Whirlpool RF3870PXP 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
Electronic MEALTIMER’

Clock
Setting the Electronic Clock
Using the Electronic

Minute Timer.
Using the Oven Controls

Baking _.

Broiling . .
Using the Electronic

Automatic MEALTIMER’

Clock
OtherOperating Hints
Oven Vent . .
Storage Drawer . .

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Optional Rotisserie.

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Caring for Your Range.

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Control Panel

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Solid Element Surface Units

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Using the Self-Cleaning

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Cycle . . . . . . . .

Cleaning Chart
Oven Light

If You Need Service or

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Assistance

I. Before Calling for

Assistance

2. If You Need Assistance.

3. If You Need Service .

4. If You Have a Problem

5. If You Need FSP@

Replacement Parts

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Before you use your range

Read fhls Use 81 Care Guide and The Cooking Guide for important safety

Informatlon.

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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.

IMPORTANT

SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 1

1.

DO NOT

play with any part of the range, or
leave them unattended near it.
They could be burned or injured.

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

3.

DO NOT

hot surface units or heating ele­ments. Dark colored units and ele­ments can still be hot enough to
burn severely.

4. KEEP

range when it is on. The cooktop
and oven walls, racks and door
can get hot enough to cause tents could burn and container par­burns.

5.

DO NOT

room. Persons in the room could
be burned or injured, or a fire
could start.

DO NOT STORE OR USE GASOLINE OR OTHER FLAMMABLE VAPORS AND LIQUIDS

allow children to use or

NOT

store things children

allow anyone to touch

children away from the

use theJange to heat a

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

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 sur
face units.

7.

DO NOT

The fire will spread. Cover fire with
large lid or smother with baking
soda or salt.

8.

DO NOT

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

They could explode. The hot con­titles could cause injury.

use water on grease fires.

wear loose or hanging gar

heat unopened containers.

10. When adding or removing

food,

MAKE SURE

oven door all the way to
prevent burns.

FOR YOUR SAFElY.

to open the

1 - SAW THESE INSTRUCTIONS - 1

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
the Literature Pac.

Please complete and mail the

Owners Regislktion Card fur­nished with this product.

Model and Serial

Uadel Number

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Serial Number

Purchase Date

SewIce Compc-- a--- U-.-L--

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Parts and features

Model RF387PXP

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LEFT FRONT
CONTROL KNOB

CONTROL PANEL

MODEL AND SERIAL
NUMBER PLATE

SELF-CL

OVEN

FIBERGLASS

-lEAl SEAL

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SURFACE UNIT
SIGNAL LIGHT CONTROL KNOB CLOCK/MINUTE TIMER

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LE> REAR

ELECTRONIC MEALTIMER’

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OVEN VENT

REMOVABLE

STORAGE DRAWER

LITERATURE PAC
(not shown)

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’ AIR-FLOV

OVEN LIGHT OVEN TEMPERATURE

OVEN SURFACE UNIT

LIGHT LIGHT

SIGNAL LIGHT CONTROL KNOB

CONTROL KNOB

Using the surface units

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.

Control knobs must be pushed in
betore turning

can be set anywhere between HI

Solid Element
Surface Units

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 lowe
setting to complete the cooking. You may want to turn the solid element OFF a
few minutes before you are finished cooking.

them to a setting. They

CAUTION: Solld elements stay hot for a long tlme. Do not
use the HI sefflng for long periods of
on hot elements when cooking ls done. Burned food and
damage to the cookware could result.

ttme

or leave pans

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Until you get used to the settings, use the following as a guide.
Use Hi

foods cooking;
to bring liquids
to a boil. When

turntoal.0

to start

cooking foods,

or MED-I.0
setting when
sizzle starts.

Use MED-Hi

to hold a
rapid boil; to
start frying
chicken or
pancakes.

Turn to a LO
or MED-LO
setting when

Use MED

gravy, pud­dings and
icing; to
cook large
amounts of
vegetables.

Turn to a
LO setting

sizzle starts. to finish

for

Use MED-LO

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

Use LO

keep food
cooking after
starting it on
a higher set­ting, to keep
food warm
or to melt

chocolate or

shortening.

to

cooking.

Cookware

Pans should be the same size or larger than the surface unit to prevent boilovers
and hot handles.

Only use pans with flat bottoms.

the pans and the 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 edge and the bottom of the pan.

Flat bottoms allow maximum contact between

Do not use trivets, woks with skirts, or canners with concave or ridged
bottoms.

NOTE: If pan bottoms are not fiat, the protective limiter will sense uneven

cooklng temperatures and reduce the heat setting. This will result in longer

cooking times.
See the “Cooking Guide” for important utensil intormation.

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The Electronic MEALTIMER* Clock

The Electronic MEALTIMER* Clock handles many different types of functions.
The following operating hints may be helpful when using the clock:

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The numbers on the display change rapidly when turning the Set Knob.

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When setting the Time-of-Day Clock, the display shows hours and minutes.

Twenty-five minutes past Forty-five minutes past
six o’clock. twelve o’clock.

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When using the Min/Sec Timer, the display shows minutes and seconds in the
following sequence.

- For settings from 1-59 seconds, each second will show in the display.

- For settings from l-10 minutes, the display will increase in 10 second
increments

- For settings from lo-99 minutes, the display will increase in 1 minute
increments.

- When using the Bake Hours and/or Stop Time, the display shows hours and
minutes.

Two-hours and fifteen

Eleven-hours and fifty-nine

minutes. minutes

Ofher operaflng hinfs may be found on page 16.

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When you first plug in the range or if your electricity goes off for a while, each
light in the display will flash in sequence. Then, 4 eights and the Min/Sec Timer
and Bake Hours signal lights will flash, The flashing means that the clock is ready

1, Push in and hold both the Min/Sec

Timer Button and the Bake Hours
Button. “0:OO” will show in the
Display and the Signal Lights will

go off.

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2. Turn the Set Knob to set the right
time of day. Turning the knob
clockwise increases the numbers,
while turning the knob counter­clockwise decreases the num-

bers. The display will show the

time you set in hours and minutes.

Using the Electron

The Mlnute Tlmer does noi
can be set In minutes and

nit

‘star
I set

Minute

t or stop the
:onds up to !

Timer

oven. It works like a kitchen timer. It

79 minutes. You will hear beeps when

1. Push In the Mln/Sec Timer Button.

The Slgnal Light will come on and
the Display will show “0:001’

3. After selting the lime you want,

the Slgnal Light will stay on and
the Display will start counting
down In seconds.

2. Turn the Set Knob until the desired
time shows in the Display. Turning
the knob clockwise increases the ~
numbers, while turning the knob
counterclockwise decreases the
numbers.

When

the

a beeping sound. i&h the Min/Sec

time is UD.

Timer Button to stop the beeping.

The beeping will automatically stop

after 1-2 minutes.

vou will hear