-. wh H 01 mwtowo*worw~- UseAndCare I Tabe of Contents (compete).................. 2 A Note to You................ 3 Range Safety................. 4 Getting to Know Your Range............................. 8 Using Your Range........ 9 Using the Sef-Ceaning Cyce............................ 27 Caring for Your Range........................... 32 Troubeshooting......... 38 Requesting Assistance or Service.................... 41 Index............................ 42 Warranty...................... 44 SELF-CLEANING TO THE INSTALLER: PLEASE LEAVE THIS INSTRUCTION BOOK WITH THE UNIT. TO THE CONSUMER: PLEASE READ AND KEEP THIS BOOK FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. I GAS RANGE 1-800-253-I 301 Ca uo with questions or comments. MODEL SF388PEW
Tabe of Contents A Note to You... 3 Range Safety... 4 Getting to Know Your Range... 8 Using Your Range... 9 Using the surface burners... 8 Positiining racks and pans... 11 For best air circuatii... 12 The eectronic oven contro... 13 Setting the cock... 14 Using the eectronic Minute Timer....15 Canceing a function... 15 Baking/roasting... 18 Adjusting the oven temperature controf... 17 Broiing... 18 Broiing tips... 19 Energy saving tips... 20 Using the eectronic MEALTIMEIF contrc... 20 The oven vent... 24 Tha storage drawer... 25 The anti-tip brackets... 28 Using the SefX%aning Cyce... 27 Before you start... 27 Setting the controfs... 28 Specia tips... 38 How the cyce vvorks... 31 Caring for Your Range... 32 Surface burner grates... 32 Surface burners and cooktop... 33 Ceaning chart... 35 The oven ight... 37 Troubeshooting... 38 Requesting Assistance or Service....41 Index... 42 Warranty... 44 2
A Note to You Thank you for buying a Whirpoo0 appiance. Because your ife is getting busier and more compicated, Whirpoo ranges are easy to use, save time, and hep you manage your home better. To ensure that you enjoy years of troubefree 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 in the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. The card heps us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Pease record your mode s information. Whenever you ca to request service for Mode Number your appiance, you need to know your compete mode number and seria number. Seria Number You can find thii information on the mode Pure hase Date and seria number pate (see diagram on page 8 for ocation of pate). Deaer Name Pease aso record the purchase date of your appiance and your deaer s name, address, and teephone number. Deaer Address Deaer Phone Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. Our Consumer Assistance Center number is to-free 24 hours a day. 1-800-253-1301 3
Range Safety Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety statements under warning symbos. Pease pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the use of the symbo. This symbo aerts you to such dangers as persona injury, bums, fire, and eectrica shock. *ALL RANGES CAN TIP. NOTE: For more INJURY TO PERSONS COULD RESULT. information. see INSTALL ANTI-TIP DEVICES PACKED 7he anti-tip brac- WITH RANGE. kets on page 26. *SEE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS. IMPORTANT SAFEIY INSTRUCTIONS READ AND SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS WARNING: if the information in this manua is not foowed exacty, a fire or exposion coud resut causing property damage, persona injury, or death. I 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. I instaation and service must be Performed by a quaified instaer, service agency, or the gas suppier. 4
Genera Insta or ocate the range ony in accordance with the provided Instaation Instructions. The range must be instaed by a quaified instaer. The range must be propery connected to the proper gas suppy and checked for eaks. The range must aso be propery connected to eectrica suppy and grounded. Gas fues and their use in appiances can cause minor exposures to benzene, formadehyde, carbon monoxide, and soot, primariy from incompete combustion. Significant exposure to these substances coud cause cancer or reproductive harm. Propery adjusted burners with a bue, rather than a yeow, fame wi minimize incompete combustion. Venting with a hood or an open window wi further minimize exposure. Do not store things chidren might want above the range. Chidren coud be burned or injured whie cimbing on it. Do not eave chidren aone or unattended in area where the range is in use. They shoud never be aowed to sit or stand on any part of the range. They couki be burned or injured. Do not operate the range if it is damaged or not working propery. Do not use the range for warming or heating the room. Persons coud be burned or injured, or a fire coud start..do not attempt to ight the oven burner during a power faiure. Persona injury coud resut. Reset oven contros to the off position in the event of a power faiure. Use the range ony for its intended use as described in this manua. tff,ttt Giib Do not touch surface burners, areas near surface burners, or interior surfaces of oven. Areas near surface burners and interior surfaces of an oven become hot enough to cause burns. During and after use, do not touch, or et cothing or other fammabe materias contact surface burners, areas near surface burners, or interior surfaces of oven unti they have had sufficient time to coo. Other surfaces of the range, such as the oven vent opening, the surface near the vent opening, the cooktop, and the oven door and window, coud aso become hot enough to cause burns. Do not wear oose or hanging garments when using the range. They coud ignite if they touch an open fame and you coud be burned. Use onty dry pot hoders. Moist or damp pot hoders on hot surfaces coud resut in bums from steam. Do not et pot hoder touch an open fame. Do not use a towe or buky coth for a pot hoder. It coud catch on fire. Keep range vents unobstructed. Do not heat unopened containers. They coud expode. The hot contents coud cause burns and container partices coud cause injury. Do not store fammabe materias on or near the range. The fumes coud create an exposion and/or fire hazard. Do not use the oven for storage. Do not use auminum foi to ine areas around surface burners, oven bottom, or any other part of the range. Use auminum foi ony as recommended in this manua. Never use a match or other fame to ook for a gas eak. Exposion and injury coud resut. Know where your main gas shutoff vave is ocated. continued on next page 5
When usina the cooktor, Make sure the utensis you use are arge enough to contain food and avoid boiovers and spiovers. Heavy spattering or spibvers eft on a range coud ignite and bum you. Pan size is especiay important in deep fat frying. @Check to be sure gass cooking utensis are safe for use on the range. Ony certain types of gass, gass-ceramic, ceramic, earthenware, or other gazed utensis are suitabe for cooktops without breaking due to the sudden change in temperature. Never eave surface burners unattended at high heat settings. A boiover coud resuft and cause smoking and greasy spibvers that coud ignite. Turn pan handes inward, but not over other surface burners. This wi hep reduce the chance of burns, igniting of fammabe materias, and spis due to bumping of the pan. Do not use decorative covers or trivets over the surface burners. When using the oven *Aways position the oven rack(s) in desired ocation whie oven is coo. Use care when opening oven door. Let hot air or steam escape before removing or repacing food. Grease agrease is fammabe. Do not aow grease to coect around cooktop or in vents. Wipe spiovers immediatey. Do not use water on grease fires. Never pick up a faming pan. Smother faming pan by covering with a we-fitted id, cookie sheet, or fat tray. Paming grease outside of pan can be extinguished with baking soda or, if avaiabe, a mutipurpose dry chemica or foam-type extinguisher. Care and ceaning Sma amounts of formadehyde and carbon monoxide are given off in the Sef- Ceaning cyce from fibergass insuation and food decomposition. Significant exposure to these substances wuki cause cancer or reproductive harm. Exposure can be minimized by venting with a hood or open window and wiping out excess food spis prior to sefceaning. m. Do not use oven ceaners. No wmmercia oven ceaner or oven iner protective coating of any kind shoud be used in or around any part of the oven. Before sef-ceaning the oven, remove broier pan, broier grid, oven racks, and other utensis. Do not use your oven to cean misceaneous parts uness you are instructed to do so in this Use and Care Guide. 6
Do no cean door heat sea. R is essentia for a good sea. Care shoud be taken not to rub, damage, or move the sea. Cean ony parts recommended in thii Use and Care Guide. Do not repair or repace any part of the range uness specificay recommended in this manua. A other servicing shoud be referred to a quaified technician..any additions, changes, or conversions required in order for thii appiance to satisfactoriy meet the appication needs must be made by a Whirpoo service company or Quaified Agency. Disconnect the eectrica suppy and the gas suppy at the shutoff vave near the range before servicing the range. - READ AND SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - 7
Getting to Know Your Range This section contains captioned iustrations of your range. Use them to become famiiar with the ocation and appearance of a parts and features. To hep you find information on specific parts and features quicky, page references are incuded. Eectronic! Surface burner, I k Automatic oven ight switch (P. 37) Broi burner (P. 19) Mode and seria number pate / (behind b/ storage drawer) Contro Manua oven ight pane Left front Left rear contro knob contro knob Right rear Right front contro knob contro knob Surface burner marker 8 (P. 9)
Using Your Range To obtain the best cooking resuts possibe, you must operate your range propery. This section gives you important information for efficient and safe use of your range. Using the surface burners Your range is equipped with eectric ignitors. Eectric ignitors automaticay ight the burners each time they are used. Push in and turn countercockwise m Push in contro knob and turn countercockwise to the LITE position. The cicking sound is the ignitor sparking. Visuay check that burner has it. To stop the cicking sound after the burner ights, turn the contro knob to the desired setting. The contro knob has stops for HI, Medium, and Low. However, you can set the contro knob anywhere between HI and OFF. Surface burner markers The soid dot in the surface burner marker shows which surface burner is turned on by that knob. 0 m Burner heat settings Use correct burner heat settings. If the heat setting is too high, it can: Char bacon and cause curing. Make eggs tough and crisp at the edges. Toughen iver, fish, and seafood. Scorch deicate sauces and custards. Cause a boiover. Unti you get used to the settings, use the foowing as a guide. For best resuts, start cooking at the high setting; then turn the contro knob down to continue cooking. SETING RECOMMENDED USE LITE HI Medium Low To ight the burner. After the burner ights, turn contro back to a desired setting to stop the cicking of the ignitor. To start foods cooking. To bring iquids to a boi. To hod a rapid boi. To fry chicken or pancakes. For gravy, pudding, and icing. To cook arge amounts of vegetabes. To keep focd warm unti ready to serve. NOTE: Do not cook with the contro in the LITE position. In case of a proonged power faiure Surface burners can be manuay ighted. Hod a it match near a burner and turn the contro knob to the LITE position. After the burner ights, turn the contro knob to the desired setting. 9
Exposion Hazard Burner fame shoud not extend beyond the edge of the cooking utensi. The fame coud burn you and cause poor cooking resuts. Be sure a contro knobs are turned to OFF when you are not cooking. Someone coud be burned or a fire coud start if a burner is accidentay ef ON. If the fame shoum go out whie cooking, or if there is a strong gas odor, turn the burners OFF. Wait five minutes for the gas odor to disappear before reighting burner. If gas odor is sti present, see safety note on page 4. Faiure to foow these precautions coud resut in exposiin or fire. NOTE: Do not eave an empty utensi, or one which has boied dry, on a hot surface burner. The utensi coud overheat and coud damage the utensi or cooking product. Cookware tips No one brand of cookware is best for a peope. Knowing something about pan materias and construction wi hep you seect the correct cookware for your needs. The pan materia (meta or gass) affects how fast heat transfers from the surface burners through the pan materia and how eveny heat spreads over the pan bottom. Choose pans that provide the best cooking resuts. Handes shoud be made of a sturdy, heatresistant materia and be securey attached to the pan. Pans shoud be easy to cean. Check to be sure there are no crevices, rough edges, or areas where food might coect. Be sure pans do not tip, whether they are fu or empty. Use cookware ony as it was intended to be used. Foow pan instructions. This is very important for gass cookware because some shoud be used ony in the oven. Other pans are marked as ftameware and may be used on the surface burners. Home canning information The arger 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: For best resuts, use a canner which can be centered over the surface burner. NOTE: For best resuts and greater fue efficiency, use ony fat-bottomed cookware in gcx3d condition. The pan shoud have straight sides and a tight-fitting id. Choose medium to heavy gauge (thickness) pans that are fairfy ightweight. Do not pace canner on two surface burners at the same time. Too much heat wi buikf up and wi damage the cooktop. Start with hot water. This reduces the time the contro is set on HI. Reduce heat setting to owest position needed to keep water boiing. Refer to your canner manua for specific instructions. 10
Positioning racks and pans For baking/roasting with one rack, pace the rack so the top of the food wi be centered in the oven. Rack pacement for specific foods: r FOOD RACK POSITION Frozen pies, arge 1st or 2nd rack roasts, turkeys, ange guide from bottom food cakes BundI cakes, most 2nd rack guide quick breads, yeast from bottom breads, casseroes, meats L Cookies, biscuits, muffins, cakes, nonfrozen pies 2nd or 3rd rack guide from bottom When baking on two racks, arrange racks on first and third rack guides from bottom. To change rack position, pu rack to the stop, raise the front edge, and ift out. NOTE: For recommended rack pacement when broiing, see Broiing rack position chart on page 19. Extra oven rack position (roasting rack) For proper roasting, foow these guideines: The rack must be eve. Use adequate amount of iquid (meat juices or water) so food does not get overdone. Do not try to pu rack out over door. Rack wi be at the same eve as door when door is opened. Persona Injury Hazard. Aways position oven rack(s) in desired ocation before turning oven on. Be sure the rack(s) is eve. If rack(s) must be moved whie oven is hot, use pot hoders or oven mitts to protect hands. Do not pace items on the open oven door. Be carefu when instaing and removing arge food items from extra oven rack position. Food wi be coser to hot surfaces, incuding oven bottom and sides. Faiure to foow the above precautions coud resut in persona injury. \ Extra oh rack position When roasting food too arge to be paced in oven with rack in owest position, pace rack on bottom of oven. 11
For best air circuation Hot air must circuate around the pans in the oven for even heat to reach a parts of the oven. This resuts in better baking. Pace the pans so that one is not directy over the other. For best resuts, aow 1 X-2 inches (4-5 cm) of space around each pan and between pans and oven was. There must be a minimum space of 1 inch (2.5 cm). Use ony one cookie sheet in the oven at one time. Use the foowing as a guide to determine where to pace the pans: One pan Pace in the center of the oven rack. Two pans Pace in opposite comers of the oven rack. Three or four pans Pace in opposite comers on each oven rack. Stagger pans so no pan is directy over another. 12
The eectronic oven contro Oven off button (p. 15) I Dispay (see beow) I Set knob (p. 14) I YidSeC Time of Stop time Bake time Sef-cean Broi Bake temp timer button day button button button button button (P- 15) button (p. 22) (P. 21) (P. 28) (P. 18) @. 16) (P. 14) Dispay/cock When you first pug in the range, the dispay wi fash unti you set a new time. If, after you set the cock (page 14), the time dispay again fashes, your eectricity was off for a whie. Reset the cock. When you are not using the oven, the contro is an accurate cock. When you are using the oven or Minute Timer, the dispay wi show times, temperature settings, and what command buttons have been pressed. When showing the time of day, the dispay wi show the hour and minutes. When you are using the Minute Timer, the dispay wi show minutes and seconds in the foowing sequence: - For settings from 0 to 1 minute 55 seconds, the dispay wi increase in 5-second amounts and count down each second. - For settings from 2 minutes to 9 minutes 50 seconds, the dispay wi increase in 1 O-second amounts and count down each second. - For settings from 10 to 59 minutes, the dispay wi increase in 1 -minute amounts and count down each second. - For settings from 1 hour to 1 hour 55 minutes, the dispay wi increase in 5-minute amounts and count down each minute. - For settings from 2 hours to 9 hours 50 minutes, the dispay wi increase in 1 O-minute amounts and count down each minute. 13
Command buttons Set knob The command buttons te the oven what to do and in what order. A few exampes: -Time of Day tes the oven you are going to set the cock. -Oven Off tes the oven to turn off. Each command button (except Oven Off) has its own Indicator Light. The Indicator Light comes on when you press the command button. Once you ve pressed a command button to te the oven what you want it to do, you use the Set Knob to set a temperature or time. Turning the Set Knob cockwise increases the number on the dispay. Turning the Set Knob countercockwise decreases the number on the dispay. Setting the cock 1. Press the Time of Day button. PRESS YOU SEE 2. Turn the Set Knob unti the TURN YOU SEE correct time shows on the arge dispay. (exampe ohows 1 o cock) 3. Press the Oven Off button to start the cock. PRESS YOU SEE 14
Using the eectronic Minute Timer The Minute Timer does not start or stop the oven. t works ike a kitchen timer. t can be set in minutes and seconds up to 9 hours and 50 minutes. You wi hear 3 tones when the set time is up. 1. Press the Mn/Sec Timer button. PRESS YOU SEE 2. Turn the Set Knob unti the TURN YOU SEE desired time shows on the arge dispay. The Minute Timer wi begin counting down 2 seconds after the time is set. When time is up, you wi hear 3 tones, then one reminder tone every 10 seconds unti you press the MinSec Timer button. (exampe shows 30 seconds) To cance the Minute Timer: Press the Min/Sec Timer button and turn the Set Knob unti 0:OO shows on the arge dispay. YOU SEE TURN Canceing a function The Oven Off button wi cance any function except for times set with the Min/Sec Timer button. When the Oven Off button is pressed, the arge dispay wi show the time of day or, if the Minute Timer is being used, the time remaining. 15
Baking/roasting 1. Position the rack(s) propery before turning on the oven. For further information, see Positioning racks and pans on page 11. 2. Press the Bake Temp button. PRESS YOU SEE NOTE: If the oven door is atched when you try to bake, door wi appear on the arge dispay and you wi be unabe to continue. If the LOCK Indicator Light is on, wait unti it goes off. Then move the Lock Lever a ihe way to the eft to unatch the door. 3.Turn the Set Knob unti the TURN YOU SEE desired temperature shows on the sma dispay. The dispay wi increase in 5 amounts. The burner wi ight in 50-60 seconds. (exampe shows 350 F bake temperature) 4. When baking, preheat the oven for 10 minutes. NOTES: Do not preheat when roasting or cooking items such as casseroes. The sma dispay wi show the actua oven temperature in 5 amounts, starting at oo, whie the oven is preheating. 5. Put food in the oven. # h During baking/roasting, the oven burner wi turn on and off to keep the oven ;, C temperature at the setting. NOTE: Do not pace food directy on the oven bottom. 16
6. When baking/roasting is done, press the Oven Off button or turn the Set Knob unti -O shows on the sma dispay. The oven wi then shut off. PRESS Adjusting the oven temperature contro Athough your new oven is propery adjusted to provide accurate temperatures, it may cook faster or sower than your od oven. If, after using the oven for a period of time, you are not satisfied with the baking roasting resuts, you can change the temperature caibration by foowing these steps: NOTE: DO NOT measure oven temperature with a thermometer. Opening the oven door wi ower the oven temperature and give you an inaccurate reading. Aso, the thermometer temperature reading wi change as your oven cyces. 1. Press the Bake Temp button. PRESS YOU SEE Turn the Set Knob cockwise to a temperature 500 F. setting above TURN 2. Immediatey press and hod the PRESS - --- Bake Temp button again unti AND HOLD YOU SEE the dispay shows -35 (about 5 seconds). r 3. Turn the Set Knob cockwise to increase the temperature. The temperature can be increased in 5 amounts. Seect the number which represents the F you want to increase the oven temperature. For exampe, to increase the oven temperature 5, you woud seect -30. TURN YOU SEE (exampe shows increasing off set temperature by 5 F) continued on next page 17
4. Press the Oven Off button to enter the new temperature adjustment. Your oven bake and broi temperatures are now adjusted hotter. The contro remembers this temperature adjustment even if the power goes out. Broiing 1. Position the rack before turning the oven on. Position the oven rack so that the surface of the food is at east 3 inches (7 cm) away from the broi burner. See Broiing rack position chart on page 19. PRESS 2. Put food on broier pan and pace in the center of the oven rack. 3. Competey cose the oven door to ensure proper broiing temperatures. 4. Press the Broi button. PRESS YOU SEE NOTE: If the oven door is atched when you try to broi, door wi appear on the arge dispay and you wi be unabe to continue. f the LOCK Indicator Light is on, wait unti it goes off. Then move the Lock Lever a the way to the eft to unatch the door. 5. Turn the Set Knob 2 cicks and TURN YOU SEE HI wi show on the sma dfspay. Turn the Set Knob 1 cick and LO wi show on the sma dispay. The burner wi ight in 50-60 seconds. 6. When broiing is done, press PRESS YOU SEE the Oven Off button. - 18 r! b - (the4 of day) (exampe shows HI tting)
Broiing tips Use the broier pan and grid for broiing. They are designed to drain excess iquid and grease away from the cooking surface to hep prevent spatter, smoke, or fire. If you broi sma quantities, you may want to use a sma broier pan. They are avaiabe in the housewares section of many department stores. Broiing rack position determines how the burner cooks your food. The ower the position, the more broier grid area covered. See Broiing rack position chart beow for more information. To sear meat, pace broier pan at one of the higher rack positions so that meat is very near the fame. Sma steaks may be broied in the higher rack positions. To cook arge steaks and other thick cuts of meat we done, move them to a ower rack position after searing. After broiing, remove the broier pan from the oven when you remove the food. Drippings wi bake on the pan if you eave it in the heated oven. Firs Hazard Pace meat the correct distance from the burner. Meat paced too cose to the burner coufd spatter, smoke, burn, or catch fire during broiing. To ensure adequate grease drainage, do not use cookie sheets or simiar pans for broiing. Aso, covering the broier grid with foi is not recommended. Poor drainage of grease coud resut in fire. Broiing rack position chart RACK POSITION FROM BOTOM FOOD 0 4 Rare steaks and fish 0 3 Medium and we-done @ steaks and hamburgers; wedone foods 0 such as chicken, obster, ham sices, 0 and pork chops 19
Energy saving tips Athough the energy used for cooking is usuay a very sma percentage of the tota energy used in the home, cooking energy can be used efficienty. Here are some tips to hep you save energy when using your cooking product: Use pans with fat bottoms, straight sides, and tight-fitting ii. Cook with a minimum of iquid or fat to hep shorten cooking time. Preheat pans ony when recommended and for the shortest time possibe. Start food on higher heat settings, then set surface burner contro on Low to finish cooking. Use the more efficient surface burners instead of the oven when possibe. Turn on the surface burner ony after pacing fied pan on the burner grate. Oven peeking may cause heat oss, onger cooking times, and unsatisfactory baking resuts. Rey on your timer to keep track of the cooking time. Bake cakes, pies, or cookies when oven is warm. Best time to bake is right after a mea has been cooked in the oven. Preheat the oven no onger than necessary. Pan your meas for the most efficient use of the range. When using the oven to cook one food, try to cook the rest of the mea in it aso. Do not preheat when roasting or cooking items such as casseroes. Using the eectronic MEALTIMERm contro The eectronic MEALTIMER contro wi turn the oven on and off at times you set, even when you are not around. Deayed time baking/roasting is idea for foods which do not require a preheated oven, such as meats and casseroes. Do not use deayed time cooking for cakes, cookies, etc. - undercooking wi resut. Before using the eectronic MEALTIMER contro, make sure the cock is set to the correct time of day. (See Setting the cock on page 14.) To start baking/roasting now and stop automaticay 1. Position the oven rack(s) propery and put food in the oven. 20
2. Press the Bake Time button. PRESS 3. Turn the Set Knob cockwise unti the desired baking/roasting time, up to 11 hours 55 minutes, shows on the arge dispay. YOU SEE (exampe shows 1% hour cook time) 4. Press the Bake Temp button. PRESS YOU SEE 5. Turn the Set Knob to set the desired baking/roasting tem- perature. After the temperature is set, the temperature dispay wi change to 100 F and increase unti the oven temperature reaches the set temperature. YOU SEE (exampe shows 350 F cook temperature) (arge dispay wi count down in -minute amounts) 6. When baking/roasting time is competed, three tones wi sound. 21
To deay start and stop automaticay 1. Position the oven rack(s) propery and put food in the oven. 2. Press the Bake Time button. - 3. Turn the Set Knob cockwise unti the desired bakng/roasting time, up to 11 hours 55 minutes, shows on the arge dispay. YOU SEE (exampe showa 1%hour. 4. Press the Stoo Time button. YOU SEE (dispay showa current atop time [time of day pur cook tm) 5. Turn the Set Knob cockwise YOU SEE unti the desired stop time shows on the arge dispay. One tone wi sound once every second unti you choose a baking/roasting temperature. (exampe showa 390 stop time) 22
6. Press the Bake Temp button. PRESS 7. Turn the Set Knob to set the desired baking/roasting temperature. NOTE: Changes can be made at any time by pushing a command button. When the start time is reached: YOU SEE (exampe shows 350 F cook temperature) YOU SEE (dispay shows stop time and set temperature) 8. When baking/roasting time is competed, three tones wi sound. To cance the MEALTIMERm contro settings: Press the Oven Off button or turn PRESS YOU SEE the Set Knob unti :OO shows on the arge dispay. OR TURN 23
To avoid sickness and food waste when using the MEALTIMERm cock: Do not et most UNFROZEN focd stand for more than two hours before cooking starts. Do not aow food to remain in oven for more than two hours after the end of cooking cyce. NOTE: Do not use foods that wi spoi whie waiting for cooking to start. Such foods are: dishes with mik or eggs, cream soups, and cooked meats or fish. Aso, foods containing baking powder or yeast wi not rise propery when cooked using deay start. The oven vent NOTE: Never store pastics, paper, or other items that coud met or bum near the oven vent, or any of the surface burners. -_-.._.. -- -- \ Oven vent Hot air and moisture escape from the oven through a vent ocated in ower part of backguatd. The vent is needed for air circuation. Do not bock the vent. Poor bakingroasting wi resut. Bum Hazard When the oven is ON, pans and pan handes eft near the oven vent couk become hot enough to burn the user and to met pastics Use pot hokfers to move paw. 24
The storage drawer You can remove the storage drawer to make it easier to cean under the range and to check for instaation of the anti-tip bracket(s). Use care when handing the drawer. Removing the storage drawer: Repacing the storage drawer: / Drawer roer 1. Empty drawer before removing. Pu drawer straight out to the first stop. Lift the front and pu out to the second stop. 2. Let the drawer rest on the foor. Pace hands toward the back of the drawer and ift i out. 1. Pace the set of roers on the drawer behind the roers on the range as shown above. 2. Line up the drawer side rai with the guides on the range and push the drawer back into position. 25
The anti-tip brackets The range wi not tip during norma use. However, tipping can occur if you appy too much force or weight to the open door without the anti-tip bracket(s) propery secured. Persona Injury Hazard ~TO reduce risk of range tipping over, secure range with propery instaed anti-tip bracket(s) suppied with range. If range is moved for ceaning or service, check that anti-tip bracket(s) is engaged before using range. Faiure to foow the above precautions coud resut in persona injury. To verify the anti-tip bracket(s) is engaged: Grasp rear of range and carefuy try to titt fonrvard. If anti-tip bracket(s) is attached to foor with screws and rear eveing eg(s) is positioned under bracket(s), range shoud not tit forward. OR Remove the storage drawer. (Sea page 25.) Make sure the rear eveing eg(s) is positioned under bracket(s). See Instaation Instructions for further detais. 26
Using the Sef-Ceaning Cyce The Sef-Ceaning cyce saves you from the toi and mess that often come with handceaning the oven interior. Like the other functions of your range, you operate the Sef-Ceaning cyce with the easy-to-use contros. Pease review the instructions in this section to keep your oven spotess. Before Hand-cean frame DO NOT handeean sea you start I u- I Hand-cean door aroundedge, k4 a/ Before you start the Sef-Ceaning cyce, make sure you: Handcean the areas shown. They do not get hot enough during the ceaning cyce for soi to burn away. Use hot water and detergent or a soapy stee-woo pad for ceaning. NOTE: DO NOT cean, move, or bend the sea. Poor ceaning, baking, and roasting may resut. Remove any pots and pans being stored in the oven. NOTE: You can cean the broier pan (without grid) in the oven if you have first removed most of the soi by hand-ceaning or in a dishwasher. If most of the soi is not removed, too much smoking wi occur. The chrome broier grid wi discoor if ceaned in the Sef-Ceaning cyce. Wipe out any oose soi or grease. This wi hep reduce smoke during the Sef- Ceaning cyce. Remove the oven racks from the oven if you want them to remain shiny. You can cean the oven racks in the Setf-Ceaning cyce, but they wi become harder to side. (See page 36.) If you cean racks in the Sef-Ceaning cyce, pace them on the 2nd and 4th rack guides. (Guides are counted from bottom to top.) Heat and odors are norma during the SeECeaning cyce. Keep the kiichen we ventiated by opening a window or by turning on a vent hood or other kitchen vent during the cyce. Do not touch the oven during the Sef- Ceaning cyce. It coud burn you. Do not use commercia oven ceaners in your oven. Ceaners coud produce hazardous fumes or damage the porceain finish. NOTES: Do not force the Lock Lever. You coud bend or break it. The ever is designed to stay ocked unti the oven is coo enough to safey open. Wait unti it moves freey. Do not bock the vent during the Sef- Ceaning cyce. Air must move freety for best ceaning resuts. Do not eave pastic utensis near the vent. They may met. Do not eave any foi in oven during the SeECeaning cyce. Foi coud burn or met and damage the oven surface. Make sure the oven ight is off during the Sef-Ceaning cyce. Keeping the oven ight on wi shorten bub ife. 27
Setting the contros To start ceaning immediatey: 1. Make sure the cock is set to the correct time of day. (See Setting the cock on page 14.) 2. Move the Lock Lever ai the way to the right -the Cean position. 3. Press the Sef-Cean button. A 3-hour Sef-Ceaning cyce wi be set automaticay. NOTE: If the Sef-Cean button is pressed when the door is not atched, door wi appear on the arge dispay. Move the Lock Lever ai the way to the right to atch the door. If any other command button is pressed when the door is atched, door wi appear on the arge dispay and you wi be unabe to continue. Move the Lock Lever back to the eft to unatch the door after the LOCK Indicator Light goes off. YOU SEE To deay the start: 1. Make sure the cock is set to the correct time of day. (See Setting the cock on page 14.) 2. Move the Lock Lever ai the way to the right - the Cean position. 28
3. Press the Sef-Cean button, foowed by the Stop Time button. Immediatey turn the Set Knob to the new stop time. The Sef-Ceaning cyce wi start at a time equa to the stop time minus the ceaning time. In the exampe at the right, that woud be 530 minus three hours, or 2:30. YOU SEE I!!!! (exampe for 530 stop time) TURN After the Sef-Ceaning cyce starts: The LOCK Indicator Light wi come on when the oven temperature goes above norma baking/roasting temperatures. The Lock Lever must not be moved and the door cannot be opened when this Indicator Light is on. YOU SEE (exampe when ceaning Immediatey) After the Sef-Ceaning cyce is competed: YOU SEE (time of day) When the oven reaches norma bakindroasting temperatures: The LOCK Indicator Light wi go off. Move the Lock Lever back to the eft. DO NOT FORCE IT. Wait unti it moves easiy. 29
To stop the Sef-Ceaning cyce at any time: 1. Press the Oven Off button. 2. When the LOCK indicator Light goes off, move the Lock Lever back to the eft. DO NOT FORCE IT. Wait unti it moves easiy. Specia tips Keep the kitchen we ventiated during the Sef-Ceaning cyce to hep get rid of heat, odors, and smoke. After the oven is coo, wipe up any residue or ash with a damp coth or sponge. If any spots remain, cean with a mid abrasive ceanser or ceaning sponge. Cean the oven before it gets heaviy soied. Ceaning a very soied oven takes onger and resuts in more smoke than usua. If the Sef-Ceaning cyce does not get the oven as cean as you expected, you may not have prepared the oven propery. Hand-cean areas noted on page 27. 30
How the cyce works The Sef-Ceaning cyce uses very high heat to bum away soi and grease. During the cyce, the oven gets much hotter than it does for norma baking or broiing. This high heat breaks up the soi or grease and burns WC-F (4N-C) CLEAIII)IcICVUI ovenswroff it away. i! wonlmlocm The graph at the right is representative of a norma, 3-hour Sef-Ceaning cyce. Note that the heating stops when the 3-hour setting is up, but it takes onger for the oven to coo enough to unock. SrARr 1 ima I, Hourm a 31
Caring Your range is designed for easy care. You can do most ceaning with items found around your home. Ceaning your range whenever spis or soiing occurs wi hep to keep it ooking and operating ike new. Surface burner grates 1. Make sure a surface burners are off and the surrounding parts are coo. 2. Lift off the surface burner grates. for Your Range Exposion Hazard Make sure a contros are OFF and the range is coo before ceaning. Do not use oven ceaners, beach, or rust removers. Do not obstruct the fow of combustion and ventiation air. Keep appiance area cear and free of combustibe materias, gasoine, and other fammabe vapors and iquids. Faiure to foow these guideines coud resut in bums, eectrii shock, fire, or exposion. 3. Wash the grates with warm, soapy water or in a dishwasher. Use a nonabrasive, pastic scrubbing pad for cooked-on foods. Rinse and dry we. 4. Repace burner grates. 32
Surface burners and cooktop Burner csa Ports / Contoured \ gnitor sot we ares The cooktop and burner box areas are speciay designed to make ceaning easier. Because the four burners are seaed, ceanups are easy and convenient. To cean the cooktop, wipe with a damp sponge and dry. NOTE: Do not remove the cooktop. Doing so coud resut in product damage. Ceaning the contoured we areas The contoured we is a recessed area ocated around each burner. If spis occur in contoured we section: 1. Bot up spis with a paper towe. 2. Wipe with a cean, damp sponge. 3. Dry. NOTE: When ceaning the cooktop area or around the burner base, use care to prevent damage to the ignitor. If a ceaning utensi shoud catch it, the ignitor coud be dam aged or broken. If the ignitor is damaged or broken, the surface burner wi not ight. When ceaning the cooktop, eave the burner cap in pace to protect the ignitor from possibe damage.
Ceaning the surface burners B/urner cap Igfitor sot The burner caps shoud be routiney removed and ceaned. Aways cean burner caps after a spiover. Keeping the burner caps cean prevents improper ignition and an uneven fame. For proper fow of gas and ignition of the burner, DO NOT ALLOW SPILLS, FOOD, CLEANING AGENTS, OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL TO ENTER THE GAS TUBE OPENING. Gas must fow freey through the ignitor sot for the burner to ight propery. This area must be free of any soi and be kept protected from boiovers and spiovers. ALWAYS keep the burner caps in pace whenever a surface burner is in use. gnitor sot shoud remain cean as ong as burner cap is seated propery on burner. Occasionay check burner cap to make sure it is eve and covers burner competey. To cean burners: 1. Remove the burner grate. 2. Pu the burner cap straight up from the burner base. 3. Cean burner cap and burner grate with warm, soapy water and a sponge. You can aso cean with a nonabrasive scrubbing pad or ceanser. Do not cean burner cap or burner grate in dishwasher or a sef-ceaning oven. 4. If the gas tube opening has become soied or cogged, use a cotton swab or a soft coth to cean the area. 5. If ports are cogged, cean with a straight pin. Do not enarge or distort port. Do not use a wooden toothpick. If adjustment is needed, ca a quaified technician for service. 5. 7. After ceaning the gas tube opening and ports, repace the burner cap and burner grate. To repace burner cap, make sure cap is property aigned and eveed. Fit ocating pegs into the recess in the underside of the cap. The cap must be correcty seated on the burner body for proper operation of the burner. Turn on the burner to determine if it wi ight. If the burner does not ight after ceaning, contact an authorized Whirpoo service technician. Do not service the seaed burner yoursef. Typica rurfece burner fame at highest setting Occasionay check the burner fames for proper size and shape as shown. A good fame is bue in coor. If fames ift off ports, are yeow, or are noisy when turned off, you may need to cean the burners. 34
Ceaning chart Use the foowing tabe to hep you cean your range. PART WHAT TO USE HOW TO CLEAN Contro Sponge and Turn knobs to OFF and pu straight away from knobs warm, soapy contro pane. water Wash, rinse, and dry thoroughy. Do not soak. Do not use stee woo or abrasive ceansers. They may damage the finish of the knobs. Repace knobs. Make sure a knobs point to OFF. Contro panes Exterior surfaces (other than contro panes) Surface burners, grates, and caps Broier pan and grid (cean after each use) Sponge and warm, soapy water OR Paper towe and spray gass ceaner Sponge and warm, soapy water Warm, soapy water and a nonabrasive, pastic scrubbing pad OR Dishwasher (for grates) Stee-woo pad and warm, soapy water Wash, wipe with cean water, and dry thoroughy. Do not use stee woo or abrasive ceansers. They may damage the finish. Do not spray ceaner directy on pane. Appy ceaner to paper towe. NOTE: Make sure you have not turned the oven on when ceaning oven contro pane. f you have, press the Oven Off button. Wash, wipe with cean water, and dry thoroughy. Use nonabrasive, pastic scrubbing pad on heaviy soied areas. Do not use abrasive or harsh ceansers. They may damage the finish. NOTE: Do not aow foods containing acids (such as vinegar, tomato, or emon juice) to remain on surface. Acids may remove the gossy finish. Aso wipe up mik or egg spis when woktop is coo. Be carefu when ceaning around the mode and seria number pate; the numbers wipe off easiy. See pages 32-34 for ceaning instructions. Wash, rinse, and dry thoroughy. Do not cean in Sef-Ceaning oven. (See note on page 27.) continued on next page 35
1 PART WHAT TO USE HOW TO CLEAN I Oven racks Stee-woo pad and Wash, rinse, and dry thoroughy. warm, soapy water OR OR The Sef-Ceaning Leave in oven during Sef-Ceaning cyce cyce. NOTE: Racks wi permanenty discoor and become harder to side if eft in oven during Sef-Ceaning cyce. Appy a sma amount of vegetabe oi to the side rungs to aid siding. Oven door gass Paper towe and spray Make sure oven is coo. gass ceaner Foow directions provided with the OR ceaner. Warm, soapy water Wash, wipe with cean water, and dry and a nonabrasive, thoroughy. pastic scrubbing pad Oven cavity Sef-Ceaning cyce See Using the Sef-Ceaning Cyce on paaes 27-31. 36
The oven ight The Oven Light wi wme on when you open the oven door. To turn the ight on when the oven door is cosed, push the Oven Light Switch on the contro pane. Push the switch again to turn off the ight. Eectrica Shock Hazard Make sure oven and ight bub are coo and power to the range has been turned off before repacing the ight bub. Faiure to do so wuk resut in eectrica shock or burns. *The bub wver must be in pace when using the oven. The wver protects the bub from breaking, and from high oven temperatures. Because bub wver is made of gass, be carefu not to drop it. Broken gass wuk cause injury. To repace the oven ight: 1. Unpug appiance or dbonnect at the main power suppy. 2. Remove the gass bub wver in the back of the oven by screwing it out wuntercockwiie. 3. Remove the ight bub from its socket. Repace the bub with a 40-watt appiance bub. 4. Repace the bub wver by screwing it in cb%vise. Pug in appiance or reconnect at the main power suppy. NOTE: Make sure the oven ight is off during the Sef-Ceaning cyce. Keeping the oven ight on wi shorten bub ife. 37
Troubeshooting Most cooking probems often are caused by itte things you wn find and fii without toos of any kind. Check the ists beow and on the next two pages before caing for assistance or service. If you sti need hep, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 41. If nothing operates, check the foowing: q Is the range pugged into a ive outet with the proper votage? (See Instaation Instructions.) Have you bown a househod fuse or tripped a circuit breaker3 Is the range propery connected to gas suppy? Contact an authorized Whirpoo service company to reconnect range to gas suppy. (See Instaation Instructions.) Have you set the contro knob or eectronic contro correcty? Is the fow of wmbustion and/or ventiation air to the cooktop bocked? 38
Other possibe probems and their causes: PROBLEM The oven wi not operate Burner fais to ight CAUSE You have not set the eectronic contro correcty. Refer to the section in this manua describing the function you are operating. You have programmed a deayed start time. Wait for the start time to be reached or cance and reset the contro. The range is not pugged into a ive outet with the proper votage. (See Instaation Instructions.) You have bown a househod fuse or tripped a circuit breaker. In case of proonged power faiure, manuay ight burners (see page 9). The burner ports are cogged. Cean with a straight pin or a brush (see page 34). Burner fames are The burner ports are cogged. Cean with a straight pin or a uneven brush (see page 34). If this fais, ca for service. Burner fames ift off The air/gas mixture is incorrect. Contact a service techniports, are yeow, or are cian to check it. noisy when turned off Burner makes poppng The burner is wet from washing. Let dry. noise when on continued on next page 39
PROBLEM Contro knob(s) wi not turn CAUSE You are not pushing in before turning. The Sef-Ceaning cyce The cock does not show the correct time of day. wi not operate - - The Lock Lever is not a the way to the right. You have programmed a deayed start time. Wait for the start time to be reached. Cooking resuts are not The range is not eve. (See Instaation Instructions.) what you expected The oven temperature seems too ow or too high. See Adjusting the oven temperature contro on page 17 to adjust oven temperature. You did not preheat the oven before baking (if caed for in recipe). You are using a recipe that has never been tested or is not from a reiabe source. You are using a pan that is not the correct type or size. Refer to a reiabe cookbook or recipe for recommended pan type and size. There is not enough air space around pan when baking. Aow 1 /z to 2 inches (4-5 cm) of air space on a sides of pan. There must be a minimum space of 1 inch. The cooking utensi is too arge or too sma for the surface burner being used. Pan shoud be the same size or sighty arger than the surface burner being used. The fame is not the correct size for the cooking utensi being used. If broiing, you have not competey cosed the oven door. The broier provides the best cooking resuts with the oven door cosed. The dispay is fashing There has been a power faiure. Reset the cock. (See page 14.) F foowed by a number shows on the dispay (for exampe F ) Ca for service. (See Step 2 on page 41.) If none of these items was causing your probem, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 41. 40
Reauestinc Assistance or Serifice - Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on pages 38-40. It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. 1. If you need assistance*... Ca Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center teephone number. Dia to-free from any- w where in the U.S.A.: -800-253-1 301 Ea and tak with one of our trained consutants. The consutant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. If you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Whirpoo Corporation 2000 North M-63 Benton Harbor, M 49022-2692 Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 2. If you need service*... Whirpoo has a nationwide networkof authorized Whirpoo service companies. Whirpoo service technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty SERVICE EJ and provide after-warranty service, anywhere in the United States. To ocate the authorized Whirpoo service company in your area, ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number (see Step 1) or ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages under: 3. If you need FSP@ repacement parts... FSP is a registered trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your Whirpoo@ appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new Whirpoo appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, refer to Step 2 or ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center number in Step 1. 4. If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices consumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer, and Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. *APPLIANCE-HOUSEHOLD- *WASHING MACHINES 6 MAJOR, SERWCE 6 REPAJR DRYERS SERVICE 6 REPAJR -See: Whirpoo Appiances or - See: WhIrpoo Appiances or Atihorzed Whirpoo Servae Auhaked Whrpoo Service (Exampe: x-f2 service Co.) (Exampe: XYZ Service Co.) *When asking for hep or service: Pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers, and the purchase date. (See page 3.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request. 41
Index This index is aphabetica. It contains a the topics incuded in this manua, aong with the page(s) on which you can find each topic. TOPIC PAGE ANTI-TIP BRACKETS... 26 ASSISTANCE... 41 BAKING Auminum foi... 5 Pans... 11, 12 Racks... 11 Setting cyce... 16 BROILING Broiing rack position chart... 19 Grid... 19 Pan... 18, 19 Setting cyce... 18 Tips... 19 CLEANING Broier pan and grid... 35 Burner grates... 32 Contro knobs... 35 Contro panes... 35 Cooktop..... 33 Exterior surfaces... 35 Oven cavity... 36 Oven door gass... 36 Oven racks... 36 Surface burners and caps... 33, 34 CLOCK... 14 CONTROL KNOBS... 9, 35 COOKTOP Ceaning... 33 Using... 9,O COOKWARE Ceaning... 33 Canning... 10 Tips... 10 Command buttons..... 14 Dispay... 13 Minute timer... 15 TOPIC PAGE Set knob... 14 ELECTRONIC OVEN CONTROL Canceing... 15 Cock... 14 ENERGY SAVING TIPS... 20 FEATURES... 8 LIGHT... 37 LOCK LEVER... 28-30 MEALTIMERTM CONTROL... 20 Canceing... 23 Deaying start and stopping automaticay... 22 Starting now and stopping automaticay... 20 MINUTE TIMER... 15 MODEL AND SERIAL NUMBER... 3 OVEN TEMPERATURE Adjusting... 17 Setting... 16, 18, 21, 23 OVEN VENT... 24 PANS... 10, 11, 12 PARTS... 8 POWER FAILURE... 9 RACKS... 11 ROASTING Pans... 11, 12 Racks... 11 Setting cyce... 16 42