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1 Tik 01 Home Appiances 4a HOWTOMAKEAHOMEiJ$ UseAndCare Tabe of Contents (compete) A Note to You Range Safety Getting to Know Your Range... 7 Using Your Range Using the Sef- Ceaning Cyce Caring for Your Range Troubeshooting Requesting Assistance or Service Index Warranty I 301 Ca us with questions or comments. SELF-CLEANING ELECTRIC RANGE PART NO Rev. B O 95 MODEL RF354BXD

2 Tabe of Contents A Note to You... 3 Range Safety Getting to Know Your Range... 7 Using Your Range... 8 Using the surface units... 8 Positioning racks and pans For best air circuation Using auminum foi for baking Setting the cock Using the Minute Trmer Baking/roasting Adjusting the oven temperature contro Broiing Broiing tips Energy saving tips Using the MEALTIMERTM cock The oven vent The ower pane The anti-tip bracket Optiona door pane pat Using the Sef-Ceaning Cyce Before you start Setting the contros Specia tips How the cyce works Caring for Your Range Ceaning the cooktop Ceaning other range parts Troubeshooting Requesting Assistance or Service Index Warranty

3 A Note to You Thank you for buying a WHIRLPOOL@ appiance. Because your ife is getting busier and more compicated, WHIRLPOOL ranges are easy to use, save time, and hep you manage your home better. To ensure that you enjoy years of troube-free operation, we deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It is fu of vauabe information about how to operate and maintain your appiance propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Aso, pease compete and mai in the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. The card heps us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Pease record your mode s information. Whenever you ca to request service for Mode Number your appiance, you need to know your Seria Number compete mode number and seria number. You can find this information on the mode Purchase Date and seria number pate (see diagram on Deaer Name page 7 for ocation of pate). Deaer Address Pease aso record the purchase date of your appiance and your deaer s name, Deaer Phone address, and teephone number. Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. I Our Consumer Assistance Center number is to-free 24 hours a day. I I 301 I 3

4 Range Safety Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety statements under warning symbos. Pease pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the use of the symbo. This symbo wi hep aert you to such dangers as fire, eectrica shock, burns, and persona Injury., IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS To reduce the risk of fire, eectrica shock, injury to persons, or damage when using the range, foow basic precautions, incuding the foowing: Genera never be aowed to sit or a instructions before using on any part of the range. They the range. coud be burned or or ocate the range ony in.do not operate the range if it is accordance with the provided damaged or not working propery. Instaation not use the range for warming range must be instaed by a or heating the room. Persons quaified instaer. The range must coud be burned or injured, or a be propery connected to eectri- fire coud start. ca suppy and the range ony for its intended use as described in this manua. WARNING: To reduce the risk of tipping the appiance, the *Do not touch surface units, areas appiance must be secured by a near units, heating eements, or propery instaed anti-tip bracket. interior surfaces of oven. Surface To check if the bracket is in- units and heating eements coud staed propery, see The anti-tip be hot even though they are dark bracket on page 21. in coor. Areas near surface units CAUTION: Do not store things and interior surfaces of an oven chidren might want above the become hot enough to cause range. Chidren coud be burned burns. During and after use, do not or injured whie cimbing on it. touch, or et cothing or other fammabe materias contact surface ~DO not eave chidren aone or units, areas near units, heating unattended in area where the eements, or interior surfaces range is in use. They shoud 4

5 of oven unti they have had sufficient time to coo. Other surfaces of the range, such as the oven vent opening, the surface near the vent opening, the cooktop, and the oven door, coud aso become hot enough to cause burns.!bk not wear oose or hanging garments when using the range. They coud ignite if they touch a hot surface unit and you coud be ony dry pot hoders. Moist or damp pot hoders on hot surfaces coud resut in burns from steam. Do not et pot hoders touch hot heating eements. Do not use a towe or buky coth for a pot hoder. It coud catch on fire. *Keep range vents not heat unopened containers. They coud expode. The hot contents coud cause burns and container partices coud cause injury. Wse ony utensis approved for oven use. Foow utensi manufacturer s instructions, especiay when using gass or pastic utensis. *Do not store fammabe materias on or near the range. The fumes coud create an exposion and/or fire hazard. When using the not cook on a broken cooktop. If cooktop shoud break, ceaning soutions and spiovers coud penetrate the broken cooktop and create a risk of eectrica shock. Contact a quaified technician immediatey. Seect a pan with a fat bottom that is about the same size as the surface unit. If pan is smaer than the surface unit, some of the heating eement wi be exposed and coud resut in the igniting of cothing or pot hoders. Correct pan size aso improves cooking to be sure gass cooking utensis are safe for use on the range. Ony certain types of gass, gass-ceramic, ceramic, earthenware, or other gazed utensis are suitabe for cooktops without breaking due to the sudden change in eave surface units unattended at high heat settings. A boiover coud resut and cause smoking and greasy spiovers that coud ignite. *Turn pan handes inward, but not over other surface units. This wi hep reduce the chance of burns, igniting of fammabe materias, and spis due to bumping of the pan. continued on next page 5

6 6 When using the oven Sma amounts of formadehyde and carbon monoxide are position oven rack(s) in desired ocation whie oven is off in the Sef-Ceaning cyce from fibergass insuation and food coo. If a rack must be removed decomposition. Significant expowhie oven is hot, do not et pot sure to these substances coud hoder contact hot heating eement in oven. cause cancer or reproductive harm. Exposure can be mini- *Use care when opening oven mized by venting with a hood or door. Let hot air or steam escape open window and wiping out before removing or repacing food. excess food spis prior to sefceaning. is fammabe. Do not aow grease to coect around cooktop or in vents. Wipe spiovers immediatey. ADO not use oven ceaners. No commercia oven ceaner or oven iner protective coating of any kind shoud be used in or around any part of the oven. Do not use water on grease sef-ceaning the oven, Never pick up a faming pan. remove broier pan, broier grid, Smother faming pan on range by oven racks, and other utensis. Do covering with a we-fitted id, not use your oven to cean miscecookie sheet, or fat tray. Faming aneous parts uness you are grease outside of pan can be instructed to do so in this Use and extinguished with baking soda or, Care Guide. if avaiabe, a mutipurpose dry ADO not cean door heat sea. It is chemica or foam-type extinguisher. essentia for a good sea. Care Care and ceaning shoud be taken not to rub, damaoe, or move the sea. Cean ony *Cean cooktop with care. Some parts recommended in this Use - ceaners coud produce noxious and Care Guide. fumes if appied to a hot surface. If a wet paper towe is used not repair or repace any part of the range uness specificay wipe spis on a hot cooking area, recommended in this manua. A be carefu to avoid steam burns. other servicing shoud be referred to a quaified technician. *Disconnect the eectrica suppy before servicing the range. - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS -

7 Getting to Know Your Range This section contains captioned iustrations of your range. Use them to become famiiar with the ocation and appearance of a parts and features. To hep you find information on specific parts and features quicky, page references are incuded. Contro pane --!$ - Oven vent (P. 20) CLEANTOPQ ceramic - cooktop (PP. 9, 26) Anti-tip foor bracket Broi eement (P. 16) Bake eement (P. 13) mounted anti-tip bracket, see P. 21) Contro pane Left Left MEALTIMEW Stop time Oven temperature Oven marker indicator indicator (P. 8) ight ight (P. 8) (P. 3) indicator ight (pp. 13, 15) contro contro knob knob (P. 8) (P. 8) 7

8 Using Your Range To obtain the best cooking resuts possibe, you must operate your range propery. This section gives you important information for efficient and safe use of your range. Using the surface units Push in contro knobs before turning them to a setting. You can set them anywhere between HI and OFF. Surface unit markers The soid dot in the surface unit marker Surface unit indicator ights One of the Surface Unit Indicator ights on the contro pane wi gow when a surface unit is turned on. Hot surface indicator ight The Hot Surface Indicator Light on the contro pane wi gow when a surface unit becomes too hot to touch. The Indicator Light wi continue to gow as ong as the surface unit is too hot to touch, even after it is turned off. Fire Hazard Turn a contros off when done cooking. Faiure to do so can resut in death, fire, or burns. Unti you get used to the settings, use the foowing as a guide. For best resuts, start cooking at the high setting; then turn the contro knob down to continue cooking. I SETING RECOMMENDED USE I HI To start foods cooking. To brina iauids to a boi. I 6-8 To hod a rapid boi. To fry chicken or Dancakes. 5 For gravy, pudding, and icing. To cook arge amounts of veaetabes.

9 Using the ceramic gass cooktop Cooking on the ceramic gass cooktop is amost the same as cooking on coi surface units. There are, however, a few differences: The surface unit wi gow red when it is turned on. You wi see the eement cycing on (gowing red) and off - even on HI setting -to maintain the proper temperature setting you have seected. Siding meta pans on ceramic gass cooktop surface coud eave marks. Wiping off the cooktop before and after each use wi hep keep the surface free from stains and provide the most even heating. See pages 26 and 27 for care and ceaning suggestions. Cookware tips Seect a pan that is about the same size as the surface unit. Aso, woks, canners, and teakettes with fat bottoms suitabe for use on your cooktop are now avaiabe in most stores that se housewares. The pan shoud have straight sides and a tight-fitting id. Choose medium to heavy gauge (thickness) pans that are fairy ightweight. The pan materia (meta or gass) affects how fast heat transfers from the surface unit through the pan materia and how eveny heat spreads over the pan bottom. Choose pans that provide the best cooking resuts. Handes shoud be made of sturdy, heatresistant materia and be securey attached to the pan. With your hand, fee the bottom of your pans whie they are coo for nicks and scratches. Nicks and scratches on pan bottoms wi scratch the ceramic gass cooktop. Make sure bottoms of pans are cean and dry before using on cooktop. Avoid spiovers on cooktop. Use pans with ta sides. Do not cook food directy on cooktop. NOTE: Do not eave an empty utensi, or one which has boied dry, on a hot surface unit. The utensi coud overheat and damage the utensi or surface unit. NOTE: For best resuts and greater energy efficiency, use ony fat-bottomed cookware that makes good contact with the surface units. Cookware with rounded, warped, ribbed (such as some porceain enameware), or dented bottoms coud cause uneven heating and poor cooking resuts. You can, however, use the newer cookware avaiabe with sighty indented bottoms or very sma expansion channes. This cookware is speciay designed to provide the good contact needed for best cooking resuts. 9

10 Home canning information Pan Surface unit Start with hot water. This reduces the time the contro is set on high. Reduce heat setting to owest position needed to keep water boiing. Refer to your canner manua for specific instructions. Use the argest surface unit for best resuts. Aso, use a canner/pan which can be centered over the surface unit. Positioning racks and pans Genera guideines Aways position oven rack(s) in desired ocation before turning oven on. To move rack(s), ift rack(s) at front and pu out. Be sure the rack(s) is eve. If rack(s) must be moved whie oven is hot, use pot hoders or oven mitts to protect hands. For baking/roasting with one rack, pace the rack so the top of the food wi be centered in the oven. When bakng on two racks, arrange racks on the bottom and third eve from the bottom. Rack pacement for specific foods: FOOD Frozen pies, arge roasts, turkeys, ange food cakes Bundt cakes, most quick breads, yeast breads, casseroes, meats Cookies, biscuits, muff ins, cakes, nonfrozen pies RACK POSITION Lowest eve or 2nd eve from bottom 2nd eve from bottom 2nd or 3rd eve from bottom NOTE: For recommended rack pacement when broiing, see Broiing rack position chart on page

11 For best air circuation Hot air must circuate around the pans in the oven for even heat to reach a parts of the oven. This resuts in better baking. Pace the pans so that one is not directy over the other. For best resuts, aow 1 I/Z to 2 inches (4-5 cm) of space around each pan and between pans and oven was. There must be a minimum space of 1 inch (3 cm). Use ony one cookie sheet in the oven at one time. Using auminum foi for baking Use the foowing as a guide to determine where to pace the pans: One pan Pace in the center of the oven rack. Two pans Pace in opposite corners of the oven rack. Three or four pans Pace in opposite corners on each oven rack. Stagger pans so no pan is directy over another. Use auminum foi to catch spiovers from pies or casseroes: Pace the foi on the oven rack beow the rack with the food. Turn up foi edges and make sure foi is about 1 inch (3 cm) arger a around than the dish hoding the food. Do not cover the entire rack with auminum foi. It wi reduce air circuation and cause poor cooking resuts. Do not ine oven bottom or entire oven rack with foi or other iners. Poor baking wi resut. 11

12 Setting the cock Push in and turn the Minute Timer Knob to set the cock. 1. Push in Minute Timer Knob turn cockwise unti cock shows correct time of day. Using the Minute Timer The Minute Timer does not start or stop the oven. It works ike a kitchen timer. Set it in minutes up to an hour. You wi hear a buzzer when the set time is up. NOTE: Do not push in the knob when setting the Minute Timer, or when stopping the buzzer. Pushing in and turning the Minute Timer Knob changes the cock setting. 1. Without pushing it in, turn the Minute Timer Knob countercockwise unti the timer hand passes the setting you want. 12

13 Baking/roasting 1. Position racks. For more information, see Positioning racks and pans on page Set Oven Seector to BAKE and Oven Temperature Contro to baking/roasting temperature you want. The OVEN HEATING Indicator Light wi come on. The oven is preheated when the OVEN HEATING Indicator Light first goes off. NOTE: Do not preheat oven when roasting or cooking items such as casseroes. 3. Put food in oven. During baking/roasting, the eements wi turn on and off to keep the oven temperature at the setting. The OVEN HEATING Indicator Light wi turn on and off with the eements. NOTE: The top eement heps heat during baking/roasting, but does not turn red. 13

14 Adjusting the oven temperature contro Athough your new oven is propery adjusted to provide accurate temperatures, it may cook faster or sower than your od oven. If, after using the oven for a period of time, you are not satisfied with the baking/roasting resuts, you can change the offset temperature by foowing these steps: Locking,Tooth Notches 1. Make sure the Oven Temperature Contro Knob is turned to the off position. Pu knob straight off and fip it over. 2. Loosen the ocking screws inside the contro knob. Note the position of the notches. 3. To ower the temperature, hod knob hande firmy and move the tooth a notch countercockwise. Each notch equas about 5 F (25 C). 4. To raise the temperature, hod knob hande firmy and move the tooth a notch cockwise. Each notch equas about 5 F (2.5%). 5. Tighten the ocking screws and repace the contro knob. NOTE: DO NOT measure oven temperature with a thermometer. Opening the oven door wi ower the oven temperature and give you an inaccurate reading. Aso, the thermometer temperature reading wi change as your oven cyces. 14

15 Broiing NOTES: Do not preheat when broiing. The Oven Seector must be on BROIL for broiing temperatures. Leave the door party open whenever using the oven to broi. This aows the oven to maintain proper temperatures. 1. Position rack. Position rack so that the surface of the food is at east 3 inches (7.4 cm) away from the broi eement. See Broiing rack position chart on page Put food on broier pan and pace in center of oven rack. 3. Position door. Cose the door to the Broi Stop position (open about 4 inches [o cm]). The door wi stay open by itsef. 5. When broiing is done, turn off oven. Turn both the Oven Seector and the Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. The OVEN HEATING Indicator Light wi go off. 15

16 To custom broi at a ower temperature: If food is cooking too fast, turn the Oven Temperature Contro Knob countercockwise unti the OVEN HEATING Indicator Light goes off. If you want food to broi sower from the start, set the Oven Temperature Contro Knob between 170 F and 325 F (77 C and 163%). Lower temperature settings aow the broi heating eement to cyce and to sow cooking. The ower the temperature, the sower the cooking. NOTE: Fish and chicken are some foods that may cook better if you use ower broiing temperatures. Broiing rack position chart RACK POSITION FROM BOTOM TYPE OF FOOD/ DONENESS 4 Hamburger patties and thin steaks, Yz thick or ess 3 Quicky searing food, rare and medium steaks, medium patties, ham sices, fish steaks, frankfurters 2 We-done steaks and patties, amb chops, spit chicken, pork steaks and chops, whoe fish I 1 Not used for broiing I 16

17 Broiing tips Use the broier pan and grid for broiing. To ensure adequate grease drainage, do They are designed-to drain excess iquid not use cookie sheets or simiar pans for and grease away from the cooking surface broiing. to hep prevent spatter, smoke, or fire. After broiing, remove the broier pan Do not cover the broier grid with foi. from the oven when you remove the food. Pace food about 3 or more from the broi Drippings wi bake on the pad if you eave eement. it in the heated oven. Energy saving tips Athough the energy used for cooking is usuay a very sma percentage of the tota energy used in the home, cooking energy can be used efficienty. Here are some tips to hep you save energy when using your cooking product: Use pans with fat bottoms, straight sides, and tight-fitting ids. Match the pan to the surface unit size. Cook with a minimum of iquid or fat to hep shorten cooking time. Preheat pans ony when recommended and for the shortest time possibe. Start food on higher heat settings, then set surface unit contro on ow or off to finish cooking. Use retained heat for cooking when possibe. Use the more efficient surface units instead of the oven when possibe. Turn on the surface unit ony after pacing fied pan on the unit. Oven peeking may cause heat oss, onger cooking times, and unsatisfactory baking resuts. Rey on your timer to keep track of the cooking time. Bake cakes, pies, or cookies when oven is warm. Best time to bake is right after a mea has been cooked in oven. Preheat the oven no onger than necessary. Pan your meas for the most efficient use of the range. When using the oven to cook one food, try to cook the rest of the mea in it aso. Do not preheat when broiing, roasting, or cooking items such as casseroes. 17

18 Using the MEALTIMERTM cock The MEALTIMER cock is designed to turn the oven on and off tit times you set, even when you are not around. Deayed time baking/roasting is idea for foods which do not require a preheated oven, such as meats and casseroes. Do not use deayed time cyce for cakes, cookies, etc. - they wi not rise propery. Before using the MEALTIMER cock, make sure the cock is set to the correct time of day. (See Setting the cock on page 12.) Food Poisoning Hazard Do not et food sit in oven more than one hour before or after cooking. Faiure to foow the above can resut in death, food poisoning, or sickness. To deay start and stop automaticay: 1. Position the oven rack(s) propery and pace the food in the oven. want the oven to shut off. 18

19 4. Set the Oven Seector to TIMED BAKE and set the Oven Temperature Contro Knob to the baking/roasting temperature you want. The oven wi now start and stop automaticay. The OVEN HEATING Indicator Light wi come on when the start time is reached. 5. After baking/roasting is done or to cance the setting at any time, turn both the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. To start baking/roasting now and stop automaticay: 1. Position the oven rack(s) propery and pace the food in the oven. 2. Push in and turn the Stop Time Knob cockwise to the time you want the oven to shut off. Make sure the Start Time Knob is not pushed in. 3. Set the Oven Seector to TIMED BAKE and set the Oven Temperature Contro Knob to the baking/roasting temperature you want. 4. After baking/roasting is done or to cance the setting at any time, turn both the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. 19

20 The oven vent Oven vent Hot air and moisture escape from the oven through a vent on the backguard beow the contro pane. The vent is needed for air circuation. Do not bock the vent. Poor baking/roasting can resut. The ower pane You can remove the ower pane to hep make it easier to cean under the range and to check for instaation of the anti-tip foor bracket (if you have one). Removing the ower pane: Repacing the ower pane: 1. Pu out bottom of pane. 2. Sighty swing out and ift pane to remove from top cips. 1. Pace notches in top of pane over the top cips. 2. Swing down and push bottom of pane to secure bottom cips. 20

21 The anti-tip bracket The range wi not tip during norma use. However, tipping can occur if you appy too much force or weight to the open door without the anti-tip bracket propery secured. Tip Over Hazard Connect anti-tip bracket to the range feet. Reconnect anti-tip bracket, if the range is moved. Do not push down on the open oven door. Foow the instaation instructions. Do not et chidren cimb onto the oven door. Faiure to do so can resut in death, burns, or other injury. To verify the anti-tip bracket is engaged (if you have a foor brat ket): Remove the ower pane. (See page 20.) Foor bracket Rear eveing eg Look to see if the anti-tip bracket is attached to foor with screws. Make sure one rear eveing eg is positioned under the anti-tip bracket. See Instaation Instructions for further detais. To verify the anti-tip bracket is engaged (if you have a wa bracket): Wa bracket Cabe (attached to rear of contro pane) Look to see if the anti-tip bracket is attached with screws to the wa behind the contro pane. Make sure the cabe on the back of the range is secured by the two hooks on the bracket. Cabe must be unhooked from wa bracket to move range for ceaning or service. Reconnect cabe before using range. See Instaation Instructions for further detais. Optiona door pane pat If you woud ike to change the coor of your oven door gass to white or amond, you can order one of these kits from your Whirpoo Deaer. The kits incude easy instaation instructions. Whte (Kit No ) Amond (Kit No ) 21

22 Using the SetWeaning Cyce The Sef-Ceaning cyce saves you from the toi and mess that often come with hand-ceaning the oven interior. Like the other functions of your range, you operate the Sef-Ceaning cyce with easy-to-use contros. Pease review the instructions in this section to keep your oven spotess. Burn Hazard Do not touch the oven during the Sef-Ceaning cyce. Keep chidren away from oven during SefCeanIng cyce. Do not use commercia oven ceaners in your oven. Faiure to foow these instructions can resut in burns, or iness from inhaing dangerous fumes. Before you start Before you start the Sef-Ceaning make sure you: cyce, Hand-cean the areas shown. They do not get hot enough during the ceaning cyce for soi to burn away. Use hot water and detergent or a soapy stee-woo pad for ceaning. NOTE: DO NOT cean, move, or bend the sea. Poor ceaning, baking, and roasting may resut. Remove the broier pan and grid and any pots and pans being stored in the oven. NOTE: You can cean the broier pan (without grid) in the oven if you have first removed most of the soi by hand-ceaning or in a dishwasher. If most of the soi is not removed, too much smoking wi occur. The chrome broier pan and grid wi discoor if ceaned in the Sef-Ceaning cyce. Wipe out any oose soi or grease. This wi hep reduce smoke during the Sef- Ceaning cyce. Remove the oven racks from the oven if you want them to remain shiny. You can cean the oven racks in the Sef-Ceaning cyce, but they wi become harder to side. (See page 29.) If you cean racks in the Sef-Ceaning cyce, pace them on the 2nd and 4th rack guides. (Guides are counted from bottom to top.) Heat and odors are norma during the Sef-Ceaning cyce. Keep the kitchen we ventiated by opening a window or by turning on a vent hood or other kitchen vent during the cyce. 22

23 NOTES: Do not force the Lock Lever. You coud bend or break it. The ever is designed to stay ocked unti the oven is coo enough to safey open. Wait unti it moves freey. Do not bock the vent during the Sef- Ceaning cyce. Air must move freey for best ceaning resuts. Setting the contros 1. Move the Lock Lever to the right-the Cean position. When the oven temperature goes above norma baking/roasting temperatures, the door cannot be opened and the Lock Lever must not be moved. Do not eave pastic utensis near the vent. They may met. Do not eave any foi in the oven during the Sef-Ceaning cyce. Foi coud burn or met and damage the oven surface. The oven ight wi not work during the Sef-Ceaning cyce. 2. Set the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to CLEAN. 3. Make sure the cock and Start and Stop Times a have the correct time of day. 4. Push in and turn the Stop Time Knob cockwise two or three hours. The OVEN HEATING Indicator Light wi come on. Use two hours for ight soi. Use three hours or more for moderate to heavy soi. NOTE: Make sure the Start Time Knob is not pushed in. 23

24 5. After the Sef-Ceaning cyce is competed and the oven has cooed enough, the Lock Lever can be moved back to the eft. DO NOT FORCE the Lock Lever. Wait unti it moves easiy. Turn the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. 6. After the oven is coo, wipe off any residue or ash with a damp coth. If needed, touch up spots with a soapy stee-woo pad. To stop the Sef-Ceaning cyce at any time: 2. Turn the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. 3. When the oven has cooed enough, move the Lock Lever back to the eft. DO NOT FORCE the Lock Lever. Wait unti it moves easiy. 24

25 Specia tips Keep the kitchen we ventiated during the Sef-Ceaning cyce to hep get rid of heat, odors, and smoke. After the oven is coo, wipe up any residue or ash with a damp coth or sponge. If any spots remain, cean with a mid abrasive ceanser or ceaning sponge. Cean the oven before it gets heaviy soied. Ceaning a very soied oven takes onger and resuts in more smoke than usua. If the Sef-Ceaning cyce does not get the oven as cean as you expected, the cyce may not have been set ong enough or you may not have prepared the oven propery. Set the Sef-Ceaning cyce onger the next time and hand-cean areas noted on page 22. How the cyce works The Sef-Ceaning cyce uses very high heat to burn away soi and grease. During the cyce, the oven gets much hotter than it does for norma baking or broiing. This high heat breaks up the soi or grease and burns it away. You can adjust the cyce time to the amount of soi in your oven. You can set the cyce anywhere between two and four hours. (See Setting the contros on page 23.) The graph at the right is representative of a norma, 3%hour Sef-Ceaning cyce. Note that the heating stops /2 hour before the 3% hour setting is up. START 1 ime I, Hours 3 STOP 25

26 Caring for Your Range Your range is designed for easy care. You can do most ceaning with items found around your home. Ceaning your range whenever spis or soiing occurs wi hep to keep it ooking and operating ike new. Ceaning the cooktop This cooktop is designed for easy care. However, ceramic cooktops need to be maintained differenty than standard eectric open-coi eements. Foods spied directy on the cooktop wi not burn off as on open-coi eements. Because of this, the surface shoud be dust free and soi free before heating. Your cooktop has been prepoished at the factory for improved protection and ceanabiity. The Cooktop Poishing Creme (incuded with your range), paper towes or a sponge, and a singe edge razor bade in a hoder is a you need to cean your cooktop. For proper ceaning methods, pease review Ceaning tips on pages 27 and 28. Foow them after each use to ensure top performances and to preserve that uniquey eegant ook. NOTE: Let cooktop coo before ceaning. To avoid damaging the cooktop, foow these instructions: Sugar spis and sois (such as jeies and candy syrups) can cause pitting on the cooktop if not removed whie the ceramic surface is sti warm. Remove as soon as possibe after the spi occurs. Do not use the cooktop as a cutting board. Do not aow anything that may met (such as pastic or auminum foi) to come in contact with the surface whie it is hot. Do not use the ceramic cooktop to cook popcorn that comes in prepackaged auminum containers. The container coud eave auminum marks on the cooktop that cannot be removed competey. Do not use stee woo, pastic ceaning pads, abrasive powdered ceansers, chorine beach, rust remover, ammonia, or gass ceaning products with ammonia. These coud damage the cooktop surface. Dropping heavy or hard objects on the cooktop coud crack it. Be carefu with heavy skiets. Do not store jars or cans above the cooktop. 26

27 Ceaning tips What to use: Cooktop Poishing Creme (incuded with your range) with paper towe or cean, damp sponge - This creme has been deveoped especiay for ceaning and protecting your cooktop. When using, foow instructions on container. Razor scraper in a hoder - Use to remove cooked-on sois from your ceramic cooktop. To avoid scratches, keep the razor bade as fat against the cooktop as possibe. Store razor bades out of reach of chidren. Steps to foow: 1. Most spis can be wiped off easiy using a paper towe or cean, damp sponge as soon as Hot Surface Indicator Light goes off. 2. For stubborn spis, rub Cooktop Poishing Creme into cooked-on soi using a paper towe. If some soi remains, eave some creme on the spot(s) and foow Step Carefuy scrape spots with the razor scraper. 4. Finish by poishing entire cooktop with Cooktop Poishing Creme and a paper towe. To obtain order information for Cooktop Poishing Creme (Part No ) or razor scraper (Part No ), write to: Whirpoo Corporation Attention: Customer Service Dept Whirpoo Drive LaPone, IN OR Ca to order. You must have a major credit card to order by phone. How to keep your cooktop ooking ike new: IF THERE ARE WHAT TO DO Sugary spis To prevent pitting on and sois (such the cooktop, wipe up as jeies and with paper towe or candy syrups) cean, damp sponge whie gass ceramic surface is sti warm. Remove as soon as possibe after spi occurs. Dark streaks, specks, and discooration Use Cooktop Poishing Creme or nonabrasive ceanser with damp paper towe or sponge. Meta marks Use Cooktop Poishing (from copper or Creme or nonabrasive auminum pans) ceanser with damp paper towe or sponge before heating the cooktop again. if heated before ceaning, meta marks may not come off. Tiny scratches Scratches and abraor abrasions sions do not affect cooking. in time, they wi become ess visibe as a resut of ceaning. To prevent scratches and abrasions, use Cooktop Poishing Creme reguary. NOTE: Aways wipe with cean water and dry your cooktop thoroughy after using ceanser to prevent streaking or staining. 27

28 Ceaning other range par&s Use the foowing tabe to hep you cean a other parts of your range. PART WHAT TO USE HOW TO CLEAN Contro knobs Sponge and warm, Turn knobs to OFF and pu straight soapy water away from contro pane. Wash, rinse, and dry thoroughy. Do not soak. Do not use stee woo or abrasive ceansers. They may damage the finish of the knobs. Repace knobs. Make sure a knobs point to OFF. Contro pane Sponge and warm, Wash, wipe with cean water, and dry soapy water thoroughy. Do not use stee woo or OR abrasive ceansers. They may damage the finish. Paper towe and spray Do not spray ceaner directy on pane. gass ceaner Appy ceaner to paper towe. Exterior surfaces Sponge and warm, Wash, wipe with cean water, and dry (other than cooktop soapy water thoroughy. Use nonabrasive, pastic and contro pane) scrubbing pad on heaviy soied areas. Do not use abrasive or harsh ceansers. They may damage the finish. Broier pan and Stee-woo pad and Wash, rinse, and dry thoroughy. Do grid (cean after warm, soapy water not cean in Sef-Ceaning each use) cyce. (See note on page 22.) Oven racks Stee-woo pad and Wash, rinse, and dry thoroughy. warm, soapy water OR OR The Sef-Ceaning cyce Leave in oven during Sef-Ceaning cyce. NOTE: Racks wi permanenty discoor and become harder to side if eft in oven during Sef-Ceaning cyce. Appy a sma amount of vegetabe oi to the side rungs to aid siding. Oven door gass Paper towe and spray Make sure oven is coo. gass ceaner Foow directions provided with the OR ceaner. Warm, soapy water and Wash, wipe with cean water, and dry a nonabrasive, pastic thoroughy. scrubbing pad 28 Oven cavity Sef-Ceaning cyce See Using the Sef-Ceaning Cyce on pages

29 Troubeshooting Most cooking probems often are caused by itte things you can find and fix without toos of any kind. Check the ists beow and on the next page before caing for assistance or service. if you sti need hep, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 31. If nothing operates, check the foowing:! Is the range pugged into a ive outet with the proper votage? (See instaation instructions.) Have you bown a househod fuse or tripped a circuit breaker? Other possibe probems and their causes: PROBLEM The oven wi not operate The surface units wi not operate Contro knob(s) wi not turn CAUSE You have not turned the Oven Seector to BAKE or BROIL. You have programmed a deayed start time. Wait for the start time to be reached or cance and reset the contros. You have not turned the Oven Temperature Contro Knob to a temperature setting. You have not set the MEALTIMER cock correcty. (See Using the MEALTiMERTM cock on page 18.) You have not set the MEALTIMER cocks Stop or Start Time Knobs to the correct time of day. If a deay start or stop is not desired, the Stop and Start Time Knobs must be turned to the correct time of day. Turn knobs ti they pop out. You have bown a househod fuse or tripped a circuit breaker. You have not set the contro knobs correcty. Push contro knobs in before turning to a setting. You are not pushing in before turning. 29

30 r PROBLEM CAUSE 1 The Sef-Ceaning wi not operate cyce You have not set the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to CLEAN. The range cock does not show the correct time of day. Reset cock. (See page 12.) The Lock Lever is not in the CLEAN position - a the way to the right. The Start Time Knob does not show the correct time of day or the knob is not a the way out. The Stop Time Knob is not set ahead to the time you want the Sef-Ceaning cyce to stop. See Step 3 in Setting the contros on page 23 for proper setting instructions. Cooking resuts are not what you expected The range is not eve. (See instaation instructions.) The oven temperature seems too ow or too high. See Adjusting the oven temperature contro on page 14 to adjust oven temperature. You did not preheat the oven before baking (if caed for in recipe). The recipe you are using may need to be atered to improve the taste or appearance of the food. You are using a pan that is not the correct type or size. Refer to a reiabe cookbook or recipe for recommended pan type and size. There is not enough air space around pan when baking. Aow 1% to 2 inches (4-5 cm) of air space on a sides of pan. There must be a minimum space of 1 inch. The cooking utensi is too arge or too sma for the surface unit being used. Pan shoud be the same size or sighty arger than the surface unit being used. if none of these items was causing your probem, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page

31 Requesting Assistance or Service Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on pages It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. 1. If you need assistance*... Ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center teephone number. Dia toi-free from anywhere in the U.S.A.: and tak with one of our trained consutants. The consutant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. if you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Whirpoo Corporation 2000 North M-63 Benton Harbor, MI Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 2. If you need service*... Whirpoo has a nationwide network of authorized Whirpoo service companies. Whirpoo service SERVICE technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty and E provide after-warranty service, anywhere in the United States. To ocate the authorized Whirpoo service company in your area, ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number (see Step 1) or ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages under: 3. If you need FSP repacement parts... FSP is a registered trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your WHIRLPOOL@ appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new WHIRLPOOL appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, refer to Step 2 or ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center number in Step If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Program (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices consumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer, and Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Program 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. APPLIANCE-HOUSEHOLD WASHING MACHINES 6 MAJOR, SERVICE 6 REPAIR DRYERS, SERVICE & REPAIR - See: Whirpoo Appiances or See: Whirpoo Appiances or Authorized Whirpoo Service Authorized Whirpoo Service (ExampkXYZ sewice Co.) (Exampe: XYZ Service Co.) When asking for hep or service: Pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers, and the purchase date. (See page 3.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request.

32 Index This index is aphabetica. it contains a the topics incuded in this manua, aong with the page(s) on which you can find each topic. TOPIC PAGE TOPIC PAGE ANTI-TIP BRACKET ASSISTANCE BAKING Auminum foi Pans... 10, 11 Racks Setting cyce BROILING Broi stop position Broiing rack position chart Grid Pan... 15, 17 Setting cyce Tips CLEANING Broier pan and grid Contro knobs Contro pane Cooktop Exterior surfaces Oven cavity Oven door gass Oven racks CLOCK CONTROL KNOBS... 8, 28 COOKTOP Ceaning Using COOKWARE Canning Tips... 9 ENERGY SAVING TIPS FEATURES... 7 LOCK LEVER , 24 LOWER PANEL MEALTIMERTM CLOCK Deaying start and stop automaticay Starting now and stopping automaticay MINUTE TIMER MODEL AND SERIAL NUMBER... 3 OPTIONAL DOOR PANEL PAC OVEN TEMPERATURE Adjusting Setting... 13, 15, 19 OVEN VENT PANS... 10, 1 1 PARTS... 7 RACKS ROASTING Pans... 10, 11 Racks Setting cyce SAFETY SELF-CLEANING How cyce works Preparing oven Setting contros Stopping cyce Tips SERVICE SURFACE UNITS Contro knobs... 8, 28 Contro setting guide... 8 Hot surface indicator ight... 8 Oven heating indicator ight... 13, 15 Surface unit indicator ights... 8 Surface unit markers... 8 TROUBLESHOOTING WARRANTY

33 CLEANTOP Freestanding Range Warranty LENGTH 0F WARRANTY 1 WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FULL ONE-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase FSP@ repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship. Service must be provided by an authorized WhirDoo service comdanv. FULL FIVE-YEAR FSP repacement parts and repair abor for CLEANTOP WARRANTY ceramic cooktop to the origina purchaser of this product. From Date of Purchase Whirpoo warrants that: -The ceramic cooktop wi not discoor -The ceramic cooktop pattern wi not wear off -The rubber sea between the ceramic cooktop and porceain edge wi not crack -The ceramic cooktop wi not crack due to therma shock -The surface units wi not burn out WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FOR A-Service cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of your range. 2. Instruct you how to use your range. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring. 4. Repace owner-accessibe ight bubs. 6. Repairs when your range is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. Pickup and deivery. Your range is designed to be repaired in the home. D. Damage to your range caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God, or use of products not approved by Whirpoo. E. Repairs to CLEANTOP ceramic cooktop if it has not been cared for as recommended in this Use and Care Guide. F. Repairs to parts or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. a95 WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSE- QUENTIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta or consequentia damages, so this excusion or imitation may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the United States, a different warranty may appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Whirpoo deaer. If you need service, first see the Troubeshooting section of this book. After checking Troubeshooting, additiona hep can be found by checking the Requesting Assistance or Service section or by caing our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number, , from anywhere in the U.S.A. PART NO Rev. B Whirpoo Registered TrademarIuTM Trademark oi Whirpoo. U.S.A. Printed 1 o/95 in U.S.A.