Amana ACF4255A owner manual Delayed Self-clean Cycle

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Using the Oven Control (cont’d)

!WARNING

To avoid risk of personal injury, do not touch range top, oven door, oven vents, or area around vents, during self-cleaning. These areas can become hot enough to cause burns.

!CAUTION

To avoid fire or smoke damage,

•remove any flammable materials from storage drawer. Items like plastic containers and paper manuals can melt or burn.

•clean excess spills before starting a self-clean cycle.

Do I need to prepare?

To get the best results from the self-clean cycle, follow these steps:

•Clean excess spills from oven interior and bottom.

•Remove birds or animals susceptible to smoke or other fumes from the room or adjoining room.

•Open window if possible.

•Make sure oven light cover is properly in place. Do not use cleaning cycle if it is not.

•Remove oven racks, pans and all cooking utensils from oven.

•Remove items from range top, storage drawer and backguard. These areas can become hot during self-cleaning cycle.

•The range vents from the center bottom of the backguard. Make sure this area is unobstructed by removing all items from backguard and range top.

Delayed Self-clean Cycle

Self-clean feature uses high oven temperature to clean oven interior. Set oven to begin and end cleaning at later time. Oven control calculates start time automatically.

1.Prepare oven for self-cleaning (see below left).

2.Close door.

3.Press CLEAN pad.

•SET CLEAN TIME flashes in display.

•The default self-clean cycle length of 3 hours will display.

•Adjust clean cycle length by using digit pads (1 through 0).

•Clean cycle can be set from two to four hours in one minute increments.

4.Press STOP pad.

5.Set stop time for the cleaning cycle.

•Default time is current time of day plus selected clean cycle length.

•Stop time can be set from current time to current time plus 11 hours and 59 minutes.

6.Press the START pad.

•Self-clean cycle is set.

•STOP, CLEAN and TIME display while

oven is in delay mode.

•Oven cannot be used until completion of the self-clean cycle.

•Clock (time of day) cannot be viewed when using a delayed self-clean cycle

•CLEAN, TIME, LOCK, ON and both bake and broil element graphics display when self-clean cycle begins.

•Clean time displays during self-clean cycle..

•At the end of the self-clean cycle, END displays. No signal sounds at end of cycle.

•ON no longer displays and oven shuts off.

•LOCK will remain on until oven reaches a cooler temperature. LOCK will flash while door is unlocking, and then shut off when door has unlocked. Oven cavity will be hot to the touch. DO NOT attempt to open door prior to LOCK shutting off.

Interrupting the self-clean cycle

To stop a self-clean cycle that has already started follow these steps. If the interruption occurs mid cycle, the oven will remain locked, even though the cycle has stopped, until the oven cavity has cooled to a safe temperature.

1.Press OVEN CANCEL.

2.When oven has cooled to a lower temperature, LOCKED light shuts off. Door can be unlocked. DO NOT force door. This can cause damage to the latch.

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