UseAndCare A Note to You 2 Parts and Features 6 Using Your Range 7 Using the Setf- Ceaning Cyce 20 Warranty 32 1-800-253-1301 Ca us with questions or comments. SELF-CLEANING ELECTRIC RANGE MODELS RF3600XY RF350BXB
A Note to You Thank you for buying a Whirpoo@ appiance. Because your ife is getting busier and more compicated, Whirpoo ranges are easy to use, save time, and hep you manage your home better. To ensure that you wi enjoy years of troube-free operation, we deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It is fu of vauabe information on how to operate and maintain your appiance propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Aso, pease compete and mai the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. This wi hep us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety symbos and statements. Pease pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the use of each symbo. Our Consumer Assistance Center number, -800-253-1301, is to-free, 24 hours a day. If you ever have a question concerning your appiance s operation, or if you need service, first see If You Need Assistance or Service on page 28. If you need further hep, fee free to ca our Consumer Assistance Center. When caing, you wi need to know your appiance s compete mode number and seria number. You can find this information on the mode and seria number pate (see diagram on page 6). For your convenience, we have incuded a handy pace beow for you to record these numbers, the purchase date from the saes sip and your deaer s name and teephone number. Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. Mode Number Seria Number Purchase Date Deaer Name Deaer Phone 2
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 Read a instructions before using the range. Insta or ocate the range ony in accordance with the provided Instaation Instructions. The range must be instaed by a quaified instaer. The range must be ropery connected to eectrica P suppy and grounded. @WARNING: To reduce the risk of ti ping of the appiance, the app P iance must be secured by a proper1 instaed anti-tip bracket. $! o check if the bracket is instaed propery, see The anti-tip bracket on page 19. *CAUTION: Do not store things chidren mi ht want above the range. Chi i ren coud be burned or injured whie cimbing on it. Do not eave chidren aone or unattended in area where the range is in use. They shoud never be aowed to sit or stand on an part of the range. They coud i e burned or injured. Do not operate the range if it is damaged or not working propery. *Do not use the range for warming or heatin the room. Persons coud be % urned or injured, or a fire coud start. 4Jse the range ony for itsint;;x?;tuse as described In this. 111 df GEL *Do not touch surface units, areas near units, heating eements or interior surfaces of oven. Surface units and heating eements may be hot even though they are dark in coor. Areas near surface units and interior surfaces of an oven become hot enou h to cause burns. During an 8 after use, do not touch, or et cothing or other fammabe materias contact surface units, areas near units, heatin eements or interior surfaces 07 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. @Do not wear oose or hanging garments when using the range. They coud ignite if they touch a hot surface unit and you coud be burned. continued on next page 3
4Jse ony d pothoders. Moist or damp po r hoders on hot surfaces coud resut in burns from steam. Do not et pothoder touch hot heating eements. Do not use a towe or buk coth fo;or~othoder. It cou J catch *Keep range vents unobstructed. *Do not heat unopened containers. They coud expode. The hot contents coud cause burns and container partices coud cause injury. *Do not store fammabe materias on or near the range. The fumes coud create an exposion and/or fire hazard. When using the cooktop *Make sure the refector bows are in pace during cooking. Cooking without refector bows coud subject the wirin and components undernea?h them to damage. @Do not ine refector bows with auminum foi or other iners. Improper instaation of these iners coud resut in a risk of eectric shock or fire. @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 i niting of cothing or pothoders. 8 orrect pan size aso improves cooking efficiency. Check to be sure ass cooking utensis are sa 9 e 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 temperature. *Never eave surface units unattended at high heat settin s. A boiover coud resut an % cause smokin and grr;~y sprovers t I! at coud. *Turn pan handes inward, but not over other surface units. This wi hep reduce the chance of burns, i niting of fammabe materia 9 s, and spis due to bumping of the pan. When using the oven Aways position oven rack(s) in desired ocation whie oven is coo. If a rack must be removed whie oven is hot, do not et pothoder contact hot heating eement in oven. @Use care when opening oven door. Let hot air or steam escape before removing or repacing food.
Grease Grease is fammabe. Do not aow grease to coect around cooktop or in vents. Wipe spiovers immediatey. 30 not use water on grease ires. Never pick up a faming Dan. Smother famin pan on ange by coverin WI 9 h a we- itted id, cookie s v eet or fat ray. Faming grease outside of Dan can be extin uished with Jaking soda or, i 9 avaiabe, a nutipurpose dry chemica or oam-type extinguisher. Care and ceaning @Sma amounts of formadehyde and carbon monoxide are off in the Sef-Ceaning cyc 9 e iven from fibergass insuatron and food decomposition. Si exposure to these subs 9 antes nificant coud cause cancer or reproductive harm. Exposure can be minimized by venting with a hood or open window and wiping out excess food spis pnor to sef-ceaning. - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - m.do not use oven ceaners. No commercia oven ceaner or oven iner rotective coating of any kind s R oud be used in or around any part of the oven. Before sef-ceaning the oven., remove broier an, broier oven racks an cf other utensi 9 s. rid, Do not use your oven to cean misceaneous parts uness you are instructed to do so in this Use and Care Guide. @Do not soak removabe heating eements in water. The eement wi be damaged and shock or fire coud resut..do not cean door heat sea. It is essentia for a good sea. Care shoud be taken not to rub, damage or move the sea. Cean ony parts recommended in this Use and Care Guide. @Do not repair or repace any part of the range uness specifi- cay recommended in this manua. A other servicing shoud be referred to a quaified technician. *Disconnect the eectrica suppy before servicing the range. 5
Parts and Features This section contains captioned iustrations of your range. Use them to become famiiar with the ocation and appearance of a parts and features. Contro pane /Oven vent Pug-in surface unit with chrome refector bow Lock ever Mode and seria number pate A I -eement Broi eement Bake optiona wamounted anti-tip bracket kit, see page 19) Removabe A storage drawer f (Mode RF3600XY) or Removabe pane (Mode RF3SOBXB) Contro pane
Using Your Range In This Section Page Using the surface units......7 Positioning racks and pans......9 For best air circuation..... IO Using auminum foi for baking......i0 Setting the cock... 11 Using the Minute Timer......I1 Baking/roasting... 12 tzju;.$ng the oven temperature...... 12 Page Broiing... 13 Broiing tips... 15 Energy saving tips... 15 Using the MEALTIMER cock......16 The oven vent... 17 The storage drawer... 18 The ower pane....i8 The anti-tip bracket... 19 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 shows which surface unit is turned on by that knob. Surface heating indicator ight The SURFACE HEATING Indicator Light on the contro pane wi gow when a surface unit is turned on. I Fire Hazard Be sure a contro knobs are turned to OFF and a indicator ights are OFF when you are not cooking. Someone coud be burned or a fire coud start if a surface unit is accidentay eft ON. 7
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. SETNG 1 RECOMMENDEDUSE j 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. L Medium For gravy, pudding and (opposite OFF) icing. To cook arge amounts of vegetabes. Medium-ow To keep food cooking after starting it on a higher setting. LO To keep food warm unti readv to serve. Cookware tips Seect a pan that is about the same size as the 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 severe overheating, which damages the cookware and/or surface unit. 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. 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. Product Damage Hazard If a surface unit stays red for a ong time, the bottom of the pan is not fat enough or is too sma for the surface unit. Proonged usage of incorrect utensis coud resut in damage to the surface unit, cooktop, wiring and surrounding areas. To prevent damage, use correct utensis, start cooking on HI and turn contro down to continue cooking. Do not eave an empty utensi, or one which has boied dry, on a hot surface unit. The utensi coukf overheat and coud damage the utensi or surface unit. 8
Home canning information To protect your range: Use fat-bottomed canners/pans for best resuts. Use the argest surface unit for best resuts. Aso, use a canner/pan which can be centered over the surface unit and which does not extend more than one inch outside surface unit area. Large diameter canners/pans, if not propery centered, trap heat and can cause damage to the cooktop. Do not pace canner on two surface units at the same time. Too much heat wi buid up and wi damage the cooktop. 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. Keep refector bows cean for best heat refection. To proong the ife of the eements: - Prepare sma batches at a time. - Do not use eements for canning a day. Refer to your canner manua for specific instructions. Optiona canning kit The arge diameter of most water-bath or pressure canners combined with high heat settings for ong periods of time can shorten the ife of reguar surface units and cause damage to the cooktop. If you pan to use the cooktop for canning, we recommend the instaation of a Canning Kit. Order the kit (Part No. 242905) from your Whirpoo deaer or authorized Whirpoo service company. Positioning racks and pans For baking/roasting with one rack, pace the rack so the top of the food wi be centered in the oven. 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 When baking on two racks, arrange racks on bottom and third eve from bottom. NOTE: For recommended rack pacement when broiing, see Broiing rack position chart on page 14. Burn Hazard Aways position oven rack(s) in desired ocation before turning oven on. Be sure the rack(s) is eve. If rack(s) must be moved whie oven is hot, use pothoders or oven mitts to protect hands. Faiure to foow the above precautions coud resuft in burns.
For best air circuation The 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 YZ 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 (2.5 cm). Use ony one cookie sheet in the oven at 4 one time. 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. Using auminum foi for baking 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. 10 Eectrica Shock and Fire Hazard Do not aow foi to touch the heating eements. Faiure to foow this precaution coud resut in eectrica shock or fire hazard and damage to the eements.
Setting the cock Push in and turn the Minute Timer Knob to set the cock. 1. Push in Minute Timer Knob and turn cockwise unti cock shows the correct time of day. 2. Let the Minute Timer Knob pop out. Turn cockwise unti Minute Timer hand points to OFF. The cock setting wi change if you push in the knob when turning. 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. 2. Without pushing it in, turn the knob back to the setting you want. When the time is up, a buzzer wi sound. To stop the buzzer, turn the Minute Timer hand to OFF. 11
Baking/roasting 1. Position the rack(s) propery before turning on the oven. To change rack Position, ift rack at front and pu out. For further information, see Positioning racks and pans on page 9. 2. Set the Oven Seector to BAKE. 3. Set the Oven Temperature Contro Knob to the 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. 4. Put food in the oven. During baking/ roasting, the eements wi turn on and off to maintain the temperature 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. 5. When baking/roasting is done, turn both the Oven Seector and the Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. The OVEN HEATING Indicator Light wi go off. Adjusting the oven temperature contro Oven temperature contros wi graduay shift after years of use. So, even though 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 temperature settings, you can change them by foowing these steps: 12
1. Turn the Oven Temperature Contro Knob 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 (2.5%). 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. Locking screws Note hes / Broiing 1. Position the rack propery before turning on the oven. Position rack so that the surface of the food is at east 3 inches (7 cm) away from the broi eement. See Broiing rack position chart on page 14. 2. Put the broier pan and food on the rack. 3. Cose the door to the Broi Stop position (open about 4 inches [o cm]). The door wi stay open by itsef. 4. Set the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to BROIL. The OVEN HEATING Indicator Light wi come on. NOTE: Do not preheat oven when broiing. 5. When broiing is done, turn both the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. The OVEN HEAT- ING Indicator Light wi go off. 13
Custom broi if food is cooking too fast, turn the Oven Temperature Contro Knob counterciockwise unti the OVEN HEATING Indicator Light goes off. if you want the food to broi sower from the start, set the Oven Temperature Contro Knob between 170 F and 325 F (77 C and 163 C). These temperature settings aow the broi heating eement to cyce and to sow cooking. The ower the temperature, the sower the cooking. Fish and chicken are some foods that may cook better if you use ower broiing temperatures. The Oven Seector must be on BROIL for a broiing temperatures. NOTE: Leave the oven door party open whenever using the oven to broi. This aows the oven to maintain proper temperatures. Broiing rack position chart 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 1 Not used for broiing 14
Broiing tips Use the broier pan and grid for broiing. They are designed to drain excess iquid and grease away from the cooking surface to hep prevent spatter, smoke or fire. After broiing, remove the broier pan from the oven when you remove the food. Drippings wi bake on the pan if you eave 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-fiiing 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. Fire Hazard Pace meat the correct distance from the eement. Meat paced too cose to the eement coud spatter, smoke, burn or catch fire during broiing. To ensure adequate grease drainage, do not use cookie sheets or simiar pans for broiing. Aso, covering the broier grid with foi is not recommended. Poor drainage of grease coud resuft in fire. If foi is used, cut sits in foi to ine up with a openings in broier 1 grid. Grease can then drain away and coo in pan. 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. Keep refector bows cean for best heat refection. 15
Using the MEALTIMER cock The MEALTIMER cock is designed to turn the oven on and off at times you set, even when you are not around. Deayed timed baking/roasting is idea for foods which do not require a preheated oven, such as meats and casseroes. Do not use the deayed time cyce for cakes, cookies, etc. - undercooking wi resut. Before using the MEALTIMER cock, make sure the cock is set to the correct time of day. (See Setting the cock on page 11.) To deay start and stop automaticay: 1. 2. 3. Position the oven rack(s) propery and pace the food in the oven. Push in and turn the Start Time Knob cockwise to the time you want baking/ roasting to start. Push in and turn the Stop Time Knob cockwise to the time you want the oven to shut off. 4. Set the Oven Seector to TIME BAKE. 5. 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. 6. 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 TIME BAKE. 16
4. Set the Oven Temperature Contro Knob to the baking/roasting temperature you want. 5. After baking/roasting is done or to cance the setting at any time, turn both the Oven Seector and the Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. To avoid sickness and food waste when using the MEALTIMER contro: Do not et most UNFROZEN food stand for more than two hours before cooking starts. Do not aow food to remain in oven for more than two hours after the end of cooking cyce. NOTE: Do not use foods that wi spoi whie waiting for cooking to start. Such foods are: dishes with mik or eggs, cream soups, and cooked meats or fish. Aso, foods containing baking powder or yeast wi not rise propery when cooked using deay start. The oven vent Hot air and moisture escape from the oven through a vent under the right rear surface unit. You can cook on the unit or keep food warm on it whie the oven is on. The vent is needed for air circuation. Do not bock the vent. Poor baking/roasting can resut. NOTE: Pastic utensis eft over the vent can met, Fire Hazard @Keep fammabe materias away from oven vent. Faiure to do so coud resut in burns or a fire. If you eave a utensi on the right rear surface unit, use pothoders when moving it. Pan handes coud become hot enough to burn. 17
The storage (Mode RF3600XY) drawer You can remove the storage drawer to make it easier to cean under the range and to check for instaation of the anti-tip foor bracket (ii you have one). Use care when handing the drawer. Removing the storage drawer: 1. 2. Empty drawer before removing drawer. Pu drawer straight out to the first stop. Lift front and pu out to the second stop. Lift back sighty and side drawer a the way out. Repacing the storage drawer: 1. Fit ends of drawer side rais into the drawer guides on both sides of opening. 2. Lift drawer front and push in unti meta stops on drawer side rais cear white stops on drawer guides. Lift drawer front again to cear second stop and side drawer cosed. The ower (Mode RF350BXB) 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: 1. Pu out bottom of pane. 2. Sighty swing out and ift pane to remove from top cips. Repacing the ower pane: 1. Pace notches in top of pane over the top cips. 2. Swing down and push bottom of pane to secure bottom cips. 18
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. Persona Injury Hazard @To reduce risk of range tipping over, secure range with a propery instaed anti-tip bracket suppied with range or an optiona wamounted anti-tip bracket kit. If range is moved for ceaning or service, check that anti-tip bracket is engaged before using range. Faiure to foow the above precautions coud resut in persona injury. To verify the anti-tip bracket is engaged (if you have a foor brat ket): Remove the storage drawer. (See page 18.) 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 brat ket): 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. Foor bracket Wa bracket Rear eveing eg Cabe!Ez:: contro pane) 19
Using Cvce the Sef-Ceaning r In This Section Page Page How the cyce works... 20 Setting the contros... 21 Before you start... 20 Specia tips... 22 The Sef-Ceaning cyce saves you from the toi and mess that often come with hand-ceaning the oven interior. Like with the other functions of your range, you operate the Sef-Ceaning cyce with the easy-to-use contros. Pease review the instructions in this section to keep your oven spotess. 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 time anywhere between 2 and 4 hours. (See Setting the contros on page 21.) The graph at the right is representative of a norma, 3-hour Sef-Ceaning cyce. Note that the heating stops when the 3-hour setting is up, but it takes onger for the oven to coo enough to unock. Before you start Before you start the SefCeaning cyce, make sure you: 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. s t F --- DO NOT hand-cean Hand-cean sea 20
Remove the broier pan 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 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 27.) 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. Setting the contros 1. Set the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to CLEAN. Burn Hazard Do not touch the oven during the Sef- Ceaning cyce. It coud burn you. Do not use commercia oven ceaners in your oven. Ceaners coud produce hazardous fumes or damage the porceain finish. Do not eave any foi in the oven during the Sef-Ceaning cyce. Foi coud burn or met and damage the oven surface. 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. Do not eave pastic utensis near the vent. They may met. 2. Make sure the cock, Start and Stop Times a have the correct time of day. 3. Push in and turn the Stop Time Knob cockwise 2 or 3 hours. Use 2 hours for ight soi. Use 3 hours or more for moderate to heavy soi. NOTE: Make sure the Start Time Knob is not pushed in.
4. Move the Lock Lever to the right-the Cean position. The OVEN HEATING Indicator Light wi come on. 5. When the oven temperature goes above norma baking/roasting temperatures, the door cannot be opened and the Lock Lever must not be moved. 6. After the Sef-Ceaning cyce is competed and the oven has cooed sufficienty, the Lock Lever can be moved back to the eft. DO NOT FORCE IT. Watt unti it moves easiy. Turn the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. 7. 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: 1. Push in and turn the Stop Time Knob cockwise unti it points to the correct time of day. 2. Turn the Oven Seector and Oven Temperature Contro Knob to OFF. When the oven has cooed sufficienty, move the Lock Lever back to the eft. DO NOT FORCE IT. Wait unti it moves easiy. Specia tips Keep the kitchen we ventiated during the if the Sef-Ceaning cyce does not get the Sef-Ceaning cyce to hep get rid of heat, oven as cean as you expected, the cyce odors and smoke. may not have been set ong enough or you After the oven is coo, wipe up any residue may not have prepared the oven propery. or ash with a damp coth or sponge. If any Set the Sef-Ceaning cyce onger the next spots remain, cean with a mid abrasive time and hand-cean areas noted on ceanser or ceaning sponge. page 20. Cean the oven before it gets heaviy soied. Ceaning a very soied oven takes onger and resuts in more smoke than usua. 22
Caring for Your Range In This Section Page Page Surface units and refector bows...23 Ceaning chart... 26 Lift-up cooktop... 25 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. I Eectrica Shock Hazard Make sure a contros are OFF and the range is coo before ceaning. Faiure to do so coud resut in burns or eectrica shock. I Surface units and refector bows Removing 1. Make sure a surface units are off and coo before removing surface units and refector bows. 2. Lift the edge of the unit, opposite the receptace, just enough to cear the eement hod-down cip and the refector bow. 23
3. Pu the surface unit straight away from the receptace. 4. Lift out the refector bow. See Ceaning chart on page 27 for ceaning instructions. Repacing 1. Make sure a surface units are off and coo before repacing surface units and refector bows. 2. Line up openings in the refector bow with the surface unit receptace and the eement hod-down cip. 3. Hod the surface unit as eve as possibe with the termina just started into the receptace, Push the surface unit termina into the receptace. 24
4. When termina is pushed into the receptace as far as it wi go, push down the edge of the surface unit opposite the receptace. The eement hod-down cip wi keep the surface unit from moving around. NOTE: Refector bows refect heat back to the utensis on the surface units. They aso hep catch spis. When they are kept cean, they refect heat better and ook new onger. If a refector bow gets discoored, some of your utensis may not be fat enough, or some may be too arge for the surface unit. In either case, some of the heat that s meant to go into or around a utensi goes down and heats the refector bow. This extra heat can discoor it. Lift-up cooktop 1. Lift front of cooktop at both front corners unti the support rods ock into pace. Persona Injury Hazard Be sure both support rods are fuy extended and in the ocked position. Faiure to do so coud resut in persona injury from the cook-top accidentav faing. Product Damage Hazard Do not drop the cook-top. Damage coud resut to the porceain and the cooktop frame. 2. Wipe with warm, soapy water. Use a soapy stee-woo pad on heaviy soied areas. 3. To ower the cooktop, ift cooktop from both sides whie pressing the support rods back to unock them. Lower the cooktop into pace. 25
Ceaning se the foowing PART Contro knobs Contro pane Exterior surfaces (other than contro pane) Surface units chart tabe o hep you cean your I WHAT TO USE Sponge and warm, soapy water Sponge and warm, soapy water OR Paper towe and spray gass ceaner Wash, rinse and dry thoroughy. Do not use stee woo or abrasive ceansers. They may damage the finish. Do not spray ceaner directy on pane. Appy ceaner to paper towe. Sponge and warm, Wash, rinse and dry thoroughy. soapy water Use nonabrasive, pastic scrubbing pad on heaviy soied areas. Do not use abrasive or harsh ceansers. They may damage the finish. NOTE: Do not aow foods containing acids (such as vinegar, tomato or emon juice) to remain on surface. Acids may remove the gossy finish. Aso wipe up mik or egg spis when cook-top is coo. No ceaning required ge. HOW TO CLEAN Turn knobs to OFF and pu straight 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. Spatters or spis wi burn off. Do not immerse in water. 26
PART WHAT TO USE HOW TO CLEAN Chrome refector Warm, soapy water Wash, rinse and dry we. bows and a nonabrasive, Cean frequenty. pastic scrubbing pad Do not use abrasive or harsh ceansers. Do not pace in Sef-Ceaning oven. Broier pan and grid (cean after each use) Stee-woo pad and warm, soapy water Oven racks Stee-woo pad and warm, soapy water OR The Sef-Ceaning cyce Oven door gass Oven cavity Wash, rinse and dry thoroughy. Do not cean in Sef-Ceaning cyce. (See note on page 21.) Wash, rinse and dry thoroughy. OR 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. Paper towe and spray Make sure oven is coo. gass ceaner Foow directions provided with the OR ceaner. Warm, soapy water Wash, rinse and dry thoroughy. and a nonabrasive, pastic scrubbing pad Sef-Ceaning cyce See Using the Sef-Ceaning Cyce on pages 20-22. 27
If You Need Assistance or Sewice This section is designed to hep you save the cost of a service ca. Part 1 of this section outines possibe probems, their causes, and actions you can take to sove each probem. Parts 2 and 3 te you what to do if you sti need assistance or service. When caing our Consumer Assistance Center for hep or caing for service, pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers and the purchase date. (See page 2.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request. 1. Before caing for assistance... Performance probems often resut from itte things you can find and fix without toos of any kind. Pease check the chart beow for probems you can fix. It coud save you the cost of a service ca. PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE SOLUTION Nothing wi The power cord is not pugged Pug the power cord into a ive circuit operate into a ive circuit with proper with proper votage. (See Instaation votage. Instructions.) A househod fuse has bown or Repace househod fuse or reset circuit a circuit breaker has tripped. breaker. The oven You have not turned the Oven Turn the Oven Seector to the desired wi not Seector to BAKE or BROIL. setting. operate You have set a deayed stati Wait for the start time to be reached. time. You have not turned the Oven Turn the Oven Temperature Contro Temperature Contro Knob to a Knob to a temperature setting. temperature setting. You have not set the Set the MEALTIMER cock correcty. MEALTIMERTM cock correcty. (See Using the MEALTIMER cock on page 16.) You have not set the If a deay start or stop is not desired, the MEALTIMER cock s Stop or Stop and Start Time Knobs must be Start Time Knobs at the correct turned to the correct time of day. Turn time of day. knobs ti they pop out. The surface A househod fuse has bown or Repace househod fuse or reset circuit units wi not a circuit breaker has tripped. breaker. operate You have not pugged in surface units a the way. You are not setting the contro knobs correcty. Turn contro knobs to OFF and pug surface units in a the way. (See Repacing on page 24.) Push contro knobs in before turning to a setting. 28
PROBLEM Contro knob(s) wi not turn POSSIBLE CAUSE You are not pushing in before turning. SOLUTION Push contro knob(s) in before turning to a setting. Sef-Cean- You have not set the Oven Set both the Oven Seector and Oven ing cyce wi Seector and Oven Temperature Temperature Contro Knob to CLEAN. not operate Contro Knob to CLEAN. The range cock does not show Reset cock to show the correct time the correct time of day. of day. (See page 11.) The Lock Lever is not in the Move Lock Lever a the way to the CLEAN position-a the way to right. the right. The Start Time Dia does not show the correct time of day or the knob is not a the way out. The Stop Time Dia is not set ahead to the time you want the Sef-Ceaning cyce to stop. Reset the Start Time Knob to show the correct time of day. Pu knob out a the way. See Step 3 in Setting the contros on page 21 for proper setting instructions. Cooking The range is not eve. Leve range. (See Instaation Instrucresuts are tions.) not what you expected The oven temperature seems Adjust the oven temperature contro. too ow or too high. (See Adjusting the oven temperature contro on page 12.) You have not preheated the oven as the recipe cas for. The recipe has never been tested or is not from a reiabe source. Preheat oven if caed for in recipe. Use ony tested recipes from a reiabe source. The pans are not the type or size Refer to a reiabe cookbook for recomrecommended in the recipe. mended pan type and size. There is not proper air circuation around pan when baking. The cooking utensis are not the proper shape or do not fit the surface units being used. Aow 1% to 2 inches (4-5 cm) on a sides of the pans for air circuation. There must be a minimum space of 1 inch (2.5 cm). Use cooking utensis with smooth, fat bottoms that fit the surface units being used. 29
2. If you need assistance... Ca Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center teephone number. Dia to-free from anywhere in the U.S.A.: 1-800-253-301 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, M 49022-2692 Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 3. If you need service... Whirpoo has a nationwide network of authorized Whirpoo service companies. Whirpoo service technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty and 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 2) or ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages under: 4. 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 Whirpoo@ appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fii right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new Whirpoo appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, refer to Step 3 above or ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center number in Step 2. 5. If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane (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 Pane 20 North Wacker Driie Chicago, IL 60606 MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action..applance-household- - WASHINQ MACHINES 6 MUOR, SERVCE 6 REPAIR DRYERS SERVICE L REPAJR (Exempb: XYZ &&. Co.) (Emmpb: XYZ &k. Co.) 30
WHIRLPOOL Eectric Range Warranty LENGTH OF WARRANTY FULL ONE-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FSP@ repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship. Service must be provided by an authorized Whirpoo service company. LIMITED WARRANTY FOR LIFE OF THE PRODUCT Second Year Through Life of Product From Date of Purchase WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FOR FSP repacement parts for contro knobs. 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. B. 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. Any abor costs during imited warranty. F. Repairs to pats or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. 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 imitation or excusion 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 distributor or miitary exchange. If you need service, first see the If You Need Assistance or Service section of this book. After checking If You Need Assistance or Service, additiona hep can be found by caing our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number, 1-800-253-1301, from anywhere in the U.S.A. Y93 PART NO. 3187472 Rev. A 0 1894 Whirpoo Corporaian 0 Registered Trademark/TM Trademwk of whirpoo, U.S.A. Prined in U.S.A