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Use & Care Guide

Electronic automatic
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Removable
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Automatic oven

Broil element

Contents

Important Safety
Instructions. .
Using Your Range .

Using the surface units .
The electronic oven controls
Setting the clock
Using the electronic

Minute Timer .
Using the Oven Off button
Using the oven
Using the electronic automatic

MEALTIMER’” control

Theovenvent . . . . . . . . .

The storage drawer .
Optional rotisserie
Optional door panel pat .

Caring For Your Range .

Control panel and knobs
Solid element surface units
Using the Self-Cleaning cycle
Cleaning tips .
The oven light

If You Need Service
Or Assistance.
Whirlpool Range Warranty..

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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.

Or

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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
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 frame) and purchase date from
sales slip.

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Keep this book, the Cooking Guide
and sales slip together in a handy

place.
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Model Number

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Serial Number

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Purchase Date

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Service Company Phone Number

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You are 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. (See the 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.

Important Safety Instructions

To reduce the risk of fire, electrical shock,
injury to persons, or damage when using the
range, follow basic precautions,

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Read all instructions before using

the range.

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Install or locate the range only in
accordance with the provided

Installation Instructions. It is rec­ommended that the range be in­stalled by a qualified installer. The

range must be properly connected
to electrical supply and grounded.

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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 or
unattended 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 gar-

ments 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.

. 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-fined lid,
cookie sheet or flat tray. Flaming
grease outside of 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.

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Select a pan with a flat bottom that

is about the same size as the sur­face unit. If pan is smaller than the
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 cooking 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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Important Safety Instructions
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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.

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Do not clean door seal. It IS essen-

tial for a good seal. Care should be

taken not to rub, damage, or move

the seal. Clean only parts recom-

mended in this Use and Care
Guide.

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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.

- SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS -

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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
hot even though they are dark in
color. Areas near surface units and
interior surfaces of an oven be­come hot enough to cause burns.

During and after use, do not touch,
or let clothing or other flammable
materials contact surface units,
areas near units, heating elements
or interior surfaces of oven until
they have had sufficient time 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.

. FOR YOUR SAFETY

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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. THE FUMES
CAN CREATE A FIRE
HAZARD OR EXPLOSION.

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 markers
The solid dot in the surface unit marker

shows which surface unit is turned on
by that knob.

Surface unit indicator lights
One of the Surface Unit Indicator

Lights on the control panel will glow
when a surface unit is on.

Burn and Fire Hazard

Be sure all control knobs are
turned to OFF and all indicator
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.

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.

Using Your Range
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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.

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 grve off smoke as the protec­tive 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 pro-

tective limiter as a safety feature. The

limiter senses uneven cooking temper­atures and automatically reduces the
heat level. The limiter will sense uneven
heat when a pan boils dry or when a
pan is removed and the surface unit is
left on. The heat level may also be
reduced automatically if the bottom of
the pan is not flat or if the pan is too
large or too small for the element. This
will result in longer cooking times.

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.

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.

See the Cooking Guide for additional
cookware information.

The electronic oven controls

There are three parts in the oven control
section:

-The digital display.

-The command buttons.

-The Set Knob.

Instructions for each oven control are
covered on the followrng 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 dis­play again shows four flashing 8’s; your
electricity was off for a while. Reset
the clock.

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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:

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For settings from 1-59 seconds, each

second will show in the display.

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

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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 to 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 but-

ton to tell the oven what you want it to
do, you’ll use the Set Knob to set a tem­perature or time. Turning the Set Knob
clockwise increases the number on the
display. Turning the Set Knob counter­clockwise decreases the number on the
display.

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Using Your Range
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Setting the clock

1. Push the Time Of Day button. The
TIME light will show in the display.

2. While pushing the Time Of Day
button, turn the Set Knob until the
correct time shows in 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 four 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.

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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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Ouickly push the Mrn/Sec Timer
button twice.

Using the Oven Off button

The Oven Off button will cancel any

command button except for the Mini
Set Timer button. When the Oven Off
button IS pushed, “Off” will show in the

large drsplay. The display will then show
the time of day or, if Mrnute Timer is
also being used, the timeremarnrng.

Using the oven

Baking

1. Posrtion the rack(s) properly before

turnrng on the oven. To change

rack position, lift 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 Cookrng Guide.

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

PRE-BAKE and ON lights will

come on.