USING YOUR OVEN
(continued)
To remove the shelves from the
Oven Shelves
The shelves are designed with
stop-locks so when placed
correctly on the shelf supports,
they
stop before coming
completely out of the oven and
not
when you are
removing food from them or
placing food on them.
placing cookware on shelf,
the shelf out to the “stop”
Place the cookware on
then slide the shelf back
into the oven. This will eliminate
reaching into the hot oven.
oven, pull them toward you, tilt the
front end upward and pull them out.
To replace, place the shelf on the
shelf support with the stop-locks
(curved extension of
facing
up and toward the rear
the oven.
Tilt up the front and push the shelf
toward the back of the oven until it
goes past “stop” on the oven wall.
Then lower the front the shelf
and push it all the way back.
Shelf Positions
The oven has
shelf
supports, identified in this
illustration A (bottom), B,
C and D (top).
positions for cooking
suggested i n the Baking,
Roasting
Broiling
sections.
Oven Light
A manual switch (on some models) is located on the
control panel. The light turns on when the oven door
is opened or when the control panel light switch is
turned on.
Do
the Oven Thermostat
If you don’t think the oven is heating at the right
temperature when you are baking or roasting, you
can reset the thermostat yourself.
When cooking food for the first time in your new
use time given on recipes as a guide. Oven
thermostats, over a period of years, may “drift” from
factory setting and the differences in timing
between an
and a new oven of 5 to 10 minutes are
not unusual. Your oven has been set correctly at the
factory and is more likely to be accurate than the oven
which it replaced.
We do not recommend the use of inexpensive
thermometers, such as those found in the grocery
to check the temperature setting of your new
oven. These thermometers can vary by
degrees.
To decide how much to change the temperature,
oven temperature
higher or lower than
the temperature in your recipe, then bake. The results
this
give you
idea of how much the
temperature should be changed.
Pull knob off shaft. Look at back of knob and note
current setting before making any adjustment.
To make an adjustment, carefully
the two
screws until the back of the knob can be rotated, then
move the pointer one “click” from the original setting.
If you would like the actual
oven temperature (at any
setting) to be approximately
hotter, move the pointer
clockwise in the “HOTTER”
direction.
(
If you would
the actual oven
temperature (at any setting) to
be approximately
cooler, move the pointer
counterclockwise in the “COLDER” direction.
After making the adjustment,
the screws
and return the knob to the range–the
side of the
shaft must
with the
side of the
in the
back of the knob. Check the oven performance. Make
additional adjustments if needed.
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