Kenmore Elite 721.88519 - Manual (Page 23)

HOW TO USE
TIPS FOR CONVECTION COOKING
This section gives you cooking instructions and
procedures for operating each convection function.
Piease read these instructions carefuiiy.
Convection cooking circuiates hot air through the oven
cavity with a fan. The constantiy moving air surrounds the
food to heat the outer portion quickiy, creating even
browning and seaied-in fiavor by the constant motion of
hot air over the food surfaces. Your oven uses convection
cooking whenever you use the Convection Button. DO
NOT USE THE OVEN WITHOUT THE TURNTABLE IN
PLACE.
1. Always use the metal rack on the turntabie when
convection cooking.
2. Do not cover turntabie or metai rack with aiuminum
foii. it interferes with the fiow of air that cooks the food.
3. Round pizza pans are exceiient cooking utensiis for
many convection-oniy items.
Choose pans that do not have extended handies.
4. Use convection cooking for items iike soufflés,
breads, cookies, angei food cakes, pizza, and for some
meat and fish cooking.
5. Your oven comes equipped with metai tray which can
be used for cooking in convection mode or combination
mode.
6. You do not need to use any speciai techniques to
adapt your favorite oven recipes to convection cooking;
however, you need to iower oven temperature by 25°F
from recommended temperature mentioned in package
instructions when cooking packaged food in convection
mode.
7. When baking cakes, cookies, breads, roiis, or other
baked foods, most recipes caii for preheating. Preheat
the empty oven just as you do a reguiar oven. You can
start heavier dense foods such as meats, casseroies,
and pouitry without preheating.
8. All heatproof cookware or metai utensiis can be used
in convection cooking.
9. As in conventional cooking, the distance of the food
from the heat source affects cooking resuits. Refer to
the charts in this Use and Care Guide.
10. Use metai utensiis oniy for convection cooking.
Never use for microwave or combination cooking since
arcing and damage to the oven may occur.
11. After preheating, if you do not open the door, the
oven wiii automaticaiiy hoid at the preheated
temperature for 30 minutes.
PRECAUTIONS
• The oven cavity, door, turntabie, roiier rest, metai tray,
metai rack, and cooking utensiis wiii become very hot.
USE THiCK OVEN GLOVES when removing the food,
cooking utensiis, metai rack, metai tray, and turntabie
from the oven after convection cooking.
• Do not use iightweight piastic containers, piastic wraps,
or paper products during any convection cycie.
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