The main oven
Heat zones
There are zones of heat within the oven. The temperature in the middle is the gas mark you have chosen. The top of the oven is slightly hotter and the lower shelf slightly cooler. The base of the oven is quite a lot cooler. You can make use of these heat zones when you are cooking foods requiring different temperatures all at the same time. If you are cooking more than one tray of similar items, for example cakes or biscuits, swap the trays during cooking or you can remove the top tray when the food is cooked and move the lower tray to the higher shelf to finish cooking.
Push in and hold the con- trol knob, turn to gas mark 9.
Preheating
When you need to preheat the oven, we rec- ommend you do so for 20 minutes. For recipes needing high temperatures, e.g. bread, pas- tries, scones, soufflés etc., best results are achieved if the oven is preheated first. For best results when cooking frozen or cooked chilled ready meals always preheat the oven first.
Using the main oven
Fully open the door before lighting the main oven.
Press the ignition button immediately. Keep the control knob depressed for up to 5 seconds, but no longer than 10 seconds. After this time release the controls. The flame should remain alight. If after 10 seconds the burner has not lit, stop operating the appliance and wait at least 1 minute before attempting a further ignition of the burner. When the burner has lit release the control and ignition button, adjust the setting as required.
To turn the main oven off
Turn the control knob to the off position. This is shown by a dot.
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