Whirlpool RF3600XP User Manual

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Contents

Before You Use Your Range. ” 2

Important Safety Instructions
Parts and Features.
Using Your Range

Surface Units
Optional Canning Kit .
Setting the Clock . .
Using the Minute Timer.
Using the Oven Controls

Baking. . . , .
Broiling

Using the Automatic

MEALTIMER’ Clock

Paae

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Oven Vent

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Optional Rotisserie

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Caring for Your Range

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Control Panel

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Surface Units and
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Reflector Bowls .
Lift-Up Cooktop .
Lower Panel .
Using the Self-Cleaning

Cycle
Cleaning Chart

If You Need Service or
Assistance. . .

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Before you use your range

Read thls Use & Care Guide and The Cooklng Guide for Important safety

Information.

You are personally respcnslble for:

l Readlng and following all safety precautions in this Use & Care Guide gnd the

Cooking Guide.

l Installing the range where lt is protected from the elements, and on a floor

strong enough to support its weight.

l Properly connecting the range to electrical supply and grounding. (See

“lnstallatton Instructions.“)

l Making sure the range is not used by anyone unable to operate it properly.

l Properly malntalnlng the mnge.

l 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

play with any part of the range, or
leave them unattended near it.

They could be burned or injured.

2.

DO NOT

might want above the range.
Children could be burned or
injured while climbing on it.

3. DO NOT allow anyone to touch
hot surface units or heating 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 10. When
room. Persons in the room could
be burned or injured, or a fire
could start.

DO NOT STORE OR USE GASOLINE

store things children

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IN THE VICINITY OF THIS OR ANY OTHER APPLIANCE. THEY COULD IGNtTE

CAUSING EXPLOSION AND/OR FIRE.

6. KEEP pan handles turned in, but not

over another surface unit to avoid
burns, injury and to help prevent the
utensil from being pushed off the sur­face units.

7. DO NOT use water on grease fires,
The fire will spread. Cover fire with
large lid or smother with baking
soda or salt.

8. DO NOT wear loose or hanging gar-

ments 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 con-

tents could burn and container par­titles could cause injury

adding or removing

food,

MAKE SURE

oven door all the way to

prevent burns.

FOR YOUR SAFETY 9

OR OTHER FLAMMABLE VAPORS AND LIQUIDS

to open the

- SAW THESE INSTRUCTIONS -

Copy your Model and Serial Numbers here

If you need service, or call with a question, have this information ready:

1. Complete

Numbers (from plate just behind

the oven door).

2. Purchase date from sales slip.
Copy this information in these

spaces. Keep this book, your
warranty and sales slip together

in a convenient place.

There is no warrant-v reaistration

to return. Proof-of-pur&ha;e is all that

is required for in-warranty service.

Model and Serial

Model Number

Serial Number

Purchase Date

Servlce CompaWPhww Number

Parts and features

Model RF3600XP

SURFACE UNIT

CLOCK

MINWE TIMER

START
TIME

STOP
TIME

REMOVABLE
LOWER PANEL

4

OVEN DOOR

OVEN TEMPERATURE
CONTROL \

OVEN
SELECTC)R

RIGHT FRdNT
CONTROL KNOB

LIGHT

‘CLEAN

LIGHT

OirEN SIGNAL RIGHT’REAR

LIGHT

CONTROL KNOB

Using the surface units

PUSH IN

I

Turn to

_ Setting

Control knobs must be pushed In
before tumlng

can be set anywhere between HI
and OFF.

Until you get used to the settings, use the following as a gulde.

start cooking at the high settings; then turn the control knob down to continue
cooking.

Use HI

to start
foods cook- to hold a
ing; to bring rapid boil; to
liquids to a fry chicken
boil. or pancakes.

them to a setting. They

Use MED-HI

Use MED

for gravy,
puddings
and icing; to
cook large
amounts of

veaetables.

Surface Unit Indicators

The solid dot in the surface unit

indicator shows which surface unit
is turned on by that knob.

Signal light

One of the signal lights will glow
when a surface unit is on.

For best results,

Use YED-LO

to keep food
cooking after warm until
starting it
on a higher
setting.

Use LO

keep food
ready to

serve. Set the
heat higher
or lower
within the LO
band to k0ep
foodatthe
temperature
you want.

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Use only flat-bottomed utensils for best cooking results and to prevent damage
to the cooktop. Specialty items with rounded or ridged bottoms (woks, ridged
bottom canners or tea kettles] are not recommended.

See the “Cooking Guide” for Important utensil Information.

Optiond CaMing Kit (Part No. 242905)

The large diameter of most water-bath or pressure canners combined with

high heat settings for long periods of time can shorten the life of regular surface

units and cause damage to the cooktop.

If you plan to use the cooktop for canning, we recommend the installation
of a Canning Kit. Order the kit from your Whirlpool Dealer or Tech-Carem Service
Company

See the “Cooklng Guide” for Important canning information.

Setting the Clock

Push In and turn the Mlnute llmer Knob to set the Clock.

1.

Push In Mlnute llmer Knob and
turn clockwlse

the right time of day.

until clock shows

2. Let the Minute llmer Knob pop

out. Turn clockwise until Minute
Timer hand points to OFF. The

clock sefflng will change If you
push In the knob when tumlng.

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Using

The Min ute Timer does not start or stop the oven. It works like a kitchen

Set it in minutes up to an hour. You will hear a buzzer when the set time is up.

DO NOT PUSH

1.

PUSHING IN AND TURNING THE MINUTE TIMER KNOB CHANGES THE CLOCK
SEfllNG.

CL, m/Grnl.,ab mmnr

; LIlG 1TIIIlUlG 1lIUCl

IN THE KNOB

Wlthout pushlng It In,

Minute Timer Knob until the hand
passes the setting you want.

when setfina the

turn the

timer.

Minute Timer.

2. Without pushlng In,

back to the setting you want.

When the tlme Is

will sound.
the Minute Timer hand to OFF.

To stop

turn the knob

up, a buzzer

the buzzer, turn

Using the Oven Controls

Baking

Rack should be placed sa
thetopofthefoodwill~becen­tered In the oven. Always leave
al leastlyi ta 2 Inches (4-5 cm)
betweenthesldesofthepan
and the oven walls and other
pans. For more InformatIon, see
the “Cooklng Guide.”

1. Position the rack properly

before
change rack posltlon, lift rack at

front and pull out.

turning on the oven.

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2. Set Oven Selector to BAKE.

3. Set Oven Temperature Control to

the baking temperature you want.
The Oven Signal Light will come on.

The oven is preheated when the
Oven Signal Light first goes off.

4.

Put food in the oven.

Note: Oven
rack, walls and door will be
hot.

During baking, the elements will

turn on and off to keep the oven

temperature at the setting. The

Oven Signal Light will turn on and

off with the elements.

5. When baking is done, turn both
the Oven Temperature Control

and the Oven Selector to OFF.

The top element helps heat

during baklng, but does not

turn red.

Adjusting the Oven Temperahire Control

Does your oven seem hotter or colder than your old oven? The Temperature of
your old oven may have shifted gradually without your noticing the change.
Your new oven is properly adju,sted to provide accurate temperatures. But, when
compared to your old oven, the new design may give you different results.

If after using the oven for a period of time, you are not satisfied with the

temperature settings, they can be adjusted by following these steps: