IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
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Using Your Cooktop
•Do not leave children alone or unattended where a cooktop is hot or in operation. They could be seriously burned.
•CAUTION: Items of interest to children should not be stored in cabinets above a cooktop— children climbing on the cooktop to reach items could be seriously injured.
•When raising or lowering the vent, keep fingers away from all vent parts; assure that cookware, pans and handles will not be struck and tipped when raising the vent.
•Do not operate or clean your cooktop if the glass is broken or cracked. Cleaning solutions and spillovers could penetrate the broken cooktop and create a risk of electric shock. Call for service immediately if the cooktop glass breaks or cracks.
•Clean the cooktop with caution. If a wet sponge or cloth is used to wipe spills on a hot cooktop, be careful to avoid steam burns.
•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.
•Let the burner grates and other surfaces cool before touching them or leaving them where children can reach them.
•Never wear
•For your safety, never use your appliance for warming or heating the room.
• 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
Flaming grease outside a pan can be put out by covering it with baking soda or, if available, by using a
•Do not store flammable materials near the cooktop. Do not store or use 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 on or near the cooktop.
•Never leave surface burners unattended at high flame settings. Boilovers cause smoking and greasy spillovers that may catch on fire.
•Adjust surface burner flame size so it does not extend beyond the edge of the cookware. Excessive flame is hazardous.
• Use only dry pot holders—
moist or damp pot holders on hot surfaces may result in burns from
steam. Do not let pot holders come near open flames when lifting cookware. Do not use a towel or other bulky cloth in place of a pot holder.
•To minimize the possibility of burns, ignition of flammable materials and spillage, turn cookware handles toward the side or center of the cooktop without extending over adjacent burner or vent area.
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