Whirlpool RB16OPXL warranty Special Tips, How It Works, Self-Cleaningcycle-Threehoursetting

SPECIAL TIPS

1. Keep the kitchen well ventilated during the cleaning cycle to help get rid of normal heat odors and smoke.

2.Clean the oven before it gets heavily soiled. Cleanlng a very soiled oven takes longer and results in more smoke than usual.

3.If the cleaning cycle doesn’t get the oven as clean as you expected, the cycle may not have been set long enough. Set the cleaning tlme longer for heavier soil.

4. Oven

racks lose their

shine,

discolor

5. To stop the cleaning

cycle after lt has

and become

harder

to slide

on their

started:

guides

when

they

are left in the oven

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Turn the Stop Tlme Knob clockwlse

during

the cleaning

cycle.

To make

unttl the hand

points

to the rlghttlme

them slide easier, polish the

edges of

of day.

the racks

and

rack

guides

with

a soapy

l

Turn the Oven

Selector

to OFFand leave

steel-wool

pad, rinse well,

and

wipe

the Oven Temperature

Control at CLEAN.

on a thin

coat

of salad oil.

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When the oven cools, you can

open the door. Walt until the oven Is cool.

HOW IT WORKS

During the self-cleaning or broiling...approximately burns It off.

cycle, the oven gets much hotter than It does for baking 875°F (468%). This heat breaks up grease and soll and

The graph shows approximate temperatures and tlmes during a self-cleaning cycle for 3 hours.

SELF-CLEANINGCYCLE-THREE HOURSETTING

[Approximate Temperatures and limes)

1000°F								538-c
8O(PF								42PC
600-F								316-C
4oov								204’c
2oov								93y:
START	K hr.	1 hr.	1K hn.	2 hn.	2%‘~hn.	3 hn.	3Khn.	STOP

Notice that the heating stops when the 3-hour setting is up, but that it takes longer for the oven to cool down enough to unlock.

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