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GE Appliances
Safety Instructions . . . .2, 4–6 Before You Call For
Owner’s Manual
Service
JGRP17
Operating Instructions, Tips Thermostat adjustment —
Aluminum foil . . . . . . . . . .14, 19 do it yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Baking feature . . . . . . . . . .14–15 Troubleshooting tips . . . . .29–31
Broiling feature . . . . . . . . .21, 22
Clock and timer . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Consumer Services
Control features and settings . .7
Important phone
Door latch . . . . . . . . . .
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. WARNING: If the information in this manual is not followed exactly, a fire or explosion may result causing property damage, personal injury or death. — Do not store or use gasoline or other flammable vapors and liquids in the vicinity of this or any other appliance. — WHAT TO DO IF YOU SMELL GAS n Do not try to light any appliance. n Do not touch any electrical switch; do not use any phone in your building. n Immediately c
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service GE & You, A Service Partnership. IMPORTANT! Fill out the Consumer Product Registration Card. Two easy ways to register your appliance! n Through the internet at www.geappliances.com n Complete and mail the enclosed Product Registration Card FOR YOUR RECORDS Write the model and serial numbers here: # # You can find them on a label on the front of the oven behind the door. Staple sales slip or cancelled check here. P
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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 or explosion, electric shock, or to prevent property damage, personal injury or loss of life. 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 birth defects or other reproductive harm, and requires b
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service SAFETY PRECAUTIONS n Do not use water on grease fires. Smother fire n CAUTION: Items of interest to or flame or use a multi-purpose dry chemical children should not be stored in cabinets or foam-type fire extinguisher. above an oven—children climbing on the n Flame in the oven can be smothered oven to reach items could be seriously completely by closing the oven door and injured. turning the oven off or by using a m
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USING. OVEN n Always remove the broiler pan from oven as n If you should have a grease fire in the broiler soon as you finish broiling. Grease left in the pan, turn the oven off, and keep the oven pan can catch fire if oven is used without door closed to contain fire until it burns out. removing the grease from the broiler pan. n Never leave jars or cans of fat drippings in or n When broiling, if meat is too close to the near your oven.
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service Using the oven controls. Oven Control, Clock and Timer Features and Settings BAKE Pad KITCHEN TIMER ON/OFF Pad Touch this pad to select the bake function. Touch this pad to select the timer feature. The timer does not control oven operations. BROIL HI/LO Pad The timer can time up to 9 hours and 59 Touch this pad to select the broil function. minutes. Display CLEAR/OFF Pad Shows the operations you have selected, the
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Using the clock and timer. Clock The clock must be set for the automatic oven timing functions to work properly. The time of day clock cannot be changed during Delay Start. (It can be changed during a regular bake or broil operation.) To Set the Clock Touch the CLOCK pad. To check the time of day when the display is showing other information, Touch the HOUR and MIN +/– pads simply touch the CLOCK pad. The time of to set the time of day. day shows until another pad is touched. Touch the START p
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service Power Failure If a flashing time of day is in the display, you have experienced a power failure. Reset the clock. To reset the clock, touch the CLOCK pad. Enter the correct time of day by touching the HOUR and MIN +/– pads. Touch the START pad. The control has a series of tones that will sound at different times. These tones may sound while you set the control for an oven function or at the end of the oven function
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Special features of your oven control. 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 clock. They remain in the control’s memory until the steps are repeated. When the display shows your choice, touch the START pad. The special features will remain in memory after a power failure. Tones at the End of a Time
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service 12-Hour, 24-Hour or Clock Black-Out Your control is set to use a 12-hour clock. Touch the CLOCK pad again to black- out the clock display. The display will If you would prefer to have a 24-hour show OFF. military time clock or black-out the clock display, follow the steps below: Touch the START pad to activate your choice and leave the control set in this Touch the BAKE and BROIL HI/LO special features mode. pads a
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Using the oven. Before you begin… Look at the controls. Be sure you NOTES: understand how to set them properly. n You may notice a “burning” or “oily” smell the first few times you turn your oven on. Check the oven interior. Look at This is normal in a new oven and will the shelves. Take a practice run at disappear in a short time. To speed the removing and replacing them properly process, set a Self-Clean cycle for 4 hours. to give sure, sturdy support. See the Using the Self-Cleaning Oven Rea
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service Oven Shelves Bump The shelves are designed with stop-locks To remove a shelf from the oven, pull the so that, when placed correctly on the shelf shelf toward you, tilt the front end upward supports, they will stop before coming and pull the shelf out. completely out of the oven and will not tilt To replace, place the shelf on the shelf when you are removing food from them or support with the stop-locks (curved placi
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Using the baking feature. Your oven temperature is controlled very accurately using an oven control system. It is recommended that you operate the oven for a number of weeks using the time given on recipes as a guide to become familiar with your new oven’s performance. If you think an adjustment is necessary, see the Adjust the Oven Thermostat section. It lists easy Do It Yourself instructions on how to adjust the thermostat. How to Set Your Oven for Baking To avoid possible burns, place the
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service Baking Pans Pan Placement Use the proper baking pan. The type of For even cooking and proper browning, finish on the pan determines the amount there must be enough room for air of browning that will occur. circulation in the oven. Baking results will be better if baking pans are centered as n Dark, rough or dull pans absorb heat much as possible rather than being placed resulting in a browner, crisper crust. to the
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Using the timed baking feature. How to Set Your Oven for Time Bake The oven control allows you to turn the oven on NOTE: An attention tone will sound if you or off automatically at specific times that you are using Timed Baking and do not touch set. Examples of Immediate Start (oven turns on the START pad after entering the baking now and you set it to turn off automatically at temperature. the end of cooking time) and Delay Start and Stop (setting the oven to turn on automatically at a later
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service How to Set Delay Start and Automatic Stop CAUTION: To avoid possible burns, place the NOTES: shelves in the correct position before you turn n The low temperature zone of this oven the oven on. (between 170°F. and 200°F.) is available to keep hot cooked foods warm. Food kept in You can set the control to delay the start of the oven longer than two hours at these low cooking, cook for a specific length of time temp
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Adjust the oven thermostat—Do it youself! 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 not affect the broiling or self-cle
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Safety Instructions Operating Instructions Troubleshooting Tips Customer Service Using the roasting feature. Roasting is cooking by dry heat. Tender meat or poultry can be roasted uncovered in your oven. Roasting temperatures, which should be low and steady, keep spattering to a minimum. Before You Begin Roasting… Roasting is really a baking procedure used To compensate for this rise in temperature, for meats. Therefore, the oven controls are you may want to remove the roast sooner (at set for B
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Using the roasting feature. Questions and Answers Q. Is it necessary to check for doneness Q. Do I need to preheat my oven each with a meat thermometer? time I cook a roast or poultry? A. Checking the finished internal A. It is not necessary to preheat your temperature at the completion of oven. cooking time is recommended. Q. When buying a roast, are there any Temperatures are shown in the special tips that would help me cook it Roasting Guide. For roasts over 8 lbs. more evenly? check with the
