Hotpoint RF512GP How To Get The Best

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Aluminum Foil

Appliance Registration

Canning Tips

Care and Cleaning

Clock/Timer

Consumer Services

Energy-Saving Tips

Features

Model and Serial Numbers

Oven

Baking/Baking Guide

Broiling/Broiling Guide 18, 19

Continuous Cleaning Care 20

Control Settings

Door Removal

Light; Bulb Replacement 21

Roasting/Roasting Guide 16, 17

Thermostat Adjustment

Problem Solver

Safety Instructions

Surface Cooking

Control Settings

Cookware Tips

Warranty

GE Answer Center

800.626.2000

20-23

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Page 1 How to get the best from Aluminum Foil Appliance Registration of models Canning Tips Care and Cleaning 20-23 Clock/Timer Consumer Services Energy-Saving Tips Features Model and Serial Numbers Oven Baking/Baking Guide 14, 15 Broiling/Broiling Guide 18, 19 Continuous Cleaning Care 20 Control Settings Door Removal Light;...
Page 2: Model And Serial Numbers
Help us help you... If you received Before using your range, a damaged range... read this book carefully. Immediately contact the dealer (or It is intended to help you operate builder) that sold you the range. and maintain your new range properly.
Page 3: Important Safety Instructions
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Read all instructions before using this appliance. CAUTION: ITEMS OF basic safety precautions should INTEREST TO CHILDREN other flammable materials be followed, including the SHOULD NOT BE STORED accumulate in or near the range. IN CABINETS ABOVE A following: Do not use water on grease RANGE OR ON THE...
Page 4: Oven Vent Duct
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) Keep an eye on foods being Oven Surface Cooking Units fried at HI or MEDIUM HI Use proper pan Stand away from range when size—This heat settings. opening oven door. Hot air or appliance is equipped with one or To avoid the possibility of a steam which escapes can cause more surface units of different...
Page 5 Surface Cooking Oven Cooking medium-weight Use cookware of Preheat oven only when aluminum, with tight-fitting necessary. Most foods will cook covers, and flat bottoms which satisfactorily without preheating. completely cover the heated you find preheating is necessary, portion of the surface unit. watch the indicator light, and put food in oven promptly after the Cook fresh vegetables with a...
Page 7: Table Of Contents
Explained Feature Index on page 1 Bake Unit (May be lifted gently for wiping oven floor.) 2 Oven Interior Light 3 Model and Serial Numbers (under cooktop) 4 Oven Control 5 Surface Unit Controls 6 Oven Vent Duct (Located under right rear surface unit.) 7 Surface Unit “ON”...
Page 8: Surface Unit Controls
See Surface Cooking Guide. Surface Cooking with How to Set the Controls Cooking Guide for Infinite Heat Controls Using Heat Settings At both OFF and HI positions, there is a slight niche so control “clicks” at those positions; “click” on HI marks the highest setting; the lowest setting is LO.
Page 9 Questions & Answers Q. Can I use special cooking Q. Why does my cookware tilt reserves on my surface units? equipment, like an oriental wok, when I place it on the surface unit? on any surface units? A. Yes, but only use cookware A.
Page 10 Control Settings Cookware Tips HI—Highest setting. 1. Use medium- or heavy-weight cookware. Aluminum cookware conducts heat faster than other between HI and MED. metals. Cast iron and coated cast iron cookware are slow to absorb heat, but generally cook evenly at MEDIUM LO—Setting halfway low to medium heat settings.
Page 11 Wrong To conserve the most cooking trim rinzs ran~in~ from blue to Concave Bottom Rounded Bottom dark Right 3. Deep Fat Frying. Do not overfill cookware with fat that may spill over when adding food. Frosty Wrong foods bubble vigorously. Watch foods frying at high temperatures.
Page 12: Clock And Minute Timer
Automatic Clock and Timer Questions and Answers can I use the Timer to make the surface cooking easier? A. The Timer will help you time total cooking, which includes time to boil food and change temperatures. Do not judge cooking time by visible steam containers even though you can’t The automatic clock and timer on To set the Timer...
Page 13: Oven Interior Light
Using Your Oven Shelf Positions Oven Shelves Before Using Your Oven Each oven has four shelf supports— 1. Look at the control. Be sure you A (bottom), B, C and D (top). understand how to set it properly. Shelf positions for cooking are 2.
Page 14 CAKES When cooking a food for the first Do not open the oven door during time in your new oven, use time a baking operation—heat will be Cake rises higher on one side given on recipes as a guide. Oven lost and the baking time might Batter spread unevenly i n pan.
Page 15 1. Aluminum pans conduct heat heat, which may result in dry, crisp preheating gives best appearance quickly. For most conventional crusts. Reduce oven heat 25°F. if and crispness. Although preheating baking, light, shiny finishes lighter crusts are desired. Rapid is not necessary with meats, it is generally give best results because browning of some foods can be achieved-by preheating cast-iron...
Page 16 Roasting Questions and Answers Roasting is cooking by dry heat. Tender meat or poultry can be Q. Is it necessary to check f’or in your oven. doneness with a meat thermometer? A. Checking the finished inlernal temperature at the completion of roasting, necessary cooking time is recommended.
Page 17 Roasting Guide 1. Position oven shelf at B for 3. Remove fat and drippings as 5. Frozen roasts can be small-size roasts (3 to 7 pounds) necessary. Baste as desired. conventionally roasted by adding and at A for larger roasts. 4.
Page 18: Broil Unit
Broiling Broiling is cooking food by intense Step 6: Turn food only once Questions & Answers radiant heat from the upper unit in during cooking. Time foods for Q. Why should I leave the door the oven. Most fish and tender cuts first side per Broiling Guide.
Page 19 Broiling Guide 1. Always use broiler pan and rack meat, Use tongs to turn meat 6. Broiler does not need to be over to prevent piercing meat and preheated. However, for very thin designed to minimize smoking and losing juices, foods, or to increase browning, spattering by trapping juices in the preheat if desired.
Page 20 Care and Cleating (See Cleaning Special Care of To Clean the Continuous- Porcelain Oven Interior Cleaning Oven: Continuous-Cleaning (on models so equipped) Oven Interior 1. Let With proper care, the porcelain range parts cool before We recommend rubber enamel finish on the inside of the handling.
Page 21: Lift-Up Cooktop
Lift-Up Cooktop Surface Units Clean the area under the cooktop Clean the area under the drip pans often. Built-up soil, especially often. Built-up soil, especially grease, may catch fire. grease, may catch fire. To make cleaning easier, plug-in units are removable, CAUTION: Be sure all controls are turned to OFF and surface...
Page 22: Plug-In Surface Unit
Care and Cleating (continued) Plug-In Units Adjusting Oven Thermosti’ the time given on a recipe when cooking the first time. Oven thermostats, in time, may “drift” from the factory setting and differences in timing between an old and a new oven of 5 to I () Terminals \ Drip Pan minutes are not unusual.
Page 23 Cleaning Guide NOTE: I.et range/oven parts cool before touching or handling. GENERAL DIRECTIONS PART MATERIALS T() USE Unit and NOTE: The bake unit can be lifted gently to clean the oven floor. If spillover, residue or ash Drain fat and cool pan ~nd rack slightly, (Do not let soiled pan and rack stand in oven to cool.) Broiler Parr and Rack .
Page 24 . — ———. . –— . . , , ..OVEN WILL Plug on range is not completely inserted in the electrical outlet. NOT WORK The circuit breaker in your house has been tripped, or a fuse has been blown. Oven controls not properly set.
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Page 27 With the purchase of your new Hotpoint appliance, receive 800.626.2000 In-Home Repak Service Contracts 800-626-2224 Service 800-GE-CARES there after your Hotpoint” product — effect and appliance, sche{lulecl tract, you’re assured (If future prices. at tocfay”s Telecommunication Device for the Deaf...
Page 28 Look in the White or Yellow Pages of your telephone directory for HOTPOINT FACTORY SERVICE, GENERAL ELECTRIC-HOTPOINT FACTORY SERVICE or HOTPOINT CUSTOMER CARE(”’SERVICE. Replacement of house fuses or WHAT IS NOT COVERED Service trips to your home to resetting of circuit breakers.

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