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Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . 2–6
Owner’s Manual
Operating Instructions
JBP48
Adjust the Oven Thermostat—
Do It Yourself! . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Clock and Timer . . . . . . . . . . .11
Oven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9, 10
Oven Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Sabbath Feature . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Self-Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . .17, 18
Special Oven Features . . . .13, 14
Surface Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Timed Baking and
Roasting F
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. WARNING! For your safety, the information in this manual must be followed to minimize the risk of fire, electric shock, or to prevent property damage, personal injury, or loss of life. WARNING ANTI-TIP DEVICE All ranges can tip and injury could result. To prevent accidental tipping of the range, attach it to the wall and floor by installing the Anti-Tip device supplied. If the Anti-Tip device supplied with the range does not fi
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Safety Instructions Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support www.GEAppliances.com IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE The California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act requires the Governor of California to publish a list of substances known to the state to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm, and requires businesses to warn customers of potential exposure to such substances. The fiberglass insulat
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. WARNING! SAFETY PRECAUTIONS Do not operate the oven or cooktop controls if the glass is broken. Food splatter or cleaning solution may penetrate a broken control panel and create a risk of electrical shock. Contact a qualified technician immediately should your glass control panel become broken. Do not store flammable materials in an Keep the hood and grease filters clean oven or near the cooktop. to maintain good venting and
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Safety Instructions Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support www.GEAppliances.com SURFACE COOKING UNITS Use proper pan size—select cookware having flat bottoms large enough to cover the surface unit heating element. The use of undersized cookware will expose a portion of the surface unit to direct contact and may result in ignition of clothing. Proper relationship of cookware to surface unit will also improve effic
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. WARNING! OVEN Stand away from the range when opening the oven door. Hot air or steam that escapes can cause burns to hands, face and/or eyes. Do not heat unopened food containers. When using cooking or roasting bags in Pressure could build up and the container the oven, follow the manufacturer’s could burst, causing an injury. directions. Keep the oven vent unobstructed. Do not use the oven to dry newspapers. If overheat
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Safety Instructions Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Using the surface units. www.GEAppliances.com Throughout this manual, features and appearance may vary from your model. How to Set Push the knob in and turn in either direction to the setting you want. At both OFF and HI the control clicks into position. You may hear slight clicking sounds during cooking, indicating the control is maintaining your desired
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Using the oven controls. Features and appearance may vary. Oven Control, Clock and Timer Features and Settings BAKE Pad OVEN LIGHT ON/OFF Pad Touch to select the bake function. Touch to turn the oven light on or off. BROIL HI/LO Pad SELF CLEAN STD/LO Pad Touch to select the broil function. Touch to select self-cleaning function. See the Using the self-cleaning oven section. Display CLEAR/OFF Pad Shows the time of day, oven temperature, whether the oven is in the bake, broil or Touch to cancel AL
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Using the oven. www.GEAppliances.com To avoid possible burns, place the shelves in the desired position before you turn the oven on. Before you begin… The shelves have stop-locks, so that when CAUTION: When you are using the placed correctly on the shelf supports (A shelf in the lowest position (A), you will need to through F), they will stop before coming use caution when pulling the shelf out. We
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Using the oven. How to Set the Oven for Broiling Place the meat or fish on the broiler Touch the BROIL HI/LO pad once for grid in the broiler pan. HI Broil. Follow suggested shelf positions in To change to LO Broil, touch the the Broiling Guide. BROIL HI/LO pad again. If your range is connected to 208 volts, rare Touch the START pad. steaks may be broiled by preheating the broiler When broiling is finished, touch the and positioning the oven shelf one position higher. CLEAR/OFF pad. Leave the d
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Using the clock and kitchen timer. www.GEAppliances.com To Set the Clock The clock must be set to the correct time Touch the CLOCK pad. of day for the automatic oven timing Touch the number pads. functions to work properly. The time of day cannot be changed during a timed Touch the START pad. Make sure the clock is set to the correct time of day. baking or self-cleaning cycle. To Set the Kitchen Ti
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Using the timed baking and roasting features. NOTE: Foods that spoil easily—such as milk, eggs, fish, stuffings, poultry and pork—should not be allowed to sit for more than 1 hour before or after cooking. Room temperature promotes the growth of harmful bacteria. Be sure that the oven light is off because heat from the bulb will speed harmful bacteria growth. How to Set an Immediate Start and Automatic Stop The oven will turn on immediately and cook for The oven will turn ON, and the display wil
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Special features of your oven control. www.GEAppliances.com Your new touch pad control has additional features that you may choose to use. The following are the features and how you may activate them. The special feature modes can only be activated while the display is showing the time of day. They remain in the control’s memory until the steps are repeated. When the display shows your choice,
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Special features of your oven control. 12-Hour, 24-Hour or Clock Blackout Your control is set to use a 12-hour clock. Touch the CLOCK pad again to change to the 24 hour military time clock. The If you would prefer to have a 24-hour display will show 24 hr. If this is the choice military time clock or black out the clock you want, touch the START pad. display, follow the steps below. Touch the CLOCK pad again to black out Touch the BAKE and BROIL HI/LO the clock display. The display will show p
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Using the Sabbath feature. (Designed for use on the Jewish Sabbath and Holidays) (On some models) www.GEAppliances.com The Sabbath feature can be used for baking/roasting only. It cannot be used for convection, broiling, self-cleaning or Delay Start cooking. NOTE: The oven light comes on automatically (on some models) when the door is opened and goes off when the door is closed. The bulb may be
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Adjust the oven thermostat—Do it yourself! You may find that your new oven cooks differently than the one it replaced. Use your new oven for a few weeks to become more familiar with it. If you still think your new oven is too hot or too cold, you can adjust the thermostat yourself. Do not use thermometers, such as those found in grocery stores, to check the temperature setting of your oven. These thermometers may vary 20–40 degrees. NOTE: This adjustment will only affect baking and roasting tem
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Using the self-cleaning oven. www.GEAppliances.com The oven door must be closed and all controls set correctly for the cycle to work properly. Before a Clean Cycle We recommend venting your kitchen Do not clean the gasket. The fiberglass with an open window or using a material of the oven door gasket cannot ventilation fan or hood during the withstand abrasion. It is essential for the first self-cl
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Using the self-cleaning oven. The oven door must be closed and all controls set correctly for the cycle to work properly. How to Delay the Start of Cleaning Touch the SELF CLEAN STD/LO pad Touch the DELAY START pad. once for a 3-hour clean time or Using the number pads, enter the twice for a 4-hour clean time. time of day you want the clean cycle A 3-hour self-clean time is to start. recommended for use when Touch the START pad. cleaning small, contained spills. A self-clean time of 4 hours o
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Care and Cleaning Troubleshooting Tips Consumer Support Care and cleaning of the range. www.GEAppliances.com Be sure all controls are off and all surfaces are cool before cleaning any part of the range. If your range is removed for cleaning, servicing or any reason, be sure the anti-tip device is re-engaged properly when the range is replaced. Failure to take this precaution could result in tipping of the range and cause injury. How to Remove Packaging
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Care and cleaning of the range. Cleaning the Oven Door use a glass cleaner to clean the glass To clean the inside of the door: on the outside of the door. Do not let Because the area inside the gasket is water drip into the vent openings. cleaned during the self-clean cycle, you do not need to clean this by hand. If any stain on the door vent trim is persistent, use a soft abrasive cleaner The area outside the gasket and and a sponge-scrubber for best results. The gasket is designed w
