Maytag CWE9000BCB Use And Care Manual page 3

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
Information in this Safety Instruction section these liners may result in a risk of electric shock
covers all electric cooking appliances. Ynu may or fire.
find some information that does not pertain to Use Care When Opening the Oven Door:
your particular appliance. Please review this Let any hot air or steam escape before removing
section before using your cooking appliance.
or replacing the tbod.
The following instructions are based on safety Do Not Heat Unopened Food Containers:
considerations and must be strictly followed to The build-up of pressure may cause a container
eliminate the potential risks of fire, electric
shock, or personal injury, to burst and result in an injury.
Keep the Oven Vent Duets
Proper Installation: Be sure your appliance is UNOBSTRUCTED: (located between the
properly installed and grounded by a qualified oven door and the control panel of wall oven )
technician. Blockage of the vent prevents the proper oven
NEVER USE YOUR APPLIANCE FOR air circulation and will 'affect the oven
WARMING OR HEATING THE ROOM. performance. Avoid touching the oven vent area
Wear Proper Apparel: Loose-fitting or while the oven is on and for several mimltes after
hanging garments should never be worn while the oven is turned off. Some parts of the vent
using the appliance, and the surrounding area may become hot
enough to cause burns.
User Servicing: Do not repair or replace any
part of the appliance unless specifically Placement of the Oven Racks: Always place
recommended in the User's Guide. All other the oven racks in the desired location while the
servicing should be referred to a qualified oven is cooI. If the rack must be moved while
technician. Always disconnect the unit or cut off hot, use care to avoid contact of the pot holder
the power to the unit before any servicing, with the oven element.
Storage In, On or Near the Appliance: Do Ventilating Hoods: Clean ventilating hood
not store or use gasoline or other flammable frequently to prevent grease from accumulating
on it or its filter. When "flaming" foods under the
materials, vapors and liquids in the oven or in
the vicinity of this or any other appliance. The hood, or ifa boilover results in an open flame,
fumes can create a fire hazard or an explosion, immediately tuna off the hood's ventilating fan.
Do not use the oven as a storage area for food or The fan can cause flame to spread. After flame is
cooking utensils, thoroughly extinguished, the fan may be turned
on to remove unpleasant odor or smoke.
Do Not Use Water
on Grease Fires:
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_ Important Safety Notice and Warning: The
Smother tile fire or ____ _ California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic'
flame or use a dry Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65)
chemical or foam-type requires the Governor of California to publish a
extinguisher, if list of substances known to the State of
available, or sprinkle California to cause cancer or reproductive harm,
heavily with baking soda. and requires businesses to warn customers of
potential exposures to such substances.
Use Dry Pot holders Only: Moist or damp pot
holders on hot surfaces may result in bums from Users of this appliance are hereby warned that
steam. Do not let the pot holder touch the hot when the appliance is engaged in the self-clean
heating elements. Do not use towels or other cycle there may be some low-level exposure to
bulky cloths, some of the listed substances, including carbon
monoxide. Exposure to these
substauccs can
be
Protective Liners: Do not use aluminum foil minimized by properly venting the appliance to
to line the oven bottom, except as suggested in the outdoors during the seltZelean cycle.
the User's Guide. The improper installation of
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