Using Your Oven; Adjusting The Oven Thermostat; Top-Of-Range Cookware - GE JGSP30GER Use And Care Manual

Top-of-Range Cookware

Aluminum: Medium-weight cookware is
recommended because it heals quickly and evenly.
Use saucepans with tight-fitting lids when cooking
with minimum amounts of water.
Cast Iron: If heated slowly, most skillets will give
satisfactory results.
Enamelware: Under some conditions, the enamel
of some cookworc may melt. Follow cookware
manufacturer's recommendations for cooking methods.
Glass: There are two types of glass cookware-
those for oven use only and those for top-of-range
cooking (saucepans, coffee and teapots). Glass
conducts heat very slowly.
Electric Ignition
broil burner are lighted
The oven burner and
by electric ignition.
To light either burner, touch the pad tor the desired
function and press the INCREASE or DECREASE
pad until the desired temperature is displayed. The
burner should ignite within 30-90 seconds.
After the oven reaches the selected temperature, the
burner cycles—off completely, then on with a full
flame—to keep the oven temperature controlled.

Adjusting the Oven Thermostat

When cot~king food for the first time in your new oven,
use time given on recipes as a guide. Oven thermostats,
over a period of years, may "drift" from the factory
setting, und differences in timing between an old and a
new oven of 5 to I O minutes are not unusual. Your
has been set correctly at the factory and is
new oven
more likely to be accurate than the oven it replaced.
We do not recommend the use of inexpensive
thermometers, such as those found in grocery stores, to
check the temperature setting of your new oven. These
thermometers can vary by 2040 degrees.
If you think the oven should be hotter or cooler,
you can adjust it yourself. To decide how much to
higher or lower than the temperature in your recipe.
then bake. The results of this "test" should give you
an idea of how much the thermostat should be changed.
TO ADJUST THERMOSTAT:
1. Press the BAKE pad.
Heatproof Glass Ceramic: Can be used for
either surface or oven cooking. [t conducts heat
very slowly and cools very slowly. Check cookware
manufacturer's directions to be sure it can be used
on gas ranges.
Stainless Steel: This metal alone has poor
heating properties and is usually combined with
copper, aluminum or other metals for improved
work satisfactorily if they are used with medium
heat as the manufacturer recommends.

USING YOUR OVEN

Power Outage
CAUTION: DO NOT MAKE ANY ATTEMPT
TO OPERATE THE ELECTRIC IGNITION OVEN
DURING AN E1..ECTR1CAL POWER OUTAGE.
Neither the oven nor the broiler can be lit during an
electrical power outage. Gas will not flow unless the
glow bar is hot.
If the oven is in use when a power outage occurs,
the oven burner shuts off and cannot be re-lit until
power is restored.
2. Setect an oven temperature between 500°F. and 550°F.
3. Immediately, before BAKE indicator stops
4. The oven thermostat can be adjusted up to (+) 35°F.
5. When you have made the adjustment, press the
flashing, press and hold the BAKE pad for about
4 seconds. The red display will change to the oven
adjustment display.
hotter or (–) 35°F. cooler. Use the INCREASE or
DECREASE pads to select the desired change in
the red display.
display. Use your oven as you would normally.
NOTE: This adjustment will not affect Broil
or Clean temperatures. It will be remembered
when power is removed.
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