Kenmore 790.31113, 31123, 790.31113211, 790.31123211, 790.31123 Use And Care Manual
Use & Care Guide
Manual de Uso y Cuidado
English / Español
Models/Modelos: 790.31113, 31123
Kenmore Elite®
Gas Cooktop
Plancha de cocinar a gas
P/N 316902489B (1201)
Sears Brands Management Corporation
Homan Estates, IL 60179 U.S.A.
www.kenmore.com
www.sears.com
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Table of Contents
Kenmore Elite Warranty ............................................................. 2
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ................................ 3-4
Product Record ............................................................................. 5
Serial Plate Location ................................................................... 5
Grounding Instructions ................................................................ 5
Liqueed Petroleum (Propane) Gas Conversion ...................... 5
Setting Surface Controls ......................................................... 6-7
Surface Cooking .......................................................................... 8
Setting the Downdraft Vent System .......................................... 9
Setting Surface Burner Controls ............................................9-10
Kenmore Elite Warranty
When installed, operated and maintained according to all instructions supplied with the product, if this appliance fails due
to a defect in material and workmanship within one year from the date of purchase, call 1-800-4-MY-HOME® to arrange
for free repair.
This warranty applies for only 90 days from the date of purchase if this appliance is ever used for other than private family
purposes.
This warranty covers only defects in material and workmanship. Sears will NOT pay for:
1. Cracks in a ceramic glass cooktop that are not a result of thermal shock.
2. Stains and scratches on a ceramic glass cooktop resulting from accident or improper operation or maintenance.
3. Expendable items that can wear out from normal use, including but not limited to lters, belts, light bulbs, and bags.
4. A service technician to instruct the user in correct product installation, operation or maintenance.
5. A service technician to clean or maintain this product.
6. Damage to or failure of this product if it is not installed, operated or maintained according to the all instructions
supplied with the product.
7. Damage to or failure of this product resulting from accident, abuse, misuse or use for other than its intended purpose.
8. Damage to or failure of this product caused by the use of detergents, cleaners, chemicals or utensils other than those
recommended in all instructions supplied with the product.
9. Damage to or failure of parts or systems resulting from unauthorized modications made to this product.
Disclaimer of implied warranties; limitation of remedies
Customer’s sole and exclusive remedy under this limited warranty shall be product repair as provided herein. Implied
warranties, including warranties of merchantability or tness for a particular purpose, are limited to one year or the shortest
period allowed by law. Sears shall not be liable for incidental or consequential damages. Some states and provinces DO
NOT allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, or limitation on the duration of implied
warranties of merchantability or tness, so these exclusions or limitations may not apply to you.
This warranty applies only while this appliance is used in the United States or Canada.
This warranty gives you specic legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state.
General Care & Cleaning .................................................... 11-13
Cleaning Various Parts of Your Cooktop ........................... 11
Porcelain Enamel Cooktop Cleaning Instructions ............. 11
Cleaning the Burner Grates .................................................12
Cleaning the Burner Caps ....................................................12
Cleaning the Burner Heads ..................................................12
Cleaning the Vent Grate ......................................................13
Cleaning the Vent Seal ........................................................13
Cleaning the Grease Filter...................................................13
Cleaning the Vent Chamber ................................................ 13
Before You Call .......................................................................... 14
Protection Agreements ............................................................... 15
Sears Service ...............................................................................16
Sears Brands Management Corporation, Homan Estates, IL 60179 - Sears Canada Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2B8
Printed in U.S.A.
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
Read all instructions before using this appliance. Save these instructions for future reference.
This manual contains important safety symbols and instructions. Please pay attention to these
symbols and follow all instructions given.
This symbol will help alert you to situations that may cause serious bodily harm,
death or property damage.
This symbol will help alert you to situations that may cause bodily injury or property damage.
If the information in this manual
is not followed exactly, a re or explosion
may result causing property damage,
personal injury or death.
FOR YOUR SAFETY:
— DO NOT store or use gasoline or other
ammable vapors and liquids in the
vicinity of this or any other appliance.
— WHAT TO DO IF YOU SMELL GAS:
• DO NOT try to light any appliance.
• DO NOT touch any electrical switch; DO
NOT use any phone in your building.
• Immediately call your gas supplier from a
neighbor’s phone. Follow the gas supplier’s
instructions.
• If you cannot reach your gas supplier, call
the re department.
— Installation and service must be
performed by a qualied installer,
servicer or the gas supplier.
• Remove all tape and packaging wrap before
using the cooktop. Destroy the carton and
plastic bags after unpacking the cooktop.
Never allow children to play with packaging
material. DO NOT remove the model/serial
plate attached to the cooktop.
• Proper Installation—Be sure your appliance is
properly installed and grounded by a qualied
technician in accordance with the National
Fuel Gas Code ANSI Z223.1 latest edition and
CAN/CGA B149.2, and the National Electrical
Code ANSI/NFPA No. 70—latest edition, and
local code requirements. Install and/or adjust
only per installation instructions provided in the
literature package for this cooktop.
Sears Parts & Repair is the recommended repair
service for this appliance. Know how to disconnect
the electrical power to the appliance at the circuit
breaker or fuse box in case of an emergency.
• User Servicing—DO NOT repair or replace
any part of the appliance unless specically
recommended in the manuals. All other
servicing should be done only by a qualied
technician to reduce the risk of personal injury
and damage to the cooktop.
• Never modify or alter the construction of a
cooktop by removing panels, wire covers, or
any other part of the product.
• Air curtain or other overhead hoods, which
operate by blowing a downward air ow on
to a range, shall not be used in conjunction
with gas ranges other than when the hood and
range have been designed, tested and listen
by an independent test laboratory for use in
combination with each other.
Stepping or leaning on this cooktop
can result in serious injuries and may also cause
damage to the cooktop. DO NOT allow children to
climb or play around the cooktop.
• Storage on Appliance—Flammable materials
should not be stored on the cooktop, near
surface burners. This includes paper, plastic
and cloth items, such as cookbooks, plasticware
and towels, as well as ammable liquids. DO
NOT store explosives, such as aerosol cans, on
the cooktop. Flammable materials may explode
and result in re or property damage.
DO NOT store items of interest to
children in the cabinets above the cooktop.
• DO NOT leave children alone—Children
should not be left alone or unattended in the
area where an appliance is in use. They should
never be allowed to sit or stand on any part of
the appliance.
• DO NOT TOUCH SURFACE BURNERS, GRATES,
OR AREAS NEAR THESE BURNERS. Surface
burners may be hot even though the ames
are not visible. Areas near surface burners may
become hot enough to cause burns. During and
after use, DO NOT touch or let clothing or other
ammable materials touch these areas until they
have had sucient time to cool. Among these
areas are the cooktop and the surfaces facing
the cooktop.
• Wear Proper Apparel—Loose-tting or hanging
garments should never be worn while using
the appliance. DO NOT let clothing or other
ammable materials contact hot surfaces.
NEVER use this appliance as a space
heater to heat or warm the room. Doing so may
result in carbon monoxide poisoning.
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
• DO NOT Use Water or Flour on Grease
Fires—Smother the re with a pan lid, or use
baking soda, a dry chemical or foam-type
extinguisher.
• When heating fat or grease, watch it closely.
Fat or grease may catch re if allowed to
become too hot.
• Use Only Dry Potholders—Moist or damp pot
holders on hot surfaces may result in burns
from steam. DO NOT let the potholders touch
the ame or burners. DO NOT use a towel or
other bulky cloth instead of a pot holder.
• DO NOT Heat Unopened Food Containers—
Buildup of pressure may cause container to
burst and result in injury.
• Know which knob controls each surface burner.
Always turn the knob to the LITE position when
igniting the burners. Visually check that the
burner has lit. Then adjust the ame so it does
not extend beyond the edge of the utensil.
Use Proper Flame Size—Adjust
ame size so it does not extend beyond the edge
of the utensil. The use of undersized utensils will
expose a portion of the burner ame to direct
contact and may result in ignition of clothing.
Proper relationship of utensil to ame will also
improve eciency.
DO NOT use stove top grills on
your sealed gas burners. If you use a stove
top grill on a sealed gas burner, it will cause
incomplete combustion and can result in exposure
to carbon monoxide levels above allowable
current standards. This can be hazardous to your
health.
Use proper pan size—This appliance
is equipped with one or more surface burners of
dierent sizes. Select utensils having at bottom
large enough to cover the surface burner. The
use of undersized utensils will expose a portion
of the surface burner to direct contact and may
result in ignition of clothing. Proper relationship
of utensil to the surface burner will also improve
eciency.
• Clean the appliance regularly to keep all parts
free of grease that could catch re. Exhaust fan
ventilation hoods and grease lters should be
kept clean. DO NOT allow grease to accumulate
on lter. Greasy deposits in the fan could catch
re.
• Utensil Handles Should Be Turned Inward
from Edges of Cooktop and Not Extend Over
Adjacent Surface Burners—To reduce the
risk of burns, ignition of ammable materials,
and spillage due to unintentional contact with
the utensil, the handle of the utensil should be
positioned so that it is turned inward, and does
not extend over adjacent surface burners.
• Never Leave Surface Burners Unattended at
High Heat Settings—Boilovers cause smoking
and greasy spillovers that may ignite, or a pan
that has boiled dry may melt.
• Protective Liners—DO NOT use aluminum foil
to line surface burner pans. Protective liners or
aluminum foil may interfere with heat and air
distribution, and combustion. Damage to the
cooktop or personal injury may result.
• Glazed Cooking Utensils—Only certain types
of glass, glass/ceramic, ceramic, earthenware,
or other glazed utensils are suitable for
cooktop service without breaking due to the
sudden change in temperature. Check the
manufacturer's recommendations for cooktop
use.
• DO NOT Use Decorative Surface Burner
Covers. If a burner is accidentally turned on,
the decorative cover will become hot and
possibly melt. You will not be able to see that
the burner is on. Burns will occur if the hot covers
are touched. Damage may also be done to the
cooktop or burners because the covers may
cause overheating. Air will be blocked from the
burner and cause combustion problems.
IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE
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, birth defects or other reproductive
harm, and requires businesses to warn customers
of potential exposure to such substances.
Please carefully read and save these instructions
This Use & Care Manual contains general operating instructions for your appliance and feature
information for several models. Your product may not have all the described features. The
graphics shown are representative. The graphics on your appliance may not look exactly like
those shown. Common sense and caution must be practiced when installing, operating and
maintaining any appliance.
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Product Record
In this space below, record the date of purchase, model and
serial number of your product. You will nd the model and
serial number printed on the serial plate. This serial plate is
located under the cooktop. See bottom of this page for the
serial plate location.
Model No. __________________________________________
Serial No. ___________________________________________
Date of purchase ____________________________________
Save these instructions and your sales receipt for future
reference.
790.
Serial Plate Location
Please see the illustration for exact location. Remember to
record the serial number for future reference.
Serial plate is
located under the
burner box.
Conversion to Liqueed Petroleum Gas (or L.P. Gas)
This natural gas appliance is designed to allow for
conversion to Liqueed Petroleum (L.P.) Gas.
Only a qualied service agent should perform the L. P.
conversion. Contact the local gas provider for conversion.
The L. P. Conversion Kit is supplied with this unit and is
located in the literature package. The kit contains installation
instructions which must be read before and followed
carefully when installing the kit.
changes or conversions required in order for this appliance to
satisfactorily meet the application needs must be made by a
qualied service agent.
Grounding Instructions
For personal safety, the cooktop must be properly grounded. For maximum
safety, the power cord must be plugged into an electrical outlet that is
correctly polarized and properly grounded.
DO NOT operate the cooktop using a 2-prong adapter or an extension cord.
If a 2-prong wall receptacle is the only available outlet, it is the personal
responsibility of the consumer to have it replaced with a properly grounded
3-prong wall receptacle installed by a qualied electrician.
See the INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS packaged with this cooktop for
complete installation and grounding instructions.
This appliance is equipped with a 3-prong
grounding plug for your protection against shock hazard
and should be plugged directly into a properly grounded
receptacle. DO NOT cut or remove the grounding prong
from this plug.
NOT use an adapter plug, an extension cord, or remove
grounding prong from electrical power cord. Failure to follow
this warning can cause serious injury, re or death.
To avoid serious injury, any additions,
Grounding
type wall
receptacle
Avoid re hazard or electrical shock. DO
DO NOT, under
any circumstances,
cut, remove,
or bypass the
grounding prong.
Power supply
cord with 3-prong
grounding plug
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