Keep the kitchen well aired during the cleaning cycle to help get rid of normal heat odors and smoke. Clean the oven before it gets heavily soiled. Cleaning a very soiled oven takes longer and results in more smoke than usual. 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 properly. Set the cleaning time longer the next time and hand clean areas noted on page 16. 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 VZhrs. 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.
