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Self-Cleaning
Gas Range
A Note to You.............2
Range Safety ......... 3-5
Parts and Features ....6
Using Your Range ...... 7
Using the Self-
Cleaning Cycle......... 27
Caring for Your
Range ...................... 31
Troubleshooting ....... 37
Requesting
Assistance or
Service ..................... 39
Index ........................ 43
Warranty .................. 44
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A NOTE TO YOU ® Thank you for buying a WHIRLPOOL appliance. Because your life is getting busier and more compli- cated, WHIRLPOOL appliances are easy to use, save time, and help you manage your home better. To Look for these tips! ensure that you enjoy years of trouble-free operation, we developed this Use and Care Guide. It is full of Look for these Time Smart Tips located valuable information about how to operate and throughout your Use and Care Guide. They maintain your appliance properly and
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R RANGE ANGE S SAFETY AFETY Your safety and the safety of others is very important. We have provided many important safety messages in this manual and on your appliance. Always read and obey all safety messages. This is the safety alert symbol. This symbol alerts you to hazards that can kill or hurt you and others. All safety messages will be preceded by the safety alert symbol and the word “DANGER” or “WARNING.” These words mean: You will be killed or seriously injured if you don’t wDANGER foll
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RANGE SAFETY IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire, electrical Storage in or on the Range – Flammable • shock, injury to persons, or damage when using materials should not be stored in an oven or the range, follow basic precautions, including the near surface units. following: Do Not Use Water on Grease Fires – Smother • WARNING – TO REDUCE THE RISK OF fire or flame or use dry chemical or foam-type • TIPPING OF THE RANGE, THE RANGE MUST extinguisher. BE SECURED BY PRO
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RANGE SAFETY IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Utensil Handles Should Be Turned Inward and For self-cleaning ranges – • Not Extend Over Adjacent Surface Units – To Do Not Clean Door Gasket – The door gasket is • reduce the risk of burns, ignition of flammable essential for a good seal. Care should be taken materials, and spillage due to unintentional not to rub, damage, or move the gasket. contact with the utensil, the handle of a utensil Do Not Use Oven Cleaners – No commercial • should be position
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PARTS AND FEATURES This section contains captioned pictures of your range. Use them to learn where all parts and features are and what they look like. Use the page references to help you quickly find out more about the part or feature you are interested in. Oven vent Electronic oven (p. 25) control (p. 11) Surface burners and grates (pp. 7, 31-34) Control panel (pp. 7, 31) Automatic oven light switch (p. 36) Anti-tip bracket (p. 25) Model and serial number plate (behind left side of storage draw
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USING YOUR RANGE To get the best cooking results, you should use your range the correct way. This section tells you what you need to know to use your range safely and efficiently. USING THE SURFACE BURNERS wWARNING Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Hazard Easy ways to save energy Do not operate with a yellow flame. To help shorten your cooking time, use the • Doing so can result in death, heart attack, least amount of liquid possible. or convulsions. Preheat your pots and pans only when • recommended an
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USING YOUR RANGE USING THE SURFACE BURNERS (CONT.) In case of a prolonged power failure You can manually light surface burners. Hold a lit match near a burner and turn the control knob to Using the right cookware the LIGHT position. After the burner lights, turn the makes a big difference control knob to the setting you want. The pan should have a flat bottom, • straight sides, and a well-fitting lid. Home canning information Choose medium to heavy gauge (thick- • The large diameter of most wate
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USING YOUR RANGE POSITIONING RACKS AND PANS Rack placement for specific foods: General guidelines Follow this section carefully to get the best FOOD RACK POSITION cooking results. Frozen pies, large 1st or 2nd rack Before turning on the oven, place oven racks • roasts, turkeys, angel guide from bottom where you need them. food cakes To move a rack, pull it out to the stop, raise the • Bundt cakes, most 2nd rack guide front edge, and lift it out. quick breads, yeast from bottom Be sure the rack(s
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USING YOUR RANGE FOR BEST AIR CIRCULATION Hot air must circulate around the pans in the oven Where to place pans: for even heat to reach WHEN YOU HAVE PLACE all parts of the oven. This results in better 1 pan In center of the oven rack. baking. 2 pans Side by side or slightly Place the pans so • staggered. that one is not directly 3 or 4 pans In opposite corners on over the other. each oven rack. Stagger For best results, • 1 pans so no pan is directly allow 1 ⁄2-2 inches of over another. spac
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USING YOUR RANGE USING YOUR RANGE THE ELECTRONIC OVEN CONTROL Electronic Timer set and off display pads (pp. 12, 13) Clock pad (p. 12) C Manual oven F TIMER TIMER CLOCK LIGHT SET OFF light pad HEAT TIMER STOP ON DELAY BAKE LOCKED CLEAN SELF-CLEANING OVEN SELF-CLEANING OVEN TIMED BROIL START? COOK TIME (p. 36) DELAY START OFF AUTO STOP CUSTOM COOK BAKE TEMP START HR MIN BROIL CLEAN TIME TIME ENTER CANCEL TIME 5 SEC Oven selector Temperature Electronic Hour Off/cancel Minute Start/enter pads pad
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USING YOUR RANGE SETTING THE CLOCK 1. Press the clock pad. PRESS YOU SEE CLOCK TIME 2. Set the time. PRESS YOU SEE Press the “up” (s) or “down” (t) pad(s) until the correct time shows on the display. HR MIN TIME (example for 5:30) 3. Start the clock. PRESS YOU SEE NOTE: If you do not want the clock time OR CLOCK START displayed, press and hold the clock pad for ENTER 5 seconds. To display the clock time again, 5 SEC press and hold the clock pad for 5 seconds. You should not have to reset the ti
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USING YOUR RANGE USING THE ELECTRONIC MINUTE TIMER (CONT.) 3. Start the minute timer. PRESS YOU SEE The minute timer will begin counting down immediately after the timer is started. START ENTER TIMER 5 SEC (display counts down) YOU SEE When the time is up: You will hear four 1-second tones, then four 1-second reminder tones every minute until you press the timer off pad. TIMER NOTE: To remove the reminder tones, press and hold the timer set pad for 5 seconds. To bring back the tones, follow the
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USING YOUR RANGE TONES Tones tell you if a function is entered correctly or To choose between high and low volume tones: not. They also tell you when a cycle is completed. Press and hold the delay start time pad for 5 seconds. A short tone will sound to tell you the tones To shut off all tones except the end-of-timer and have been changed. Either “HI” or “LO” will error tones: DELAY appear on the time display for 3 seconds to START Press and hold the stop time pad for 5 seconds. TIME show the vo
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USING YOUR RANGE BAKING/ROASTING (CONT.) 4. When roasting, put your food in the oven. You do not have to preheat the oven when roasting, unless your recipe Roasting meats and poultry recommends it. For even cooking, place the meat on a NOTE: The oven will • rack in a shallow pan. This keeps the meat cook normally even out of the drippings and allows the heat to though the preheat circulate better. countdown timer is displayed. Use a meat thermometer for the most • accurate doneness. Insert it so
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USING YOUR RANGE BAKING/ROASTING (CONT.) 6. When baking, put your food in the oven after the preheat countdown time ends. During baking/roasting, the Save energy and save money oven burner will turn “Oven peeking” can make cooking times on and off to keep the • longer and affect food quality. oven temperature at the setting. Rely on a timer to keep track of • cooking time. Plan your meals for the most efficient • use of the oven by cooking more than one food at a time or baking while the oven is
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USING YOUR RANGE ADJUSTING THE OVEN TEMPERATURE CONTROL Although your new oven is properly adjusted to NOTE: DO NOT measure the oven temperature with provide accurate temperatures, it may cook faster a thermometer. Opening the oven door will lower or slower than your old oven. the oven temperature and give you an incorrect If you are not satisfied with the baking/roasting reading. Also, the thermometer temperature reading results, you can change the offset temperature by will change as your oven
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USING YOUR RANGE BROILING NOTE: Do not preheat when broiling unless your recipe 2. Put your food on the broiler pan and place the • recommends it. pan in the center of the oven rack. See “Broiling tips” later in this section. • 1. Place the rack where you need it in the oven. See the “Broiling guide” later in this section. Front . 3. Close the door. Rear 4. Press the custom broil pad. PRESS YOU SEE CUSTOM BROIL BROIL USING YOUR RANGE PRESS YOU SEE 5. Start the oven. You the can change the temper
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USING YOUR RANGE BROILING (CONT.) To custom broil at a lower temperature: PRESS YOU SEE If your food is cooking too fast, press the t temp • pad until “325°F” shows on the small display. F TEMP HEAT ON BAKE TIME BROIL COOK TIME (example shows broil at 325°F) If you want your food to broil slower from the start, PRESS YOU SEE • press the custom broil pad and press the t temp pad so a temperature between 300°F and 525°F F CUSTOM shows on the small display. Press the start/enter BROIL BAKE pad. B
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USING YOUR RANGE BROILING TIPS (CONT.) Broiling guide Recommended rack positions are numbered from the bottom (1) to the top (5). For best results, turn meat after approximately 2 ⁄3 of the broiling time. Turn chicken pieces after approximately half of the broiling time. Very thin cuts, such as fish fillets, may not need to be turned at all. Lobster tails are not turned. APPROXIMATE TIME (MINUTES) RACK POSITION MEAT SIDE 1 SIDE 2 Steak, 1" thick 4 medium rare 14-15 7-8 medium 15-16 8-9 well done
