GE JCS57, JCP67 User Manual

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lnstrutiions

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Operating

Clock and

Features ........................................................6,

Oven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Broiling

Control Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Preheating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.14, 16, 17

Roasting ..............................................1 9,20

Self<leaning instructions...............24, 25

Timed Baking

Surface

Canning Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Control Settings

Cooktop

CooWare

Instrutiions, ~ps

Timer....................................l 1,

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12-25

14-18

21-23

Installation

Anti-Tip Device .............................................33

Flooring Under the Range ............................5

Leveling

Consumer Services ...................35

Appliance

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Cooking......................................8-l

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Comparison .................................8

Tps.............................................9

4-16

Important Phone

Model and Serial Location ...........................2

Warran~........................................Back

Models:

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Registration..................................2

JCS57 JCP67

Care and

tioKop..........................................................26

Door Removal ...............................................29

Oven Light

Self<leaning Instructions ..................24, 25

Standard Surface

CIeaning....................26-3O

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0en..............................................3O

Uni&.................................................26

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Numbers........................35

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YOU

Before using your range, read this guide carefilly.

It is intended to help you operate and maintain your new range properly.

Keep it handy for answers to your questions. If you don’t understand something or need more help,

write (include your phone number):

Consumer GE Appliances

Applianu buisville,

Write

~airs

Park

KY 40225

dom

the model

and serial numbers.

You’ll find them on a label on the front of the range, behind the left oven or storage compartment door.

dso

These numbers are Ownership Registration Card that came with your range. Before sending in this numbers here:

Model Number

on the Consumer Product

please write these

If you received a damaged range...

Immediately contact the deder (or builder) that sold you the range.

Save time and money. Before you request service...

Check the Problem Solver in the back of this guide.

auses

It lists can correct yourself.

of minor operating problems that you

Sena

Number

Use these

ds mncerning

To obtain service, see the Consumer Services page in the back of this guide.

We’re proud of our service and want you to be pleased If for some reason you are not happy with

servim

the for further help.

FIRST, contact the people who appliance. E~lain why you are not pleased. k most cases, this will solve the problem.

numbem

you receive, here are three steps to follow

in any correspondent or

your range.

W YOU

servi=d your

serviw

~ED SERWCE

if you are

detail-including your phone number—to:

Manager, Consumer Relations GE Applian=s Appliance Park

huisville,

HNALLY,

Major 20 Chicago, IL 60606

if your problem is

Applian=

No* Wacker

stil

not

please~

KY 40225

stfll

Consumer Action Panel

Drive

write dl the

not

resolve~

write:

Instilling the

Mnge

Your range, Me many

heavy and

cushoned tiyl

moving the range on this type of flooring. It

instded

material)

hveling

bveling

the base. By removing the bottom drawer you level the range to an uneven floor by adjusting the leveling legs.

can

setie hto sofi

on a 1/4” thick sheet of plywood (or

follows:

the

Mnge

screws maybe

otier

household

floor

or carpeting.

Iomted

on each

items,

covefings sud

weful

omer

when

shodd be the floor covering. This

sitiar

men

the floor coveting

range, the

built up with plywood to the same level or higher than moved for cl

To remove the drawer,

tit

up the front and remove it. To repla~, insert the

@ides

the range glides. Lift the drawer if necessary to insert it easily. it in to close.

area that the range

caning or servicing.

at the back of the drawer beyond the stop on

the front of the drawer down, then push

enb

at the front of the

wtil

rest on should be

wfil

allow the range to be

pdl

the drawer out dl the way,

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JCP67

Featies

1 Surface Light Switch

2 Oven

3 Oven

4 Surface Unit Control

5 Automatic Oven Timer,

Temp nob

Setfiob

bobs

C1ockand Mnute

Timer

6 Surface Unit “ON” Indicator Light 7 Oven Vent

bcated

8 Lift-Up

under the right and left rear surface units.

Cooktop

9 Oven Interior Light

Comes on

10 Oven

suggested in the

11 Oven Shelves with

automatimlly

SheK

Supports Shelf positions for cooking are

when the door is opened.

Bting,

Roasting and Broiling

StoD-Locks

12 Bake Element k the right oven, maybe lifted

for wiping the oven floor. 13 Oven Light Switch 14 Storage Drawer 15 Lift-Off Oven Door with

16 Storage Compartment with

17 Broiler Pan and

Wck

Brofl

Stop Position

Shelf

(Model

JCS57)

Do not clean in the self-cleaning oven model

18 Broil Element

19 Drip Pans

20 Surface Uni*

21 Oven

Cychng

22 Left Oven Control 23 Companion

Companion

model

Oven

Cleaning Light (Model JCP6~

26 Self-Cleaning Oven

JCP6~

Light

oft)

@fi)

fiob model

Oven

~odel

Cycting

model JCP67)

JCP6~ 12,16,19,

JCP6~ 12,13,16,

Light

se~ions.

gentiy

JCP6~.

Explained

On Page

12,14,

15,19,21,

24,27

12, 14,

15,19,21,

24,27

8,9,27

11, 12,14,

15,24

8 4

26,27 13,28

13,17,18,

24,25,28

3,4,28

21, 2&29

19,21-24,

3,4,21,28

5, 10,26

>5,

*1O, 26

12,

1416. ~

21,27

19,21,30

24,25

24,25,29

HOW DOES

Your

new

cooktop

If you are used to cooking with gas burners or other types of electric differences when you use electric coils.

has electric coil surface units.

moktops,

you will notice some

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COOKTOP COmM

OLD

Om?

best types of cookware to use, plus heat-up and

mol-down

surface unit you have.

me differen~s

other type of

times, depend upon the type of burner or

following chart

between

wfil

moktop

help you to understand the

electric-tiil sutiace

you may have used in the past.

units and any

Cooktop

Electric

Radiant

(Ghss Cooktop

Coti

Ceramic)

Induction

gg~

Solid Disk

Gas Burners

Dewnption Rattened

tubing containing electric

wire suspended

over a drip pan. Electric

under a

wramic moktop.

High frequency induction coils under a

surfa~.

Solid cast iron disk sealed to the

cooktop

Regular or sealed gas burners use either LP gas

I ornaturalgas.

metal

resistana

coils

glass-

@ass

surface.

How

it Works

Heats by cooking results, use good quality pans. Electric coils are more forgiving of warped pans than radiant or solid disks. Heats up heat settings as continue cooking for a short time after they are turned off.

Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat on the bottom for good rooking continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit if you want inking to stop.

Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is

produ~d by a magnetic circuit between the

and changes heat settings right away, like a gas off, the glass

Heats by direct contact with the pan, so pans must be flat on the bottom for good cooking results. Heats up and cools down more slowly than electric coils. disk stays hot enough to continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the solid disk if you want the cooking to stop.

Rames

pans should be well heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.

direct contact with the pan and by heating the

quicMy

as gas or induction. Electric roils stay hot enough to

resdts. fie

cooktop

is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops right away.

heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not critical to cooking results, but

balanmd.

Gas burners heat the pan right away and change

glass

cooktop

mil

and the pan. Heats up right away

cooktop.

air

under

the pan. For best

quictiy

but does not change

stays hot enough to

After turning the

wntrol

S~ACE

At both 0~ and ~ the control “clicks” into position. You may hear slight “clicking” sounds during rooking, indiating the ~ntrol is keeping the unit at the heat level or power level you set.

How to Set the Contmh

fish

the knob in and turn in either direction to the desired heat setting.

CO~OLS

setings

Switching heats to higher quicker change than switching to a lower setting.

control must be pushed into set

the 0~ position. When the control is in any

position other than

pushing it in. Be sure you turn control to 0~ when you finish

Woking. me

surface unit indicator light

heat on any surfa~ unit is on.

0~,

it may be turned without

always shows a

ody

will

glow when

from

Cooting Guide for Using Heat Settings

High+uick ~D

HI—Fast fry, pan

start for rooking; bring water to a boil.

brofi;

maintains a fast

boti

on large amounts of food

~Haut6

and brown; maintain slow boil on large

amount of food.

@ok after starting at High; cooks with little

water in covered pan.

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rice, cereal; maintain serving

temperature of most foods.

Cookare

Use medium- or heavy-weight cookware.

cookware

mnducts

heat faster than other metals. Cast-iron and coated cast-iron cookware are slow to absorb heat, but

genedly mok

evedy at low to medium heat settings. Steel pans may cook if not combined with other

metis.

For best cooking resdts pans should be flat on the

bottom. Match the the surfau unit. me pan edge of the

surfau

stie

of the

sauceDan

shotid no~

extend over the

unit more than 1 inch.

Nurninum

unevedy

to the she of

NO~:

●

At High and ~D HI,

never leave food

unattended.

Botiovers

cause smoking; greasy

spillovers

●

may

and LO, melt

~tch

fire.

chocolate, butter on a small surface unit.

RIGHT

Not over 1 inch

WRONG

Over 1 inch

Deep Fat

Do not

F@ng

ovetidl wobare

with fat that may spill over when adding food. Frosty foods bubble vigorously. Watch food @ing at high temperatures. Keep the range and hood clean from grease.

Wok Cooking

We recommend that you use

ordy

flat-bottomed wok.

~ey

are avtiable at your

reti

store.

lod

Do not use woks

suppoti tings.

of woks, with or without the ring in place, can be dangerous. Placing the ring over the surface unit will cause a build-up of heat that the porcelain

without the ring. You could be seriously burned if the

wok tipped over.

that have

Use of these types

cooktop.

Do not try to use such woks

.%.

will

damage

(contiudn&page)

Canning should be done on surface units otiy.

Pots that extend beyond 1 inch of surface unit’s drip pan are not However, when

canner, larger-diameter pots may be used. This is

be~use boiling water temperatures (even under

pressure) are not harmful to surrounding the

remmmended

ting

with water-bath or pressure

cooktop surfams

surfau

units.

for most

surfam aking.

HOWEWR,

CANNERS OR OTHER LARGE

FR~G

FOR

and dl types of higher than boiling water. Such temperatures muld eventually harm the

sutiaw units.

DO NOT USE

OR BOILmG FOODS OTHER

W~R.

Most syrup or sauce

frying+ok

woktop

MGE DWETER

DWETER

mix~re+

at temperatures much surfatis surrounding

POTS

Obseme

1. Be sure the surface unit. If your range or its location does not allow the canner to be centered on the surface unit,

use smaller diameter pots for good

2. For best results, use tinners with flanged or rippled bottoms (often found in enamelware) don’t make good contact with the

bofi

Hat-bottomed

the

stiaee

water.

Fo~ofig

~er

fits over the center of the

unit and take a long time to

cannem a~

Points in Canning

eating

mers

with flat bottoms.

recommended.

results.

3. When reputable sources. Reliable recipes and procedures are manufacturers of

Bdl and Kerr; and the United States Department of

Agricdture

4. Remember that canning is a process that generates large amounts of or

NO~: H

take longer than have been

The

(1) using a pressure (2) starting with HOT tap water for fastest heating

ting,

avafiable

heag

be careful when

your house has low voltage,

promss

of large quantities of water.

use recipes and proudures from

from the manufacturer of your canner;

~ass

jars forming, such as

Extension

expecte~

caretily

time

til

Serviee.

stem

To avoid burns from steam

ting.

even though directions

followed.

be shortened by:

~er,

and

ting

may

The automatic timer and clock on your range are helpful devices that serve several purposes.

To Set the Clock

Model To set the clock push the center knob of the clock

and turn the clock hands to the correct time.

NO~:

the knob out and turn the timer pointer to 12.

To Set the

Model To set the

minute timer and turn the knob in either direction to

set the

NO~:

turn the minute timer pointer to

JCS57

The minute timer pointer

Digi@l

JCP67

doc~

digiti

clock numerals to the

After setting the

Clock

push in the center knob of the

clock

wfll

let the knob out, and

0~.

move also; let

mrrect

time.

To Set the Mnute Timer

Model

The minute timer has been combined with the range clock. Use it to time operations. You the pointer which is different in color and shape than the clock hands.

To set the without pushing in, number of minutes you wish to time.

marke~

At the end of the set time, a you time is up. Turn the knob, without pushing in, until the pointer reaches 12 and the

To Set the

Model To set the minute

clockwise, reaches the number of minutes you wish to time

(Up

At the end of the set time, a time is up. Turn the center knob, without pushing in,

untfl

JCS57

your precise rooking

til recogntie

minute timer, turn the

untd

up to 60, in the renter ring on the clock.)

mute

JCP67

without pushing in, until

to 60).

the pointer reaches 0~ and the

Timer

timer, turn

the minute timer as

center knob,

the pointer reaches the

minutes

bmer

sounds to tell

buer

the center knob

the pointer

b~er

sounds to tell you

bwer

are

stops.

Timed Baking Uses the Automatic Timer Self-Cleaning Uses the Automatic Timer

Using the automatic timer, you can Time Bake with the oven starting immediately and turning off at the Stop Time set or set both the STOP and the START at a later time of day. It takes the worry out of not

being home to start or stop the oven. See the Timed

Baking section.

dids

to automatidly start and stop the oven

Model The self-cleaning function on your range uses the

automatic timer to set the length of time needed to clean whether you wish to delay the cleaning. By setting the START STOP

See the Operating the Self-Cleaning Oven section.

NO~:

Self-Cleaning, make sure the oven clock shows the correct time of day.

JCP67—Right

dids you may choose to begin immediately

clea

at low energy times such as during the night.

Before beginning Timed Baking or

Oven

cl-

immediately, or

(conthudn~page)

andor

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