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Tips for Reheating your own Homemade Foods
Serving foods prepared in-house gives a homemade quality to the menu and allows for seasonality. However,
for best results, follow the tips below if they are to be regenerated in your Panasonic Combi Oven.
1.Overcooking
Do not overcook vegetables - slightly
undercook them, and they will finish cooking
during the reheating time.
2.Sauces
Make any foods in sauces with lighter gravies
rather than heavy, thick ones, as this helps the
food heat evenly.
3.Plated Meals
To ensure even heating arrange the single
component foods of a plated meal carefully.
Place denser foods, such as whole vegetables
and portions of meat or fish, to the outside of the
plate, and smaller items, towards the centre.
Do not pile foods up but keep them in a single
layer; mashed patato should be spread out rather
than mounded up. The food can look attactive but
always give the Microwave a chance to heat
evenly and thoroughly.
4.Vegetables
Dot vegetables with butter and pour gravy over the
meat to prevent drying out and to help with even
heating.
5.Rice
Arrange meat sauces served with rice, side by
side rather than in the traditional circle of rice with
the sauce in the centre. The sauce should be
flattened slightly, whilst the rice is piled up.
6.Potato Topped Pies
Potato-topped pies and au gratin dishes, eg
Cottage Pie, are difficult to reheat as the
consistency of the potato will heat faster. Always
ensure the filling is deeper than the potato.
7.Stirring
Stir any sauce- based foods before heating,
particularly if they have been defrosted. This
ensures any icy particles or cold areas are fully
broken up and the food is of an even temperature.
8.Browning/Finishing Dishes
If you are preparing dishes in bulk for freezing or
refrigeration, don’t forget that because your
Panasonic Combi is a microwave and
conventional oven, you can choose to brown
foods at the end of preparation but before storing,
or store unbrowned and reheat on CONVECTION.
9.Heating two dishes together
If you wish to reheat more than one dish, place
them side by side on the base of the cavity and
NEVER use the Wire Rack Shelf for reheating on
2 levels.
10.Heating Times
It is impossible to give the heating time of an
individual plated meal as each will contain a
different variety of foods in differing quantities.
Follow the arranging tips already mentioned and
ensure the thickest piece of food has reached 72˚C.
Reheating by Microwave
