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MICROWAVE POWER LEVELS
For best results, some recipes call for dierent cook
powers. The lower the cook power, the slower the
cooking. Each number from 1 to 9 stands for a
dierent percentage of full cook power.
The following chart gives the percentage of cook
power each number pad stands for, and the cook
power name usually used.
NOTE: Once the cook time has been entered, you can also use the Cook Power pad as a second Kitchen
Timer by entering “0” for the Cook Power. The oven will count down the cooking time you set without cooking.
It also tells you when to use each cook power.
Follow recipe or food package instructions if
available.
NOTE: Refer to a reliable cookbook for cooking
times based on the 1,000 Watt cook power of
your microwave oven.
USING YOUR MICROWAVE OVEN
COOK POWER LEVEL WHEN TO USE IT
100% of full power High
• Quickly heating convenience foods and foods
with high water content, such as soups
and beverages.
• Cooking tender cuts of meat, ground meat
or chicken.
9 = 90% of full power
• Heating cream soups.
8 = 80% of full power
• Heating rice, pasta, or casseroles.
7 = 70% of full power Medium-High
• Cooking and heating foods that need a Cook
Power lower than High (for example, whole sh and
meat loaf) or when food is cooking too fast.
• Reheating a single serving of food.
6 = 60% of full power
• Cooking that requires special care, such as
cheese and egg dishes, pudding, and custards.
• Finishing cooking casseroles.
5 = 50% of full power Medium
• Cooking ham, whole poultry, and pot roasts.
• Simmering stews.
4 = 40% of full power
• Melting chocolate.
• Heating pastries.
3 = 30% of full power
Medium-Low,
Defrost
• Manually defrosting precooked and other foods,
such as bread, sh, meats and poultry.
2 = 20% of full power
• Softening butter, cheese, and ice cream.
1 = 10% of full power Low
• Keeping food warm.
• Taking chill out of fruit.
0 = 0% of full power None
• Standing time in oven.
