Caring For Your Range
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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.
This graph shows approximate temperatures
and times during a Self-Cleaning cycle for 3 hours.
Self-Cleaning cycle - three hour setting
(Approximate temperatures and times)
1000°F
536°C
800°F
427°C
600°F
316°C
400°F
204°C
200°F
93°C
START
l/2 hr. 1 hr.
1 l/2 hrs.
2 hrs.
2 l/2 hrs.
3 hrs. 3 l/2 hrs. STOP
Notice
that the heating stops when the three-hour setting is up, but that it takes longer for the oven to
cool down enough to unlock.
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Fat spatter
beads up.
Turns black.
Standard
porcelain
Fat spatter
spreads out.
Burns away.
Continuous-
cleaning porcelain
Using the Continuous-Cleaning
left oven
Standard oven walls are coated with smooth
porcelain. Your Continuous-Cleaning oven walls
are coated with a special, rougher porcelain. A fat
spatter beads up on the smooth surface, but
spreads out on the rougher surface. The bead of
fat on the smooth surface chars and turns black.
The spread-out fat on the rough surface
gradually
burns away at
medium to high baking
temperatures
so the oven can return to a pre-
sentably clean condition.
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