Caring For Your Range
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How it works
During the Self-Cleaning cycle, the oven gets much hotter than it does for baking or broiling...approximately 875°F (468°C). This heat breaks up grease and soil and burns it off.
This graph shows approximate temperatures and times during a Self-Cleaning cycle for 3 hours.
Self-Cleaning cycle - three hour setting
(Approximate temperatures and times)
1000°F | | | | | | | 536°C |
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800°F | | | | | | | 427°C |
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600°F | | | | | | | 316°C |
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400°F | | | | | | | 204°C |
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200°F | | | | | | | 93°C |
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START | l/2 hr. | 1 hr. | 1 l/2 hrs. | 2 hrs. | 2 l/2 hrs. | 3 hrs. | 3 l/2 hrs. STOP |
Notice that the heating stops when the three-hour setting is up, but that it takes longer for the oven to cool down enough to unlock.
Fat spatter | Standard |
beads | up. | porcelain |
Turns | black. | |
Fat spatter | Continuous- |
spreads | out. | cleaning porcelain |
Burns | away. | |
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Using the Continuous-Cleaning left oven
Standard oven walls are coated with smooth porcelain. Your Continuous-Cleaning oven walls are coated with a special, rougher porcelain. A fat spatter beads up on the smooth surface, but spreads out on the rougher surface. The bead of fat on the smooth surface chars and turns black. The spread-out fat on the rough surface gradually burns away at medium to high baking temperatures so the oven can return to a pre- sentably clean condition.
