Care And Cleaning; Self-Clean Oven - Maytag MGR5870 User Manual

Care and Cleaning ...............................
Self-Clean Oven
Wipe up excess grease or spilIovers from the oven bc
Self-Clean CAUTIONS:
tom to prevent excessive smoking, flare-ups and tier
ins during the clean cycle.
• It is normal for parts of the range to become hot during
a clean cycle. Wipe up sugary and acid spillovers such as sweet pot
toes, tomato or milk-based sauces. Porcelain enamel
• Avoid touching cooktop, door, window, or oven vent acid resistant, not acid proof. The porcelain finish mt
area during a clean cycle, discolor if acid spills are not wiped up prior to a se!
• To prevent damage to oven door, do not attempt to clean cycle.
open the door when the LOCK indicator word is
displayed.
Setting the Controls for Self-Clean
• Do not use commercial oven cleaners on the self-clean 1. Close oven door.
oven finish or around any part of the oven as they will 2. Press CLEAN pad.
damage the finish or parts.
• CLEAN will flash and " : " will light in th_
display.
The self-clean cycle uses above normalcooking temperatures
to automatically clean the entire oven interior. • If door has not been closed, "door" will light in tt
display and a signal will beep until the door is
It is normal for excessive flare-ups, smoking and flaming to closed and the CLEAN pad is pressed again.
occur during cleaning if the oven is heavily soiled. It is better
to clean the oven regularly rather than to wait until there is a 3. Press PRESET (0) pad for "3:00" hours of cleani_
heavy build-up of soil in the oven. time for an average soiled oven. Or, press the appr(
priate number pads for the desired cleaning tin-
During the cleaning process, the kitchen should be well between two and four hours.
ventilated to help eliminate normal odors associated with
cleaning. 4. Four seconds after entering the cleaning time, tk
oven door will automatically lock.
The cleaning time can be varied depending on the amount of
soil. Press the appropriate number pads to set any amount of LOCK will appear in the display.
timebetweentwoandfourhours. "2:00"hoursofcleaningfor • CLEAN symbol will appear in the display
light soil, up to "4:00" hours of cleaning for heavy soil.
Before Self-Cleaning
Turn off the oven light before cleaning as the light may burn
out during the clean cycle. 5. When the cleaning time has been completed, th
Remove broiler pan, all pans and the oven racks from the indicator word CLEAN will turn off. The indicate
oven. The oven racks will discolor and may not slide easily word LOCK will remain on until the oven has coole
after a self-clean cycle. (approx. 1 hour). When the oven has cooled, th
Clean oven frame, door frame indicator word LOCK will turn off and the door wi
area outside the door gasket) and automatically unlock.
around the opening in the door _ ,_, ,. -
gasket with a nonabrasive clean-
ing agent such as Ben Ami or de-
tergent and water. These areas are
not exposed to cleaning temperatures and should be cleaned
LOCK ISSTILL ENGAGED.
to prevent soil from baking on during the clean cycle. DOOR C ANNOTBE
OPENED UNTIL LOCK IS
Toprevent damage, do not clean or rub the gasket around NO LONGER DISPLAYED.
the oven door. The gasket is designed to seal in heat during
the clean cycle.
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