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How to get the best from
Your Range
Contents
Aluminum Foil 7, 17, 19–21 Door Removal 27
Use and Care
Light; Bulb Replacement 14, 26
Anti-Tip Device 4, 31, 40
& Installation
Appliance Registration 2 Oven Bottom 25
Oven Vents 15, 29
Before You Call for Service 41, 42
of Models
Thermostat Adjustment— Roasting, Roasting Guide 19, 20
Shelves 7, 15–19, 27
Do It Yourself 18
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Care and Cleaning 23–29 Power Outage 14
Safety Instructions 2–7 RGB508
Clock and Timer 10
Consumer Services 43 Surface Co
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HELP US HELP YOU… Read this guide carefully. WARNING: If the information in this It is intended to help you operate and maintain your guide is not followed exactly, a fire or new range properly. explosion may result causing property Keep it handy for answers to your questions. damage, personal injury or death. If you don’t understand something or need more help, call: — Do not store or use gasoline or other ® GE Answer Center flammable vapors and liquids in the 800.626.2000 vicinity of this o
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Important Safety Instructions IF YOU NEED SERVICE To obtain service, see the Consumer Services page in NEXT, if you are still not pleased, write all the the back of this guide. details—including your phone number—to: Manager, Consumer Relations To obtain replacement parts, contact GE/Hotpoint Hotpoint Service Centers. Appliance Park We’re proud of our service and want you to be Louisville, KY 40225 pleased. If for some reason you are not happy with the FINALLY, if your problem is still not reso
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) • Be sure all packing materials are removed Using Your Range from the range before operating it to prevent fire or smoke damage should the packing material WARNING— ignite. All ranges can tip and injury could result. To prevent accidental • Be sure your range is correctly adjusted by a tipping of the range, attach it to the qualified service technician or installer for the wall and floor by installing the Anti- type of gas (natural or LP) that is to be
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Important Safety Instructions • Never wear loose fitting or hanging garments Surface Cooking while using the appliance. Be careful when • Always use the LITE position (on electric reaching for items stored in cabinets over the ignition models) or the HI position (on standing cooktop. Flammable material could be ignited if pilot models) when igniting the top burners and brought in contact with flame or hot oven surfaces make sure the burners have ignited. and may cause severe burns. • Never leave
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) • Foods for frying should be as dry as possible. • Do not leave any items on the cooktop. Frost on frozen foods or moisture on fresh foods The hot air from the vent may ignite flammable can cause hot fat to bubble up and over the sides items and will increase pressure in closed of the pan. containers, which may cause them to burst. • To avoid the possibility of a burn, always be • Use the least possible amount of fat for certain that the controls for all
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Important Safety Instructions Baking, Broiling and Roasting Cleaning Your Range • Keep the oven free from grease buildup. • Clean only parts listed in this Use and Care Guide. • Do not use the oven for a storage area. Items stored in the oven can ignite. • Keep range clean and free of accumulations of grease or spillovers, which may ignite. • Place the oven shelves in the desired position while the oven is cool. • Be careful when you clean the cooktop because the area over the pilot (on stand
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FEATURES OF YOUR RANGE Features and appearance vary. 1 2 16 3 4 15 5 6 14 13 12 11 10 7 9 Sealed Burners Standard Twin Burners 8 Burner Cap Drip Pan Drip Pan (on some (on some models) models) Burner Head Burner Your range is equipped with one of the two types of surface burners shown above. 8 CLOCK TIMER ON/OFF
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Features of Your Range Feature Index (Not all models have all features. Appearance of features varies.) See page 1 Clock and Timer (on some models) 10 2 Oven Vent 6, 15, 29 3 Surface Burners, Drip Pans (on some models) and Grates 4–6, 11, 23–25 4 Surface Burner Control Knobs 5, 12, 13, 26 5 Oven Control Knob 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 26 6 Oven Shelf Supports 7, 15, 16, 19 Shelf positions for cooking are sugguested in the Baking and Roasting sections. 7 Broiler Drawer 4, 5, 7, 21, 22, 26 8 Broiler Pa
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CLOCK AND TIMER (on some models) To Set the Clock NOTE: When you first plug in the range or after a power failure, the entire Clock/Timer display will CLOCK light up. 1. Press the CLOCK pad. TIMER ON/OFF 2. Press and hold the UP or DOWN pad and the time (Appearance may vary) of day will change 10 minutes at a time. To change the time by single minutes, give the pads short taps. Follow these directions if your range has the clock and timer shown above. 3. Press the CLOCK pad to start the clock.
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Clock and Timer Cooktop Comparison Surface Cooking HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE TO YOUR OLD ONE? Your new cooktop has gas burners. If you are used The best types of cookware to use, plus heat-up and to cooking with induction or other electric surface cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or units, you will notice some differences when you use surface unit you have. gas burners. The following chart will help you to understand the differences between gas burner cooktops and any other ty
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SURFACE COOKING (continued) Lighting Instructions for Standing Pilot Models Surface Burner Controls Knobs that turn the surface burners on and off are The surface burners on these ranges have standing marked as to which burners they control. The two knobs on the left control the left front and left rear pilots that must be lit initially. To light them: burners. The two knobs on the right control the right front and right rear burners. 1. Be sure surface burner control knobs are in the OFF
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Surface Cooking How to Select Flame Size Any flame larger than the Watch the flame, not the knob, as you reduce heat. bottom of the cookware is The flame size on a gas burner should match the wasted and only serves to cookware you are using. heat the handle. FOR SAFE HANDLING OF COOKWARE NEVER LET THE FLAME EXTEND UP THE SIDES OF THE COOKWARE. Top-of-Range Cookware Aluminum: Medium-weight cookware is Glass: There are two types of glass cookware—those recommended because it heats quickly and
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USING YOUR OVEN Before Using Your Oven Be sure you understand how to set the controls properly. Practice removing and replacing the shelves while the oven is cool. Read the information and tips on the following pages. Keep this guide handy where you can refer to it, especially during the first weeks of using your new range. Lighting Instructions for Electric Ignition Models The oven burner and broil burner are lighted by Power Outage electric ignition. To light the burner, turn the OVEN CONTROL
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Using Your Oven Oven Shelves To remove a shelf The shelves are designed with stop- from the oven, pull it Bump toward you, tilt the front locks so that when placed correctly on the end upward and pull the shelf supports, they will shelf out. stop before coming To replace, place the completely out of the shelf on the shelf support oven and will not tilt with the stop-locks when you are removing (curved extension of the food from them or shelf) facing up and toward the rear of the oven. placing
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BAKING Your oven temperature is controlled very accurately If you think an adjustment is necessary, see the Adjust using an oven control system. It is recommended that the Oven Thermostat section. It gives easy Do It you operate the oven for a number of weeks to Yourself instructions on how to adjust the thermostat. become familiar with your new oven’s performance. How to Set Your Range for Baking To avoid possible burns, place the shelves in the 2. Check food for doneness at minimum time on cor
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Baking Baking Guides When using prepared baking mixes, follow package recipe or instructions for best baking results. Cookies Aluminum Foil When baking cookies, Never entirely cover flat cookie sheets a shelf with aluminum foil. This will disturb (without sides) produce better-looking the heat circulation and result in poor baking. A cookies. Cookies baked in a jelly roll smaller sheet of foil may be used to catch a pan (short sides all around) may have spillover by placing it on a lower shelf
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L L O O O O S S E E N N R R S S C C E E R R E E T T W W T T S S A A O O N N D D H H R R O O T T A A T T E E ADJUST THE OVEN THERMOSTAT— DO IT YOURSELF! To Adjust the Thermostat: You may feel that your new oven cooks differently than the one it replaced. We recommend that you use your new oven for a few weeks to become more familiar with it, following the times given in your recipes as a guide. If you think your new oven is too hot or too cold, you can adjust the thermostat yourself. If you thin
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Adjust the Oven Thermostat Roasting ROASTING Roasting is cooking by dry heat. Tender meat or Roasting is really a baking procedure used for meats. poultry can be roasted uncovered in your oven. Therefore the oven controls are set for Baking. Roasting temperatures, which should be low and (You may hear a slight clicking sound indicating the steady, keep spattering to a minimum. oven is working properly.) The oven has a special Most meats continue to cook slightly while standing low shelf (R) pos
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ROASTING (continued) Questions and Answers Q. Is it necessary to check for doneness with a Q. Do I need to preheat my oven each time I cook meat thermometer? a roast or poultry? A. Checking the finished internal temperature at the A. It is not necessary to preheat your oven. completion of cooking time is recommended. Q. When buying a roast, are there any special tips Temperatures are shown in Roasting Guide. For that would help me cook it more evenly? roasts over 8 lbs., check with thermometer
