IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION (cont’d)
•Do not allow children to climb or play around the range. The weight of a child on an open oven door may cause the range to tip, resulting in serious burns or other injury.
•USER SERVICING: Do not repair or replace any part of the appliance unless specifically recommended in this owner’s guide. All other servicing should be done only by a qualified technician. This will reduce the risk of personal injury and damage to the range.
•Storage in or on appliance: Flammable materials should not be stored in an oven, near surface burners, or in the broiler section. This includes paper, plastic and cloth items, such as cookbooks, plasticware and towels, as well as flammable liquids.
Do not use the oven for storage. Do not store explosives, such as aerosol cans, on or near the range.
•Remove the oven door from any unused range if it is to be stored or discarded.
•Stepping, leaning, or sitting on the doors or broiler section of this range can result in serious injuries and can cause damage to the range.
WARNING: The following situations could result in property damage or bodily harm
IMPORTANT SAFEGAURDS
•Do not touch surface burners, areas near the burners, oven burners, or interior surfaces of the oven. Both surface burners and oven burners may be hot even though the flame is not visible. Areas near surface burners may become hot enough to cause burns. During and after use, do not touch or let clothing or other flammable materials touch these areas until they have had sufficient time to cool. Among these areas are the cooktop, surfaces facing the cooktop, the oven vent openings, and surfaces near these openings, oven door and windows.
•Never use your appliance to warm or heat the room. Operating your range without utensils or pans to absorb the unit’s heat risks damaging the surface, knobs, and controls.
•Wear proper apparel; lose fitting or hanging garments should never be worn while using the appliance. Do not let clothing or other flammable materials contact surface burners or interior surfaces of the oven until they have had sufficient time to cool.
•Never modify or alter the construction of the range. Do not remove leveling legs, panels, wire covers,
•When heating fat or grease, watch it closely. Fat or grease may catch fire if allowed to become too hot.
•Do not use water or flour on grease fires. Smother the fire with a pan lid, baking soda, or use a dry chemical or
•Use only dry potholders; wet or damp potholders on hot surfaces could result in burns from steam. Do not let the potholders touch hot heating areas. Do not use a towel or other bulky cloth instead of potholder.
•Use proper flame size; Adjust flame size so it does not extend beyond the edge of the cookware. The use of undersized cookware will expose a portion of the burner flame and may result in severe burns or direct contact and ignition of clothing. Also, proper relationship of cookware to burner will improve efficiency.
•Do not use aluminum foil to line the oven bottom except as suggested in the cleaning section of this manual. Improper use of aluminum foil may result in a fire hazard. Foil may also interfere with heat circulation and damage the range.
•Placement of oven racks: Always place an oven rack in the desired location while the oven is cool. If a rack must be moved when the oven is hot, use potholders and grasp the rack with both hands to reposition. Do not let potholders contact hot oven walls. Remove all cookware from the rack before moving.
•Do not heat unopened food containers.
•Keep the oven vent duct unobstructed. The oven vent is located along the bottom of the backgaurd. Touching the surfaces in the vent area when the oven is being operated may cause severe burns. Also, do not place plastic or
•The range requires fresh air for proper burner combustion. Do not block the flow of air around the base or beneath the lower front panel of the range.
•Use care when operating oven door; Stand to the side of the oven when opening the oven door. Slowly open the door to allow hot air or steam to escape before removing or replacing food.
•Know which knob controls each burner. Place a pan of food on the burner before turning it on, and turn the burner off before removing the pan. Always turn to the full LITE position when igniting the top burners. Then adjust the flame size so it does not extend beyond the edge of the cookware.
•Cookware handles should be turned inward and not extend over adjacent surface burners, to reduce the risk of burns, ignition of flammable materials, and spillage due to unintentional contact with the cookware.
•Never leave the surface burners unattended.
•Do not place hands between the spring tension hinge and the oven door frame when you are removing the oven door. You could pinch your fingers.
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