How to Set Your Range for Baking, How to Time Bake

Baking

When cooking a food for the first time in your new oven, use time

uiven on recipes as a guide. Oven

thermostats, over a period of years,

may “drift” from the factory setting and a difference in timing between an old and a new oven of 5 to 10 minutes is not unusual. Since your new oven has been set correctly at the factory it is more likely to be accurate than the oven it replaced.

How to Set Your

Range for Baking

Step 1: Place food in oven, being certain to leave about 1 inch of space between pans and walls of oven for good circulation of heat. Close oven door. During baking, avoid frequent door openings to prevent undesirable results.

Step 2: Turn OVEN SET knob to BAKE and OVEN TEMP knob to temperature on recipe or in Baking Guide.

Step 3: Check food for doneness at minimu~m time on recipe. Cook longer if necessary. Switch off heat and remove foods.

How to Time Bake

(on models with this feature)

The automatic oven timer controls are designed to turn the oven on or off automatically at specific times that you set.

How to Set Immediate Start and Automatic Stop

NOTE: Before beginning, make sure the hands of the range clock show the correct time of day.

Immediate Start is simply setting the oven to start baking now and turn off at a later time automatically. Remember, foods continue cooking after controls are off.

Step 1: To set Stop Time, push in knob on STOP TIME dial and turn pointer to time you want oven to turn off; for example 6:00. The DELAY START dial should be at the same position as the time of day on clock.

Step 2: Turn OVEN SET knob to TIME BAKE. Turn OVEN TEMP knob to oven temperature, for example 250”F. The oven will start immediately and will stop at the time you have set.

How to Set Delay

Start and Stop

Delay Start and Stop is setting the oven timer to turn the oven on and off automatically at a later time than the present time of day.

Step 1: To set start time, push in knob on DELAY START dial and turn pointer to time you want oven to turn on, for example 3:30.

Step 2: To set Stop Time, push in knob on STOP TIME dial and turn pointer to time you want oven to turn off, for example 6:00. This means your recipe called for two and one-half hours of baking time.

NOTE: The time on STOP TIME dial must be later than the time shown on the range clock and DELAY START dial.

Step 3: Turn OVEN SET knob to TIME BAKE. Turn OVEN TEMP knob to 250”F. or recommended temperature.

Place food in oven, close the door and automatically the oven will be turned on and off at the times yoLl have set. When cooking is completed, turn OVEN SET to OFF and remove food from oven.

Oven indicator light(s) at TIME BAKE setting may work differently than they do at BAKE setting. Carefully recheck the steps given above. If all operations are done

as explained, oven will operate as it should.

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