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General Care & Cleaning
Adjusting Your Oven Temperature
The oven light automatically turns ON when the door is opened. The oven light
may also be manually operated by pressing the oven light switch located on top of
the control panel.
The oven light bulb is located at the rear of the oven and is covered with a glass
shield held by a wire holder. The glass shield must be in place whenever the oven
is in use.
To replace the oven light bulb:
1.
Turn electrical power off at the main source or unplug the range.
2.
Press wire holder to one side to release the glass shield.
3.
Replace bulb with a new 40 watt appliance bulb.
4.
Replace glass shield over bulb and snap wire holder into place.
5.
Turn power back on again at the main source (or plug the range back in).
6.
The clock will then need to be reset. To reset, see Setting the Clock and
Minute Timer in this Use & Care Manual.
Be sure the range is unplugged and all parts are COOL before replacing
oven light. Wear a leather-faced glove for protection against possible broken glass.
Some models are equipped with stainless steel exterior parts. Special care and cleaning are required for maintaining the
appearance of stainless parts. Refer to the Care & Cleaning Table for detailed cleaning instructions.
Care & Cleaning of Stainless Steel (some models)
Note: Oven temperature adjustments made will not change the Self-Cleaning feature temperature.
Your oven control has been precisely set at the factory. This setting may differ from your previous oven however, so your recipe
times may not give you the results you expect. If you think that the oven is cooking too hot or too cool for your recipe times,
you can adjust the control so that the oven cooks hotter or cooler than the temperature displayed.
To Adjust Oven Temperature:
1.
Press
.
2.
Set the temperature to 550°F (287°C) by pressing and holding the
.
3.
Within 2 seconds, press and hold
until the 2 digit display appears. Release
. The display now indicates the amount
of degrees offset between the original factory temperature setting and the current temperature setting. If the oven control
has the original factory calibration, the display will read "0."
4.
The temperature can now be adjusted up or down 35°F (17°C), in 5°F steps by pressing and holding the
or
. Adjust
until the desired amount of offset appears in the display. When lowering the oven temperature, a minus sign (-) will appear
before the number to indicate that the oven will be cooler by the displayed amount of degrees.
5.
When you have made the desired adjustment, press
to go back to the time of day display.
Changing the Oven Light (some models)
