Oven Cooking

6.Check cooking progress. Cook longer if needed.

7.When cooking is finished, press CANCEL.

8.Remove food from the oven.

Baking Notes:

To change the oven temperature during cooking, press the ▲ or ▼ pad until you reach the desired temperature.

If you forget to turn off the oven, it will automatically turn off at the end of 12 hours. If you wish to deactivate this feature, see page 14.

For additional baking and roasting tips, see “Cooking Made Simple” booklet.

Baking Differences Between Your Old and New Oven

It is normal to notice some baking time differences between a new oven and an old one. See “Adjusting the Oven Temperature” on page 14.

Cook & Hold

Cook & Hold allows you to bake for a preset amount of time, followed by a one-hour Keep Warm cycle.

To set Cook & Hold:

1.Press the Cook & Hold pad.

“BAKE” and “HOLD” flash.

000 lights in the display.

2.Select the oven temperature. The oven tempera- ture can be set from 170° to 550°. Press or press and hold the ▲ or ▼ pad.

• Press the ▲ pad to increase the temperature.

Press the ▼ pad to decrease the temperature.

3.Press Cook & Hold again OR wait four seconds.

“HOLD” flashes.

00:00 flashes in the display.

4.Enter the amount of time you want to bake by pressing the ▲ or ▼ pad. Bake time can be set from ten minutes (00:10) to 11 hours, 59 minutes (11:59).

“BAKE” and “HOLD” light in the display.

The baking time will light in the display.

The baking time will start counting down.

When the cooking time has elapsed:

Four beeps will sound.

“BAKE” will turn off.

“HOLD” and “WARM” will light.

170° will display.

After one hour in HOLD WARM:

“End” will display.

The time of day reappears in the display.

To cancel Cook & Hold at any time:

Press the CANCEL pad. Remove food from oven.

Delay Bake

CAUTION

Do not use delayed baking for highly perishable foods such as dairy products, pork, poultry, or seafood.

When using Delay, the oven begins to cook later in the day. Set the amount of time that you want to delay before the oven turns on and how long you want to cook. The oven begins to heat at the selected time and cooks for the specified length of time, then keeps food warm for up to one hour.

Delay time can be set from 10 minutes (00:10) to 11 hours, 59 minutes (11:59).

To set a Delayed Baking cycle:

1. Press the Delay pad.

• “DELAY” flashes.

• 00:00 flashes in the display.

2. Press the ▲ or ▼ pad to set the delay time. While “DELAY” is still flashing:

3. Press the Cook & Hold pad.

000 lights in the display.

“BAKE” and “HOLD” flash.

4.Press ▲ pad to set the baking temperature.

00:00 and “HOLD” flash.

“BAKE” stays lit.

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Oven specifications

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