Whirlpool RM978BXP Use & Care Manual

LOWER OVEN

Self-Cleaning Models

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Contents

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Before You Use Your Range.
Important Safety Instructions

Parts and Features.
Using Your Range

Using the Surface Units
Optional Accessory

Canning Kit

Using the Lower Oven

Baking or Roasting

Adjusting the Temperature

Control .

Using the Automatic

MEALTIMER* Clock

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The Oven Vent.

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The Storage Drawer 12
Optional Rotisserie 13

Caring for Your Cooktop and
lower Oven 13

Control Panel and Knobs 13
Surface Units and

Reflector Bowls. 14

Lift-Up Cooktop 15
Using the Self-Cleaning

Cycle 16

Cleaning Chart 20
The Cooktop Light 21
The Lower Oven Light 22

If You Need Service or

Assistance. 22

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Before you use your range

Read and carefully follow the 661NSTALlATION INSTRUCTIONS”

packed with your range.

Read this “Use & Care Guide” and your “Cooking Guide” carefully for important
use and safety information, Store these with the Upper Microwave Oven literature
in the Range Literature Pat for future use.

It Is your personal responsibility and obligation to be sure your range:

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Has been installed where it is protected from the elements.

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Has been installed and leveled on a floor strong enough to support its weight.

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Has been properly connected to electrical supply and grounded. [See
“Installation Instructions:‘)

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Is not used by anyone unable to operate it properly.

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Is properly maintained.

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Is used only for jobs expected of a home range.

See your “Cooking Guide” and “Upper Microwave Oven Use 81 Care Guide”
for addltional safety and operating instructions.

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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

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

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
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.

MAKE SURE

to open the oven
door all the way when adding or
removing food to prevent burns.

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FCR 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. THEY COULD IGNITE

CAUSING EXPLOSION AND/OR FIRE.

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Parts and features

Models RM973PXB and RM978BXP
COOKTOP AND LOWER OVEN

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MODEL AND

COOKTOPLIGHT

COOKTOP LIGHT

/ SWITCH

- SERIAL NUMBER
PLATE

ONE-PIECE CHROME

REFLECTOR BOWL

UTOMATIC OVEN

LIGHT SWITCH

COOKTOP AND /;

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BROIL ELEMENT

OVEN RACK GUIDE

BAKE ELEMENT

FIBERGLASS

SELF-CLEANING

STORAGE DRAWER

Copy your Model and SeTial Numbers here...

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

information ready:

1. Complete Model and Serial
Numbers (from the plate located

behind the microwave oven door).

Model Number

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

spaces. Keep this book in the Range

Serial Number

Information Center with your war­ranty and sales slip.

Purchase Date

There is no warranty reaistration to

return. Proof-at-purchase% all that is
required for in-warranty service.

Service Company/Phone Number

Using your range

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KNOB

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KNOB

LOCK

- LIGHT

m CLEAN

LIGHT

OVEN

TEMPERATURE

CONTROL

LOWER OVEN

- INDICATOR
LIGHT

- OVEN

SELECTOR

Surface unit control knobs must be
pushed in before turning. Turn either
way until setting you want shows in
window Set them anywhere between
HI and OFF.

When a surface unit is on, its indicator
light will also be on.

Using the surface units

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

Use MED-Hi

Use MED for Use MED-LO
foods cook- to hold a gravy, pud- to keep food
ing or to

rapid boil or

dings and

cooking after

bring liquids to fry chicken

icing, or to starting it
to a boil. or pancakes.

cook large

on a higher

amounts of

setting.

vegetables.

CAUTION: The use of the Hi setttng for long periods of time
can damage surface units and discolor chrome reflector
bowl&Start cooking on Hi and turn control down to
continue cooking.

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.

Use only flat-bottomed utensils for best cooking result 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.

Optional accessory canning 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-Care’ Service
Company.

See the “Cooking Guide” for important canning information.

Using the lower oven

The lower oven is always set with two knobs:

-The Oven Selector

-The Oven Temperature Control
Both must be on a setting for the oven to heat.

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Baking or roasting

1.

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

2. Set the Oven Selector on BAKE

4. When the Lower Oven Indicator
Light goes off, the oven is pre­heated. Put food in the oven.

Note: Oven racks, wails and
door will be hot.

Rack(s) should be placed so the
top of the food will be centered
in the oven. Always leave at least
1 Y2 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:’

3. Set the Oven Temperature Con­trol to the baking temperature

you want.

5. During baking, the elements will
turn on and off to keep the oven
temperature at the setting. The

Lower Oven Indicator Light will

turn on and off with the elements
The top element helps heat

during baking, but does not

turn red.

When baking is done, turn both

the Oven Selector and the Oven

Temperature Control to OFF.

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Adjusting the Oven Temperature 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 adjusted 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:

1.

Pull the Oven Temperature Control
Knob straight off.

2. Loosen the locking screw inside
the control knob. Note the posi­tion of the notches.

3.

To lower the temperature, move
a notch closer to LO. Each notch
equals aboutlO”F (5°C).

4. To raise the temperature, move
a notch closer to HI. Each notch
equals aboutlOaF (5°C).

Tlghten the locking screw and
replace the control knob.

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