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Using Your Coil Element Cooking
USING YOUR OVEN
Surface
Ever)," oven has its own charactcristies.
Yun may find
It is normal for some parts of"the eooktop, especially
that the cooking times and temperatures
vaD' slightly
areas surrounding
the surface elements,
to become
from your old oven. This is normal.
warm or hot during
surface
cooking
operations.
Therefore, do not touch or let heat-sensitive
materials
For sMbty reasons, when opening r:hc oven door, allow
such as plastics touch the eooktop until it has had time
steam and hot air to escape before reaching into the
to cool.
oven to remove food.
Coil Elements
Baking
and Roasting
The coil elements of your range are self-eleaning.
Do
not immerse the elements in water.
(For additional
baking
and roasting
tips, refer to
"Cooking
Made Simple" booklet.)
To remove:
Raise the element when cool and carefnlly
pull out and away from the receptacle.
Setting
the Controls
for Baking
and
To replace:
Insert the terminals on the element into
Roasting:
the receptacle and guide the element into place until it
The OVEN TEMP knob is used to select and maintain
sits level on the drip boM.
the oven temperature.
Ahvays turn this knob just to the
desired temperature
not to a higher temperature
and
Lift-up
Cooktop
then
back.
This
provides
more
accurate
oven
Your range features an upswept eooktop that can be
temperatures.
Turn this knob fidly counterclockwise
lifted up for convenient
access to the area under the
whenever the oven is not in use. The OVEN SET knob
eooktop. The top is hinged and can be raised but not
determines the type of oven operation.
removed.
To turn the oven on, both the OVEN TEMP and the
To llft eooktop: When cool, grasp the front edge of the
OVEN SET knobs must be set. The oven will not
cooktop and gently lift up until the hvo automatic prop
operate
if the OVEN SET knob is left in the OFF
rods at the front of the eooktop snap into plaee,
position.
To lower eooktop:
Hold the front edge of the cooktop
1. When cool, position tbe racks in the oven according
and carefully push back on each prop rod to release the
to wha_ you are haFmg.
notehed support. Then gently lower the top into place.
.2. Turn the OVEN TEMP knob to the desired oven
The prop rods will slide into the range frame.
temperature.
Drip
Bowls
3. Turn the OVEN SET knob to Bake. Allow 10-15
The drip bowls, located under each surface element, are
minutes for preheating.
designed
to eateh boilovers.
They must always be
4. After the cooking operation,
turn the OVEN SET
used--absence
of these bowls during cooking
may
knob to OFF. Bemove fnod from the oven.
dmnage wiring or other parts underneath the eooktop.
Oven
Indicator
Light
Clean the drip bowls frequently. See cleaning section,
pages 8-9.
The oven indicator light by the OVEN TEMP knob
turns on whenever
the oven is turned on. When the
oven reaches the preset temperature,
the indicator light
turns
off and then cycles on and off as the oven
elements cycle on and off.
Oven
Light
Push the switch on the eoutrol panel marked OVEN
LIGttT to turn it on and off. On select models the oven
light antmnatically comes on whenever the oven door is
opened.
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