For Best Cleaning Results; How The Cycle Works - KitchenAid KEMS308 Use And Care Manual

U
sing the Self-Cleaning Cycle
3. PRESS
4. Set Stop time.
Example for 7:00:
PRESS
7
0
QUANTITY
5. PRESS
START
NOTE: The door will lock and oven light
will go out (if on) right after you press
START.
6. After the Self-Cleaning
cycle ends:
YOU SEE
To stop the Self-Cleaning cycle at
any time:
PRESS
30
0
QUANTITY
For best cleaning
results
• After the oven cools to room tempera-
ture, wipe up any residue or ash with a
damp cloth or sponge. If any spots remain,
clean with a mild abrasive cleanser or
cleaning sponge.
• Clean the oven before it gets heavily soiled.
Cleaning a very soiled oven takes longer
and results in more smoke than usual.
• If the Self-Cleaning cycle does not get
the oven as clean as you expected, the
cycle may not have been set long enough
or you may not have prepared the oven
properly. Set the Self-Cleaning cycle longer
the next time and hand-clean areas noted
in "Before you start" earlier in this section.

How the cycle works

The Self-Cleaning cycle uses very high heat
to burn away soil and grease. During the
cycle, the oven gets much hotter than it
does for normal baking or broiling. This high
heat breaks up the soil or grease and burns
it away.
Your oven is preset for a 3
Cleaning cycle. However, you can adjust the
cycle time to the amount of soil in your
oven. You can set the cycle anywhere
between 2 1 ⁄ and 4 1 ⁄
2 2
controls" earlier in this section.)
The graph at the right is representative of
a normal, 3 ⁄ -hour Self-Cleaning cycle. Note
1
2
that the heating stops after 3 hours, but it
takes longer for the oven to cool enough to
unlock.
CLEANING CYCLE
OVEN SHUTS OFF
( normal broiling temperature )
DOOR LOCKS
START 1
Time In Hours
1 ⁄ -hour Self-
2
hours. (See "Setting the
DOOR UNLOCKS
( fan stays on )
2 3 STOP