IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION (cont’d)
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• Do not allow children to climb or play around the
range. The weight of a child on an open oven door may
cause the range to tip, resulting in serious burns or
other injury.
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USER SERVICING:
Do not repair or replace any
part of the appliance unless specifically recommended
in this owner’s guide. All other servicing should be
done only by a qualified technician. This will reduce
the risk of personal injury and damage to the range.
WARNING: The following situations could result in property damage or bodily harm
• Do not touch surface burners, areas near the burners,
oven burners, or interior surfaces of the oven. Both
surface burners and oven burners may be hot even
though the flame is not visible. Areas near surface
burners may become hot enough to cause burns.
During and after use, do not touch or let clothing or
other flammable materials touch these areas until they
have had sufficient time to cool. Among these areas
are the cooktop, surfaces facing the cooktop, the oven
vent openings, and surfaces near these openings, oven
door and windows.
• Never use your appliance to warm or heat the room.
Operating your range without utensils or pans to
absorb the unit’s heat risks damaging the surface,
knobs, and controls.
• Wear proper apparel; lose fitting or hanging
garments should never be worn while using the
appliance. Do not let clothing or other flammable
materials contact surface burners or interior surfaces
of the oven until they have had sufficient time to cool.
• Never modify or alter the construction of the range.
Do not remove leveling legs, panels, wire covers, anti-tip
brackets or any other permanent part of the product.
• When heating fat or grease, watch it closely. Fat or
grease may catch fire if allowed to become too hot.
• Do not use water or flour on grease fires. Smother
the fire with a pan lid, baking soda, or use a dry
chemical or foam-type extinguisher.
• Use only dry potholders; wet or damp potholders on
hot surfaces could result in burns from steam. Do not
let the potholders touch hot heating areas. Do not use
a towel or other bulky cloth instead of potholder.
• Use proper flame size; Adjust flame size so it does not
extend beyond the edge of the cookware. The use of
undersized cookware will expose a portion of the burner
flame and may result in severe burns or direct contact
and ignition of clothing. Also, proper relationship of
cookware to burner will improve efficiency.
• Do not use aluminum foil to line the oven bottom
except as suggested in the cleaning section of this
manual. Improper use of aluminum foil may result in
a fire hazard. Foil may also interfere with heat
circulation and damage the range.
• Placement of oven racks: Always place an oven rack in
the desired location while the oven is cool. If a rack must
be moved when the oven is hot, use potholders and grasp
the rack with both hands to reposition. Do not let
potholders contact hot oven walls. Remove all cookware
from the rack before moving.
• Do not heat unopened food containers. Build-up of
pressure may cause the container to burst and result
in injury.
• Keep the oven vent duct unobstructed. The oven
vent is located along the bottom of the backgaurd.
Touching the surfaces in the vent area when the oven
is being operated may cause severe burns. Also, do
not place plastic or heat-sensitive items on or near the
oven vents. These items could melt or ignite.
• The range requires fresh air for proper burner
combustion. Do not block the flow of air around the
base or beneath the lower front panel of the range.
• Use care when operating oven door; Stand to the
side of the oven when opening the oven door. Slowly
open the door to allow hot air or steam to escape
before removing or replacing food.
• Know which knob controls each burner. Place a pan
of food on the burner before turning it on, and turn
the burner off before removing the pan. Always turn
to the full LITE position when igniting the top
burners. Then adjust the flame size so it does not
extend beyond the edge of the cookware.
• Cookware handles should be turned inward and not
extend over adjacent surface burners, to reduce the risk
of burns, ignition of flammable materials, and spillage
due to unintentional contact with the cookware.
• Never leave the surface burners unattended.
Boil-over may cause smoking and greasy spills may
catch fire or a pan which has boiled dry may melt.
• Do not place hands between the spring tension hinge
and the oven door frame when you are removing the
oven door. You could pinch your fingers.
• Storage in or on appliance: Flammable materials
should not be stored in an oven, near surface burners,
or in the broiler section. This includes paper, plastic
and cloth items, such as cookbooks, plasticware and
towels, as well as flammable liquids.
Do not use the oven for storage. Do not store
explosives, such as aerosol cans, on or near the range.
• Remove the oven door from any unused range if it
is to be stored or discarded.
• Stepping, leaning, or sitting on the doors or broiler
section of this range can result in serious injuries and
can cause damage to the range.
IMPORTANT SAFEGAURDS
