Whirlpool RF317PXV User Manual
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Contents
BEFORE YOU USE YOUR RANGE
IMPORTANT SAFETY
INSTRUCTIONS
PARTS AND FEATURES
USING YOUR RANGE..
Using the Surface Units
Setting the Clock
Using the Minute Timer
Using the Oven Controls
Baking.
Broiling
Using the Automati’c
MEALTIMER* Clock
Oven Vent
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Storage Drawer
Optional Rotisserre
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Optional Door Panel Pat
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CARING FOR YOUR RANGE,
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Control Panel and Knobs
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Solid Element Surface Units
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Oven Door
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Standard Oven Cleaning
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Cleaning Chart
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Oven Light :
IF YOU NEED SERVICE OR
ASSISTANCE ..,
WHIRLPOOL RANGE
WARRANTY
‘1988 Whirlpool Corporation
Before you use your range
Read this Use & Care Guide and the Cooking Guide for important
safety information.
You are personally responsible for:
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Reading and following all safety precautions in this Use &Care Guide and
the Cooking Guide.
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Installing the range where it is protected from the elements, and on a floor
strong enough to support its weight.
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Properly connecting the range to electrical supply and grounding. (See
Installation Instructions.)
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Making sure the range is not used by anyone unable to operate it properly.
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Properly maintaining the range.
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Using the range only for jobs expected of a home range.
See Cooking Guide for important safety and use information.
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IMPORTANT
SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT allow children to use or 6. KEEP pan handles turned in, but
play with any part of the range, not over another surface unit to
or leave them unattended near it.
They could be burned or injured
2. DO NOT store things children
might want above the range.
Children could be burned or fires. The fire will spread. Cover
injured while climbing on ;?
3. DO NOT allow anyone to touch
hot surface units or heating 8. DO NOT wear loose or hanging
elements. Dark colored units and
elements can still be hot enough
to burn severely
4. KEEP children away from the
range when it is on. The cooktop
and oven walls, racks and
door can get hot enough to
cause burns.
5. DO NOT use the range to heat a
room. Persons in the room could
be burned or injured, or a fire
could start.
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DO NOT STORE OR USE GASOLINE OR OTHER FLAMMABLE VAPORS AND
LIQUIDS IN THE VICINITY OF THIS OR ANY OTHER APPLIANCE.
THEY COULD IGNITE CAUSING EXPLOSION AND/OR FIRE.
FOR YOUR SAFETY
avoid burns, injury and to help
prevent the utensil from being
pushed off the surface units.
7. DO NOT use water on grease
fire with large lid or smother with
baking soda or salt.
garments when using the range.
They could ignite if they touch a
hot surface unit or heating element and you could be burned.
9. DO NOT heat unopened containers. They could explode. The
hot contents could burn and
container particles could
cause injury.
10. When adding or removing food,
MAKE SURE to open the oven
door all the way to prevent burns,
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- SAW THESE INSTRUCTIONS -
Thank you for buying a Whirlpool appliance. Please complete and mall
the Owner Registration Card provided with this product. Then complete
the form below. Have this information ready if you need service or call with
a question.
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Copy model and serial numbers
from plate (behind the oven door
on the oven frame] and purchase
date from sales slip.
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Keep this book and sales slip together in the Literature Pac.
Model Number
Serlal Number
Purchase Date
Service Company Phone Number
Parts and features
Model RF317PXV
CONTROL KNOB
CONTROL PANEL
SOLID ELEMENT
SURFACE UNIT
SIGNAL LIGHT
AUTOMATIC MEAlTIMER* START
CLOCK/MINUTE TIMER
CONTROL KNOB
TIME TIME
STOP
AUTOMATIC OVEN
LIGHT SWITCH
MODEL AND SE
NUMBER PLATE
HEAT SEAL
REMOVABLE
STORAGE DRAWER
LITERATURE PAC
[in drawer) -
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OVEN LIGHT
SWITCH,
t3;;T20PERATURE OVEN SURFACE UNIT
SELECTOR
Using your range
Using the Surface Units
INDICATOR
Surface Unit Indicators
The solid dot in the surface unit
indicator shows which surface unit
is turned on by that knob.
Signal Lights
One of the signal lights will glow
when a surface unit is on.
Control knobs must be pushed in
before turning them to a setting. They
can be set anywhere between HI
and OFF.
Solid Element Surface Units
Before placing a pan on solid element surface units for the first time, heat on
HI setting for five minutes. The surface units will give off smoke as the
protective coating, applied at the factory, finishes bonding to the surfaces.
Solid element surface units are made of heavy cast-iron to provide even cooking. Each surface unit has a built-in protective limiter. The limiter senses
uneven cooking temperatures and automatically reduces the heat setting. The
limiter will sense uneven heat when a pan boils dry, when a pan does not have
a flat bottom, or when a pan is removed and the surface unit is left on.
Solid elements hold heat longer than conventional surface units. For best cooking results, use a high setting for only a very short period of time. Then use
a lower setting to complete the cooking. You may want to turn the solid element
OFF a few minutes before you finished cooking.
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CAUTION: Solid elements stay hot for a long time. Do not use the HI setting
for long periods of time or leave pans on hot elements when cooking is
done. Burned food and damage to the cookware could result.
Until you get used to the settings, use the following as a guide.
Use HI to start
foods cook-
ing; to bring rapid boil; to
liquids to a
boil. When chicken or
cooking pancakes.
foods, turn to
a LO or MED- or MED-LO
LO setting
when sizzle sizzle starts.
starts.
Use ME&HI Use MED for
to hold a gravy, pud- to keep food keep food
start frying
Turn to a LO
setting when LO setting
dings and
icing; to
cook large on a higher a higher setamounts of setting. ting, to keep
vegetables.
Turn to a to melt choc-
to finish
cooking
Use MED-LO Use LO to
cooking after cooking after
starting it starting it on
food warm or
olate or
shortening.
Cookware
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Pans should be the same size or
largerthan the surface unit to prevent
boil-overs and hot handles.
Do not use trivets, woks with skirts, or canners with concave or ridged
bottoms.
NOTE: If pan bottoms are not flat, the protective limiter will sense uneven
cooking temperatures and reduce the heat setting. This will result in longer
cooking times.
See the Cooking Guide for important utensil information.
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Only use pans with flat bottoms.
Flat bottoms allow maximum contact
between the pans and surface units
for fast, even cooking. Pans with uneven bottoms or with a raised pattern
on the bottom are not suitable. Flatness of a pan can be checked by
placing an edge of a ruler across it.
There should not be space between
the ruler and the bottom of the pan.
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