Hotpoint RGB751GEL Use And Care Manual

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Contents

Aluminum Foil

11, 17

Problem Solver

25,26

Anti-Tip Bracket

3,5

Repair Service

Appliance Registration

Safety Instructions

2-5

Care and Cleaning

16-22

Surface Cooking

Clock

Air Adjustment

Electronic Controls

9, 10

Burners

7, 16, 17,22

Features

Control Settings

Flooring

Cookware

Tim

Leveling

Drip Pans 16,22

Model and Serial Numbers

Flame Size

Oven

Light Bulb Replacement 18

Air Adjustment

Lighting Instructions

Baking, Baking Guide

11, 12

Warranty Back Cover

Broiling, Broiling Guide

14, 15

Control Settings

9, 10

Door Removal

Light; Bulb Replacement

8, 18

Oven Bottom Removal

Preheating

11, 12

Roasting, Roasting Guide 13 Self-Cleaning Instructions 19-21

Shelves 8, 17, 19,21,22

Thermostat Adjustment 24

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IMPORTANT SAFETY

Read this book carefully.

It is intended to help you operate and

FOR

YWR

SAFETY

INSTRUCTIONS

maintain your new range properly.

you smelt gas:

Read all instructions

Keep it handy for answers to your

Open windows.

before using this

questions.

2. Don’t touch

appliance.

If you don’t understand something or need more help, write (include your phone number):

Consumer Affairs GE Appliances Appliance Park Louisville, KY 40225

Write down the model and serial numbers.

You’ll find them on a label located behind the storage drawer panel on the left side of the range front frame. See page 6.

These numbers are also on the Consumer Product Ownership Registration Card that came with your range. Before sending in this card, please write these numbers here:

Model Number

Serial Number

Use these numbers in any correspondence or service calls concerning your range.

If you received a damaged range . . .

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

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

Check the Problem Solver on page 25. It lists causes of minor operating problems that you can correct yourself.

electrical

switches:

3. Extinguish any open flame.

Immediately call

your gas supplier.

●

Don’t turn electric switches on or off beeause sparks may ignite the gas.

FOR YOUR SAFETY

not store or use

gasoline or other

flammable vapors and

liquids inthe vicinity

of this or any other appliance.

WARNING

Improper installation, adjustment, alteration, service or maintenance can cause injury or property damage. Refer tothismanuaL

Forassistanceor

additional information, consult a qualified

hWatler,

service agency, manufacturer (dealer)

orthe

gas

supplier.

IMPORTANT SAFETY

N(YJ71CE

The California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act requires the Governor of California to publish a list of

substances known to the state to cause cancer and requires businesses to warn customers of potential exposure to such substances.

Gas appliances can cause minor exposure to three of these substances, namely benzene, formaldehyde and soot, caused primarily by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or

fiels.

Properly adjusted burners, indicated by a bluish rather than a yellow flame, will minimize incomplete combustion. Exposure to these substances can be minimized further by venting with an open

window or using

a ventilation fan or hood.

When You Get Your Range

●

Have

the

installer show

you

the

location

of the range gas

cut-off valve

and

how to shut

it off if necessary.

●

Have

your range installed

and properly grounded by a qualified installer,

in accordance with the Installation Instructions. Any adjustment and service should be performed only by qualified gas range installers or service technicians.

piug

your

range

into a 120-volt

grounded outlet only,

not

remove

the round grounding prong

om the plug.

in doubt about

thegroundingofthe

home electrical system, it is your personal responsibility and obligation to have anungroundedoutlet replaced with a properly-grounded

three-

prong outlet in accordance with the National Electrical Code. Do not use an extension cord with this appliance.

G–AII

ramxs

;.4

-d

,.4

can tip

and-

injury could result.

To prevent accidental tipping of the range, attach it to the wall or

floor by installing the

Anti-Ti~

device

sutmlied. (see

Install~ion Instrw%ons.)

heck if the device is installed

dnd

engaged properly,

carefidly

tip the range forward until it

engages the device.

If you pull the range out from the

wall for any reason, make sure the device engages the range when you push the range back.

. Be

sum

all packing

materiak

are removed from the range

before operating it, to prevent fire or smoke damage should the packing material ignite.

~a~

range

out

kitchen

traffk

path and out of drafty

locations to prevent poor air circulation.

. Be

sure

your range is

Corrdy

adjusted by a qualified service technician or installer for the type of gas (Natural or LP) on which it is to be used.

Your

range can be converted for use on either type of gas. See Installation Instructions.

After prolonged use of a

range, high floor temperatures may result and many floor coverings will not withstand this kind of use.

Never install the

range over vinyl tile or linoleum that cannot withstand such type of use. Never install it directly over

interior kitchen carpeting.

Using Your Range

●

J)on7t leave c~ldr~n alone or

unattended where a range

hot

or in operation.

They could be

seriously burned.

●

Don’t

allow anyone to

climb,

stand or hang on the door, storage drawer or range top.

They could damage the range and even tip it over causing severe personal injury.

● CAUTION: I’J’JjMs

INTEREST

‘Ill

CHILDREN

SHOULD

N(Y’f

S’IORED

IN CABINETS ABOVE A RANGE OR ON THE BACKSPLASH OF A

RANGE-CHILDREN CLIMBING ON THE RANGE TO REACH ITEMS COULD BE

SERIOUSLY INJURED.

. Ut burner grates and other

surfaces cool before touching them or leaving them where children can reach them.

●

Never wear loose fitting or hanging garments while using the appliance.

carefi.d

when

reaching for items stored in

ble

cabinets over the range.

Flamma

material could be ignited if brought in contact with flame or hot oven surfaces and may cause severe burns.

. Never use your appliance for warming or heating the room.

not use water on grease

f’i’i.

Never pickup a flaming

pan.

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off burner, then smother flaming pan by covering pan completely with well fitting lid, cookie sheet or flat tray. Flaming grease outside a pan can be put out by covering with baking soda or, if available, a multi-purpose dry chemical or foam type fire extinguisher.

●

Do not store

fl-able

materials in an oven or near the

cooktop.

Do not store or use gasoline or other flammable vapors and liquids in the vicinity of this or any other appliance.

. DO not let cooking grease

or other flammable materials accumulate in or near the range.

When cooking pork,

follow the directions exactly and always cook the meat to an internal

temperature of at least

170*F.

This assures that, in the remote possibility that trichina may be present in the meat, it will be killed and meat will be safe to eat.

Surface Cooking

●

Never l~ve

surface

burnem

unattended at high flame settings.

Boilover

causes

smoking and greasy

spillovers

that may catch on fire.

●

Adj~t

top

burner

flame siZe

so it does not extend beyond the edge of the cooking utensil.

Excessive flame is hazardous.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

(continued)

●

Use only dry pot

holders—

moist or damp potholders on hot surfaces may result

burns from steam. Do not let potholders come near open flames when lifting utensils, Do not use a towel or other bulky cloth in place of a pot holder.

. TO minimize

the possibility

burns,

ignition of flammable materials, and spillage, turn cookware handles toward the side or back of the range without extending over adjacent burners.

Always

turn surface burner

off before removing utensil,

Carefully watch foods being

fried at high flame setting.

●

Never

block

the

ven~ (ah

openings) of the range.

They provide the air inlet and outlet which is necessary for the range to operate properly with correct combustion.

Do not use a wok on the cooking surface if the wok has a round metal ring which is

placed

over the burner grate to support

the wok.

This ring acts as a heat

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which may damage the burner grate and burner head. Also, it may cause the burner to work improperly. This may cause a carbon monoxide level above that allowed by current standards, resulting in a health hazard.

Foods

for frying should be

dry as possible.

Frost on frozen

foods or moisture

fresh foods

can cause hot

fit

to bubble up and

over sides of pan.

. Use

l-t

possible amount of

fat for effective shallow or

deep-

fat frying.

Filling the pan too full

of fat can cause spillovers when

food is added.

If a combination of

oils

fats will be used in frying,

stir together before heating, or as fats melt slowly.

Nways

heat fat

SIOWIYJ

and

watch as it heats.

Use deep fat thermometer

whenever possible

to prevent overheating fat beyond the smoking point.

o Use

proper pan size—Avoid

pans that are unstable or easily tipped. Select cookware large enough to properly contain food, to avoid

boilovers

and spillovers, and with bottoms large enough to cover burner grates, This will both save cleaning and prevent hazardous accumulations of food, since heavy spattering or spillovers left on range can ignite. Use pans with handles that can easily be grasped and will remain cool.

●

When

using

glass

cookware?

make sure it is designed for

top-

of-range cooking.

~ep ~1

plastics away

from

top burners.

. To avoid the possibility

burns, always be certain that the controls for all burners are at OFF position and all grates are cool before attempting to remove the grate.

When

flaming foods

under the hood, turn the fan

off. The fan, if operating, may spread the flame.

range is located near a

window,

do not use long curtains

which could blow over the top

burners and create a fire hazard.

. If you smell gas, turnoff

the

gas

to the range and call a qualified service technician. Never use an open flame to locate a leak.

Baking, Broiling and

Roasting

●

Do not

use oven for a storage

area.

●

Stand away from the range when opening the door of a hot oven. The hot air or steam

which

escapes can cause burns to hands, face and/or eyes.

Keep oven

free from grease

buildup.

●

Place oven shelves in desired

position while oven is cool.

●

Pulling out shelf to the shelf stop is a convenience in lifting heavy foods. It is also a precaution against burns from touching hot surfaces of the

door or oven walls.

●

Don’t heat unopened food containers in the oven. Pressure could build up and the

contaii)-

could burst causing an injury.

Don$t

use

al~inum foil

anywhere in the oven except as described in this book.

Misuse could result in a fire hazard or damage to the range.

●

When using cooking or roasting bags in oven, follow the manufacturer’s direction.

Use

only

glass cookware

that is recommended

for use

in gas ovens.

Always remove broiler pan from oven as soon as you finish broiling.

Grease left

the

pan

can catch fire if oven is used without removing the grease from the broiler pan.

●

When broiling, if meat is too close to the flame, the fat may ignite.

Trim excess fat to prevent

excessive flare-ups.

. Make

sure

broiler pan is in place correctly to reduce the possibility of grease fires.

J MyOU should

have a

grease

fire

in the

broiler pan, turnoff

oven,

and keep oven

door

closed

to contain fire until it burns out.

Self-CleaningOven

. D

not

clean

the door gasket before reading special cleaning instructions on page 19. The

door gasket is essential for a good seal. Be

cwful not to rub, damage

or move it.

●

Do@ ~

oven

cl~ers,

commercial oven cleaner or oven liner protective coating of any kind should be used in or around any part of the oven.

●

Mmove

the broiler pan and

other

cookware

Wore

self-

cleaning the oven.

Ckm.ing Ym Range

cle~

orkly

parts listed in

this

Use

and Care Hook.

●

~p range

clean

and free

of accumulations of grease or

spillovers

which

may ignite.

If You Need Service

●

Don>t

attempt to repair

or replace any part of your range

unless

it is specifically

recommended in this book.

All

other servicing should

referred

to a qualified technician.

Flooring

under the Range

Your range, like many other

household items, is heavy and can

settle into soft floor coverings such as cushioned vinyl or

carpeting.

When moving the range on this type of flooring, use care, and it is recommended that these simple and inexpensive instructions

be followed.

The range should be installed on a

l/4-inch-thick sheet of plywood (or

similar material) as follows:

When the floor covering ends at the front of the range,

the area that the range will rest on should be built up with plywood to the same level or higher than the floor covering. This will allow the range to be moved for cleaning or servicing.

Leveling the Range

Leveling legs are located on each comer of the base of the range. Remove the bottom drawer and you can level the range on an uneven floor.

To remove drawer, pull drawer out all the way, tilt up the front and take it out. To replace drawer,

insert glides at back of drawer beyond stop on range glides. Lift drawer if necessary to insert easily. Let front of drawer down, then push into close.

One of the rear leveling legs will engage the Anti-Tip bracket (allow for some side to side adjustment). Allow a minimum clearance of 1/8” between the range and the leveling leg that is to be installed into the Anti-Tip bracket.

SAW

THESE

INSTRUCTIONS

Features of Your Range

RGB75

Explained

Feature Index

on page

1 OvenLightSwitch

2 Cooktop Light Switch

3 Overlverlt

4 Fluorescent Cooktop Light

5 Electronic Oven Control

9,10

6 Porcelain Enamel Cooktop

[

16,22

7 CooktopBurner

7,16,17

8 Surface Unit Controls

9 Oven Door Latch (Use for

Self-Clean only)

Explained

Feature Index

on page

10 Oven Interior Light

11 Oven Shelf Supports

12 Oven Shelves

8, 17

13 Broiler Pan and Rack (Do not

clean in the Self-Clean oven. )

14 Oven Door Gasket

19,21,22

15 Removable Oven Door

16 Removable Storage Drawer

17 Model and Serial Number

12’

18 Anti-Tip Bracket

3,5

Surface Cooking

.kutomatic

Ignition

Your surface burners are lighted by electric ignition, eliminating the need for standing pilot lights with

constantly burning flames.

In case of a power outage, you can

light the surface burners on your range with a match. Hold a lighted match to the burner, then turn the knob to the LITE position. Use extreme caution when lighting

burners this way.

Surface burners in use when an electrical power failure occurs will continue to operate normally.

Surface Burner Controls

Knobs that turn the surface burners on and off are marked as to which burners they control.

Light a Surface Burner

Push the control knob in and turn

counterclockwise

to LITE position. You will hear a little clicking noise—the sound of the electric spark igniting the burner.

After the burner ignites, turn the knob to adjust the flame size.

After Lighting a Burner

● Check to be sure the burner

you

turned on is the one you want t; use.

● Do not operate a burner for an

extended period of time without cookware on the grate. The finish

m the grate may chip without

cookware to absorb the heat. . Be sure the burners and grates are

cool before you place your hand, a pot holder, cleaning cloths or other materials on them.

How to Select Flame Size

The flame size on a gas burner should match the cookware you are using.

FOR SAFE HANDLING OF COOKWARE NEVER LET THE FLAME EXTEND UP THE SIDES OF THE COOKWARE. Any flame larger than the bottom of the cookware is wasted and only serves

to heat the handles.

When using aluminum or aluminum-clad stainless steel pots and pans,

adjust the flame so the circle it makes is about 1/2 inch smaller than the bottom of the cookware.

When boiling,

use this same flame

size—1/2 inch smaller than the

bottom of the cookware—no matter

what the cookware is made of. Foods cook just as quickly at a gentle boil as they do at a furious rolling boil. A high boil creates steam and cooks

away moisture, flavor and nutrition.

Avoid it except for the few cooking

processes which need a vigorous boil.

When frying or warming foods in stainless steel, cast iron or enamelware,

keep the flame down

lower—to about 1/2 the diameter

of the pan.

When frying in glass or ceramic

cc&ware,

lower the flame even

Top-of-Range Cookware Aluminum:

Medium-weight cookware is recommended because it heats quickly and evenly. Most foods brown evenly in an aluminum skillet. Minerals in fd and water will stain but will not harm aluminum. A quick scour with a soap-filled wool pad after each use keeps aluminum cookware looking shiny new. Use saucepans with tight-fitting lids for cooking with minimum amounts of water.

Cast Iron:

If heated slowly, most

skillets will give satisfactory results. Enamelware: Under some

conditions, the enamel of some cookware may melt. Follow cookware manufacturer’s recommendations for cooking methods.

Glass: There are two types of glass

cookware—those for oven use only and those for top-of-range cooking (saucepans, coffee and teapots). Glass conducts heat very slowly.

Heatproof Glass Ceramic:

Can be used for either surface or oven cooking. It conducts heat very slowly and cools very slowly. Check cookware manufacturer’s directions to be sure it can be used on gas ranges.

Stainless Steel:

This metal alone has poor heating properties, and is usually combined with copper, aluminum or other metals for improved heat distribution. Combination metal skillets usually work satisfactorily if they are used with medium heat as the manufacturer recommends.

Using Your Oven

Automatic Ignition

The oven burner and broil burner are lighted by electric ignition.

To light either burner,

push the button for the desired function and turn the SET knob until the desired temperature is displayed. The burner should ignite within 60 seconds.

Power outage?

The oven and broiler burners will

To remove

the shelves

from the

not light in the event of an electrical

oven, pull them toward you, tilt

power outage.

Do not attempt to

front end upward and pull them out.

fight

them manually with a match.

To replace,

place shelf on shelf

Oven Shelves

The shelves are designed with

stop-

Iocks

so when

placed

correctly on the shelf supports, they will stop before coming completely out of the oven and will not tilt when you are removing food from them or placing food on them.

When placing cookware on a shelf, pull the shelf out to the “stop” position. Place the cookware on

the shelf, then slide the shelf back

into the oven. This

will

eliminate

reaching into the hot oven.

support with

stop-locks (curved

extension of

shelf)

facing up and toward rear of oven. Tilt up front and push shelf toward back of oven

untii it goes past “stop” on oven

wall. Then lower front of shelf and push it all the way back.

Shelf Positions

The oven has four shelf

supports—

A (bottom), B, C and D (top). Shelf positions for cooking are suggested on Baking and Roasting pages.

Oven and Cooktop Lights

Use the switches on the control panel to turn the lights on and off.

Oven Vent

Your oven is vented through ducts at the rear of the range (see page 6).

Do not block these ducts when cooking in the oven—it is important that the flow of hot air from the oven and fresh air to the oven burner be uninterrupted. Avoid touching the vent openings or nearby surfaces during oven or broiler

operation—

they may become hot.

●

Vent openings and nearby surfaces may become hot. Do not touch them.

●

Handles of pots and pans on the cooktop may become hot if left too close to the vent.

●

Do not leave plastic items on the cooktop—they may melt if left too close to the vent.

Oven Moisture

As your oven heats up, the temperature change of the air in the oven

may

cause water droplets to form on the door glass. To prevent this, open the oven door for the first minute of oven heat-up to let the moist air out.

Electronic Controls

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CANCEL

SET

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Oven “On” Indicator

The word “ON” is displayed when the BAKE or BROIL button is energized, and goes out when the CANCEL button is pushed or when the oven burner shuts off automatically.

The oven operation is controlled electronically. The following

instructions tell you how to operate

the electronic controls.

To Set the Clock

Push CLOCK button.

2. Turn SET knob to correct time of day. Clock is now set. The clock must be set to the correct time of day for accurate automatic oven timing operations.

To Set the Minute/Second Timer

1. Push TIMER button.

2. Turn SET knob to desired amount of time (up to 9 hours and 59 minutes). The Minute/Second Timer will begin to count down within a few seconds.

3. When time is up, the End-of-Cycle Tone (3 long beeps) will sound and the display will again show the time

of day.

Note:

The Minute/Second Timer is a reminder only and will not operate the oven.

You can use the Minute/Second Timer whether or not the oven is being used. The Minute/Second Timer does not interfere with oven operations.

Cancel the Timer

Push and hold TIMER button for three seconds. This will clear the

Minute/Second Timer function.

To Bake

Push BAKE button.

2. Turn SET knob until desired temperature is displayed.

A one-second beep will sound when the oven has preheated to and stabilized at selected temperature.

3. When finished baking, push CANCEL button.

Note:

To recall what temperature you have selected while the rising temperature is being shown, push and hold the BAKE button. The

selected temperature will be shown while you hold the BAKE button. The actual oven temperature will be shown after a few seconds.

You can push the CLOCK button to display time of day without

canceling the oven operation.

You can change the selected temperature at any time by pushing the BAKE button and turning the SET knob.

To Broil

Push BROIL button.

2. Turn SET knob until your

choice of HI BROIL or LO BROIL

is visible in the display.

When finished broiling, push the

CANCEL button.

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