GE 49-4992 - Manual (Page 9)

Using Your Oven
Top-of-Range Cookware
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axikwarc is rccoinmended because it
iheats quickly and evenly. Most focxis
Drown evenly in an aluminum skillet.
Mincnils ill food and water 'will siain
but will not harm aluminum. A
quick scour with a soap-filled wool
pad after each use keeps aluminum
cookware looking shiny new. Use
.saucepans with tight-fitting lids for
cooking with minimum amounts
of water.
Cast Iron: If heated slowly, most
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Enamel ware: Under some
conditions, the enamel of some
cookware may melt. Follow cookware
manufacturer’s recom.mendations
for cooking methods.
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cookware—those for oven use only
and those for top-of-range cooking
(saucepans, coffee and teapots).
Glass conducts heat very slowly.
Heatproof Glass Ceramic: Can
be used for either surface or oven
rooking. It conducts heat very
^slowly and cools very slowly.
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directions to be sure it c^n be used
on gas ranges.
Stainless Steel: This metal alone
has poor heating properties, and is
usually combined with copper,
aluminum or other metals for
improved heat distribution.
Combination metal skillets usually
work satisfactorily if they are
used with medium heat as the
manufacturer recommends.
Automatic Ignition
The oven burner and broil
burner on your range are lighted
by electric ignition.
To light either burner, push the
button for the desired function and
turn the SET knob until the desired
temperature is displayed. The
burner should ignite within 60
seconds.
Power outage?
The oven and broiler burners on
this range will not light in the event
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not attempt to light them
manually with a match.
Oven Shelves
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locks so when placed correctly on
the shelf supports, they will stop
before coming completely out of
the oven and will not tilt when you
are removing food from them or
placing food on them.
When placing cookware on a shelf,
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position. Place the cookware on
the shelf, then slide the shelf back
into the oven. This will eliminate
reaching into the hot oven.
To remove the shelves from the
oven, pull them toward you, tilt
front end upward and pull them out.
To replace, place shelf on shelf
support with .stop-locks (curved
extension of shelf) facing up and
toward rear of oven. Till up front
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until it goes past “stop” on oven
wall. Then lower front of shelf and
push it all the way back.
Shelf Positions
The oven has four shelf supports—
A (bottom), B, C and D (top).
Shelf positions for cooking are
suggested on Baking and Roasting
pages.
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