiabe cookbook for cooking times and power eves. 2. Set cooking time for first cyce. TOUCH YOU SEE Exampe for 7 minutes, 30 seconds: TOUCH YOU SEE I b- r- 3 I 0 I 7:30 3. Set cook power for first cyce. TOUCH YOU SEE P-1 0 Exampe for 50% cook power: TOUCH YOU SEE E 4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 to set cooking time and cook power for each additiona cyce. 5 P-5 continued on next page 21
5. Start oven. TOUCH YOU SEE time for next cyce(s) At end of cooking time: Five tones wi sound. YOU SEE END foowed by time of day Changing instructions You can change times or cook power for a cyce any time after that cyce starts by repeating Steps 2 and/or 3. Using BAKED POTATOES Your microwave oven cooks 2 or 3 baking potatoes (up to 16 oz tota weight) by automaticay choosing baking time and cook power. Before baking, remember to pierce potato with a fork severa times. After cooking, et potato stand 5 minutes wrapped in foi. NOTE: If more time is needed do not touch the BAKED POTATOES pad again. Set a short cooking time. (See page 18.) 1. Put pierced potatoes on paper towe in oven and cose door. 2. Choose setting. TOUCH YOU SEE / \ I POTATOES BAKED PO 3. Start oven. TOUCH YOU SEE At end of cooking time: Five tones wi sound. YOU SEE END foowed by time of day 22
Using POPCORN POPCORN ets you pop a 3.5 oz bag of commerciay packaged microwave popcorn by touching just two pads. Pop ony one package at a time. If you are using a microwave popcorn popper, foow manufacturer s instructions. Cooking performance may vary with brand. Try severa brands to decide which gives best popping resuts. For best resuts, use fresh bags of popcorn. NOTES: DO NOT unfod bag when popping 3.0 to 3.5 oz bags of popcorn because in sma size oven cavity, bag can become stuck between turntabe and oven wa. To pop a 3.0 oz (ight) bag of popcorn, do not use the POPCORN/FROZEN ENTREE pad. Cook at high power for approximatey 2:00 minutes. To pop a 1.5 to 1.75 oz bag of popcorn, do not use the POPCORN/FROZEN ENTREE pad. Cook at high power for approximatey 1:30 minutes. 1. Pace bag in center of turntabe and cose door. Fire Hazard Do not repop unpopped kernes and do not reuse popcorn bags. If you remove the turntabe right after popping popcorn, use oven mitts. Faiure to foow the above coud resut in fire or burns. 2. Choose setting. TOUCH YOU SEE U POPCORN PC FROZEN ENTREE (for popcorn) once 3. Start oven. TOUCH YOU SEE At end of popping time: Five tones wi sound. YOU SEE END foowed by time of day 23
-- Using FROZEN ENTREE FROZEN ENTREE ets YOU cook a frozen entree between 8 and 12 oz by touching the POPCORN/FROZEN ENTREE pad twice. NOTES: If more time Is needed do not touch the POPCORN/FROZEN ENTREE pad again. Set a short cooking time. (See page 18.) Foow manufacturer s guideines for preparation of the frozen entree. 1. Pace frozen entree on turntabe and cose door. 2. Choose setting. TOUCH YOU SEE twice PI (for frozen entree) 3. Start oven. TOUCH YOU SEE m 5:OO At end of cooking time: Five tones wi sound. YOU SEE END foowed by time of day 24
Using DEFROST Your microwave oven ets you defrost food by simpy entering defrosting time. A 30% cook power is preset. 1. Put frozen food in oven and cose door. NOTE: Refer to a reiabe cookbook for defrosting times and power eves. 2. Choose setting. 3. Enter defrosting time. TOUCH YOU SEE p-j pq 1O:OO IO 4. Start oven. TOUCH YOU SEE defrosting time counting down At end of defrosting time: Five tones wi sound. YOU SEE END foowed by time of day 25
Defrosting tips Before startng, make sure you have removed any of the meta twist-ties which often come with frozen food bags, and repace them with strings or eastic bands. Open containers such as cartons before they are paced in the oven. Aways st or pierce pastic pouches or packaging. If food is foi wrapped, remove foi and pace it in a suitabe container. Sit the skins, if any, of frozen food such as sausage. Bend pastic pouches of food to ensure even defrosting. Aways underestimate defrosting time. If defrosted food is sti icy in the center, return it to the microwave oven for more defrosting. The ength of defrosting time varies according to how soidy the food is frozen. The shape of the package aters the defrosting time. Shaow, rectanguar packets defrost more quicky than a deep bock. Separate pieces as they begin to defrost. Separated pieces defrost more easiy. You can use sma pieces of auminum foi to shied foods ike chicken wings, eg tips, and fish tais, but the foi must not touch the side of the oven. Foi can damage the oven ining. Shied areas of food with sma pieces of foi if they start to become warm. For better resuts, et food stand after defrosting. (For more information on standing time, see Microwave cooking tips on page 29.) Turn over food during defrosting or standing time. 26
Caring Oven for Your Microwave To make sure your microwave oven ooks good and works we for a ong time, you shoud maintain it propery. For proper care, pease foow these instructions carefuy. NOTE: Abrasive ceansers, stee-woo pads, grtty wash coths, some paper towes, etc., can damage the contro pane and the interior and exterior oven surfaces. Gass For Interior surfaces: Wpe often with warm, sudsy water and a sponge or soft coth. Use ony mid, nonabrasive soaps or a mid detergent. Be sure to keep the areas cean where the door and oven frame touch when cosed. Wpe we with cean water. For exteror surfaces and contro pane: Use a soft coth with spray gass ceaner. Appy spray gass ceaner to soft coth; do not spray directy on oven. To cean turntabe and turntabe support, wash in mid, sudsy water; for heaviy soied areas use a mid ceanser and scouring sponge. The turntabe and turntabe support are dishwasher-safe. For stubborn soi, bo a cup of water in the oven for 2 or 3 minutes. Steam wi soften the soi. To get rid of odors inside the oven, bo a cup of water with emon juice or vinegar. 27
Cooking Guide Reheating tips Cooked food and eftovers can be reheated quicky and efficienty without spoiing their freshness and taste. Aways pace the dense food at the outer edges and the more porous food towards the center. To keep food moist during reheating, cover the food with a microwave-safe id or pastic wrap. Covering the food keeps heat in the food, speeds heating, and prevents spatters. Wrap sandwiches and ros oosey in paper towes to absorb moisture and prevent sogginess. Spread food in a shaow dish if possibe. Stir and turn food as needed. Aways underestimate reheating time unti you are used to the microwave oven.
Microwave cooking tips Amount of food The more food you prepare, the onger it takes. A rue of thumb is that a doube amount of food requires amost doube the time. If one potato takes four minutes to cook, you need about seven minutes to cook two potatoes. Starting temperature of food The ower the temperature of the food being put into the microwave oven, the onger it takes to cook. Food at room temperature wi be reheated more quicky than food at refrigerator temperature. Composition of food Food wth a ot of fat and sugar wi be heated faster than food containing a ot of water. Fat and sugar wi aso reach a higher temperature than water in the cooking process. The more dense the food, the onger it takes to heat. Very dense food ike meat takes onger to reheat than ighter, more porous food ike sponge cakes. Size and shape Smaer pieces of food wi cook faster than arger pieces and same-shaped pieces of food cook more eveny than irreguary shaped foods. With uneveny shaped foods, the thinner parts wi cook faster than the thicker areas. Pace the thinner parts of chicken wings and egs in the center of the dish. Stirring, turning foods Strrng and turning foods distributes heat quicky to the center of the dish and avoids overcooking at the outer edges of the food. Covering food Cover food to: Reduce spattering Shorten cooking times Retain food moisture A coverings that aow microwaves to pass through are suitabe. Reeasing pressure in foods Severa foods (for exampe: baked potatoes, sausages, egg yoks, and some fruits) are tighty covered by a skin or membrane. This can cause the food to burst from steam buiding up in them during cooking. To reieve the pressure and to prevent bursting, prick these foods before cooking with a fork, cocktai pick, or toothpick. Using standing time Aways aow food to stand for a whie after cooking. Standing time after defrosting, cooking, or reheating aways improves the resut since the temperature wi then be eveny distributed throughout the food. The ength of the standng tme depends on the voume and density of the food. Sometimes it can be as short as the time it takes you to remove the food from the oven and take it to the serving tabe. However, with arger, denser food, the standing time may be as ong as 10 minutes. 29
Arranging food For best resuts, distribute food eveny on the pate. You can do this in severa ways: If you are cookng severa items of the same food, such as baked potatoes, pace them in a ring pattern for uniform cooking. When cookng foods of uneven shapes or thickness, pace the smaer or thinner area of the food towards the center of the dish where it wi be heated ast. Arrange uneven foods, such as chicken breasts, with the thicker part to the outer edge. If you are saving a mea in the refrigerator or pating a mea for reheating, arrange the thicker, denser foods to the outside of the pate and the thinner or ess dense foods in the midde. Pace thin sices of meat on top of each other or interace them. Pace thicker sices of meat, such as meat oaf and sausages, cose to each other. Reheat gravy or sauce in a separate container. When you cook or reheat whoe fsh, score the skin - this prevents cracking. Shied the ta and head of whoe fish with sma pieces of foi to prevent overcooking and ensure the foi does not touch the sides of the oven. Do not et food or container touch the top or sides of the oven. This wi prevent possibe arcing. Using auminum foi Meta containers shoud not be used in a microwave oven. There are, however, some exceptions. If you have purchased food which is prepackaged in an auminum foi container, then refer to the instructions on the package. When using auminum foi containers, cooking times may be onger because microwaves wi ony penetrate the top of the food. If you use auminum containers without package instructions, foow these guideines: Pace container in a gass bow and add some water so that it covers the bottom of the container, not more than I/q high. This ensures even heating of the container bottom. Aways remove the id to avoid damage to the oven. Use ony undamaged containers. Do not use containers taer than %. Container must be haf fied. To avod arcing, there must be a minimum 9 4 between the auminum container and the was of the oven and aso between two auminum containers. Aways pace container on turntabe. Reheating food in auminum foi containers usuay takes up to doube the time compared to reheating in pastic, gass, china, or paper containers. The time when food is ready wi vary a great dea. Let food stand for 2-3 minutes after heating so that heat is spread eveny throughout container. Cooking you shoud not do in your microwave oven Do not do canning of foods in the oven. Cosed gass jars may expode, resuting in damage to the oven or possibe persona injury. Do not use the microwave oven to steriize objects (baby bottes, etc.). It is difficut to maintain the high temperature required for safe steriization. 30
Questions QUESTIONS Can I operate my microwave oven without the turntabe or turn the turntabe over to accommodate a arae dish? Can I use a rack in my microwave oven so that I may reheat or cook on two eves at a time? Can I use either meta or auminum pans in my microwave oven? Is it norma for the turntabe to turn in either direction? Sometimes the door of my microwave oven appears wavy. Is this norma? What are the humming noises that I hear when my microwave oven is operating? Why does the dish become hot when I microwave food in it? I thought that this shoud not happen. What does standing time mean? Can I pop popcorn in my microwave oven? How do I get the best resuts? Why does steam come out of the air exhaust vent? and Answers ANSWERS No. If you remove or turn over the turntabe, you wi get poor cooking resuts. Dishes used in your oven must fit on the turntabe. You can use a rack ony if rack is suppied with your microwave oven. Use of any rack not suppied with the microwave oven can resut in poor cooking performance and/or arcing. Useabe meta incudes auminum foi for shieding (use sma, fat pieces), sma skewers, and shaow foi trays (if tray is % inch deep and haf fied with food to absorb microwave energy). Never aow meta to touch was or door. (For more information, see page 30.) Yes. The turntabe rotates cockwise or countercockwise, depending on the rotation of the motor when the cooking cyce begins. This appearance is norma and does not affect the operation of your oven. You hear the sound of the transformer when the magnetron tube cyces on. As the food becomes hot it wi conduct the heat to the dish. Be prepared to use hot pads to remove food after cooking. Standing time means that food shoud be removed from the oven and covered for additiona time to aow it to finish cooking. This frees the oven for other cooking. Yes. Pop packaged microwave popcorn foowing manufacturer s guideines or use the preprogrammed Popcorn pad for 3.5 oz bags ony. Do not use reguar paper bags. Use the istening test by stopping the oven as soon as the popping sows to a pop every one or two seconds. Do not repop unpopped kernes Do not pop popcorn in gass utensis. Do not unfod bag when popping 3.0 to 3.5 oz bags of popcorn, because in sma size oven cavity, bag can become stuck between turntabe and oven wa. Steam is normay produced during cooking. The microwave oven has been designed to vent this steam out the rear vents. 31
Troubeshooting Most cooking probems often are caused by itte things you can find and fix without toos of any kind. Check the ists beow and on the next page before caing for assistance or service. If you sti need hep, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 34. If nothing operates, check the foowing: Is the microwave oven pugged into a ive outet with the proper votage? (See Instaation Instructions.) Have you bown a househod fuse or tripped a circuit breaker? Has the eectric company experienced a power faiure? Other possibe probems and their causes: PROBLEM CAUSE The microwave oven The door is not firmy cosed and atched. wi not run You did not touch START/ENTER. You did not foow directions exacty. An operation that was programmed earier is sti running. You have not entered numbers after touching COOK TIME. Microwave cookng The eectric suppy to your home or wa outets is ow or ower tmes seem too ong than norma. Your eectric company can te you if the ine votage is ow. Your eectrician or service technician can te you if the outet votage is ow. The cook power is not at the recommended setting. Larger amounts of food need onger cooking times. 32
PROBLEM The turntabe wi not turn The Dispay shows a time counting down but the oven is not cooking CAUSE The turntabe is not correcty in pace. Make sure the turntabe is correct-side up and is sitting securey on center shaft. The support is not operating correcty. Remove turntabe and restart oven. If turntabe support does not move, ca an authorized Whirpoo service technician for repair. Cooking without the turntabe can give you poor resuts. The oven door is not cosed competey. You have set the contros as a kitchen timer. Touch OFF/ CANCEL to cance the Minute Timer. You do not hear the The command is not correct. Programming Tone The fan seems to be The oven has been stored in a cod area. The fan wi run runnng sower than sower unti the oven warms up to norma room temperature. usua The Dispay shows 88:88 There has been a power interruption. Reset the cock. If none of these items was causing your probem, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 34. 33
Requesting Assistance or Service Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on pages 32-33. It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. 1. If you need assistance*... Ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center teephone number. Dia to-free from anywhere w in the U.S.A.: 1-800-253-301 EJ and tak with one of our trained consutants. The consutant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. If you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Whirpoo Corporation 2000 North M-63 Benton Harbor, M 49022-2692 Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 3. If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Program (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices consumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer, and Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Program 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. 2. If you need service*... Whirpoo has a nationwide network of authorized Whirpoo service companies. Whirpoo service SERVKI technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty and E provide after-warranty service, anywhere in the United States. To ocate the authorized Whirpoo service company in your area, ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number (see Step 1) or ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages under: APPLIANCE-HOUSEHOLD- * WASHING MACHINES 6 MAJOR, SERVICE A REPAIR DRYERS, SERVICE 6 REPAIR - See: Whirpoo Appiances or See: Whirpoo Appiances or Auttmized Whirpoo Smim Authorized Wwripoo Senie (Exampe: XYZ Sevice Co.) (Exampe: XYZ Service Co.) 34 When asking for hep or service: Pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers, and the purchase date. (See page 3.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request.
Index This index is aphabetica. It contains a the topics incuded in this manua, aong with the page(s) on which you can find each topic. TOPIC PAGE TOPIC PAGE ALUMINUM FOIL... 30 AUDIBLE SIGNALS... 15 CARING FOR YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN... 27 CONTROL PANEL... 14-5 ADD MINUTE... 17 BAKED POTATOES... 22 CLOCK..... 16 Cooking at different cook powers... 19 Cooking at high cook power..... 18 COOK POWER... 20, 21 COOK TIME... 18, 20, 21 DEFROST... 25 Dispay... 14 Interrupting cooking... 15 Muti-cyce cooking... 21 Number pads... 14 OFF/CANCEL... 15 POPCORN/FROZEN ENTREE......23,24 START/ENTER... 15 ERROR SIGNALS... 15 GROUNDING INSTRUCTIONS... 10 HOW YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN WORKS..... 11-12 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS... 9 PARTS AND FEATURES Cooking guide abe..... 13 Door open button... 13 Door safety ock system... 13 Light... 13 Magnetron... 11, 31 Mode and seria number pate... 13 Turntabe... 8, 12, 13, 27, 31 Vents (exhaust & air intake openings).....9 Window... 13 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS..... 31 RACK... 31 RADIO INTERFERENCE... 12 REQUESTING ASSISTANCE OR SERVICE... 34 SAFETY... 4-8 STANDING TIME... 26, 29, 31 TIPS Cooking... 29 Defrosting... 26 Reheating... 28 TROUBLESHOOTING... 32-33 WARRANTY..... 36 WATTAGE... 18 35
WHIRLPOOL Microwave Oven Warranty r LENGTH OF WARRANTY FULL ONE-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase L LIMITED SEVEN-YEAR WARRANTY Second Through Eighth Year From Date of Purchase 1 WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FSP@ repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship. Service must be provided by an authorized Whirpoo service company. FSP repacement magnetron tube on microwave ovens if defective in materias or workmanship. WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FOR A. Service cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of your microwave oven. 2. Instruct you how to use your micr6wave oven. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring. 4. Repace owner-accessibe ight bubs. B. Repairs when your microwave oven is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. In-home service. Your microwave oven must be taken to an authorized Whirpoo service company. D. Damage to your microwave oven caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God, or use of products not approved by Whirpoo. E. Any abor costs during imited warranty. F. Repairs to parts or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. 2J95 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSE- QUENTIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta or consequentia damages, so this excusion or imitation may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the United States, a different warranty may appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Whirpoo distributor or miitary exchange. If you need service, first see the Requesting Assistance or Service section of this book. After checking Requesting Assistance or Service, additiona hep can be found by caing our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number, 1-800-253-1301, from anywhere in the U.S.A. PART NO. LIM-07111400/4392950 Rev. A 0 19% Whirpoo Corporaion @ Regisered TrademaMM Trademark of Whirpoo, U.S.A. Prined 695 in China