Using the Oven Control (cont’d)

!CAUTION

To avoid fire or smoke damage,

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

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

!WARNING

To avoid risk of personal injury, property damage, or fire, clean excess grease and soil from oven and oven bottom before beginning a self-clean cycle.

1.Wearing gloves, pull oven bottom forward and lift out of range.

2.Wipe out burner area with a cloth and warm soapy water.

3.Dry area thoroughly and carefully replace oven bottom.

!WARNING

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

!WARNING

To avoid risk of personal injury, property damage, or fire, clean excess grease and soil from oven and oven bottom before beginning a self-clean cycle. 1.Pull oven bottom forward and

lift out of range.

2.Wipe out burner area with a cloth and warm soapy water.

3.Dry area thoroughly and replace oven bottom.

Do I need to prepare?

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

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

•Clean excess spills from oven interior and bottom thoroughly.

•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 and all cooking utensils from oven.

•Remove items from range top, backguard and storage drawer. 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-cleaning

Self-clean feature uses high oven temperature to clean oven interior. For the oven to operate through a complete self-clean cycle, the self-clean must be set when the oven is cool.

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

2. Close door.

3. Press CLEAN pad.

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

4.Set cycle length for self-clean.

•Press MORE or LESS pads to adjust time as necessary before oven indicator light turns on.

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

•Default setting for the cycle is three hours.

5. Press STOP TIME pad.

•Press MORE or LESS pads until desired stopping time displays.

6. Oven calculates starting time based on cleaning time and

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•To view remaining cleaning time, press and hold CLEAN pad.

•To view calculated stop time, press STOP TIME pad.

•DELAY displays until oven starts self-clean cycle. OVEN ON indicator light will be on during cleaning and will remain on until the end of the cycle.

•At the end of the self-clean cycle, the OVEN ON indicator light will shut off. There is no end-of-cycle beep.

•At the end of the self-clean cycle, the oven will stop heating, however, oven will remain hot.

•The LOCK indicator light will remain on until oven reaches a cooler temperature. LOCK light 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 indicator light shutting off. When oven is cool, turn oven knob to 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 lower temperature.

1.Press OVEN CANCEL pad.

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

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