GE JB450GP Use And Care & Installation Manual
GE JB450GP Use And Care & Installation Manual

GE JB450GP Use And Care & Installation Manual

Selficleaning electric range

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Contents
Aluminum Foil
Anti-Tip Device
Appliance Registration
Canning Tips
Care and Cleaning
Clock/Timer
Consumer Services
Energy-Saving Tips
Features
Installation Instructions
Leveling
Model and Serial Numbers
Oven
Baking/Baking Guide
Broiling/Broiling Guide
Control Panel
Control Settings
Door Removal
Light; Bulb Replacement 14,25
Preheating
Roasting/Roasting Guide 18, 19
Self-Cleaning Instructions 22-24
Vent Duct
Models JB450GP
JB550GP
GE Appliances
Power Outage?
20
3,30,32
Problem Solver
Safety Instmctions
2
11
Set the Clock
25-27
Set the Timer
Surface Cookimz
Control Settings
5
Cookware Tips
6,7
Surface Light
30-32
Surface Light Replacement 26
5
3-in-1 Burners
2
Warranty
14-25
15-17
20,21
8
8,15-24
25
5,17
24
GE Answer Centera
25
80(7.626.2000
28, 2:
2-4
9
10–13
10
12,13
14
10
Back Cover

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  • Page 1 Back Cover Oven 14-25 Baking/Baking Guide 15-17 Broiling/Broiling Guide 20,21 Control Panel Control Settings 8,15-24 Door Removal Light; Bulb Replacement 14,25 Preheating 5,17 Roasting/Roasting Guide 18, 19 Self-Cleaning Instructions 22-24 GE Answer Centera Vent Duct 80(7.626.2000 Models JB450GP JB550GP GE Appliances...
  • Page 2: Help Us Help You

    Check the Problem Solver in the your phone number): The California Safe Drinking Consumer Affairs minor operating problems that you Water and Toxic Enforcement GE Appliances can correct yourself. Act requires the Governor of Appliance Park California to publish a list of Louisville, KY 40225 If you need service...
  • Page 3: Important Safety Instructions

    IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Read all instructions before using this appliance. When using electrical Do not leave children alone— . Keep hood and grease filters appliances, basic safety children should not be left alone clean to maintain good venting precautions should be followed, or unattended in an area where an and to avoid grease fires.
  • Page 4 IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) Always turn surface unit to Oven Clean only parts listed in OFF before removing this Use and Care Book. Stand away from range cookware. Before self-cleaning the when opening oven door. Hot oven, remove broiler pan and Keep an eye on foods being air or steam which escapes can fried at HI or M13D HI heat...
  • Page 5: Your Range

    Installing Energy-Saving Tips Your Range Your range, like many other Oven Cooking Surface Cooking household items, is heavy and Preheat oven only when can settle into sof”t floor necessary. Most foods will cook aluminum, with tight-fitting coverings such as cushioned satisfactorily without preheating.
  • Page 6: Features Of Your Range

    Features of Your Range Broiler pan (not included on all modeis) (Note: not...
  • Page 7 Explained Feature Index (not all models will have all features) on page 1 Surface Light Switch (on models so equipped) 2 Surface Unit Controls 3 Surface Unit “ON” Indicator Light 4 Oven Control, Clock and Timer 5 3-in-1 Surface Unit Control (on models so equipped) 6 Oven Vent Duct (Located under right rear surface unit.) 7 Calrod@)Surface Unit, Trim Rings/Drip Pans...
  • Page 8 Features of Your Oven Control & 1. INCREASE. Short taps to this 7. STOP TIME. Use this pad 10. CLEAIVOFF. Touch this pad pad increase time or temperature along with COOK TIME and to cancel all oven operations except by small amounts. Press & hold INCREASE or DECREASE pad to clock and timer.
  • Page 9: And Timer

    Oven Control, Clock and Timer Timer Timer Tones Clock The timer tone is a steady signal The clock must be set for the The timer does not control oven that repeats every seconds until automatic oven timing functions to operations. The maximum setting you touch any operation.
  • Page 10: How To Set The Controls

    Surface Cooking See Surface Cooking Guide. How to Use the 3-in-1 Unit Cooking Guide for Surface Cooking with Infinite Heat Controls Using Heat Settings (on models so equipped) (Appearance may vary slightly) This surface unit offers the Your surface units and controls are convenience of three units in one.
  • Page 11: Home Canning Tips

    Questions & Answers Q. Why does my cookware tilt Q. Can I use special cooking when I place it on the surface unit? equipment, like an oriental wok, on any surface units? A. Because the surface unit is not A. Yes, but only use cookware A.
  • Page 12: Control Settings

    Surface Cooking Guide Control Settings Cookware Tips HI—Highest setting. 1. Use medium- or heavy-weight cookware. Aluminum cookware MEDIUM HI—Setting halfway conducts heat faster than other between HI and MED. metals. Cast iron and coated cast MED—Medium setting. iron cookware are slow to absorb WARM—Setting halfway between heat, but generally cook evenly at low to medium heat settings.
  • Page 13 Wrong 2. To conserve the most cooking 3. Deep Fat Frying. Do not overfill cookware with fat that may spill bottom, ha~e straight sides and Concave Rounded Boliom over when adding food. Frostv Right Match the size foods bubble vig~rously. Wat~h foods frying at high temperatures.
  • Page 14: Using Your Oven

    Using Your Oven Oven Shelves Shelf Positions Before Using Your Oven 1. Look at the controls. Be sure The shelves are designed with you understand how to set them stop-locks so that when placed properly. Read over the directions correctly on the shelf supports, for the Electronic Controls so you they (a) will stop before coming understand how to use them.
  • Page 15 Baking See Baking Guide. controlled very accurately using an electronic control system. We recommend that you operate the range for a number of weeks using the time given on recipes as a guide to become familiar with your Step 6: Touch CLEAWOFF when Step 4: Press INCREASE pad new oven’s performance.
  • Page 16: How To Set Delay Start

    Baking (continued) How to Set Delay Start and Stop Quick Reminder: 1. Touch COOK TIME pad. 2. Touch INCREASE/ Step Step Touch lNCREASE pad. 5: Touch STOP TIME pad. DECREASE pad to set cooking The last oven set temperature time. appears in the display.
  • Page 17: Baking Guide

    Baking Guide 2. Dark or non-shiny finishes and 3. Preheating the oven is not quickly. For must conventional glass cookware generally absorb always necessary, especially for baking, light, shiny finishes give heat, which may result in dry, foods which cook longer than 30 to best results because they help crisp crusts.
  • Page 18 Roasting For Frozen Roasts Roasting is cooking by dry heat. Tender meat or poultry can be roasted Frozen roasts of beef, pork. 1 wnb. uncovered in your oven. Roasting etc., can be started without thawing temperatures, which should be low but allow 10 to 25 minutes per and steady, keep spattering to a pound additional time ( 1() minutes...
  • Page 19: Roasting Guide

    Roasting Guide 3. Remove fat and drippings as 5. Frozen roasts can be necessary. Baste as desired. conventionally roasted by adding at A for 1 arger roasts. 10 to 25 minutes per pound more 4. Standing time recommended time than given in guide for 2.
  • Page 20: Use Of Aluminum Foil

    Broiling Broiling is cooking food by intense Questions & Answers radiant heat from the upper unit in Why should I leave the door the oven. Most fish and tender cuts closed when broiling chicken? A. Chicken is the only food these steps to keep spattering and recommended for closed-door smoking to a minimum.
  • Page 21: Broiling Guide

    Broiling Guide through outer fat surface just to the 6. Broiler does not need to be hat comes with your oven. It is preheated. However, for very thin designed to minimize smoking and meat over to prevent piercing meat foods, or to increase browning, spattering by trapping juices in the and losing juices.
  • Page 22 Operating the Self-Cleaning Oven Normal Cleaning Time: 3 hours Do not use commercial oven The self-clean cycle will Before a Clean Cycle cleaners or oven protectors in or automatically begin within a few near the self-cleaning oven. A seconds and the word “ON” will in order to WI the WI f-clean cycle.
  • Page 23 How to Delay Start When the oven heats to a high temperature, the word “LOCK” of Cleaning will be displayed and, a short time Delay Start is setting the oven timer later, the door latch handle will be to start the clean cycle automatically locked in position.
  • Page 24 operating the self-cleaning oven (continued) Questions and Answers Adjusting Oven Thermostat Q. Should there be any odor during the cleaning? Q. If my oven clock is not When cooking a food for the first A. Yes, there maybe a slight odor working, can I still self-clean time in your new oven, use time during the first few cleanings.
  • Page 25: Care And Cleaning

    Care and Cleaning (See Cleaning Guide) Oven Lamp Replacement Removable Oven Door Proper care and cleaning are CAUTION: Before replacing your you efficient and satisfactory oven bulb, disconnect the electrical service. Follow these directions power for your range at the main fuse or circuit breaker panel.
  • Page 26 Cooktop Surface Lamp Tilt-Lock Unit Repeated lifting of the plug-in unit more than 1 inch above the equipped) models so (on models so equipped) trim ring can permanently WHEN CHANGING A damage the receptacle. COOKTOP LAMP, DO NOT TOUCH THE METAL AT Separat ENDS OF LAMP.
  • Page 27: Cleaning Guide

    Cleaning Guide NOTE: Let oven parts cool before touching or handling. GENERAL DIRECTIONS PART MATERIALS TO USE Broiler Pan Soap and Water Drain fat and cool pan and rack slightly. (Do not let soiled pan and rach ~tand in and Rack Soap-Filled oven to cool.
  • Page 28 POSSIBLE CAUSE AND REMEDY PROBLEM OVEN WILL NOT Plug on range is not completely inserted in the electrical outlet. WORK The circuit breaker in your house has been tripped, or a fuse has been blown. . Oven controls not properly set. Door left in locked position after cleaning.
  • Page 29 Touch CLEAR/OFF pad. If function error code does not clear, disconnect power to the range and call for service. If you need more help... call, toll free: GE Answer Center@ 800.626.2000 consumer information service...
  • Page 30 BEFORE YOU BEGIN STEP 1 Read these instructions completely and carefully. IMPORTANT: Save these instructions for the adjacent vertical walls above cooktop surface. local electrical inspector’s use. Allow 30” minimum clearance between surface IMPORTANT: OBSERVE ALL GOVERNING units and bottom of unprotected wood or metal CODES AND ORDINANCES.
  • Page 31 STEP 4 STEP 2 screws Power Cord Installation-Insert Use only a 3-conductor, or if required a 4- through power cord terminals so that the conductor range cord set as noted below. screws pass through connector block terminals These cord sets are provided with ring and engage nuts.
  • Page 32 WARNING WARNING: CONNECTOR BLOCK IS APPROVED FOR COPPER WIRE 1. Range must be secured by ANTI-TIP bracket CONNECTION ONLY. supplied. 2. Aluminum Wiring 2. See instructions to install (supplied with Connect length of copper building wire to bracket). range terminal block. 3.
  • Page 33 Notes...
  • Page 34 Notes...
  • Page 35 Special Needs... their home, free of shipping charge! The GE parts system provides access to over 4’7,000 parts . . . and all GE Genuine Renewal Parts are filly Upon request, GE ~ill provide Braille warranted. VISA, MasterCard and controls for a variety of GE appliances, Discover cards are accepted.
  • Page 36: What Is Not Covered

    To know what your legal rights are in your state, consult your local or state consumer affairs office or your state’s Attorney General. Warrantor: General Electric Company If further help is needed concerning this warranty, write: Manager—Consumer Affairs, GE Appliances, Louisville, KY 40225 This book is printed on recycled paper. Part No. 164D2588P051...

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