5
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
• CAUTION: ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE STORED IN
CABINETS INSTALLED ABOVE THE
COOKTOP SYSTEM—CHILDREN
CLIMBING ON THE COOKTOP SYSTEM
TO REACH ITEMS COULD BE
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
• Never wear loose-fitting or hanging garments
while using the cooktop system.
Be careful
when reaching for items stored in cabinets
over the cooktop system. Flammable material
could be ignited if brought in contact with
hot surface units or gas burners and may
cause severe burns.
• Use only dry pot holders
—moist or damp pot
holders on hot surfaces may result in burns
from steam. Do not let pot holders touch the
hot surface units or gas burners and grates.
Do not use a towel or other bulky cloth in
place of a pot holder.
• For your safety, never use any electric or gas
components of the cooktop system for
warming or heating the room.
• Do not store flammable materials in an oven
or near the cooktop system components.
• Do not store or use combustible materials,
gasoline or other flammable vapors and
liquids in the vicinity of this or any other gas
or electric appliance.
• Do not let cooking grease or other flammable
materials accumulate in or near the cooktop
system components.
• Never leave the kitchen while using the grill.
• Do not replace the grease collector jar with a
mayonnaise jar
which could break when hot
grease drips into it. Replace with any wide
mouth canning jar.
• Do not use water on grease fires. Never pick
up a flaming pan.
Turn the controls off.
Smother a flaming pan on a surface unit by
covering the pan completely with a well-
fitting lid, cookie sheet or flat tray. Use a
multi-purpose dry chemical or foam-type fire
extinguisher.
Flaming grease outside a pan can be put out
by covering it with baking soda or, if
available, by using a multi-purpose dry
chemical or foam-type fire extinguisher.
• Keep the grill drip pan and grease well clean
to reduce smoking and avoid grease fires.
• To control flame-ups, turn down the heat
setting to low, rather than off (O).
This keeps
the downdraft vent blower on. Or, turn the
Variable Speed Vent blower to HI, then turn
the grill off (O).
Use a long-handled utensil to carefully
remove the food from the grill.
These steps should control the flame until it
eventually goes out. If it does not, cover the
entire grill module with a cookie sheet or the
lid from a large roasting pan. Use a pot
holder to remove this later because it will be
hot.
• Do not touch the surface units.
These
surfaces may be hot enough to burn even
though they are dark in color. During and
after use, do not touch, or let clothing or
other flammable materials contact the
surface units, cooktop surfaces or areas
nearby the surface units. Allow sufficient time
for cooling of the cooking surfaces.
Potentially hot surfaces include the grill
grates and all components with electric
cooking elements or gas burners and grates.
• When cooking pork,
follow the directions
exactly and always cook the meat to an
internal temperature of at least 170°F. This
assures that, in the remote possibility that
trichina may be present in the meat, it will be
killed and the meat will be safe to eat.
