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HELP US HELP YOU... Before using your oven, read this guide carefully. Write down the model and serial numbers. It is intended to help you operate your new oven properly. You'll find them on a label on the front of the lower oven behind the oven door. Keep it handy for answers and maintain These numbers are also on the Consumer to your questions. If you don't understand something or need more help, call: GE Answer Center ® 800.626.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Read all instructions before using this appliance. • Teach children not to play with the controls or any other part of the oven. • Never leave the oven door open when you are not watching the oven. • Always keep combustible wall coverings, curtains or drapes a safe distance from your ovenL. , Never wear loose-fi .tting or hanging garments while using the appliance. Be caref_ when reaching for items stored in cabinets over the oven.
• IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS (continued) • Do not use water on Smother - When using cooking or roasting bags in the oven, follow the manufacatrer's directions. • Do not use your oven to dry newspapers. If overheated, they can catch fire. the oven off • elements or the interior surface of the oven. These surfaces maybe hot enough toburn even thoughthey are dark in color.
FEATURES OF YOUR OVENS Feature Explained on page Index 1 Oven Door Gasket 2 Convection Fan and 4, 30, 35 11 Heating Element Operates during convection cooking.
FEATURES OF YOUR OVEN CONTROL 1. BAKE. Press to select the bake function, 2. BROIL _/LO. Press to select the broil function. 3. CONVECTION with convection. BAKE. Press to select baking 4. CONVECTION with convection. ROAST. Press to select roasting 5. OVEN LIGHT ON/OFF. lights on or off. Press to turn the oven 6. START. Must be pressed cleaning function° to start any cooking or 7. DISPLAY. Shows the operations you have selected, the time of day and the cooking or cleaning status. 8.
OVEN CONTROL, CLOCK AND TINIER 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 1. Press CLOCK. If number pads are not pressed within one minute after you press CLOCK, the display reverts to the original setting. If this happens, press CLOCK and reenter the time of day. 2. Press the number pads the same way you read them.
OVEN CONTROL, CLOCK AND TIMER (continued) 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 traction or at the end of the oven fimction_ They will also alert you when an incorrect time or temperature has been entered or if there is a problem with the oven° Tones While Setting the Control When you press a touch pad you will hear a beep. This beep will let you know you have placed enough pressure on the pad to activate it.
12 Hour Shut-Off Cook and Hold With this feature, should you forget and leave the oven on, the control will automatically turn off the oven after 12 hours during baiting functions or after 3 hours during a broil function. If you wish to turn off this feature, follow the steps below. Your new control has a cook and hold feature that keeps cooked foods wm-m for up to 3 hours after the cooking fimction is finished. To activate this feature, follow the steps below. L L3 _ 1.
USING YOUR OVEN Before Using Your Oven 1. Look at the controls° Be sure you understand how to set them properly. Read over the directions for the Oven Controls so you understand how to use them° 2. Check the inside of the oven. Look at the shelves. Take a practice run at removing and replacing properly to give sure, sturdy support. 3. Read over the information them and tips that follow. 4.
CONVECTION COOKING What is Convection? Because food is heated faster in a convection oven when using the convection modes, many types of food can be cooked at lower temperatures than those suggested for regular ovens.
CONVECTION BAKING (upper oven only) As a general rule, reduce the temperature convection baking° Preheating is not necessary time of over 15 minutes_ by 25°E for with foods having a bake Check foods for doneness suggested cooking time. at the minimum Use pan size recommended in the recipe. Multi-Shelf Baking Because heated air is circulated evenly throughout the oven, foods can be baked with excellent results on two, three or more shelves at a time.
TIMED CONtraCTION BAKING (upper oven only) How to Convection Time Bake The oven control allows you to turn the oven on or off automatically at specific times that you set.
TIMED CONVECTION BAKING (upper oven only---continued) How to Set Delay Start and Automatic Stop Convection Bake 7. Press START. Easy Steps: 1, Press CONVECTION BAKE. 2. Press the number temperature. 3. Press COOKING pads to set the oven 4. Press the number of baking time° pads to set the length If you would like to check the times you have set, press DELAY START to check the stair time you have set or press COOKING TIME to check the length of cooking time you have set. TIME.
CONVECTION ROASTING (upper oven only) Meats cooked in a convection oven are dark brown on the outside and tender and juicy on the inside, In most cases, cooking time will be less when using the Convection Roast feature.
CONVECTION ROASTING (upper oven only---continued) How to Set Your Oven for Convection Roasting When Using the Temperature NOTE: For best results when roasting large turkeys and masts, we recommend using the probe included in the convection oven. For the correct placement of the probe, see the description in the Roasting section° Probe reaches the temperature you have set, the 8. When the internal temperature of the meat probe and the oven turn off and the oven control signals.
CONVECTION ROASTING GUIDE Meats Beef Rib, Boneless Rib, Top Sirloin (3 to 5 lbs,) Beef Tenderloin Pot Roast (2½ to 3 lbs.) Rare Medium Well Rare Medium Chuck, Rump Pork Bone-ln, Boneless (3 to 5 tbs..) Chops 2 chops (1/2 to 1-inch thick) 4 chops 6 chops Ham Canned, Lamb Bone.in, Boneless (3 to 5 lbs.) Seafood Fish, whole (3 to 5 Ibs) Lobster Tails (6 to 8 oz.
BAKING (continued) Oven Shelves Arrange the oven shelf or shelves in the desired locations while the oven is cool. The correct shelf position depends on the kind of food and the browning desired° As a general rule, place most foods in the middle of the oven, on either shelf position C or Dr See the chart for suggested shelf positions.
Cookies When baking cookies, flat cookie sheets (without sides) produce better-looking cookies_ Cookies baked in a jelly roll pan (short sides all around) may have darker edges and pale or light browning may occur. Do not use a cookie sheet so large that it touches the walls or the door of the oven. Never entirely cover a shelf with a large cookie sheet. For best results during baking, sheet in the oven at a time. Also see the Multi-Shelf Baking use only one cookie section.
TIMED BAKING How to Set Your Oven for Time Bake The oven control allows you to turn the oven on or off automatically at specific times that you set. Examples of Immediate Start (oven turns on now and you set it to turn off automatically at the end of cooking time) and Delay Start and Stop (setting the oven to rum on automatically at a later time and turn off after a preset cooking time) will be described.
How to Set Delay Start and Automatic Stop If you would like to check the times you have set, press DELAY START to check the start time you have set or press COOKING TIME to check the length of cooking time you have set. Easy Steps: 1. Press BAKE° 2. Press the number pads to select oven temperature. 3. Press COOKING When the oven turns on at the time of day you have set, the display will show the changing temperature (starting at 100°E) and the cooking time countdown. TIME. 4.
ADJUST THE OVEN HERMOSTATm DO IT YOURSELF! You may find 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 guider If you think your new oven is too hot or too cool, you can adjust the thermostat yourself. If you think it is too hot, adjust the thermostat to make it cooler. If you think it is too cool, adjust the thermostat to make it hotter.
ROASTING Most meats continue to cook slightly after being removed from the oven. The internal temperature will rise about 5 ° to !0°E during the recommended standing time of t0 to 20 minutes, This a!lows roasts to firm up and makes them easier to carve, To compensate for this rise in temperature, you may want to remove the roast sooner (at 5 ° to !0°E less than the temperature in the Roasting Guide), Roasting is cooking by dry heat.
ROASTING ATH THE PROBE See the Roasting Guide (upper oven only) Correct Placement of the Temperature Probe Your double oven has a probe in the upper oven only. A temperature probe has been provided for use in your new oven. This probe is designed to withstand high temperatures. Temperature probes provided with other products, such as those used for microwave ovens, may not be designed to withstand high temperatures.
How to Set the Oven When Using the Temperature Probe The display will flash if the probe is inserted into the outlet and you have not set a probe temperature and pressed START. 1. Insertthe probe into the meat, 2. Plug the probe into the outlet in the oven. Make sure it's pushed all the way in. Close the oven door° 3. Press PROBE. 4. Press the number pads to set the internal meat temperature. meat reaches the temperature you have 8.
ROASTING (continued) Questions and Answers Q. Is it necessary to check for doneness meat thermometer? Q. Do I need to preheat roast or poultry? with a my oven each time I cook a A. Checking the finished internal temperature at the completion of cooking time is recommended if you did not use the probe while cooking_ Temperatures are shown in the Roasting Guide. For roasts over 8 lbs., check with thermometer at half-hour intervals after half the cooking time has passed. A, It is not necessary Q.
BROII,ING Broil_g is cooking food by from the upper broil element and tender cuts of meat can directions to keep spattering Leave the door open to the broil stop position. The door stays open by itself, yet the proper temperature is maintained in the oven. intense radiant heat in the oven° Most fish be broiled. Follow these and smoking to a miD.imum_ If the meat has fat or gristle around the edge, cut vertical slashes through both about 2 inches apart.
BROILING (continued) Use of Aluminum Foil You can use aluminum foil to line your broiler pan and broiler grid. However, you must mold the foil tightly to the grid and cut slits in it just like the grid. Without the slits, the foil will prevent fat and meat juices from draining into the broiler pan. The juices could become hot enough to catch on fire. If you do not cut the slits, you are flying, not broiling. Questions and Answers Q. When broiling, is it necessary grid in the pan? to always use a A.
BROILING GUIDE • When arranging food on the pan, do not let fatty edges hang over the sides because the dripping fat will soil the oven_ • Always use the broiler pan and grid that comes with your oven. It is designed to minimize smoking and spattering by trapping juices in the shielded lower part of the pan. • The oven door should be open to the broil stop position. • For steaks and chops, slash fat evenly around the outside edges of the meat.
OPERAI]NG THE SELF-CLEANING OVEN (Normal Cleaning Time: 4 hours) Before a Clean Cycle 1. Remove the broiler pan, broiler grid, all cookware and any aluminum foil from the oven they can't withstand the high cleaning temperatures. NOTE: The oven shelves and the convection roasting rack may be cleaned in the self-cleaning oven. However, they will darken, lose their luster and become hard to slide. Wipe the shelf supports with cooking oil after self-cleaning to make shelves slide more easily° 2.
How to Set Oven for Cleaning Easy Steps: 1. Press AUTO SELF CLEAN. 2. Press the number pads to set the clean time. 3. Press START° 5. When the LOCKED the door, 1. Follow the steps in the Before a Clean Cycle section, 2, Press AUTO SELF CLEAN+ 3. Press the number pads to set the clean time, if a time other than 4 hours is needed.
OPERATING THE SELF-CLEANING OVEN (continued) How to Set Delay Start of Cleaning Easy Steps: 1. Press AUTO SELF CLEAN. 2. Press the number pads to set the clean time. 3. Press DELAY START The door locks automatically. The display will show the start time. It will not be possible to open the oven door until the temperature drops below the lock temperature and the LOCKED DOOR light goes off, 7. When the LOCKED the door. DOOR light is off, open 4. Press the number pads to set the start time. 5.
Questions and Answers Q. If my oven clock is not set to the correct time of day, can I still serf-clean my oven? A. If the clock is not set to the correct time of day you will not be able to set a delay clean to end at a specific time, Q. Can I use commercial oven cleaners of my self.cleaning oven? on any part A. No cleaners or coatings should be used around any part of this oven.
CARE AND CLEANING Proper care and cleaning are important so your oven will give you efficient and satisfactory service. Follow these directions carefully in caring for your oven to assure safe and proper maintenance. BE SURE ELECTRICAL POWER ARE COOL BEFORE CLEANING IS OFF AND ALL SURFACES ANY PART OF THE OVEN. Broiler Pan and Grid After broiling, remove the broiler pan and grid from the oven. Remove the grid from the pan.
Lift-Off Oven Door The oven door is removable, but it is heavy. You may need help removing and replacing the door. Do not lift the door by the handle. This can cause the glass to break or can cause damage to the door. To remove the door, open it a few inches to the special stop position that will hold the door open° Grasp firmly on each side and lift the door straight up and off the hinges.
CARE AND CLEANING (continued) Probe The temperature probe may be cleaned with soap and water or a soap-filled scouring pad. Cool the temperature probe before cIeaningo Scour stubborn spots with a soap-filled scouring pad, rinse and dry. Do not immerse the temperature probe in water. Do not store the temperature probe in the oven. Oven Light Btdb NOTE: The glass cover should be removed only when cold. Wearing latex gloves may offer a better grip. The light bulb is located on the top of the oven.
QUESTIONS? USE THIS PROBLEM SOLVER PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE • This is a function error code. Press CLEAR/OFF. hour. Place the oven back into operation. • Disconnect all power to the oven for 5 minutes failure code repeats, call for service. ENTERI_ GCOOKING TIME OR DELAY: START TIME DISPLAY GOES BLANK: DISPLAY _ : FLASHES • This is reminding you to press BAKE a bake temperature. • : • The Circuit breaker BAKE and then enter after having pressed BAKE • Power failure. Reset the clock.
PROBLEM SOLVER (continued) PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE *_The circuit breaker , The oven controls , Oven controls in your house has been tripped, or a fuse has been blown. arenot properly set. not set properly. See the Broiling section. recommended. used. See the Broiling Guide. pan or on cookware See the Broiling section. : not suitable for broiling. I and grid has not been fitted properly and slit as recommended.
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