R-85STMA (serv.man15) - Sharp Home Appliance User Guide / Operation Manual. Page 12

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MANUAL COOKING
•  Enter the cooking time and use microwave 

power levels 10% to 100% 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 37 - 44.

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 17 - 21.

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

1.  Enter the cooking time by pressing the  

1 MIN. key twice, then the 10 SEC. key 
three times.

2.  Input the power level by pressing the MICRO 

POWER key twice.

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

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

Opening and closing the door:
To open the oven door, push the door opening 
button.

The display will count down 

through the cooking time.

3.  Press the START/AUTO MINUTE key 

once to start cooking.

NOTE FOR REHEATING READY MEALS:
Place the ready meal in a heat-resistant flan dish
on the low rack.