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You may find that your new oven cooks differently than the one it replaced. Use your new oven for a few weeks to
become more familiar with it. If you still think your new oven is too hot or too cold, you can adjust the thermostat yourself.

Do not use thermometers, such as those found in grocery stores, to check the temperature setting of your oven.
These thermometers may vary 20–40 degrees.

NOTE:

This adjustment will not affect the broiling or the self-cleaning temperatures. The adjustment will be retained

in memory after a power failure.

Adjust the oven thermostat—Do it yourself!

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To Adjust the Thermostat

(on some models)

Touch the

Bake

and

Broil Hi/Lo

pads

at the same time for 3 seconds until
the display shows

SF.

Touch the

Bake

pad. A two digit

number shows in the display.

The oven temperature can be adjusted
up to (+) 35°F hotter or (–) 35°F
cooler. Touch the

pad to increase the

temperature in 1 degree increments.

Touch the

–

pad to decrease the

temperature in 1 degree increments.

When you have made the adjustment,
touch the

Start/On

pad to go back to

the time of day display. Use your oven
as you would normally.

NOTE:

This adjustment will not affect the broiling

or self-cleaning temperatures. It will be retained
in memory after a power failure.

Most recipes for baking have been developed using high fat products such as butter or margarine (80% fat). If you
decrease the fat, the recipe may not give the same results as with a higher fat product.

Recipe failure can result if cakes, pies, pastries, cookies or candies are made with low fat spreads. The lower the fat
content of a spread product, the more noticeable these differences become.

Federal standards require products labeled “margarine” to contain at least 80% fat by weight. Low fat spreads, on the
other hand, contain less fat and more water. The high moisture content of these spreads affects the texture and flavor
of baked goods. For best results with your old favorite recipes, use margarine, butter or stick spreads containing at least
70% vegetable oil.

The type of margarine will affect baking performance!

OVEN

TEMP

OFF

Front of OVEN TEMP knob

(knob appearance may vary)

To Adjust the Thermostat

(on models with an

OVEN TEMP

Knob)

Pull the OVEN TEMP knob off the range
and look at the back side.

To make an adjustment, loosen
(approximately one turn), but do not
completely remove, the two screws on
the back of the knob.

With the back of the knob facing you,
hold the outer edge of the knob with
one hand and turn the front of the
knob with the other hand.

To increase

the oven temperature,

move the top screw toward the right.
You’ll hear a click for each notch you
move the knob.

To decrease

the oven temperature,

move the top screw toward the left.

Each click will change the oven
temperature approximately 10°F.
(Range is plus or minus 60°F from the
arrow.) We suggest that you make the
adjustment one click from the original
setting and check oven performance
before making any additional
adjustments.

After the adjustment is made,

retighten

screws so they are snug, but be careful
not to overtighten.

Replace the knob, matching the flat
area of the knob to the shaft, and
check performance.

LOOSEN