SPECIAL TIPS
Keep the kitchen well
ventilated during the
cleaning cycle to help
get rid of normal heat
odors and smoke
2. Clean the oven before
3. If the cleaning cycle
it gets heavily soilea.
doesn’t get the oven as
Cleaning a very soiled
clean as you
oven takes longer and
expected, the cycle
results in more smoke
may not have been set
than usual.
long enough. Set the
cleaning time longer
for heavier soil.
4. Oven racks lose their shine, discolor
5.
and become harder to slide on their
guides when they are left in the oven
during the cleaning cycle. To make
them slide easier, polish the edges of
the racks and rack guides with a soapy
steel-wool pad, rinse well, and wipe
on a thin coat of salad oil
To stop the cleaning cycle after it has
started:
l
Turn the Stop Time Knob clockwise
until the hand potnts to the righ? time
of day.
l
Turn the Upper Oven Selector und
Upper Oven Temperature Control to
OFF.
l
When the oven cools. move the
Lock Lever back to the ieft. DO NOT
FORCE IT. Wait until it moves easily.
HOW IT WORKS
During the self-cleaning cycle, the oven gets much hotter than it does
for baking or broiling...approximately 875” F (468°C). This heat breaks
up grease and
soil, and burns it off.
The graph shows approximate temperatures and times during a self-
cleaning cycle set for two hours.
1000 F
800 F
600 F
A00
F
SELF-CLEANING CYCLE-TWO HOUR SFTTING
(Approximote Temperatures and Times]
200 F
r 1
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I I 1 I I 1 ‘u
START ‘phr
1 hr 1 ‘/I hrs 2 hrs 2?, hts
Notice that the heating stops wnen rhe two-hour setting is up, but that it takes o
while
IOnger
for the oven to cool down enough to unlock.
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