Caring for your Continuous Cleaning Oven:
1. Follow trusted recipes for baking. roasting and broiling They
will give time temperature and pan recommendations to help
avoid smoke. spatter and spillovers
2 Keep heavy-duty aluminum foil on the bottom of the oven. If
foil is not used, and something spills over, it may leave a
permanent stain.
3 The oven racks should be kept clean with hot sudsy water Use
a soapy steel-wool pad or plastic scouring pad to removt’ stub-
born spots Rinse well and dry with a soft cloth.
3 The oven ulndoLu should also be kept clean with hot. sudsb
water Do not use a soapy steel-wool pad on the windoiv Rinse
well and dry with a soft cloth.
Foil should be flat on
the bottom so should
the feet on the element.
Replacing aluminum foil on the oven bottom:
You can use the heavy-duty l&inch (45 cm) aluminum toll found
In most grocery states Or you can order an aluminum foil kit (Part
Number 241430) frc)m your Whirlpool Dealer
1 When cutting the foil. make sure It is long enough to cover the
bottom with enough left over to start up both sides
2 Make sure the bake element IS cool Lift it far enough to raise Its feet
from the hotrrlm of the oven (You may have to remove an
oi’en rack. I
3 Slide the fool ~l.~‘t’~ under the bake element Make sure It IS centered
and long enouq to start up the sides
3 When ilou put tthe bake element back down. make sure all the feet
resr solidly on the foil and that the foil is smoothed out across the
hot tom of the ,ven If the feet on the element are not solldly on the
io~l tht> ovt~n rr~nb not bake properI>
If results aren’t what you expect:
Remember. the oven keeps itself presentably clean at normal
baking temperatures If kou do very little baking. but a lot of brolllng. you
may see fat spatters in the oven walls and door This is because broiling
will add new spatter< faster than old ones can be burned off In some
cases. you may want !o clean the oven by hand
Hand-cleaning the Continuous Cleaning Oven:
1, Wash uclth hot >oapy water and rinse well.
2 Use a soapy stetll i~ool pad or plastic scouring pad for more stubborn
spots.
3 Do not use commercial oven cleaners. These cleaners may collect
In the rough pcjrcelaln enamel finish. The fumes from commercial
oven cleaners trapped In the porcelain enamel surface may be
harmlul
NOTE:
The oven door is ventilated to help keep the outside cooler.
This also means that the inside of the oven door does not get as
hot as the oven walls. Because of this, some hand-cleaning of the
door may be needed. ..especially if the oven is used mostly for
broiling or at low baking temperatures.
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