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ElectricRange
Contents
Aluminum Fofl
18 Door Removal 20
Anti-Tip Device 3,6,25,27 Ligh~ Bulb Replacement 13,20
Appliance Registration
2 Roasting 16
c arming Tips 9 Roasting Guide 17
Care &d Cleaning 20-23 Thermostat Adjustment 21
Clock/Timer
12 Vent Duct 20
Consumer Services 31 Problem Solver 24
Energy-Saving Tips 3-4
5 Safety Instructions
Features 6-7 Surfhce Cooking 8-11
Flooring under the Range
5 Control Settinfm 8
Installation Instructions Cookware Tips 10,11
25-27
Leveling
5 Warrantv B
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I Help us help you... @ Before using your oven, If you received If you need service... ,2 read this book carefully. a damaged oven... To obtain service, see the Consumer Services page in It is intended to help you Immediately contact the dealer the back of this book. operate and maintain your new (or builder) that sold you the oven. oven properly. We’re proud of our service and want you to be pleased. If for some Keep it handy for answers to Save time and money. reason you are not happy with the
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Read all instructions before using this appliance. P’ ● Do not store flammable , When using electrical appliances, If you pull the range out from the basic safety precautions should wall for any reason, make sure materials in an oven or near be followed~including the the rear leg is returned to its the cooktop. following: position in the device when you ● Do not use oven for a storage push the range back. . Use this appliance only for its area. Items stored in the o
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mORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) .~~ ● Do not use water on grease QDo not use your oven to dry ● Always turn surface unit to fires. Never pick up a flaming OFF before removing newspapers. If overheated, they pan. Smother flaming pan on can catch fire. cookware. surface unit by covering pan ● Keep an eye on foods being completely with well-fitting lid, Surface Cooking Units fried at HI or MED HI heats. cookie sheet or flat tray. Flaming grease outside a pan can be put ● Use proper pan size
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Installing Your Energy-Saving Tips Range Oven Cooking Surface Cooking Your range, like many other ● Preheat oven only when ● Use cookware of medium weight household items, is heavy and can necessary. Most foods will cook aluminum, with tight-fitting settle into soft floor coverings such satisfactorily without preheating. covers, and flat bottoms which as cushioned vinyl or carpeting. If you find preheating is necessary, completely cover the heated When moving the range on this watch the indicato
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Features of Your Range JBS26P JBS26GP JBC26P IV?T Broiler Pan (not included on all models) (Note: not all doors have windows) JBS16P JBS02P JBS16GP JBS03P JBC16GP JBS03GP 6
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Feature Index See (not all models will have all features) page 1 Model and Serial Numbers 2 2 Surface Unit Controls 8 3 “ON” Indicator Light/Lights for Surface Units 8 13 4 Oven Set Control 5 Oven Temp Control 13 13 6 Oven Cycling Light 7 Automatic Oven Timer, Clock and Minute Timer 12 (on models so equipped) 21 8 Surface Units, Trim Rings/Drip Pans I 9 Anti-Tip Device 3,25,27 (See Installation Instructions) 20 10 Oven Vent Duct (Located under right rear surface unit.) 11 Oven Interior Light 13
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,- Surface Cooking See Surface Cooking Guide. $ $ Surface Cooking with How to Set the Controls Cooking Guide for Infinite Heat Controls Using Heat Settings Your surface units and controls \ are designed to give you an infinite choice of heat settings for surface unit cooking. ‘i At both OFF and HIGH positions, there is a slight niche so control “clicks” at those positions; “click” on HIGH marks the highest setting; the lowest setting is between the words WARM and OFF. In a quiet kitchen, you may
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Questions & Answers Q. Why does my cookware tilt . May I can foods and Q. Can I use special cooking ~Q ~‘ preserves on my surface unit? equipment, like an oriental wok, when I place it on the surface on any surface unit? unit? A. Yes, but only use cookware designed for canning purposes. A. Cookware without flat surfaces A. Because the surface unit is not flat. Make sure that the “feet” on Check the manufacturer’s is not recommended. The life of instructions and recipes for your surface unit can
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Surface Cooking Guide 2. To conserve the most cooking 3. Deep Fat Frying. Do not overfill Cookware Tips energy, pans should be flat on the kettle with fat that may spill over 1. Use medium-or heavy-weight bottom, have straight sides and when adding food. Frosty foods cookware. Aluminum cookware tight fitting lids. Match the size of bubble vigorously. Watch foods conducts heat faster than other the saucepan to the size of the frying at high temperatures and metals. Cast iron and coated cast surfa
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RIGHT WRONG “-OVER 1“ OVER 1“ Directions and Setting Directions and Setting to Food Cookware to Start Cooking Comments Complete Cooking Fried Chicken Covered HI. Melt fat. Switch to MED LO. Cover skillet and For crisp, dry chicken, cover Skillet HI to brown chicken. only after switching to LO ;ook until tender. for 10 minutes. Uncover and Uncover last few minutes. cook, turning occasionally for 10 to 20 minutes. Pan-fried bacon Uncovered HI. In cold skillet, arrange A more attention-free method
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Automatic Timer and Clock The automatic timer and clock on Time Bake Uses Questions and Answers your range are helpful devices that Automatic Timer Q. How can I use my Minute serve several purposes. The knob Timer to make my surface locations on some range models Using Automatic Timer, you can cooking easier? TIME BAKE with the oven may vary and will look like one of the two sets of timers below, starting immediately and turning A. Your Minute Timer will help off at the Stop Time set or set both
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Using Your Oven Before Using Your Oven Oven Interior Shelves Oven Light (on models so equipped) 1. Look at the controls. Be sure you The shelves are designed with understand how to set them properly. stop-locks, so that when placed The light comes on automatically Read over the directions for the correctly on the shelf supports, when the door is opened. Automatic Oven Timer so you they (a) will stop before coming On models with oven window, use understand its use with the controls. completely fr
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Baking When cooking a food for the first How to Set Immediate time in your new oven, use time Start and Automatic Stop given on recipes as a guide. Oven thermostats, over a period of years, NOTE: Before beginning, make may “drift” from the factory sure the hands of the range clock setting and a difference in timing show the correct time of day, between an old and a new oven of Immediate Start is simply setting 5 to 10 minutes is not unusual. You Step 1: To set start time, push in oven to start b
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Baking Guide 1. Aluminum pans conduct heat 2. Dark or non-shiny finishes and 3. Preheating the oven is not always quickly. For most conventional glass cookware generally absorb necessary, especially for foods heat, which may result in dry, crisp which cook longer than 30 to 40 baking, light, shiny finishes generally give best results because crusts. Reduce oven heat 25”F. if minutes. For foods with short they help prevent overbrowning. lighter crusts are desired. Rapid cooking times, preheating
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Roasting Roasting is cooking by dry heat. Questions and Answers ~ Tender meat or poultry can be k>! Q. Is it nemssary tocheck for roasted uncovered in your oven. doneness with a meat thermometer? Roasting temperatures, which should be low and steady, keep A. Checking the finished internal spattering to a minimum. When temperature at the completion of roasting, it is not necessary to cooking time is recommended. sear, baste, cover or add water to Temperatures are shown in your meat. Roasting Guid
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Roasting Guide 1. Position oven shelf at B for 3. Remove fat and drippings as 5. Frozen roasts can be small-size roasts (3 to 7 lbs.) and necessary. Baste as desired. conventionally roasted by adding at A for larger roasts. 10 to 25 minutes per pound more 4. Standing time recommended time than given in guide for 2. Place meat fat-side up, or for roasts is 10 to 20 minutes. This refrigerated roasts. (10 minutes per poultry breast-side up, on broiler allows roasts to firm up and makes pound for ro
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Broiling Broiling is cooking food by intense Step 6: Turn food only once Questions & Answers _ radiant heat from the upper unit in during broiling. Time foods for ‘&J Q. Why should I leave the door the oven. Most fish and tender cuts first side per Broiling Guide. closed when broiling chicken? of meat can be broiled. Follow Turn food, then use times given for these steps to keep spattering and A. Chicken is the only food second side as a guide to prefemed smoking-to a minimum. - recommended for
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I . t — , Broiling Guide 1. Always use the broiler pan and the meat. Use tongs to turn meat foods, or to increase browning, ‘.,’ ‘f rack that comes with your oven. It over to prevent piercing meat and preheat if desired. e is designed to minimize smoking losing juices. 7. Frozen Steaks can be and spattering by trapping juices in 4. If desired, m“arinate meats or conventionally broiled by the shielded lower part of the pan. chicken before broiling, or brush positioning the oven shelf at next 2. O
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care tind CleaIliIlg (see Cleaning Guide) Proper care and cleaning are Oven Vent Duct important so your range will give Your range is vented through a you efllcient and satisfactory duct located under the right rear service. Follow these directions surface unit. Clean the duct often. carefully in caring for your range to assure safe and proper maintenance. Cooktop The oven lamp (bulb) is covered with a glass removable cover that The porcelain enamel cooktop is is held in place with a bail-shaped
