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GE Appliances
Owner’s Manual
JMP28
JMP31
49-80330 11-05 JR
Electric
Ranges
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Congratulations! Safety Information You Are Now Part of the GE Family. Safety Precautions . . . . . . . 3, 4 Welcome to the GE family. We’re proud of our quality products and we are Oven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 committed to providing dependable service. You’ll see it in this easy-to-use Owner’s Manual and you’ll hear it in the friendly voices of our customer service department. Surface Cooking Units . . . . . . 6 Best of all, you’ll experience these values each time you use yo
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. WARNING! For your safety, the information in this manual must be followed to minimize the risk of fire, electric shock, or to prevent property damage, personal injury, or loss of life. IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE The California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act requires the Governor of California to publish a list of substanc
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. WARNING! SAFETY PRECAUTIONS Do not let cooking grease or other Always keep dish towels, dish cloths, pot flammable materials accumulate in or holders and other linens a safe distance near the range. from your range. Never leave jars or cans of fat drippings Always keep wooden and plastic utensils in or near your range. and canned food a safe distance from your range. Keep the hood and grease filters clean to maintain g
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support OVEN Stand away from the range when opening When using cooking or roasting bags the oven door. Hot air or steam which in the oven, follow the manufacturer’s escapes can cause burns to hands, face directions. and/or eyes. Do not use the oven to dry newspapers. Do not heat unopened food containers. If overheated, they can catch on fire. Pressure could build up and the container Do not use
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. WARNING! SURFACE COOKING UNITS Use proper pan size—select cookware having flat bottoms large enough to cover the surface unit heating element. The use of undersized cookware will expose a portion of the surface unit to direct contact and may result in ignition of clothing. Proper relationship of cookware to surface unit will also improve efficiency. Never leave the surface units unattended To avoid the possibility of a burn o
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Using the surface units. Throughout this manual, features and appearance may vary from your model. How to Set Push the knob in and turn in either direction to the setting you want. At both OFF and HI the control clicks into position. You may hear slight clicking sounds during cooking, indicating the control is keeping the power level you set. A surface unit ON indicator light will Be sure you turn
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Using the oven controls. Throughout this manual, features and appearance may vary from your model. Oven Control, Clock and Timer Features and Settings BAKE Pad KITCHEN TIMER ON/OFF Pad Press this pad to select the bake function. Press this pad to select the timer feature. BROIL HI/LO Pad START Pad Press this pad to select the broil function. Must be pressed to start any cooking or cleaning function. Display DECREASE Pad Shows the time of day and the time set for the timer. Short taps to this pa
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Special features of your oven control. Your new touch pad control has additional features that you may choose to use. The following are the features and how you may activate them. The special feature modes can only be activated while the display is showing the time of day. They remain in the control’s memory until the steps are repeated. When the display shows your choice, press the START pad. Th
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Special features of your oven control. Tones at the End of a Timed Cycle At the end of a timed cycle, 3 short beeps will Press the KITCHEN TIMER ON/OFF sound followed by one beep every 6 seconds until pad. The display shows CON BEEP the CLEAR/OFF pad is pressed. This continual (continual beep). Press the KITCHEN 6-second beep may be canceled. TIMER ON/OFF pad again. The display shows BEEP. (This cancels To cancel the 6-second beep: the one beep every 6 seconds.) Press the BAKE and BROIL HI/LO P
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Cook and Hold Your new control has a cook and hold feature that Press the COOKING TIME pad. The keeps cooked foods warm for up to 3 hours after display will show Hld OFF. the cooking function is finished. Press the COOKING TIME pad again This feature can be used only at the end of a to activate the feature. The display timed baking cycle which has an automatic stop. will show Hld ON. To activate t
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Using the oven. To avoid possible burns, place the shelves in the desired position before you turn the oven on. Before you begin… The shelves have stop-locks, so that when To remove a shelf, pull it toward you, tilt placed correctly on the supports, they will the front end up and pull it out. stop before coming completely out, and To replace, place the end of the shelf will not tilt. (stop-locks) on the support, tilt up the When placing and removing cookware, front and push the shelf in. pull t
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support How to Set the Oven for Broiling Place the meat or fish on the broiler Press the BROIL HI/LO pad once for grid in the broiler pan. HI Broil. Follow suggested shelf positions in To change to LO Broil, press the the Broiling Guide. BROIL HI/LO pad again. If your oven is connected to 208 volts, rare steaks Press the START pad. may be broiled by preheating the broiler and When broiling is finished, pr
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Using the clock and timer. To Set the Clock The clock must be set to the correct time Press the CLOCK pad. of day for the automatic oven timing Press the INCREASE or DECREASE functions to work properly. The time of pads. day cannot be changed during a timed Make sure the clock is set to the baking or self-cleaning cycle. correct time of day. Press the START pad. To Set the Timer Press the KITCHEN TIMER ON/OFF Press the START pad. pad. When the timer reaches :00, the Press the INCREASE or DECREA
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Using the timed baking and roasting features. (on some models) NOTE: Foods that spoil easily–such as milk, eggs, fish, stuffings, poultry and pork–should not be allowed to sit for more than 1 hour before or after cooking. Room temperature promotes the growth of harmful bacteria. Be sure that the oven light is off because heat from the bulb will speed harmful bacteria growth. The low temperature zon
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Adjust the oven thermostat—Do it yourself! You may find that your new oven cooks differently than the one it replaced. Use your new oven for a few weeks to become more familiar with it. If you still think your new oven is too hot or too cold, you can adjust the thermostat yourself. Do not use thermometers, such as those found in grocery stores, to check the temperature setting of your oven. These thermometers may vary 20–40 degrees. NOTE: This adjustment will not affect the broiling or the self
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Using the self-cleaning oven. The oven door must be closed and all controls must be set correctly for the cycle to work properly. Before a Clean Cycle We recommend venting your kitchen Do not clean the gasket. The fiberglass with an open window or using material of the oven door gasket cannot a ventilation fan or hood during the withstand abrasion. It is essential for the first self-clean cycle. ga
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Using the self-cleaning oven. The oven door must be closed and all controls must be set correctly for the cycle to work properly. How to Delay the Start of Cleaning Make sure the clock shows the correct The door locks automatically. The display time of day. will show the start time. It will not be possible to open the oven door until Press the SELF CLEAN pad. the temperature drops below the lock Using the INCREASE or DECREASE temperature and the LOCKED DOOR light goes off. pads, enter the desir
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Care and cleaning of the range. Be sure electrical power is off and all surfaces are cool before cleaning any part of the range. How to Remove Protective Shipping Film and Packaging Tape Carefully grasp a corner of the protective To assure no damage is done to the shipping film with your fingers and slowly finish of the product, the safest way to peel it from the appliance surface. Do remove the a
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Care and cleaning of the range. Oven Shelves Clean the oven shelves with an abrasive NOTE: The oven shelves may be cleaned in the self-cleaning oven. However, the shelves will cleanser or steel wool. After cleaning, darken in color, lose their luster and become hard rinse the shelves with clean water and to slide if cleaned during the self-cleaning cycle. dry with a clean cloth. To make the shelves slide more easily apply a small amount of vegetable oil or cooking oil to a paper towel and wipe
