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Use and Care Guide
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A Note to You.............................................. 2
Range Safety............................................... 3
Parts and Features .................................... 6
Using and Caring for Your Cooktop .......... 9
Using the surface units .............................. 9
Cookware tips ......................................... 11
Home canning information....................... 12
Caring for your cooktop ........................... 12
Cleaning your cooktop.....
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A Note to You ® Thank you for buying a KITCHENAID appliance! KitchenAid designs the best tools for the most important room in your house. To ensure that you enjoy many years of trouble-free operation, we developed this Use and Care Guide. It contains valuable information concerning how to operate and maintain your new appliance properly and safely. Please read it carefully. Also, please complete and mail the enclosed Product Registration Card. Please record your model’s information. Model Number
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R ange Safety Your safety and the safety of others is very important. We have provided many important safety messages in this manual and on your appliance. Always read and obey all safety messages. This is the safety alert symbol. This symbol alerts you to hazards that can kill or hurt you and others. All safety messages will be preceded by the safety alert symbol and the word “DANGER” or “WARNING.” These words mean: You will be killed or seriously injured wDANGER if you don’t follow instruction
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Range Safety IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Do Not Use Water on Grease Fires – WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire, • Smother fire or flame or use dry chemi- electrical shock, injury to persons, or cal or foam-type extinguisher. damage when using the range, follow basic precautions, including the following: Use Only Dry Potholders – Moist or • damp potholders on hot surfaces may WARNING – TO REDUCE THE • result in burns from steam. Do not let RISK OF TIPPING OF THE RANGE, potholder touch hot heat
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Range Safety IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Glazed Cooking Utensils – Only certain • DO NOT TOUCH HEATING ELEMENTS • types of glass, glass/ceramic, ceramic, OR INTERIOR SURFACES OF OVEN – earthenware, or other glazed utensils are Heating elements may be hot even suitable for range-top service without though they are dark in color. Interior breaking due to the sudden change in surfaces of an oven become hot enough temperature. to cause burns. During and after use, do Utensil Handles Should Be Turn
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M M M M E E E E M D D D D E M M D E L E L L L D D L O O O O O L L O O I I I I H H H H I H I I H H M M M M F F F F M F F F F F E E E E Parts and Features Feature locations † Cooktop light Control panel Surface unit (coil or ceramic glass top) Automatic oven light switch Anti-tip bracket Broil element (not shown) Removable Bake element storage drawer (containing broiler Oven racks pan and grid) (number may vary by model) Model and serial number plate †On Some Models Control panel (Thermal-Convecti
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Parts and Features The oven vent Ceramic glass cooktop Coil element Oven vent Oven vent Hot air and moisture escape from the oven Hot air and moisture escape from the oven through through a vent under the left rear surface unit. You a vent on the lower left side of the backguard. Do can cook on the unit or keep food warm on it while not block the vent by using large pans or the oven is on. The vent is needed for air circula- covers. Poor baking/roasting can result. tion. Do not block the vent by
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Parts and Features The storage drawer You can remove the storage drawer to make it easier to clean under the range and to check for installation of the anti-tip bracket. Use care when handling the drawer. Removing the storage drawer: Replacing the storage drawer: Drawer slide 1. Empty drawer of any pots and pans rail before removing drawer. Use recessed 1. Fit ends of drawer slide rails into the area on top edge of drawer to pull drawer drawer guides on both sides of opening. straight out to the
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M E D L O I H M F Using and Caring for Your Cooktop Using the surface units wWARNING Fire Hazard Turn off all controls when done cooking. Control knobs Failure to do so can result in death Push in control knobs before turning them or fire. to a setting. Set them anywhere between HI and OFF. Control setting guide For best results, start cooking at the high Power On lights setting; then turn the control knob down to Each control knob has a Power On Light. continue cooking. When you use a control k
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U sing and Caring for Your Cooktop Dual-size cooktop surface Using the ceramic glass cooktop element (some models) Cooking on the ceramic glass cooktop is almost the same as cooking on coil surface units. There are, however, a few differences: • The cooking surface area will glow red when the element is turned on. You will see the element cycling on and off – even on the HI setting – to help the area stay at the temperature setting you choose. • Make sure the bottoms of pots and pans are cle
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U sing and Caring for Your Cooktop Cookware tips • Select a pan that is about the same size • Cookware with non-stick finish has as the surface cooking area. Cookware heating characteristics of the base material. should not extend more than 1 inch • Check for rough spots on the bottom of (2.5 cm) outside the area. metal or glass cookware which will scratch the ceramic glass surface. • Use flat bottom cookware for best heat conduction from the surface cooking area to the
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U sing and Caring for Your Cooktop Home canning information Pan Center over surface unit Surface unit • Use the entire surface (“DUAL” setting) of the • Start with hot water, cover with a lid, and bring left front surface cooking area for best results. to a boil; then reduce heat to maintain a boil or required pressure levels in a pressure • Use flat-bottomed canners on all types of canner. cooktops, especially ceramic glass. Canners with rippled or ridged bottoms do not • For up-to-date inf
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U sing and Caring for Your Cooktop Cleaning tips How to keep your cooktop looking like new: What to use: • Cooktop Polishing Creme included with WHAT TO DO IF THERE ARE your cooktop with a paper towel or clean, damp sponge. This creme has been To prevent pitting on Sugary spills developed especially for cleaning and the cooktop, wipe up and soils (such polishing your cooktop. When using, follow with a paper towel or as jellies and instructions on container. clean, damp sponge candy syrups) w
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M M E E D D L L O O I I H H M M F F U sing and Caring for Your Cooktop Caring for your cooktop (Coil element models) Your cooktop is designed for easy care. You can do most cleaning with items found around your home. Cleaning your cooktop whenever spills or soiling occurs will help to keep it looking and operating like new. wWARNING Explosion Hazard Do not store flammable materials such as gasoline near this appliance. Doing so can result in death, explosion or fire. NOTE: Let cooktop cool b
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U sing and Caring for Your Cooktop 3. Hold the surface unit as level as possible 4. When terminal is pushed into the with the terminal just started into the receptacle as far as it will go, push receptacle. Push the surface unit terminal down the edge of the surface unit into the receptacle. opposite the receptacle. NOTE: Reflector bowls reflect heat back to the cookware on the surface units. They also help catch spills. When they are kept clean, they reflect heat better and look new longer.
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U sing and Caring for Your Cooktop Using and replacing the cooktop light (on some models) The fluorescent light is on the top of the If the cooktop light still does not work, control panel. The cooktop light switch is on you may need to replace the starter. The the control panel. Press it to turn on the starter is a knob-shaped part located on cooktop light. Press it again to turn light off. the right side of the backguard, under the light bulb. To remove and replace the Replacing the cookto
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Using and Caring for Your Oven This section tells you, step by step, how to operate all oven functions controlled by the electronic controls. Carefully follow these instructions, along with the cooking tips and cleaning information, for successful use of your range. Using the electronic oven control Thermal-Convection™ Models BROIL START BAKE • MAXI CLEAN 1 2 3 •• ECONO ENTER DELAY TIMED ON CLEAN LOCKED HR MIN MIN SEC DEHYD ROTIS CONVECTION 4 5 6 START? CLEAN START STOP TIMER BAKE BROIL ROAST 7
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U sing and Caring for Your Oven Display/clock Changing audible signals • When you first plug in the range, a tone Audible signals tell you if a function is entered will sound and the display will show correctly or not. They also tell you when a “88:88.” If, after you set the clock, (see the cycle is completed. “Setting the clock” section) the display To shut off audible signals during again shows “88:88,” your electricity was programming: off for a while. Reset the clock. • The time display
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U sing and Caring for Your Oven Using the kitchen timer The KITCHEN TIMER does not start or stop the oven. It works like a regular kitchen timer. It can be set in hours and minutes up to 99 hours, 99 minutes, or in minutes and seconds up to 99 minutes, 99 seconds. 1. Choose KITCHEN TIMER. YOU SEE SET PRESS •MIN once to ••HR count down HR MIN MIN SEC CLEAN START STOP TIMER minutes and seconds SET YOU SEE PRESS •MIN twice to ••HR count down HR MIN MIN SEC SET CLEAN START STOP TIMER hours and
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U sing and Caring for Your Oven Oven settings This chart tells you when to use each setting. It also explains which elements heat up for each setting. SETTING DIAGRAM SETTING INFORMATION BAKE • The bottom element and outer top Use this setting for baking element heat up. and heating casseroles. • During baking, the elements will turn on and off to maintain the oven temperature. BROIL (MAXI/ECONO) • Both top elements heat during Use this setting for broiling Maxi Broil. (Maximum browning regu
