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Special Tips
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Keep the kitchen well aired during the cleaning cycle to help get rid of normal
heat odors and smoke.
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Clean the oven before it gets heavily soiled. Cleaning a very soiled oven takes
longer and results in more smoke than usual.
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If the cleaning cycle doesn’t get the oven as clean as you expected, the cycle
time may have been too short or you may not have prepared the oven prop-
erly. Set the cleaning time longer the next time and hand clean areas noted on
page 16.
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Oven racks lose their shine, discolor and become harder to slide when they
are left in the oven during the cleaning cycle. To make them slide easier, polish
the edges of the racks and rack guides with a soapy steel-wool pad, rinse well,
and wipe on a thin coat of salad oil.
How It Works
During the self-cleaning cycle, the oven gets much hotter than it does for baking
or broiling...approximately 875°F (468°C). This heat breaks up grease and soil
and
burns it off.
The graph shows approximate temperatures and times during a self-cleaning
cycle for 3 hours.
SELF-CLEANING CYCLE -THREE HOUR SEITING
[Approximate Temperafures and limes)
200”Fp++-
START v, hr.
1 hr I b hrs.
2 hrs. 2 VI hrs
3 hrs
3 VZ hrs. STOP
Notice that the heating stops when the 3-hour setting is up, but that it takes longer
for the oven to cool down enough to unlock.