Whirlpool RF387PXV User Manual

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Home Appltances

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Use & Care Guide

Electronic automatic
MEALTIMER’ oven

Oven vent

omatic oven

Removable
storage drawer

Literature pat
(inside drawer)

Broil element

SELF-CLEANING ELECTRIC RANGE

RF387PXV

Contents

Page
Important Safety
Instructions.. 3
Using Your Range 5

Using the surface units 5
The electronic oven controls 6
Setting the clock 8
Using the electronic

Mrnute Timer.. 8
Using the Oven Off button 9
Using the oven 9
Using the electronic automatic

MEALTIMER’ control I I
The oven vent 15
The storage drawer
Optional rotisserie 16
Optional door panel pat 16

Caring For Your Range. 17

Control panel and knobs 17
Solid element surface units I 7
USing the Self-Cleaning cycle 18
Cleaning tips 22

The oven light 24
If You Need Service
Or Assistance 25
Whirlpool Flange Warranty, 28

01989 Whirlpool Corporation

Remove the Consumer Buy Guide
label. It will be easier to remove before

the range is used. To remove any re­maining glue:

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Rub briskly with thumb to make a ball,
then remove.

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Soak area with liquid hand dishwash­ing detergent before removing glue as
described above.

Do not use rubbing alcohol or flam-

mable or toxic solvents, such as
acetone, gasoline, carbon tetrachloride,
etc. These can damage the finish.

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Thank you for buying a Whirlpool
appliance. Please complete and
mail the Owner Registration Card
provided with this product. Then
complete the form below. Have this
informatron 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
frame) and purchase date from sales
slip.

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Keep this book, the Cooking Guide
and sales slip together in the Liter­ature Pac.

Model Number

Serial Number

Purchase Date

Service Company Phone Number

You are personally
responsible for:

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Installing and leveling the range on a
floor strong enough to hold its weight,
and where it is protected from the
elements.*

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Properly connecting and grounding
the range to electrical supply.*

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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 the Installation Instructions.

Important Safety Instructions

Read all instructions before using the range. To
reduce the risk of fire, electrical shock, injury to
persons, or damage when using the range, fol­low basic precautions, including the following:

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Install or locate the range only
in accordance with the provided is about the same size as the sur­Installation Instructions. face unit. If pan is smaller than the

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Do not use the range for warming
or heating the room. Persons could
be burned or injured, or a fire could
start.

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Do not leave children alone in area
where the range is in use. They
should never be allowed to sit or
stand on any part of the range.
They could be burned or injured.

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Do not wear loose or hanging gar­ments when using the range. They
could ignite if they touch a hot sur­face unit or heating element and

you could be burned.

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Do not repair or replace any part of
the range unless specifically rec­ommended in this manual. All
other servicing should be referred
to a qualified technician.

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Do not store flammable materials
in or near the range. They could
explode or burn.

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Do not use water on grease fires.
Never pick up a flaming pan.
Smother flaming pan on cooktop
by covering with a well-fitted lid,
cookie sheet or flat tray. Flaming
grease outside pan can be

extinguished with baking soda,
or if available, a multipurpose
dry chemical or foam-type
extinguisher,

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Use only dry potholders. Moist or
damp potholders on hot surfaces
may result in burns from steam. Do
not let potholder touch hot heating
elements. Do not use a towel or
bulky cloth for a potholder. They
could catch on fire.

Selecta pan with a flat bottom that

surface unit, some of the heating
element will be exposed and may
result in the igniting of clothing or
potholders. Correct pan size also
improves electrical efficiency.

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Never leave surface units unat­tended at high heat settings. A
boil-over could result and cause
smoking and greasy spill-overs
that may ignite.

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Check to be sure glass cooking
utensils are safe for use on the
cooktop. Only certain types of
glass, glass ceramic, ceramic,
earthenware or other glazed uten­sils are suitable for cooktops with­out breaking due to the sudden
change in temperature.

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Turn pan handles inward, but not
over other surface units. This will
help reduce the chance of burns,
igniting of flammable materials,
and spills due to bumping of the
pan.

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Use care when opening oven door.
Let hot air or steam escape before
removing or replacing food.

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Do not heat unopened containers.
They could explode. The hot con­tents could cause burns and con­tainer particles could cause injury.

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Keep range vents unobstructed.

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Always position oven racks in
desired location while oven is cool.

If rack must be moved while oven
is hot, do not let potholder contact
hot heating element in oven.

Important Safety Instructions
Continued

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Do not clean door seal. It is essen-

color. Areas near surface units and
tial for a good seal. Care should be Interior surfaces of an oven be­taken not to rub, damage, or move
the seal. Clean only parts recom-

come hot enough to cause burns

During and after use, do not touch,
mended In this Use and Care or let clothing or other flammable
Guide. materials contact surface units,

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Do not use oven cleaners. No
commercial oven cleaner or oven
liner protective coating of any
kind should be used in or
around any part of the oven.

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Before self-cleaning the oven,
remove broiler pan, broiler grid,
oven racks and other utensils.

Do not use your oven to clean
miscellaneous parts.

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Do not store things children might
want above the range. Children
could be burned or injured while
climbing on it.

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Do not touch surface units, areas
near units, heating elements or
interior surfaces of oven. Surface
units and heating elements may be

areas near unrts, heatrng elements
or interior surfaces of oven until
they have had sufficient lime to
cool. Other surfaces of the range
may become hot enough to cause
burns; such as, the oven vent
opening, the surface near the vent
opening, the cooktop. the oven
door and window.

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FOR YOUR SAFETY

DO NOT STORE OR USE
GASOLINE OR OTHER
FLAMMABLE VAPORS AND
LIQUIDS IN THE VICINITY OF
THIS OR ANY OTHER
APPLIANCE. THE FUMES
CAN CREATE A FIRE
HAZARD OR EXPLOSION.

hot even though they are dark In

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- SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS -

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Using Your Range

Using the surface units

Control knobs must be pushed
in before turning them to a setting
They can be set anywhere between
HI and OFF.

Surface unit indicators

The solid dot in the surface unit indrca­tor shows which surface unit is turned
on by that knob.

Signal lights

One of the Surface Unit Signal Lights
on the control panel will glow when a
surface unit is on.

Burn or Fire Hazard

Be sure all control knobs are
turned to OFF and all signal lights
are OFF when you are not cook­ing. Someone could be burned or
a fire could start if a surface unit
is accidentally left ON.

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 protec­trve coating, applied at the factory,
finishes bonding to the surface.

Solid element surface units are made

of heavy cast-iron to provide even cook-

ing. Each surface unit has a built-in

protective limrter. 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 surface unit OFF a few min­utes before you finish cooking.

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Using Your Range
Continued

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 set-

tings, use the following as a guide.

For best results, start cooking at the
high settings; then turn the control knob
down to continue cooking.

Use HI to start foods cooking; to

bring liquids to a boil.

Use MED-HI to hold a rapid boil; to

fry chicken or pancakes.

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

Use MED-LO to keep food cooking
after starting it on a higher setting.

Use LO to keep food warm until

ready to serve. Set the heat higher or
lower within the LO band to keep food
at the temperature you want

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.

The electronic oven controls

There are three parts in the oven control
section:

-The digital drsplay.

-The command buttons.

-The Set Knob.
Instructions for each oven control are

covered on the following pages. Read
them carefully.

When you first plug In the range, the

display will show four flashing 8’s. If,

after you set the clock (page 8) the drs­play again shows four flashing 8’s; your
electrrcity was off for a while. Reset
the clock.

Cookware
Pans should be the same size or

larger than the surface unit to prevent
boil-overs and hot handles.

Use only flat-bottomed utensils.
Flat bottoms allow maximum contact
between the pans and surface units for
fast, even cooking. Pans with uneven
bottoms or with raised patterns on the
bottoms are not suitable. Do not use
trivets, woks with skirts, or can­ners with concave or ridged
bottoms.

To check your cookware for flatness,
place a straight-edge across the bottom
of each piece. Move the straight-edge
around. If light shows anywhere
between the pan and the straight-edge,
the pan is not flat. Do not use it.

Digital display/clock

When you are not using the oven, this is
an accurate digital clock. When using

the oven or Minute Timer the display will

show the time, temperature settings
and what command buttons have been
pressed.

When showing the time of day, the

display will show the hour and minutes.

When using the Minute Timer, the
display shows minutes and seconds in
the following sequence:

For settings from 1-59 seconds, each
second WIII 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.

The small display will show “Err” If
two commands that can not be used
together are entered, such as Bake
and Broil.

Command buttons

The command buttons tell the oven
what to do and in what order. A few
examples:

-Time Of Day tells the oven you are

going lo set the clock.

- Oven Off tells the oven to turn off.

Each command button (except Oven
Off and Self-Clean) has its own light.
The light comes on when you touch the
command buttons.

Set Knob

Once you’ve pushed a command but­ton to tell the oven what you want it to
do, you’ll use the Set Knob to set a tem-

perature or time. Turning the Set Knob
clockwise increases the number on the
display. Turning the Set Knob counter­clockwrse decreases the number on the
display.

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Using Your Range

Continued

Setting the clock

1. Push the Time Of Day button. The

TIME light WIII show in the drsplay.

2. Whrle pushing the Time Of Day
button, turn the Set Knob until the
correct time shows rn the display.

3. Release the Time Of Day button.

Using the electronic Minute Timer

The Minute Timer does not start or stop

the oven. It works like a kitchen timer. It

can be set in minutes and seconds up
to 99 minutes. You will hear 4 beeps
when the set time is up

1. Push the Min/Sec Timer button.
The TIMER light will come on and
the display will show “0:OO.”

2. Turn the Set Knob until the desired

time shows In the display. The

Minute Timer will begin counting

down 2 seconds after the time is set.

When time IS up, “End” will show

in the large display and you will hear

four beeps.

To cancel the Minute Timer:

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Push the Min/Sec Timer button and

turn the Set Knob until “0:OO” shows

in the display.

or

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Quickly push the Min/Sec Timer

button twice.

Using the Oven Off button

The Oven Off button will cancel any

command button except for the Min/
Set Timer button. When the Oven Off
button is pushed, “Off” will show in the
large display. The display will then show
the time of day or, if Minute Timer is
also being used, the time remaining.

Using the oven

Baking

1. Position the rack(s) properly before
turning on the oven. To change
rack position, IiH rack at front and
pull out.

The rack(s) should be placed so
the top of the food will be centered in
the oven. Always leave at least 1% to
2 inches (4-5 cm) between the sides
of the pan and the oven walls and
other pans. For more information,
see the Cooking Guide.

2. Push the Bake button. “350°F” will
show in the small display to indicate

the preset temperature and the
PRE-, BAKE and ON lights will

come on.