GE PT916SM1SS Owner's Manual page 3

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A WARNING!
SAFETY P RECAUTIONS
Never wear loose-fitting or hanging
garments while using file appliance. Be
careflll when reaching for ire.ms stored in
cabinets over file ox.en. Flamnlal)le mamrial
could be ignimd if brought in contact wifl/
hot surfaces or heating elements and mac
cause
sex.ere bnTlls.
Use only d U pot llolders--moist or damp
pot holders on hot snil_aces Ill W I.esult in
bums fiom steam. Do not let pot holders
touch hot heating elements. Do not use a
towel or oilier bulkv cloth.
For your safew, nex.er use your appliance
for wanning or heaung tile room.
Do not let cooking grease or other
flamnlable mamrials accumulam in or
near the oven.
Do not use wamr on grease fires.
Never pick/l I) a flaming pan. Turn tile
controls off'.
Flame in tile oven can be smothered
completely by closing tile oven door
and ulming the oven off or by using a
mnld-pnrpose d U chemical or tbam-type
fire extinguisher
Do not
touch tile
heating
elements or tile
inmrior surPace of tile oven. These surl_aces
may be hot
enong]l to
bnFn ex.en though
they are dark in colon During and after
use, do not milch, or let clodling or od/er
flammable mamrials contact any inmrior
aI.ea of tile ox.en; allow sufficient time tbr
cooling first.
Pomnfially hot snil_ces include ox.en
x.ent openinKs, surfaces near tile openinKs,
crevices around tile ox.en dooi, file edg.es
of file window and metal u-ira parts above
tile door.
REMEMBER: The inside surPace of the ox.en
may be hot when die door is opened.
Never place cooking umnsils or a W odler
imms on the oven floon There is a heating
element beneafll die ox.en floon Placing
imms on tile ox.en floor may cause tile
ox.en to ox.erheat, resnlfing in damag.e
to tile oven and risk of damag.e or fii.e
m cabinets.
Nex.er lem.ejars or cans of l_atdiippings in
or Ileal
VOHY ox.en,
Do not store or use combustible mamrials,
gasoline or other flammable vapors and
liquids in the vicinity of this or anv other
appliance.
Stand away from tile ox.en when opening
file ox.en door. Hot air or steam which
escapes can cause bums to hands, face
and/or eyes.
Do not heat unopened food containers.
Pressure could build/l I) and file container
could burst, causing an irljury.
Kee I) file oven x.ent unobstructed.
Kee I) tile ox.en free from grease buildup.
Place the ox.en rack in die desired position
while tile oven is cool. If racks must be
handled when hot, do not let pot holder
contact tile heating elements.
When using cooking or roasdng bags in die
ox.en, follow tile manui_tcturer's directions.
Pulling out die rack to die stop-lock is a
com.enience in lifting heaxy %ods. It is also
a pi.ecaufion against bums flom touching
hot surfaces of tile door or ox.en walls.
Do not use tile oven to di y newspapers.
If overheamd, d/ev can catch on fire.
Do not use the ox.en for a storag'e area.
Imms stored in an ox.en can ignim.
Do not leave paper products, cooking
utensils or food in tile ox.en when not
in rise.
After broiling, always take any broiler
pan out of the ox.en and clean it. Leftox.er
grease in a broiler pan can catch fire next
time you use tile pan.
Clean only parts lismd in this Owner's
Manual.
Do not use alun/inunl foil to line
oven bottoms, except as sugg'esmd in this
nlanual. Improper installation of alunlinun/
foil in W resuh in a risk of elecu-ic shock
or fire.
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