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Oven Controls; Burner Ignition; Oven Vent - Kenmore 71291 Use, Care, Safety Manual

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To Start
Things
Cooking
(continued)
OVEN
To use your oven or broiler.
1. Push In and set the OVEN
CONTROL
to desired
temperature or to BROIL.
When broiling, be sure to
set the knob to the mark In the BROIL section of the
knob.
2. When finished, turn OVEN
CONTROL
to OFF.
OVEN
CONTROL
BURNER
IGNITION
When you turn a control
knob to LITEj gas flows
to the burner
and is ignited
by a pilot flame.
The
pilot flame
burns constantly.
TO LIGHT
COOl(TOP
PILOTS:
1. Turn all control knobs to OFF and wait one minute.
2. Remove the burner grates and drip bowl liners (on
some models). Raise the cooktop (grasp at front and
lift). Raise the support rod to hold cooktop.
3. The pilots are located between the front and rear
burner on each side of the cooktop. Light pilots with
a match.
TO LIGHT
OVEN PILOTS=
1. Turn oven control to OFF and walt one minute.
2. Open the lower broiler compartment
and pull the
door down flat.
Put the broiler pan In the lowest
position. Slide the drawer back into the range so you
can reach to the back of the compartment easier.
3. The tube runnlng from front to back at the top of the
broiler compartment Is the burner. The pilot Is at the
back of the compartment, about one Inch below the
burner. Light the pilot with a match.
OVEN VENT
When the oven is on, heated air moves through a vent in
or below the backguard behind the cooktop.
On the
cooktop, this hot air may make pot handles hot or melt
plastic items left too near the vent.
The vent is necessary for proper air circulation In the
oven and good baking results.
Do not block
this
vent.
Doing so may cause
cooking
failurej
fire or
damage
to the range,
MOISTURE
As your oven heats up, t he temperature change of the air
in t he oven may cause water droplets to form on t he door
or door glass. To prevent this, open the oven door for
the first minute of oven heat up to let the moist air out.
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