Using the Oven Control (cont'd)

I A WARNING Delayed Self-clean Cycle

To avoid riskof personalinjury, do not touch oven vents, or area

around vents, dudngself-cleaning.These areas can become hot

enoughto cause bums.

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To avoid fire or smoke damage,

remove any flammable materialsfrom storagedrawer. Items like plasticcontainers and paper manuals can melt or bum.

clean excess spills before starting a self-clean cycle,

I WARNING

To avoid risk of personal injury, propertydamage, or fire, clean excess grease and soil from oven before beginning 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 thoroughly. Remove birds or animals

susceptible to smoke or other fames 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 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.

Self.clean feature uses high oven temperature to clean oven interior.

Set oven to begin and end cleaning at later time. Range controlbegins the self-clean at your specified starttime.

1.Prepare oven for self-cleaning (see below left). Oven bottom recess must be checked for grease buildup before beginning a

 

self-cleancycle. See Care and C/eaning.

 

2.

Close door.

lid

3.

Press START COOK/CLEAN pad.

 

4.

Set startingtime for the cleaning cycle.

 

 

, Default time is current time of day.

 

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

5.Turn oven temperature knobto CLEAN.

Default self-clean cycle length of 3 hours will display.

6.Set cycle length for self-clean.

Use arrow keys to adjust time as necessary.

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

Default setting for the cycle is three hours.

7.Self-clean cycle is set.

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

Self-clean cycle will begin at selected start time.

To view starttime, press the START COOK/CLEAN pad.

OVEN ON indicatorlightwill turn on when the self-cleancycle begins and will remain on untilthe end of the cycle.

To view the clean cycle time, press the COOK/CLEAN TIME pad.

At the end of the self-clean cycle, OVEN ON indicatorlightshuts off and the oven does not maintain the high temperatures. Oven will stillbe hot, however.

The LOCKED indicatorlightwill remain on untiloven reaches a coolertemperature. LOCKED lightwillflash 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 priorto LOCKED indicatorlight shuttingoff. Once oven is cool, turnoven knobto OFF position.

Interrupting the self-clean cycle

To stop a self-clean cycle that has already started follow these steps.

If the interruptionoccursmid cycle, the oven will remain locked, even thoughthe cycle has stopped, until the oven cavity has cooledto a safe temperature.

1.Turn oven temperature knob to OFF position.

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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