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Use and Care Manual
®
Preference Renaissance Cooktop
For Use With Models:
RGC304, RGC365
Style varies
Model RGC365 Shown
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Important Safety Instructions Installer: Leave these instructions with the appli- Important Information About ance. Consumer: Read this use and care manual com- Safety Instructions pletely before using this appliance. Save it for future The Important Safety Instructions and warn- reference. It contains important use and care infor- ings in this manual are not meant to cover all pos- mation. Keep your sales receipt or canceled check sible problems and situations that can occur. Use in a safe
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Important Safety Instructions General Safety Precautions To reduce the risk of fire, electric shock, serious injury or death when using your cooktop, follow basic safety precautions, including the following: WARNING WARNING • If you receive a damaged product, immediately contact • Clean the cooktop thoroughly before operating it for your dealer or builder. Do not install or use a damaged the first time. appliance. • Keep flammable items, such as paper, cardboard, • Make sure that the coo
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Important Safety Instructions WARNING WARNING • The cooktop should never be operated without the TO REDUCE THE RISK OF INJURY TO PERSONS IN knobs in place. THE EVENT OF A RANGE TOP GREASE FIRE: • Non-stick coatings, when heated, can be harmful to a. SMOTHER FLAMES with a close-fitting lid, cookie birds. Remove birds to a separate, well-ventilated sheet or metal tray, then turn off the burner. BE room during cooking. CAREFUL TO PREVENT BURNS. If the flames do not go out immediately, EVAC
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Getting to Know Your Cooktop Parts of the Cooktop Trim Rings: Located behind each knob. They indi- SimmerSear™ Burners: Dacor’s exclusive pre- cate the heat setting for each burner. The trim ring cision burner control system. Model RGC304 is around SimmerSear control knobs show the simmer equipped with one SimmerSear burner. Model setting and are equipped with a blue simmer indica- RGC365 is equipped with two. Each SimmerSear tor light. See Operating Your Cooktop for more burner has a wide
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Setting Up Your Cooktop Standard Burners Burner and Grate Assembly 1. Put the burner heads on the burner bases as shown below. Match the correct sizes. The WARNING bottom of the correct size burner head fits on Assemble the burners and grates only when the cooktop top of the matching burner base. Line up the is cool. notch on the bottom of each head with the ignitor on the matching base. SimmerSear Burner 2. Twist each head back and forth slightly to make 1. Place the burner skirt over e
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Operating Your Cooktop Selecting the Cookware Lighting a Burner WARNING WARNING • NEVER cover the slots between the burner control • To avoid the chance of fire, explosion or carbon knobs and the trim rings on the cooktop. Doing so monoxide poisoning, do not attempt to use your blocks air flow through the cooktop and may cause cooktop without the burners completely and properly carbon monoxide poisoning. Keep all the slots clear of assembled (see page 5). The burner rings spread the
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Operating Your Cooktop • On SimmerSear burners, there is also a Cooking Tips SIMMER flame level indicator. On SimmerSear For superior cooking performance and to save burners, turning the knob further counterclock- energy: wise reduces the flame to the SIMMER setting. Once in simmer mode, only the small inner • Reduce the flame height to the minimum level burner operates and the simmer indicator light necessary to perform the desired cooking pro- comes on. cess. Food cooks just as quick
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Care and Cleaning Disassembly WARNING 1. For safety, discon- • Clean only the parts of the cooktop listed in this nect the cooktop manual. Clean them only in the manner specified. power cord from • To avoid dangerous fumes or damage to your the electrical outlet. cooktop’s surfaces and accessories, use only the types 2. When the cooktop of cleaning solutions specified in this manual. is cool, remove the • To avoid electrical shock or burns, turn off the burners grates from the top
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Care and Cleaning 4. Reassemble the cooktop according to the burner Cleaning the Igniters and Other Burner and grate assembly instructions on page 5. Components Test the burners after reassembling them. If the flame is uneven, be sure that all the burner CAUTION parts are properly positioned, then check for any Use care while cleaning the igniters. The porcelain is remaining dirt or grime on the burner parts or fragile and can crack or break. igniter. If erratic clicking is still presen
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Care and Cleaning Cleaning the Knobs and Trim Rings (Cont.) Replacing the Grate Feet 6. Insert the trim rings into the holes in the posi- The rubber feet on the bottom of the grate supports tions noted in step 4. Turn the ring until the can be replaced if they are lost or damaged to pre- flame icon is in the 9 o’clock position for each vent damage to the spill tray. If necessary, you may trim ring. use a pair of needle nose pliers to pull the feet free from the grate. Flame icon in 9 o’cloc
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Before You Call for Service Problem Solution Guide Problem May Be Caused By What to Do Nothing works. Cooktop not connected to elec- Check to make sure power cord is con- trical power. nected to electrical outlet. Power to electrical outlet is off. Turn on power at circuit breaker or fuse box. Check for tripped breaker or blown fuse. Power outage. Contact power company Igniters do not spark. Power not supplied to unit. See Nothing Works above. Wet or dirty igniter. Clean and dry igniter and b
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Warranty and Service OUTSIDE THE FIFTY STATES OF THE U.S.A., Product Maintenance THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND CANADA: Do not perform any maintenance other than that LIMITED FIRST YEAR WARRANTY instructed in the Care and Cleaning section of this If your DACOR product fails to function within one manual. A qualified service technician should per- year of the original date of purchase, due to a defect form all other service. in material or workmanship, DACOR will furnish a new part, F.O.B. fa
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Please visit www.Dacor.com to activate your warranty online. WARRANTY INFORMATION IMPORTANT: Your warranty will not be activated until you activate it online or return this form to Dacor. If you have purchased more than one Dacor product, please return all forms in one envelope or activate the warranty for each product online. Please rest assured that under no conditions will Dacor sell your name or any of the information on this form for mailing list purposes. We are
