Operating Your Oven - The Basics

Important Things to Know Before Operation

•Dacor recommends turning the oven on for one hour at 500°F (260°C) to burn off any residual oils used during the manufacturing process. Any of these oils left on the inner parts can cause an undesirable smell the first few times the oven is used.

•When you use your oven in one of the convection, bake or roast modes, it preheats automatically. The preheat cycle rapidly brings the oven chamber up to the proper cooking temperature. Wait for the oven to finish preheating (Insert Food appears on the display) before placing the food in the oven. Excessive browning will occur if you put the food in the oven while it is preheating.

•While the oven is preheating the actual oven tempera- ture will appear on the display, next to the tempera- ture setting. It takes several minutes to preheat the oven. Preheat time depends on the temperature set- tings. The time may be longer depending on the type of electrical supply in your community. There is no preheat cycle for any of the broil modes.

•After you pull food out of the oven, it will continue to cook. This process is called “carry-over.” The larger the portion of food, the longer it will cook. It is best to let meat rest for 10 to 15 minutes after it comes out of the oven before carving. Doing so will allow the meat to retain its juices and make it easier to carve.

•After you turn off the oven, the cooling fans may con- tinue to run until the internal parts have cooled down.

•Broil modes do not work with the meat probe con- nected.

•This unit has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to

Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful inter- ference in a residential installation. This unit gener- ates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this unit does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the unit off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

◊Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

◊Increase the distance between the unit and receiver.

◊Connect the unit into an outlet or a circuit differ- ent from that to which the receiver is connected.

Preset Temperature Settings

Your oven has a suggested preset temperature setting for each of the cooking modes to reduce the need to always enter the temperature each time you cook. See the table below. You have the choice (in most cooking modes) of cooking at the preset cooking temperature or selecting a different one. See Starting Your Oven.

Cooking Mode

Preset Temperature

 

 

Bake

350°F (176°C)

Broil

550°F (287°C)

Convection Bake

325°F (162°C)

Convection Broil

550°F (287°C)

Convection Roast

325°F (162°C)

 

 

Defrost

130°F (54°C)

 

 

Dehydrate

125°F (51°C)

 

 

Max Broil

550°F (287°C)

 

 

Pure Convection

325°F (162°C)

 

 

Pure Convection Sear

325°F (162°C)

 

 

Proof

110°F (43°C)

 

 

Roast

375°F (190°C)

 

 

Surround Bake

350°F (176°C)

 

 

Warm/Hold

150°F (65°C)

 

 

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