GE JS998 Owner's Manual page 4

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a, WARNING'!
SAFETY P RECAUTIONS
Do not operate the oven or cooktop controls if the glass is broken. Food splatter or cleaning solution
may penetrate a broken control panel or cooktop and create a risk of electrical shock. Contact a
qualified technician immediately should your glass control panel or cooktop become broken.
Do not store flammable materials in an
oxen or near the cooktop.
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CAUTION: tems of interest to
children should ,lot be stored in cabinets
aboxe a range or on the back of a range--
children climbing on the range to reach
items could be seriously injured.
Never wear loose-fitting or hanging
garments while using file appliance.
Be carefld when reaching %r items stored
oxer tile rang_. Flammable material could
be ignited if brought in contact with hot
surface units or heating elements and may
canse
se\_re bnins.
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Use
only dly
pot holders--moist or damp
pot holders on hot snr/_aces may result in
burns fiom smam. Do not let pot holders
touch hot sur/_ace units or heating
elements. Do
not
use a towel or other
bulky cloth in place of pot holders.
Do not use water on grease fires. Never
pick up a flaming pan. Turn the controls
off. Smother a flaming pan on a surface
unit 1)y coxering tile pan completely with
a well-fitting lid, cookie sheet or fiat u W.
Use a mulfi-puq)ose d U chemical or
foam-type fire extinguisher
Flaming grease outside a pan can be put
out 1)y co\>fing it with baking soda o_,
if available, by using a mulfi-pulpose d U
chemical or foam-type fire extinguisher
I_]ame in die ox>n can be smothered
complemly by closing die oxen door
and turning the oven off or by using
a mulfi-puq)ose &Y chemical or
foam-type fi_e extinguisher:
For your safety, nexer use your appliance
for warming or heating the room.
Do not let cooking grease or other
flammable materials accumulate in or
near the range.
Do not touch the surface units, rite
heating elements or tile inmfior sur/_ace
of tile oven. These sur/_aces m W be hot
enough to 1)urn even though they ate
dark in color Dining and after use, do not
much, or let clothing or other flammable
materials contact rite surface units, areas
nearl)y the surface units or any interior
area of the oxen; allow sufficient time tbr
cooling fi rst.
Potentially hot surPaces include the
cooktop, areas Pacing tile cooktop, oxen
xent opening, sniJ_aces near the opening,
crevices around the oven doon
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REMEMBER: Tile inside surface of die oxen
may be hot when the door is opened.
Do not store or use combustible materials,
gasoline or other flammable vapors and
liquids in the vicinity of this or any other
appliance.
Kee I) tile hood and grease filters clean
to maintain g_od xenting and to axoid
grease fires.
Teach children not to play with tile
controls or any other part of the range.
Always kee I) dish towels, dish cloths, pot
holders and other linens a safe distance
fiom your range.
Always kee I) wooden and plastic utensils
and canned food a safe distance fiom
your range.
Always
kee I) combustible wall coxefings,
curtains or drapes a safe distance from
yonr range.
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COOK MEAT ANDPOULTRY THOROUGHLY...
Cookmeat and poultry thoreughly--meat to at least an INTERNAL temperatureof 160°Fand poultry
to at least an INTERNAL temperatureof 180°ECookingto these temperaturesusuallyprotects against
foodbomeillness.