Oven Controls

Adjusting Oven Temperatures

Your appliance has been factory calibrated and tested to ensure accurate baking temperatures. For the first few uses, follow your recipe times and temperature recommendations carefully. If you think the oven is cooking too hot or too cool for your recipe times, you may adjust the control so the oven cooks hotter or cooler than the oven temperature displayed.

The oven temperature may be increased as much as +35°F (+19°C) or decreased -35°F (-19°C) from the factory calibrated settings.

To increase (+) or decrease (-) the oven temperature by 20°F:

1.Press and hold Bake until the control produces an audible tone (about 6 seconds). The factory offset temperature of 0 (zero) should appear in the display.

2.Enter 2 0 using numeric keypad.

3.Press Self Clean to toggle between plus (+) if increasing temperature or minus (-) if decreasing the temperature.

4.Press to accept change.

Important note:

Oven temperature adjustments made will not change the Broil or Self Clean function temperatures.

If the temperature shows an adjustment of -20°F, and a +20°F adjustment is needed, you can toggle between the minus (-) or plus (+) in the display when pressing Self Clean key (See Step 3).

Do not use oven thermometers such as those found in grocery stores to check the temperature settings inside your oven. These oven thermometers may vary as much as 20°F to 40°F degrees from actual temperatures.

The oven temperature adjustment may be made if your oven control has been set to display °C temperatures. Minimum and maximum settings for °C range from plus (+) 19°C to minus (-) 19°C.

Restoring Factory Default Settings

When new, your appliance left the factory with predetermined (default) oven control settings. Over time, users may have made changes to these settings. The following options may have been modified since the appliance was new:

12 or 24 hour display mode

Continuous bake or 12 hour energy savings mode

Silent or audible control

Oven temperature display (°F or °C)

Oven temperature adjustments

To restore oven control to factory default settings:

If you choose to restore factory default setting using this method, all of the above user settings will be restored to the factory default settings. This includes the oven tempera- ture offset that will reset to (0) zero.

1.Press and hold 7 until acceptance tone sounds (about 6 seconds).

2.Press . The control has been reset with the default settings.

Operating Oven Lights

The interior oven lights will automatically turn on when the oven door is opened.

Press to turn the interior oven lights on and off whenever the oven door is closed. The oven light will not operate during a self-clean cycle.

The interior oven lights are located on the rear wall of the oven interior and are covered with a glass shield. The glass shield protects the bulb from high temperatures and should always be in place whenever the oven is in use.

To replace the interior oven light, see “Replacing the oven light” on page page 21.

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Kenmore 790-4942, 790-4940 manual Adjusting Oven Temperatures, Restoring Factory Default Settings, Operating Oven Lights