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Before using your oven, read this book carefully.
It is intended to help you operate and maintain your new oven properly.
Keep it handy for answers to your questions.
If you don’t understand something or need more help, write (include your phone number):
Consumer Affairs General Electric Company Appliance Park Louisville, KY 40225
Write down the model and serial numbers.
You’ll find them on a label on the left side wall of control panel when oven door is open.
These numbers are also on the Consumer Product Ownership Registration Card that came with your oven. Before sending in this card, please write these numbers here:
Model Number
Serial Number
Use these numbers in any correspondence or service calls concerning your oven.
Be sure your oven is registered.
It is important that we know the location of your oven should a need occur for adjustments.
Your supplier is responsible for registering you as the owner.
Please check with your supplier to be sure he has done so; also send in your Consumer Product Ownership Registration Card. If you move, or if you are not the original purchaser please write to us, stating model and serial numbers.
This appliance must be registered. Please be certain that it is.
Write to:
General Electric Company
Range Product Service
Appliance Park
Louisville, KY40225
If you received a damaged oven . . .
Immediately contact the dealer (or builder) that sold you the oven.
Save time and money.
Before you request service . . .
check the Problem Solver on pages 34 and 35. It lists causes of minor operating problems that you can correct yourself.
Microwaving~ps
●Make sure all cookware used when microwaving is microwave safe. Most glass casseroles, cooking dishes, measuring cups, custard cups, pottery or china dinnerware which does not have metallic trim or glaze with a metallic sheen can be. used. Some cookware is labeled “suitable for microwaving:’
If you are unsure, use this dish test: Measure 1 cup water in a glass cup. Place in oven on or beside dish.
Microwave
●Paper towels, wax paper, and plastic wrap can be used to cover dishes while using microwave functions in order to retain moisture and prevent spattering.
. Some microwaved foods require stirring, rotating or rearranging. Check your cookbook.
●Steam builds up pressure in foods which are tightly covered by a skin or membrane. Pierce potatoes, egg yolks and chicken livers to prevent bursting.
All these things are normal with your microwave oven:
●Dimming oven light and change in blower sound may occur while operating at power levels other than high.
●Dull, thumping sound while oven is operating.
●Some
●Steam or vapor escaping from around the door.
●Light reflection around door or outer case.
●During cooking you will hear “cracking” and “popping” noises which are nothing more than normal expansion of the oven.
●When microwaving, at end of cycle you will hear a slight thump. This is normal.
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