Be sure utensil is large enough to properly contain food and avoid boilovers.

Grease

Use extreme caution when moving the grease kettle or disposing of hot grease. Hot grease is flammable. Avoid letting grease deposits collect around the appliance, range hood, or vent fan. Do not leave container of grease around a cooking appliance. Always let quantities of hot fat used for deep fat frying cool before attempting to move or handle. In the event of a grease fire, do not attempt to move pan. Cover pan with a lid to extinguish flame and turn burner off. Do not douse flame with water. Use a dry chemical or foam-type extinguisher, if available, or sprinkle heavily with baking soda.

Spills or boilovers which contain grease should be

cleaned up as soon as possible. If they are allowed to accumulate, they could create a fire hazard.

Venting

Never block oven vent or air intakes. Do not obstruct the flow of combustion and ventilation air. Restriction of air flow to the burner prevents proper performance.

Avoid touching oven vent area while oven is on and for several minutes after oven is turned off. Some parts of the vent and surrounding area become hot enough to cause burns.

Cleaning

Turn off all controls and wait for appliance parts to cool before touching or cleaning them.

Touching a hot oven light bulb with a damp cloth could cause the bulb to break. Should the bulb break, disconnect power to the oven before trying to remove the bulb to avoid electrical shock.

Clean oven with caution. If a wet sponge or cloth is used to wipe spills on a hot cooking area, be careful to avoid steam burns. Some cleaners can produce noxious fumes if applied to a hot surface.

Storage Above Oven

To eliminate the hazard of reaching over hot surfaces, cabinet storage should not be provided directly above a unit. If such storage is provided, it should be limited

to items which are used infrequently and which are safely stored in an area subjected to heat from an appliance. Temperatures in storage areas above the unit may be unsafe for some items, such as volatile liquids, cleaners or aerosol spays.

Plastics

Many plastics are vulnerable to heat. Keep plastics away from parts of the appliance that may become warm or hot.

Aerosol Sprays

May aerosol-type spray cans are EXPLOSIVE when exposed to heat and may be highly flammable. Avoid their use or storage near a hot appliance.

Important Safety Notice and Warning

The California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) requires the governor of California to publish a list of substances known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive harm, and requires businesses to warn customers of the potential exposures to such substances.

Users of this appliance are hereby warned that the burning of gas can result in low-level exposure to some of the listed substances, including benzene, formaldehyde and soot, due primarily to the incomplete combustion of natural gas or liquid petroleum (LP) fuels. Properly adjusted burners will minimize incomplete combustion. Exposure to these substances can also be minimized by properly venting the burners to the outdoors.

Baking Accessories

This appliance has been tested for safe performance using conventional cookware. Do not use any devices or accessories that are not specifically recommended in this manual. Do not use add-on oven convection systems. The use of devices or accessories that are not expressly recommended in this manual can

create serious safety hazards, result in performance problems, and reduce the life of the components of this appliance.

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Maytag CWG4600 manual Grease, Venting, Cleaning, Storage Above Oven, Plastics, Aerosol Sprays, Baking Accessories