R-26STM (serv.man15) - Sharp Home Appliance User Guide / Operation Manual. Page 11

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• Enter the cooking time and use microwave power levels 10P to 100P to cook (refer to page 7).
• Stir or turn the food, where possible, 2 - 3 times during cooking, if required.
• After cooking, cover the food and leave to stand, if required.
• Refer to the cooking charts in the cookbook section, pages 22 - 25.

Your oven enables you to cook and defrost food
using the automatic programmes, or to cook and
defrost food manually.
Automatic cooking and defrosting allows you to
cook and defrost using preset programmes
where the timings have been calculated for you,
e.g Express Cook and Express Defrost.

Manual cooking and defrosting allows you to
cook/defrost foods and weights which are not
included in the automatic programmes.
The following are examples of manual cooking
and defrosting.
For automatic cooking and defrosting refer to
pages 11 - 13.

Example:
To cook for 2 minutes 30 seconds on 70P
microwave power.

1. Enter the cooking time by turning the 

TIME/WEIGHT knob.

2. Input the power level by pressing the

POWER LEVEL button twice.

Starting the oven:
Close the door and press the
START/AUTO MINUTE
button.

Stopping the oven:
If you want to stop the oven
during cooking, press the
STOP/CLEAR button once or
open the oven door.
If you want to cancel the
cooking programme, press the
STOP/CLEAR button twice.

Opening and closing the door:
To open the oven door, pull the door opening
handle.

The display will count down

through the cooking time.

3. Press the START/AUTO MINUTE button

once to start cooking.

Your oven can be programmed for up to 90 minutes. (90.00)
The input unit of cooking (defrosting) time varies from 10
seconds to 5 minutes. It depends on the total length of the
cooking (defrosting) time as shown on the table.

Cooking time

Increasing unit

0-5 minutes

10 seconds

5-10 minutes

30 seconds

10-30 minutes

1 minute

30-90 minutes

5 minutes

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