Whirlpool RS600BXV User manual

ELECTRIC
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Contents
BEFOREYOU USEYOUR
RANGE.
IMPORTANT SAFETY
INSTRUCTIONS
PARTSAND FEATURES
USING YOUR RANGE..
Using the Surface Units
Optional Canning Kit
Using the Oven Controls
Baking.
Broiling
Oven Vent
Optional Rotisserie
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2 Optional Door Panel Pat CARING FOR YOUR RANGE.
Control Panels and Knobs
Surface Units and
Reflector Bowls
Oven Door
Standard Oven Cleaning
Cleaning Chart
Oven Light
IF YOU NEEDSERVICE OR
ASSISTANCE
WHIRLPOOL RANGE
WARRANTY
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Before you useyour range
Read this Use 6 Care Guide and the Cooking Guide for important safety
information.
You are personally responsible for:
l Reading and following all safety precautions in this Use & Care Guide and the
Cooking Guide.
l Installing the range where it is protected from the elements, leveled in a
cabinet and on a floor strong enough to support its weight.
l Properly connecting the range to electrical supply and grounding. (See
Installation Instructions.)
l Making sure the range is not used by anyone unable to operate it properly.
l Properly maintaining the range.
l Using the range only for jobs expected of a home range.
See Cooking Guide for important safety and use information.
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IMPORTANT
SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
1. DO NOT allow children to use or
play with any part of the range,
or leave them unattended near it.
They could be burned or injured.
2. DO NOT store things children
might want above the range.
Children could be burned or
injured while climbing on it.
3. DO NOT allow anyone to touch
6. KEEP pan handles turned in, but
not over another surface unit to
avoid burns, injury and to help
prevent the utensil from being
pushed off the surface units.
7. DO NOT use water on grease
fires. The fire will spread. Cover
fire with large lid or smother with
baking soda or salt.
hot surface units or heating 8.
DO NOT wear loose or hanging
elements. Dark colored units and garments when using the range.
elements can still be hot enough They could ignite if they touch a
to burn severely. hot surface unit or heating ele-
4. KEEP children away from the ment and you could be burned.
range when it is onThe cooktop 9.
DO NOT heat unopened con-
and oven walls, racks and tainers. They could explode. The
door can get hot enough to hot contents could burn and
cause burns. container particles could
5. DO NOT use the range to heat a cause injury.
room. Persons in the room could 10. When adding or removing food,
be burned or injured, or a fire
MAKE SURE to open the oven
could start. door all the way to prevent burns.
. FOR YOUR SAFETY.
DO NOT STORE OR USE GASOLINE OR OTHER FLAMMABLE VAPORS AND
LIQUIDS IN THE VICINITY OF THIS OR ANY OTHER APPLIANCE.
THEY COULD IGNITE CAUSING EXPLOSION AND/OR FIRE.
- SAW THESE INSTRUCTIONS -
Thank you for buying a Whirlpool appliance. Please complete and mall
the Owner Reglstration Card provided with this product. Then complete
the form below. Have this information ready if you need service or call with
a question.
l Copy model and serial numbers
from plate (behind the oven door
Model Number
on the oven frame) and purchase
date from sales slip.
Serial Number
l Keep this book and sales slip to-
gether in a handy place.
Purchase Date
Service Company Phone Number

Parts and features
Model RS600BXV
LEFl REAR
CONTROL KNOB
SURFACE UNIT
INDICATOR
RIGHT REAR
CONTROL KNOB
ONE-PIECE CHROME
REFLECTOR BOWL
PLUG-IN
ZIGHT FRONT
ZONTROL KNOB
SURFACE UNIT
SIGNAL LIGHT
OVEN DOOR

OVEN
SIGNAL LIGHT
OVE’N
SELECTOR
Using your range
Using the Surface Units
OVEN TEMPERATURE
CONTROL
Surface Unit Indicators
The solid dot in the surface unit
indicator shows which surface unit
is turned on by that knob.
Signal light
The signal light will glow when a sur-
face unit is on.
Control knobs must be pushed In
before turning them to a setting. They
can be set anywhere between HI
and OFF.
Until you get used to the settings, use the following as a guide. For best results,
start cooking at the high settings; then turn the control knob down to continue
cooking.
USe HI to start Use MED-HI Use MED Use MED-LO Use LO
to
foods cook- to hold a for gravy, to keep food
ing; to bring keep food
rapid boil; to puddings cooking after warm until
!iquids to a fry chicken and icing; to starting it ready to
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or pancakes.
cook large on a higher
amounts of setting.
vegetables.
CAUTION: The use of the HI sefflng for long perlods of time
can damage surface unlts and discolor chrome reflector
bowls. Start cooklng on HI and turn control down to con-
tfnue cooklng.
serve. Set the
heat higher
or lower
within the LO
band to keep
food at the
temperature
you want,
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