LIGHT OVEN "SolarDOM" OWNER'S MANUAL PLEASE READ THIS OWNER'S MANUAL THOROUGHLY BEFORE OPERATING. MP-9482SC P/No: MFL59453801 Precautions Precautions to avoid possible exposure to excessive microwave energy. You cannot operate your oven with the door open due to the safety interlocks built into the door mechanism. These safety interlocks automatically switch off any cooking activity when the door is opened; which in the operation of microwave function could result in harmful exposure to microwave energy. It is important not to tamper with the safety interlocks. Do not place any object between the oven front face and the door or allow food or cleaner residue to accumulate on sealing surfaces. Do not operate your oven if it is damaged. It is particularly important that the oven door closes properly and that there is no damage to the: (1) door(bent), (2) hinges and latches (broken or loosened), (3) door seals and sealing surfaces. Your oven should not be adjusted or repaired by anyone except qualified service personnel. When heating liquids, e.g. soups, sauces and beverages in your oven with microwave function, delayed eruptive boiling can occur without evidence of bubbling. This could result in a sudden boil over of the hot liquid. To prevent this possibility the following steps should be taken: 1 Avoid using straight sided containers with narrow necks. 2 Do not overheat. 3 Stir the liquid before placing the container in the oven and again halfway through the heating time. 4 After heating, allow to stand in the oven for a short time, stir or shake them(especially the contents of feeding bottles and baby food jars) again carefully and check the temperature of them before consumption to avoid burns (especially, contents of feeding bottles and baby food jars). Be careful when handling the container. WARNING Please ensure cooking times are correctly set as over cooking may result in the FOOD catching fire and subsequent damage to your oven. 2 WARNING Always allow food to stand after being cooked by microwaves and check the temperature of them before consumption. Especially contents of feeding bottles and baby food jars. Contents How the Microwave Function Works Microwaves are a form of energy similar to radio and television waves and ordinary daylight. Normally, microwaves spread outwards as they travel through the atmosphere and disappear without effect. This ovens, however, have a magnetron which is designed to make use of the energy in microwaves. Electricity, supplied to the magnetron tube, is used to created microwave energy. These microwaves enter the cooking area through openings inside the oven. A turntable or tray is located at the bottom of the oven. Microwaves cannot pass through metal walls of the oven, but they can penetrate such materials as glass, porcelain and paper, the materials out of which microwave-safe cooking dishes are constructed. Microwaves do not heat cookware, though cooking vessels will eventually get hot from the heat generated by the food. Precautions_____________________________________________2 Contents _______________________________________________3 Unpacking & Installing ___________________________________4 ~ 5 Control Panel ___________________________________________6 Setting the Clock ________________________________________7 Child Lock _____________________________________________8 Convection Cooking _____________________________________9 Speed Combi Cooking ___________________________________10 ~ 12 Speed Auto Cooking_____________________________________13 ~ 17 Defrost ________________________________________________18 Defrosting Guide ________________________________________19 Grill Cooking ___________________________________________20 Micro Power Cooking ____________________________________21 Micro Power Level _______________________________________22 Two Stage Cooking______________________________________23 Steam Chef ____________________________________________24 ~ 27 Quick Start_____________________________________________28 More/Less Cooking______________________________________29 Important safety instructions ______________________________30 ~ 31 Microwave - safe Utensils_________________________________32 Food characteristics & Microwave cooking __________________33 ~ 34 Questions & Answers ____________________________________35 Plug Wiring Information/Technical Specifications _____________36 A very safe appliance Your oven, Solar DOM, is one of the safest of all home appliances. When the door is opened, the oven automatically stops producing microwaves. Microwave energy is converted completely to heat when it enters food, leaving no "left over" energy to harm you when you eat your food. 3 Unpacking & Installing 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 oven make sure you remove all accessories and packing. Check to make sure that your oven has not been damaged during delivery. Unpack your oven and place it on a flat level surface. Place the oven in the level location of your choice with more than 85cm height but make sure there is at least 20cm of space on the top and 10cm at the rear for proper ventilation. The front of the oven should be at least min. 8cm/max. 22cm from the edge of the surface to prevent tipping. An exhaust outlet is located on bottom or side of the oven. Blocking the outlet can damage the oven. HIGH RACK (For grill mode) STEAMER STEAM COVER LOW RACK (For microwave and convection mode) STEAM PLATE STEAM WATER BOWL (METAL TRAY) 4 METAL TRAY (For defrost) * THIS OVEN SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL CATERING PURPOSES. * THIS OVEN CAN BE USED AS BUILT-IN TYPE . * MUST USE THE BUILT-IN KIT THAT IS MADE BY LG ELECTRONICS. Plug your oven into a standard household socket. Make sure your oven is the only appliance connected to the socket. If your oven does not operate properly, unplug it from the electrical socket and then plug it back in. Press the STOP/CLEAR button, and press the START button one time to set 30 seconds of cooking time. Open your oven door by pulling the DOOR HANDLE. Place the METAL TRAY inside the oven. The DISPLAY will count down from 30 seconds. When it reaches 0 it will sound BEEPS. Open the oven door and test the temperature of the water. If your oven is operating the water should be warm. Be careful when removing the container it may be hot. Fill a microwave safe container with 300 ml (1/2 pint) of water. Place on the METAL TRAY and close the oven door. If you have any doubts about what type of container to use please refer to page 32. YOUR OVEN IS NOW INSTALLED The contents of feeding bottles and baby food jars shall be stirred or shaken and the temperature checked before consumption, in order to avoid burns. 5 Control Panel 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 1. Display Window: You can show time of day, cooking time, power level and cooking categories. 2. Enter: You can determine the selected cooking category, microwave power level or temperature. 3. Micro: You can select five power level settings. 4. Grill: You can select the grill categories. 5. Conv.: You can select temperature and time of convection. 6. Speed Combi: You can select the combination categories. 7. Speed Auto Cook: Speed auto cook allows you to cook most of your favorite food quickly by selecting the food type and the weight of the food. 8. Dial Knob: · You can set cooking times, temperature, weight and cooking categories. · While cooking with auto and manual function, you can lengthen or shorten the cooking time at any point by turning the dial knob(except defrost mode). 9. Defrost: You can select the food type and the weight of the food. 6 10. Steam chef: Steam chef allows you to cook your favorite food by selecting the steam chef categories. 11. Clock: You can set the time of day. 12. Stop/Clear: You can stop over and clear all entries except time of day. · Press Stop/Clear Button one time, all icons will be displayed on window, in time of day or clear mode. · Press Stop/Clear Button one more time, all icons will be disappeared. 13. Start/Quick Start: · In order to start cooking which is selected, press button one time. · The quick start feature allows you to set 30 seconds intervals of HIGH power cooking with a touch of the quick start button. 14. Icon: You can see all icons by pressing "Stop/Clear" button one time and remove all icons by pressing one more time(all icons will disappear automatically after 15 seconds). Blink will guide to next step for setting while cooking, the icon of the selected cooking mode will be displayed on window. You can set either12 hour clock or 24 hour clock. 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. Make sure that you have correctly installed your oven as described earlier in this book. Press Stop/Clear. Setting the Clock NOTE: Information Blink For mode setting, blink will guide to next step. When your oven is plugged in for the first time or when power resumes after a power cut, a `0' will be shown in the display; you will have to reset the clock. If the clock (or display) shows any strange looking symbols, unplug your oven from the electrical socket and plug it back in and reset the clock. Press Clock once. (If you want to use a 12 hour clock, Press Clock once more. If you want to change different option after setting clock, you have to unplug and plug it back in.) Turn Dial knob until display shows "14:00". Press Enter for hour confirmation. Turn Dial knob until display shows "14:35". Press Enter. The clock starts counting. 7 Child Lock Press Stop/Clear. Your oven has a safety feature that prevents accidental running of the oven. Once the child lock is set, you will be unable to use any functions and no cooking can take place. However your child can still open the oven door. Press and hold Stop/Clear until "L" appears on the display and BEEP sounds. The CHILD LOCK is now set. The time will disappear on the display but will reappear on the display a few seconds later. If any button is pressed, "L" will appear on the display To cancel CHILD LOCK press and hold Stop/Clear until "L" disappears. You will hear BEEP when it's released. 8 In the following example I will show you how to use the convection to cook some food for 50 minutes for 220°C temp. Convection Cooking The convection oven has a temperature range of 40°C and 100°C~250°C The oven has a ferment function at the oven temperature of 40°C. You should wait until the oven is cool because you cannot use a ferment function if the oven temperature is over 40°C. It is available to extend the cooking time up to 9 hours in the condition of 40°C at convection function for the operating mwo. Your oven will take a few minutes to reach the selected temperature. Once it has reached correct temperature, your oven will BEEP to let you know that it has reached the correct temperature. Then place your food in your oven: then tell your oven to start cooking. The low rack must be used during convection cooking. 1. To Preheat Press Stop/Clear. 2. To Cook Press Stop/Clear. Press Conv. to select convection mode. Turn Dial knob until display shows "220°C". Press Conv. to select convection mode. Turn Dial knob until display shows "220°C". Press Enter for temp. confirmation. Turn Dial knob until display shows "50:00". Press Start. Display shows "Pr-H". Press Start. After cooking you must wear gloves and container to take metal tray out oven, because metal tray is very hot. 9 Speed combi Cooking Speed Combi (Co-1, 2, 3) In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with micro power 360W and grill for a cooking time of 25 minutes. Press Stop/Clear. Press Speed Combi to select grill combination mode(Co-1, 2, 3). Your oven has a combination cooking feature which allows you to cook food with heater and microwave at the same time or alternately. This generally means it takes less time to cook your food. You can set three kinds of micro power level(180W, 360W and 600W) in speed combi mode. * Speed combi Category Co-1 Co-2 Co-3 Co-4 Co-5 Grill-1 + Microwave power Grill-2 + Microwave power Turn Dial knob until display shows "25:00". Grill-3 + Microwave power (Upper + Lower heater) + Microwave power Convection + Microwave power Press Start. Turn Dial knob until display shows "Co-1". Press Enter for grill-1 confirmation. Turn Dial knob until display shows "360W". Press Enter for power confirmation. After cooking you must wear gloves and container to take metal tray out oven, because metal tray is very hot. 10 * Grill mode: Refer to page 20 In the following example I will show you how to programme your oven with micro power 360W and at a temperature 200 ...