The self cleaning panels work better above gas Mark 6. If you do most of your cooking below this temperature, occasionally remove the panels and wipe with a lint free cloth and hot soapy water. The panels should then be dried and replaced and the oven heated at Gas Mark 7 for about one hour. This will ensure the self cleaning panels are working effectively.
Don’t use steel wool (Brillo) or any other materials that will scratch the surface. Don’t use oven cleaning pads.
Before cleaning the oven, cover the burner at the rear to stop the holes getting blocked as you clean. If they are accidentally blocked, clean them out with thin wire, such as fuse wire.
Removing the Main Oven Linings
The lining panels can be removed for cleaning and for cleaning behind. Remove the shelves first.
Each side of the oven is fixed with four fixing screws. You don’t have to remove the screws to remove the oven linings. Lift each side panel upwards and they will slide off the screws. Then pull them forwards.
Once the linings are removed, the oven enamel interior can be cleaned.
The Tall Oven
To clean the oven sides slide out the shelves, unhook the supports from the oven sides and lift out.
Moving your cooker
Switch off the electricity supply.
The cooker is heavy, two people may be required to move it. There are two levelling rollers at the back and also two screw down levelling feet at the front.
Open the grill door and right hand oven door so that you can get a good grip on the bottom of the fascia panel as you move the oven.
Lift the front of the cooker slightly and pull forward.
Do not move the oven by pulling the door handles or knobs.
Move the oven a bit at a time, checking behind it to make sure the gas hose is not caught. Make sure both electricity and gas cables have sufficient slack to move the cooker forward as you go along.
If a stability chain is fi tted, release it as you ease the cooker out. Don’t forget to refi t it when you replace the cooker.
When you replace the cooker, again check behind to make sure that the electricity and gas cables are not caught or trapped.
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