SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
Safety Instructions
■CAUTION: Items of interest to children should not be stored in cabinets above a
■Always keep wooden and plastic utensils and canned food a safe distance away from your cooktop.
■Always keep combustible wall coverings, curtains or drapes a safe distance from your cooktop.
■Never wear loose fitting or hanging garments while using the appliance.
Be careful when reaching for items stored in cabinets over the cooktop. Flammable material could be ignited if brought in contact with flame or hot oven surfaces and may cause severe burns.
■Teach children not to play with the controls or any other part of the cooktop.
■For your safety, never use your appliance for warming or heating the room.
■Always keep dish towels, dish cloths, pot holders and other linens a safe distance from your cooktop.
■Do not store flammable materials near a cooktop.
■Do not store or use combustible materials, gasoline or other flammable vapors and liquids in the vicinity of this or any other appliance.
■Do not let cooking grease or other flammable materials accumulate near the cooktop.
■Do not operate the burner without all burner parts in place.
■Do not place hot cookware on the glass cooktop (on some models). This could cause glass to break.
■Do not clean the cooktop with flammable or volatile cleaning fluids.
■Do not clean the cooktop when the appliance is in use.
■Avoid scratching the cooktop with sharp instruments, or with rings and other jewelry.
■Never use the cooktop as a cutting board.
■Do not use water on grease fires. Never pick up a flaming pan. Turn the controls off. Smother a flaming pan on a surface burner by covering the pan completely with a well- fitting lid, cookie sheet or flat tray. Use a
Flaming grease outside a pan can be put out by covering it with baking soda or, if available, by using a
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