Speciai tips
l Keep the kitchen well-ventilated during the Self-Cleaning cycle to help get rid of heat, odors and smoke.
. Clean the oven before it gets heavily soiled. Cleaning a very soiled oven takes longer and results in more smoke than usual.
l If the Self-Cleaning cycle doesn’t get the oven as clean as you expected, the cycle may not have been set long enough or you may not have pre- pared the oven properly. Set the Self- Cleaning cycle longer the next time and hand clean areas noted on page 29.
How it works
During the Self-Cleaning cycle, the oven gets much hotter than it does for baking or broiling...approximately 875°F (468°C). This heat breaks up grease and soil and burns it off.
This graph shows approximate temperatures and times during a Self- Cleaning cycle for 3 hours.
Self-Cleaning | cycle | -three | hour setting | | | | | |
(Approximate | temperatures | and times) | | | | | |
1000°F | | | | | | | | 536’C |
6OD”F | | | | | | | | 427°C |
400‘F | | | | | | | | |
200°F | | | | | | | | 93°C |
START | l/2 hr. | 1 hr. | 1 112 hrs. | 2 hrs. | 2 112 hrs. | 3 hrs. | 3 112 hrs. | STOP |
Notice that the heating stops when the three-hour setting is up, but that it takes longer for the oven to cool down enough to unlock.
