Use&We. Super Capacity Cubic Foot Oven

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1 Use&We A Note to You Range Safety Parts and Features Using Your Range Caring for Your Range Troubeshooting Requesting Assistance or Service Index Warranty Ca our Consumer Assistance Center with questions or comments. TO THE INSTALLER: PLEASE LEAVE THIS INSTRUCTION BOOK WITH THE UNIT. TO THE CONSUMER: PLEASE READ AND KEEP THIS BOOK FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. Super Capacity Cubic Foot Oven MODEL SF31OBEG 6-W

2 ANmoYou 7 y '3 ~ I j &;.<", i& \,s Q I; f ";'* & ay$a$:-,$ "~~:-t;bi,i~~~c~~ ;.wz / ^* x ;$p~~~r~~~r~;e, The Whirpoo Brand is committed to designing quaity products that consistenty perform for you to make your ife easier. To ensure that you enjoy years of troube-free operation, we deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It is fu of vauabe information about how to operate and maintain your appiance propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Aso, pease compete and mai the Product Registration Card provided with your appiance. The card heps us notify you about any new information on your appiance. e.* 1, i B g,ct F$ A j.; 3 $5 G Q F f x?( :y,,; y i: * 1 J.$ 2,< t : * $ H^ r 2 ; :$;f$ ; Whenever you ca to request service for your appiance, you need to know your compete mode number and seria number. You can find this information on the mode and seria number abe/pate (see diagram in the Parts and Features section). Pease aso record the purchase date of your appiance and your deaer s name, address, and teephone number. Mode Number Seria Number Purchase Date Deaer Name Deaer Address Deaer Phone Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. It is important for you to save your saes receipt showing the date of purchase. Proof of purchase wi assure you of in-warranty service. WARNING: If the information in this manua is not foowed exacty, a fire or exposion may resut causing property damage, persona injury or death. - Do not store or use gasoine or other fammabe vapors and iquids in the vicinity of this or any other appiance. - WHAT TO DO IF YOU SMELL GAS Do not try to ight any appiance. Do not touch any eectrica switch; do not use any phone in your buiding. Immediatey ca your gas suppier from a neighbor s phone. Foow the gas suppier s instructions. If you cannot reach your gas suppier, ca the fire department. - Instaation and service must be performed by a quaified instaer, service agency or the gas suppier.

3 RANGE SAFETY %:a $ II 6: I.<. F 2 -~@q g$ 2 ygj g&t ;+,i; ; I g; ;&g,; ~~~~, We have provided many important safety messages in this manua and on your appiance. Aways read and obey a safety messages. 0 This is the safety aert symbo. This symbo aerts you to hazards that can ki or hurt you and others. f A safety messages wi be preceded by the safety aert symbo and the word DANGER or 0 WARNING. These words mean: You wi be kied or seriousy injured if you don t foow instructions. You can be kied or seriousy injured if you don t foow instructions. A safety messages wi identify the hazard, te you how to reduce the chance of injury, and te you what can happen if the instructions are not foowed. A& / b Tip Over Hazard A chid or adut can tip the range and be kied. Connect anti-tip bracket to rear range foot. Reconnect the anti-tip bracket, if the range is moved. See the instaation instructions for detais. Faiure to foow these instructions can resut in death or serious burns to chidren and aduts. Anti-Tip Bracket Range Foot Making sure the anti-tip bracket is instaed: Side range forward. Look for the anti-tip bracket securey attached to foor. Side range back so rear range foot is under anti-tip bracket. continued on next page 3

4 IMPORTANT WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire, eectrica shock, injury to persons, or damage when using the range, foow basic precautions, incuding the foowing: WARNING -TO REDUCE THE RISK OF TIPPING OF THE RANGE, THE RANGE MUST BE SECURED BY PROPERLY INSTALLED ANTI-TIP DEVICES. TO CHECK IF THE DEVICES ARE INSTALLED PROPERLY, SLIDE RANGE FORWARD, LOOK FOR ANTI-TIP BRACKET SECURELY ATTACHED TO FLOOR, AND SLIDE RANGE BACK SO REAR RANGE FOOT IS UNDER ANTI-TIP BRACKET. CAUTION - Do not store items of interest to chidren in cabinets above a range or on the backguard of a range -chidren cimbing on the range to reach items coud be seriousy injured. Proper Instaation - The range, when instaed, must be eectricay grounded in accordance with oca codes or, in the absence of oca codes, with the Nationa Eectrica Code, ANSVNFPA 70. Be sure the range is propery instaed and grounded by a quaified technician. *This range is equipped with a three-prong grounding pug for your protection against shock hazard and shoud be pugged directy into a propery grounded receptace. Do not cut or remove the grounding prong from this pug. SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Disconnect the eectrica suppy before servicing the appiance. Never Use the Range for Warming or Heating the Room. Injuries may resut from the misuse of appiance doors or drawers such as stepping, eaning, or sitting on the doors or drawers. Maintenance - Keep range area dear and free from combustibe materias, gasoine, and other fammabe vapors and iquids. *Storage in or on the Range - Fammabe materias shoud not be stored in an oven or near surface units. *Top burner fame size shoud be adjusted so it does not extend beyond the edge of the cooking utensi. For sef-ceaning ranges - Before Sef-Ceaning the Oven - Remove broier pan and other utensis. Wipe off a excessive spiage before initiating the ceaning cyce. - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS -

5 hksand hiires Oven vent,..+-*.. - _x_,, b-15) Surface burners and grate= ----A1I-_,_,_ (pp. 6, 17, 18, 19, 20) - - I--,* _,_ ^_ x &en tempe-~~ +-+ contro knob (PP. 12, 17) I Eectronic cock/timer (pp. 10, 11) Anti-tip bracket.._ (P. 16) *e *-., ;, Door stop cip _ *k, (pp. 21, 22)...*I^?., *x%x x *-._ Mode and ~A,% seria number pate +----,,+ (behind eft side -^-----~^~ of broier door) &. switch Broier door I-, (P. 14). Surface burner marker (shows which burner i you are setting) i I Left rear Left front Right front Right rear contro knob contro knob contro knob contro knob 5

6 .,.,.,, -,~_,_, --I-I~IIxxI^..*...,.-., IX1.-~~_.. ^ -,. ~,~-_II,,----_,~ USING YOUR RANGE L Fire Hazard Do not et the burner fame extend beyond the edge of the pan. Turn off a contros when not cooking. Faiure to foow these instructions can resut in death or fire. Use the foowing chart as a guide. SETNG,..I _^I _rn.^-.x RECOMMENDED _I^ x..i._~ -I ^--- -r USE -,--.. d : LIGHT 0 To ight the burner.... _.. ^ ^.,,...~ _ _...,.. ^. xx,,.,,. ; ^.,._..... ~.~,~- II,^.~~., High 0 To start food cooking. I 0 To bring iquid to a boi. j ^ ^,^, C.---I------~-~ ^x ^~~-~~- I^Ix.-I^IIIIIIxIxI-~ ~~ Mid-range 0 To hod a boi. ---I (between HIGH To fry chicken or pancakes. i and LOW) 0 For gravy, pudding, and icing. 0 To cook arge amounts of i vegetabes. - -^-II _I_x x,--, -,,~,~-,~-.~---~.~~--~--~- ---J Low 0 To keep food warm. 0 To met chocoate or butter. / 0 To simmer., I...III.~-XIXIII ^Ix,^ ^.-.-. _-..,.,.., ~ _1111-, ^-.^~-,,- I,.,,.,L Your range comes with eectric ignitors. Eectric ignitors automaticay ight the burners each time you turn the contro knobs to LIGHT. 0 Pace a fied pan on the burner grate before turning on the surface burner. Do not operate a burner for extended periods of time without having cookware on the grate. 0 Push in the contro knob and turn it countercockwise to the LIGHT position. The cicking sound is the ignitor sparking. Make sure the burner has it. 0 To stop the cicking sound after the burner ights, turn the contro knob to the cook setting you want. You can set the contro knob anywhere between HIGH and LOW. NOTE: A four eectric ignitors wi cick at the same time. However, the burner with the contro knob turned to LIGHT is the one that wi ignite. NOTE: Do not eave empty cookware, or cookware which has boied dry, on a hot surface burner. The cookware coud overheat, causing damage to the cookware or cooking product. 0 To hep shorten your cooking time, use the east amount of iquid possibe. 0 Preheat your pots and pans ony when recommended and for the shortest time possibe. 0 Start your food on a higher heat setting, then turn the contro to a ower setting to finish cooking.

7 :h jr :*.A; s*+ Jo $1 3 pd;,,p@~ p@b f~ ~~;~,$ ~~ 0 Refer to your canner manua for specific a instructions. You can manuay ight surface burners. Hod a it match near a burner and turn the contro knob to For up-to-date information on canning, contact your the LIGHT position. After the burner ights, turn the oca U.S. Government Agricutura Department contro knob to the setting you want. Extension Office or companies who manufacture home canning products. &jgjg q,;yjgjq ~&~~~&$$~~ The arge diameter of most water-bath or pressure canners combined with high heat settings for ong periods of time can cause damage to the cooktop. To protect your range: 0 For best resuts, use a canner which can be centered over the surface burner. 0 Do not pace your canner on 2 surface burners at the same time. 0 Start with hot water. This reduces the time the contro is set on high. Reduce the heat setting to the owest position needed to maintain a boi or required pressure eves in a pressure canner. 0 The pan shoud have a fat bottom, straight sides, and a we-fitting id. 0 Choose medium to heavy gauge (thickness) cookware. The pan materia (meta or gass) affects how quicky and eveny the pan heats. 0 When using gass or ceramic cookware, check to make sure it is suitabe for use on surface burners. 0 To avoid tipping, make sure pots and pans are centered on the grates. The pan materia affects how fast heat transfers from the surface cooking area through the pan materia and how eveny heat spreads over the pan bottom. Choose pans that provide the best cooking resuts. Auminum Heats quicky and eveny. Use for a types of cooking. Medium or heavy thickness is best for most cooking. Used as a core or base in cookware to provide even heating. Cast iron Heats sowy and eveny. Good for browning and frying. Maintains heat for sow cooking. Can be coated with porceain ename. Ceramic or ceramic gass Heats sowy and uneveny. Use on ow to medium settings. Foow manufacturer s instructions. Copper Heats very quicky and eveny. Used as a core or base in cookware to provide even heating. Earthenware Can be used for cooktop cooking if recommended by the manufacturer. Use on ow settings. Porceain ename-on-stee ename-oncast iron or See cast iron and stainess stee. Stainess stee Heats quicky but uneveny. A core or base of auminum or copper on the cookware provides even heating. Can be coated with porceain ename. 7

8 _^^,,_ IIIL _- -XI- _I ^ _^ ~~,,~~A~~~-~ _-,m -II--~ ,~-,--.xxii -I- - - _ --xiiixi^iiii - -.,, x*_v, ~x-. :ps~~@?~q g&&g 2 ;:$ pag; Pace the oven racks where you need them before Where to pace pans: turning on the oven. ^ ^ae I_- ^ ^ ~, ^_, ~_I. n I WHEN YOU HAVE PLACE 0 To move a rack, pu it out to the stop position, ; x -,-_..^ ~,~,~.j_,,_---_ _- ^ x-- A I raise the front edge and ift it out. : 1 pan In center of the oven rack. ;+A -- ~.~~ ----, x -~ -xi~cii^ -.,I x-~-- c I II- ^ I I x 0 Be sure the rack(s) is eve. I 2 pans Side by side or sighty 0 Use pot hoders or oven mitts to protect your hands 1., ---- ^ ^ I^ -^ staggered. I--I --_- _-_-.~I if rack(s) must be moved whie the oven is hot. 3 or 4 pans In opposite corners on For best performance, cook on one rack. Pace each oven rack. Stagger j the rack so the top of the food wi be centered in pans so no pan is directy / the oven. over another ~- ~x.~-~~,~ When cooking with two racks, arrange the racks on the 2nd and 4th rack guides. Two sheets of cookies may be baked if sheets are switched at approximatey three quarters of the tota bake time. Increase baking time, if necessary. 0 For best resuts aow 2 inches of space around each pan and between pans and oven was. &$ya $@A yg$& pg&$ :g+&y&q f&&j Use this rack position when roasting food too arge to be paced on the first rack position. For proper roasting, foow these guideines: 0 To avoid spiage, remove food before puing out the rack. 0 Tit the rack up at the front before puing it over the door. 0 Use an adequate amount of iquid in the pan (meat juices or water) so your food does not get overdone. a

9 Use auminum foi to catch spiovers from pies or a Do not ine the oven bottom with foi or other iners. - casseroes by pacing It coud affect the oven surface as we as the quaity/ foi on the oven rack of your baking. beow. Foi shoud be 0 Pace tent-shaped foi oosey over meat or poutry turned up at edges and to sow down surface browning for ong term be at east 1 inch arger roasting. Remove foi for the ast 30 minutes. than dish. 0 Use narrow strips of foi to shied piecrust edges if Do not cover the entire browning too quicky. rack with auminum foi. f It wi reduce air circuation and give you poor cooking resuts. Baking performance is affected by the type of bakeware used. Use the bakeware size recommended in the recipe. BAKEWARE TYPE BEST USED FOR GUIDELINES Light coored auminum Light goden crusts Use temperature and time recommended Even browning in recipe. Dark auminum and other Brown, crisp crusts May reduce baking temperature 25 F. bakeware with dark, du, Use suggested baking time. and/or non-stick finish Use temperature and time recommended in recipe for pies, breads, and casseroes.. Pace rack in center of oven. Ovenproof gassware, Brown, crisp crusts May reduce baking temperature 25 F. ceramic gass, or ceramic Insuated cookie sheets or. Litte or no bottom browning Pace in the bottom third of oven. baking pans May need to increase baking time. Stainess stee Light, goden crusts May need to increase baking time. Uneven browning Stoneware crisp crusts Foow manufacturer s instructions. 9

10 Eectronic dispay pad (P. 11) pad, (P. 1Q) When you first pug in the range, the dispay fashes time-of-day. If, after you set the cock (see Setting the cock section), the dispay fashes, your eectricity was off for a whie. Reset the cock. When showing the time of day, the dispay wi show the hour and minutes. When you are using the timer, the dispay wi show seconds for time ess than 1 minute, minutes for time ess than 1 hour, and hours and minutes for time over 1 hour. The timer indicator wi be it when in the timer mode. 1. Press CLOCK. The coon fashes during cock programming. PRESS 0 CuCK YOU SEE 2. Set the time. PRESS YOU SEE Press the up (A) or down (V) pad(s) unti 0 the correct time shows on the dispay. NOTE: Press a pad briefy to change time by a sma amount. Press and hod a pad to change time by 10 minute increments. A _-~,x-~x_^i x, I-Y,--II-~IIx^I ~,- x ---x * 3. Press CLOCK again to start the cock. The coon PRESS YOU SEE stops fashing when the cock is active. 0 CmK 10

11 The timer does not start or stop the oven. It works ike a kitchen timer. It can be set in hours and minutes up to 12 hours, 59 minutes. The timer wi dispay minutes for settings under 1 hour and hours and minutes for settings over 1 hour. You wi hear four 1 -second tones when the set time is up. NOTE: To dispay the time of day whie the timer is counting down, press CLOCK. Time of day wi be dispayed for 5 seconds before returning to the timer countdown. 1. Press TIMER. The coon fashes during timer programming. PRESS r TIMER 2. Set the interva to be timed. Press the up (A) or down (r) pad(s) unti 0 the correct time shows on the dispay. The timer wi begin counting down 5 seconds after the time is set. PRESS A YOU SEE 3. When there is 1 minute of time remaining, you wi hear one tone. The dispay wi then begin counting down in seconds. YOU SEE When the timer countdown reaches zero, the dispay wi show End and you wi hear four 1 -second tones. (dispay counts in seconds) YOU SEE PRESS YOU SEE E RiisH (time of day) 11

12 IMPORTANT: Do not attempt to ight the oven burner during a power faiure. 1. Pace racks where you need them. For more information, see Positioning racks and pans in the Using the oven section. Rear 2. Push in and turn the oven temperature contro knob countercockwise to the baking/roasting temperature you want. The oven burner wi ight by itsef in seconds. 3. When baking, preheat the oven before putting food into it. During baking/roasting, the oven burner wi turn on and off to keep the oven temperature at the seected setting. NOTE: Do not pace food directy on the oven door or the oven bottom. If you want, pace the food on the rack at the extra rack position. 4. After baking/roasting, turn the oven temperature 11 contro knob cockwise to 4Y?<. sa8;m.$?$!:j; ;.y ~$?& OS,. it 0 For even cooking, pace the meat on a rack in a shaow pan. This keeps the meat out of the drippings and aows the heat to circuate better. 0 Use a meat thermometer for the most accurate doneness. Insert it so the tip is in the center of the argest musce or thickest portion of the meat or poutry. Make sure the thermometer is not touching bone, fat, or the bottom of the pan. :,;gj g:g q.aq,?,gg,vi CII a.i.d 0 To avoid oss of heat, open the oven door as itte as possibe. 0 Use a timer to keep track of cooking time. 0 Pan your meas for the most efficient use of the oven by cooking more than one food at a time, or baking whie the oven is sti hot after cooking a mea. && I g &@y$~ $;$ 5tp$&g --~^II~ -I_-~-- jqp$j:.--,. _.- FOOD _-.,. ^x--_,~~-~i-i--x ~~~,-.--.,-,- ~.. RACK POSITION Frozen pies, arge 1 st or 2nd rack roasts, turkeys, ange guide from bottom X_III I x ^_~~ food cakes Bundt cakes, most 2nd rack guide quick breads, yeast from bottom breads, casseroes, _xi--i--~~lii--~i_ -~ meats Cookies, biscuits, 2nd or 3rd rack -I muffins, cakes, guide from bottom nonfrozen pies -x xi ^_-~~ NOTE: For information on where to pace your rack when broiing, see Broiing guideines ater in this section. 12

13 Athough your new oven is propery adjusted to provide accurate temperatures, it may cook faster or sower than your od oven. If you are not satisfied with the baking/roasting resuts, you can change the temperature caibration by foowing the steps beow. NOTE: DO NOT measure the oven temperature with a thermometer. Opening the oven door wi ower the oven temperature and give you an incorrect reading. Aso, the thermometer temperature reading wi change as your oven cyces. 1. Make sure the oven temperature contro knob is turned to the off position. Pu the knob straight off and fip it over..,- I_I_II_xIx_I x_,--,---. x,-- IIxx- I,.,I-_-.~I.^^~IIxxI.x1- _---_- _1_--- _x~ I--_x-_ Loosen the ocking screws inside the contro knob. Note the position of the notches. -,Notches k> Locking screws _I ~ --. _^ -~---~ --~----,----, A,-II - m mw- I 3. Adjust the temperature. 0 To ower the temperature, hod the knob hande firmy and turn the skirt countercockwise to move the tooth a notch to the G on the COOLER arrow. 0 To raise the temperature, hod the knob hande firmy and turn the skirt cockwise to move the tooth a notch to the G on the HOTTER arrow. Each notch equas about 5 F. 4. Tighten the ocking screws and repace the contro knob. dirt To raise w Notches Locking screws

14 The broier is ocated beow the oven door. The broier pan and grid ro out for easy access. Aways broi with the broier and oven doors cosed. NOTES: 0 Do not step on or appy weight to the broier door when it is open. This coud damage the door. 0 Do not preheat the broier before using it, uness your recipe recommends it. Competey cose the broier door during broiing. 1. Open the broier door and ro out the broier pan and grid. 4. Cose the broier door. 5. Push in and turn the oven temperature contro knob countercockwise BROIL. The broier wi automaticay ight in seconds. to 2. Pace the grid on the broier pan so grease can 1~ pdrir z;;;t&the broier- pan. 6. After broiing, turn the oven temperature contro m knob cockwise to OFF. 3. Before the broier is turned on, pace your food on the broier pan. Then pace the pan on the broier bottom (Position 0) or one of the two other positions and ro the broier pan grid 14

15 j ---x- -_x-.,-~-~ ----, ^-x---i--- ^.~^ _,. 1 I, _x,x --_-, ^_x_.,.,, ---.-, _- - Recommended pan positions are numbered from bottom (0) to top (2) (see Broier pan and grid earier in this section.) For best resuts, pace food 3 inches or more from the broi burner. You shoud rotate the broier pan back to the front at the same time you turn the foods. cii1--^ ^1--_- ^ jx -.-, xix APPROXIMATE TIME 1 (MINUTES) MEAT ---~ ~,- ---I--- _ Ix - _,_-~,-~--_~..--,~,- -.--~-- POSITION I- x---- II_x.. SIDE 1,. SIDE,.~~,,~., 2 x,., - i Steak, 1 thick 1 3 ; medium-rare I i medium we-done a-9 Ground Meat Patties, % thick, we-done i ~~~~-~-~~~~--~-~~~~~ x^---iixxi _xii_ ^IX. _1-- x ---_x- ^ ---- _,--~,x ,~_-I - ---,~----,,, ~~,,; 1 Pork Chops, 1 I thick I ; x ^ -, I--xx^I xi_ii_ XI^XI~~IXI ~XII. ^X 111 ^ --- ^_^ ~_--- -~ _II,*~ A i Ham Sice, I/Z thick, precooked i ;---w~--~~-,-~-~ ~,---,---I IIxI ^IIIII IIIX _,-- ---~--~--I-.,-II X_--- ~ x_cx. II xiiii -IIIIIxIxI 4 Frankfurters I Chicken 1! bone-in pieces boneess breasts I ,--~-- -~-~- -~---~-,~~--II --I--^ XIIX_I^-^ _,. ^- Fish, /i-% thick fiets ; Times are guideines ony and may need to be adjusted to individua tastes. Hot air and moisture escape from the oven through a vent that is near the midde of the backguard. The vent ets air circuate propery. Be carefu not to bock the vent, or you wi get poor baking/roasting resuts. NOTE: Never store pastics, paper, or other items that coud met or bum near the oven vent, or any of the surface burners. 15

16 3 i N i ~ ~- Ix, _^,, -,.XX.,._ xx ~-.,_._,._,,_-,.^-_..XIX-,-^.._._.X.,... -_x_ x-.. -._ I,,. ^_.^.,..X-,._..~.I.X---~--, II ^IIx ^x _ -. --^ x.,-. _ -.. _.-._-._ --._ The range wi not tip during norma use. However, the range can tip if you appy too much force or weight to the open door without the anti-tip bracket fastened down propery. A& / \ Tip Over Hazard A chid or adut can tip the range and be kied. Connect anti-tip bracket to rear range foot. Reconnect the anti-tip bracket, if the range is moved. See the instaation instructions for detais. Faiure to foow these instructions can resut in death or serious burns to chidren and aduts. Anti-Tip Bracket Range Foot Making sure the anti-tip bracket is instaed: 0 Side range forward. 0 Look for the anti-tip bracket securey attached to foor. 0 Side range back so rear range foot is under anti-tip bracket. 16

17 CARING FORYOUR RANGE Exposion Hazard Do not store fammabe materias such as gasoine near this appiance. Doing so can resut in death, exposion, or fire. Before ceaning, aways make sure a contros are off and the range is coo. Refer to instructions on a ceaning products before using them to cean your range. PART CLEANING METHOD SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS Contro Knobs Soap and water Dishwasher. DO NOT use stee woo or abrasive ceaners. Pu knobs straight away from contro pane. Wash, rinse and dry with soft coth. Contro Pane Soap and water Wash, rinse and dry with soft coth. Spray gass ceaner. Appy spray ceaner to paper towe, do not spray directy on pane. Exterior Surfaces* Soap and water (excuding contro pane and Mid iquid ceaner oven door gass) Spray gass ceaner Surface burner grates and caps* Light to moderate soi Soap and water Cean as soon as they become Non-abrasive pastic scrubbing pad dirty. Wash, rinse and dry we. Heavy burned on sois DO NOT use abrasive or harsh ceaners ike chorine beach, ammonia or oven ceaners. Wash, rinse and dry with soft coth. Non-abrasive pastic scrubbing pad Genty cean around the mode and seria pate, too much scrubbing coud remove the numbers. m NOTE: To avoid product damage, do not remove the cooktop. Dishwasher Grates ony (not caps) Non-abrasive pastic scrubbing pad Repeat steps of ceaning proces! Mid abrasive powdered ceanser (with items at eft) as needed, and water unti soi is competey removed. Rinse thoroughy and dry. NOTE: Do not reassembe caps on burners whie wet. *When the cooktop is coo, remove a spis and cean. Food spis containing acids, such as vinegar and tomato, may affect the finish. 17

18 ,. ~.,, *?,, PART Surface burners Oven door gass Oven cavity Food spis containing sugar and/or mik Heaviy soied areas CLEANING METHOD SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS See the Seaed surface burner section in the Caring for your range section. Soap and water Wash, rinse and dry with soft Non-abrasive pastic scrubbing pad coth. Spray gass ceaner Wipe with paper towe. Soap and water When oven coos, wash, rinse and dry with soft coth. Stee woo pad Wipe with cean water and dry we. Commercia oven ceaner Foow the directions that come with the oven ceaner. (Pace newspaper on the foor to protect the foor surface.) Wipe we with cean water and dry. NOTES: Use oven ceaners in a we-ventiated room. Do not et commercia oven ceaners contact the gasket, thermostat, or exterior surfaces of the range. This wi cause damage. For easier ceaning, you can remove the oven door. Carefuy foow the instructions in the Removing the oven door section. Oven racks. Soap and water Stee woo pad Wash, rinse and dry. Broier pan and grid Soap and water Stee woo pad Dishwasher 0 Soution of /2 cup ammonia to 1 gaon water Mid abrasive ceanser or commercia oven ceaner Wash, rinse and dry. Soak for 20 minutes, then scrub with pastic scrubbing pad. 18

19 0 You shoud routiney remove and cean the burner cap. Aways cean the burner cap after a spiover. Keeping the burner cap cean prevents improper ignition and an uneven fame. 0 For the proper fow of gas and ignition of the burner, do not aow spis, food, ceaning agents, or any other materia to enter the gas tube opening or burner ports. 0 Gas must fow freey through the gas tube opening for the burner to ight propery. You must keep this area free of any soi and protect it from boiovers or spiovers. Aways keep the burner cap in pace whenever a surface burner is in use. 0 Let the cook-top coo before ceaning. 0 Do not use oven ceaners, beach, or rust removers. 0 Do not obstruct the fow of combustion and ventiation air. 0 Be carefu not to aow moisture to coect in the burner contro knob areas. Moisture can cause the ignitor switches to fai. umer fames for proper size and shape as shown. A good fame is bue in coor. If the fames are uneven, you may need to cean the burner ports. 19

20 1. Pu the burner cap straight up from the burner base. 2. Cean the burner cap with warm, soapy water and a sponge. You can aso cean it with a midy abrasive scrubbing pad or ceanser. Do not cean the burner cap in a dishwasher or sef-ceaning oven. 3. If the gas tube opening has become soied or cogged, use a cotton swab or a soft coth to cean the area. d, cean them with a straight pin. Do not enarge or distort the port. Do not use a wooden toothpick. If the burner needs to be adjusted, ca a quaified technician for service. 5. After ceaning the gas tube opening and ports, repace the burner cap. Aignment To repace the burner cap, make sure the aignment pins on the cap are propery aigned with the burner base. 6. Turn on the burner to see if it wi ight. If the burner does not ight after you have ceaned it, recheck cap aignment or contact an authorized service technician. Do not service the seaed burner yoursef. 20

21 _x Y,.,,,,., _,_.,.^._.,,...,.. 1..,._ I._.- _, IxX ^.,. I. I..- _...,, -,* -.-. ^ ~- -.II.IXI.,X.~..,~. _,.,.--.. X,,,^ ^I..._.,,,,,,^ _. ^ _..~..~.,,,.IIXXI..~. ~..~,.,1,,,,1 For norma use of your range, you do not need to remove the door. However, if you find it necessary Door remova Door stop cip to remove the door, foow the instructions in this section. NOTE: The oven door is heavy. Before removing the door: 1. Use a putty knife or screwdriver and insert it at the bottom corner of the door stop cip. 2. Pry door stop cip free and remove from front frame hinge sot. Take care not to scratch porceain. 3. Repeat procedure for other door stop cip. hanger Froht frame hinge sot ,...XIXIX^III 1_ _,-, X--.I I.I--.I- _^--I x I-_ ^.I._ _.X.^X._- _-,.--,,-_X..--X-._I , xix --.-,.,^-^.x 1. Open the oven door. Inset-t door remova pins, 3. G iraq p the door on the sides with your fingers on incuded with your the front of the door range, into both hinge and your thumbs on hangers. Do not remove the inside surface. the pins whie the door is removed from the range. 4. Pu door straight up, then toward you. Hinge 2. Carefuy cose the door unti it rests against the hangers wi side out of front frame hinge sot. door remova pins. ----,~~.,~---~-~-- ~~II~~_x~-~ ~xi_i IxxxIIIIIIIxII NOTE: The door remova pins you inserted must sti be in both door hinges. = 1. Grasp the door on the sides with your fingers on the front of the door and your thumbs on the inside surface. continued on next page 21

22 2. Hod oven door so that the top edge of each hinge hanger is horizonta. Insert hinge hangers into the front frame hinge sots. 3. Rotate top of door toward range. Side hinge Door remova hangers down onto front frame support pins. NOTE: Make sure the hinge hangers are fuy seated and engaged on the support pins. 4. Insert the door stop cip with the anguar surface at the top of the frame hinge sot, then push in the bottom of the cip unti fanges are fush with the front frame. 5. Open the door competey and remove the door remova pins. Save door remova pins for future use. 6. Cose the door. hinge sot Door remova pin hoe ; You can remove the pane in the oven bottom for ceaning. 3. Remove the 2 hod-down screws at the rear of the oven. If the screws are too tight to remove by hand, use a screwdriver. 22

23 4. Pace your fingers in the sots in the bottom pane and ift the rear of the pane up and back unti the ip at the front of the pane is cear of the front frame of the oven cavity. 5. Lift the bottom up and out.. 1. Unpug range or disconnect power. 2. Remove the gass bub cover in the back of the oven by turning it countercockwise. 4. Repace the ight bub cover by turning it cockwise. 5. Pug in range or reconnect power. 3. Remove the ight bub from its socket. Repace the bub with a 40-watt appiance bub. 23

24 TROUBESHOUIINC Most cooking probems often are caused by itte things you can find and fix without toos of any kind. Check the ists beow and on the next page before caing for assistance or service. If you sti need hep, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 26. _. X-X----~XI- -^-..^ -.-~~.-~~ ^ --_^._ I,-,~, X._.X.^..-. _,-x--.- ^.--.,.X.~,--II-^---.--~.,,.,,., _ xi..^^,,..,,_,., ^ x.~ ^-_,.._.. ^,..,.,X x. ^I_- _,,. PROBLEM Nothing works CAUSE 0 The range is not pugged into a propery grounded outet (120~ poarized). 0 The range is not propery connected to the gas suppy. Contact an authorized service technician to reconnect the range to the gas suppy. (See the Instaation Instructions.) You have bown a househod fuse or tripped a circuit breaker. PROBLEM CAUSE Ix,-.xX-,-,-,-_-- x~ ~ I---.~-- ~----I - -.~I. ~-_ ~ -_--- I-~-~_x--. The oven does not work 0 You have not turned the oven temperature contro knob to a temperature setting. (See Adjusting the oven temperature contro section.) 0 The main or reguator gas shutoff vave is in the off position. (See the Instaation Instructions.) The burner fais to ight 0 The ignitor is broken. Contact an authorized service technician to repace it. 0 You have bown a househod fuse or tripped a circuit breaker. i ---Wm..1._1^._ ^I~--^ ~- _I--. _._.-.- ~_.~. ~. ----~~^Ix-IIxxx~,..,,._,X,_,..,, X.- -.,^,,, _,_,,^, ^,: The burner fames ift 0 The air/gas mixture is incorrect. Contact an authorized service technician ; ; away from the ports, are to check the air/gas mixture or see the Instaation Instructions. : yeow, or are noisy I PROBLEM The burner fais to ight CAUSE 0 The contro knob is not set correcty. Push in the contro knobs before turning them. Make sure the contro knob is turned to the Light position. (See page 6.) 0 You have bown a househod fuse or tripped a circuit breaker. 0 The burner ports may be cogged. Cean them with a straight pin. (See page 20.) The burner fames are 0 The burner ports may be cogged. Cean them with a straight pin. (See uneven page 20.) 0 The burner caps may not be positioned propery. (See page 20.) ~ -IIXIIIXX.X_n_^I ^.~X^XXI---. ~.~-~I-XXX--,XI ,~~--~ ^,..X1 I IZ :, -xi--i;^ ~~xxxx^i-. _ The burner fames ift off 0 The burner needs ceaning. (See pages 19 and 20.) the ports, are yeow, or The air/gas mixture is incorrect. Contact an authorized service technician to are noisy when turned off ,-^--_ ~ check the air/gas mixture or see the Instaation Instructions , x^ --,, -^.,--., xx -, _-----i-x--i,. II XL i 1_, ~-~, IIx- I xi I -III^I^IxI The burner makes a The burner is wet from washing. Let it dry. popping noise when on

25 . Cookware not eve 0 Leve the range. (See the Instaation Instructions.) on cooktop 0 Use cookware with a fat bottom. (Check to see if iquids are eve in cookware),..,.,,, *,,,,,.,,,.,,,.,,..,..,..,., _... _.....,_, _...,.., Excessive heat on cooktop 0 Choose cookware the same size or sighty arger than the burner fame. _I^,-----,---. in areas around cookware.-, ~ ---_- - - ms, ~^ ^I-~~~~~,I I-,I^-xII~--II^IIxx-~I-IxIxIx, x I~~--,-- The oven temperature 0 Adjust the oven temperature contro. (See Adjusting the oven temperature seems too ow or too high contro section.) II_ - x _-_- _ -,_- ^_ ^ I I X-I--,I X^_I_~ I IX_,_~-,~ ~-~-~~.~,--~,--.-^ , - -I_,--, I-x-^ ^ ^1_ X_, ^ Sow baking or roasting Increase baking or roasting time. Increase temperature 25 F. Preheat oven to seected temperature before pacing food in when preheating is recommended. Choose bakeware that wi aow 2 inches of air space around a sides. Open oven door to check food when timer signas shortest time suggested in recipe. -.~~-~ - _,--, ~.-.,-.- 0 Oven,--.--,_-,- peeking Ix -, can X..-IIIXII.X.I make,,1111,11 cooking ---- times I^,.,,- -- I,I I_I ~ ~ X. onger. ^ I_ x I_._ Baked items too brown Preheat oven to seected temperature before pacing food in oven. on bottom Choose bakeware that wi aow 2 inches of air space around a sides. Position rack higher in oven. Decrease oven temperature 15 to 25 F.,_~--- -,,, ^,,,,._ ^I,I ^X x.- ---, ^I.~~.. II_I_---X~-IX^XII^_I--~ ~-~~. ~...^ ~-~ Uneveny baked items 0 Leve the range. Bake in center of oven with 2 inches of space around each pan.,_, I Check to make sure batter is eve in pan. -X1,,,XIIIIIII _ ~I_.I^,X^IXIII,-_, I,^.,-,,. -.--_ 11,--. x,xx-, IX_-,, x-iii-i- -~-,--~. I-x-..IC.^.I., Crust edge browns 0 Shied edge with foi. before pie is done If none of these items are causing your probem, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page

26 To avoid unnecessary service cas, pease check the Troubeshooting section. It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. Ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center to free at Our consutants are avaiabe to v assist you. When caing: Ea Pease know the purchase date, and the compete mode and seria number of your appiance (see the A Note to You section). This information wi hep us better respond to your request. Our consutants provide assistance with: Features and specifications on our fu ine of appiances 0 Instaation information Use and maintenance procedures Accessory and repair parts saes Speciaized customer assistance (Spanish speaking, hearing impaired, imited vision, etc.) Referras to oca deaers, service companies, and repair parts distributors Whirpoo service technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty and provide after-warranty service, anywhere in the United States. To ocate the authorized Whirpoo service company in your area, you can aso ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages. If you need to order repacement parts, we recommend that you ony use FSP@ factory authorized parts. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new WHIRLPOOL@ appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number or your nearest authorized service center. If you need further assistance, you can write to Whirpoo with any questions or concerns at: Whirpoo Brand Home Appiances Consumer Assistance Center c/o Correspondence Dept North M-63 Benton Harbor, M Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. -: 26

27 INDEX TOPIC PAGE TOPIC PAGE ANTI-TIP BRACKET ASSISTANCE BAKING Auminum foi....9 Bakeware Pans....8, 12 Racks... 8, 12 Setting cyce Tips BROILING Broier Grid Guideines Pan Setting cyce CLEANING Broier pan and grid Contro knobs Contro pane Exterior surfaces Oven cavity Oven door gass Oven racks Surface burners... 18, 19, 20 Surface burner grates CONTROL PANEL Burner heat settings....6 Contro knobs....6 Surface burner markers COOKWARE Canning... 7 Materias....7 Tips....7 ELECTRONIC TIME-OF-DAY CLOCK/TIMER Cock Dispay Timer FEATURES....5 MODEL AND SERIAL NUMBER....2 OVEN Bottom... 22,23 Door... 21,22 OVEN LIGHT OVEN TEMPERATURE Adjusting Setting OVEN VENT PANS , 12 PARTS... 5 RACKS....8, 12 ROASTING Pans... 8, 12 Racks , 12 Setting cyce Tips SAFETY , 4 SERVICE SURFACE BURNERS Contro knobs , 17 Contro setting guide....6 Power faiure... 7 Surface burner markers... 5 TROUBLESHOOTING....24, 25 WARRANTY

28 WARRANTY GAS RANGE LENGTH OF WARRANTY WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FULL ONE-YEAR repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias WARRANTY or workmanship. Service must be provided by an authorized Whirpoo FROM DATE OF PURCHASE service company. WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FOR A. Service cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of your range. 2. Instruct you how to use your range. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring or pumbing. 4. Repace owner-accessibe ight bubs. B. Repairs when your range is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. Pickup and deivery. Your range is designed to be repaired in the home. D. Damage to your range caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God, or use of products not approved by Whirpoo. E. Repairs to parts or systems resuting from unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. 398 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATON SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAM- AGES. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta or consequentia damages, so this excusion or imitation may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the United States, a different warranty may appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Whirpoo deaer. If you need service, first see the Troubeshooting section of this book. After checking Troubeshooting, additiona hep can be found by checking the Requesting Assistance or Service section, or by caing the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center teephone number, , from anywhere in the U.S.A Whirpoo Registered Trademark of Whirpoo, U.S.A. w9a Printed in U.S.A.