GE EER3000 Owner's Manual page 4

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION.
READALLINSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING.
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 and create a risk of electrical shock. Contact a qualified
technician immediately should your glass control panel become broken.
Do not store flammable materials in
an oxen or near the cooktop.
CAUTION: tems ofinterest to
chiktren should not be stored in cabinets
above a rang_ or on tile backsplash of a
rang_--<hildren climbing on the rang_
m reach imms could be seriously i,_n_ed.
Nexer wear loose-fitting or hanging
gammnts while using the appliance.
Be carefltl when reaching for imms stored
oxer tile rang_. Flammable mamrial could
be ignited if brought in contact with hot
surface units or heating elements and may
cause
sex>re bllins.
Use only dt T pot holders---moist or damp
pot holders on hot surl_aces may result in
burns from steam. Do not let pot holdet_
touch hot surPace units or heating
elements. Do not use a towel or other
bulky cloth in place of pot holders.
Do
not/tse
water on grease fires. Nexer
pick up a flaming pan. Turn the controls
off'. Smother a flaming pan on a surface
unit by covenng the pan completely wiflt
a well-fitting lid, cookie sheet or fiat tray.
Use a muld-pu_l)ose d U chemical or
foam-type fire extinguishen
Flaming grease outside a pan can be put
out by co\>ting it with baking soda or;
if available, by using a mulfi-pu_l)ose d_T
chemical or foam-type fire extinguishen
Flame in the oxen can be smofllered
completely by closing tile oxen door and
turning the oxen off or by using a mul%
puq)ose d U chemical or foam-type fire
exfinguishen
For your safety, never use your appliance
for warming or heating the room.
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Do not let cooking grease or other
flammable materials accumulam in or
near the range.
Do not touch the surface units, rite
heating elements or tile inmnor surface
of tile ox>n. These surPaces m W be hot
enouO_ m bum even though they are
dark in colon Dunng and after use, do not
much, or let clothing or other flammable
materials contact rite s/trface units, areas
nearby the surl_ace units or any inmnor
area of the ox>n; allow sufficient time fbr
cooling first.
Pomndally hot surPaces include the
cookmp, areas fi_cing the cooktop, oven
\ent opening, surfilces near the opening,
crevices around the oxen door
REMEMBER: The inside surface of dte o_>n
may be hot when file door is opened.
Do not store or use combustible mamnals,
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 x>nting and to ax_id
grease fires.
Teach children not to pl W with tile
controls or any other part of the rang_.
Alwws kee I) dish towels, dish cloths, pot
holders and other linens a safe distance
flom your rang>.
Alwws kee I) wooden and plastic umnsils
and canned food a safe distance flom
your range.
{ Always kee I) combustible wall coxedngs,
curtains or drapes a safe distance flom
your range.
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COOK MEAT ANDPOULTRY THOROUGHLY...
Cookmeat and poultry thoroughly--meat to at least an INTERNAL temperatureof 160°Eand poultry to at least
an INTERNAL temperatureof 180°ECookingto these temperaturesusuallypretects against foodbomeillness.