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Care and Cleaning
Self-Clean
Oven
To prevent damage, do not clean or rub the gasket around
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elf,-Clean CAUTIONS
the oven door. The gasket is designed to seal in heat during
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the clean cycle.
Wipe up excess grease or spillovers from the oven bottom to
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prevent excessive smoking, flare-ups or flaming during the
clean cycle.
Wipe up sugary and acid spillovers such as sweet potatoes,
tomato or milk-based sauces. Porcelain enamel is acid re-
sistant, not acid proof. The poreelain finish may discolor if
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acid spills are not wiped up prior to a self-clean cycle.
• Do not use commercial oven c_ners
Onthe self-c!ehn
Setting the Controls for a Self-Clean Cycle
1. Close the oven door.
The self-clean cycle uses above normalcooking temperatures
to automatically clean the entire oven interior.
2. Press the Clean pad.
• The indicator word CLEAN will flash. The display
It is normal for excessive flare-ups and smoking to occur
will show "
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during cleaning if the oven is heavily soiled. It is better to
• If the door has not been closed, the display will show
clean the oven regularly rather than to wait until there is a
heavy build-up of soil in the oven.
"door".
3. Press Preset (0) pad for "3:00" hours of cleaning time for
During the cleaning process, the kitchen should be well
an average soiled oven.
ventilated to help eliminate normal odors associated with
cleaning.
• The cleaning time can be varied depending on the
amount of soil. Press the appropriate number pads to set
any amount of time between 2 and4 hours. "2:00" hours
of cleaning for light soil, up to "4:00" hours of cleaning
Before Self-Cleaning
forheavy soil.
Turn off the oven light before cleaning as the light may burn
• Four seconds after entering the cleaning time, the oven
out during the clean cycle,
door will automatically lock. The indicator word LOCK
will appear in the display along with the clean icon (top
Remove broiler pan, all pans and the oven racks from the
and bottom bars).
oven. The oven racks will discolor and may not slide easily
after a self-clean cycle.
Clean oven frame, door
frame (area outside the door
gasket) and around the open-
ing in the door gasket with a
nonabrasive cleaning agent
such as Bon Ami or deter-
gent and water. These areas
are not exposed to cleaning
temperatures and should be
cleaned to prevent soil from baking on during the clean cycle.
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