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You may find that your new oven cooks differently than the one it replaced. Use your new oven for a few weeks to
become more familiar with it. If you still think your new oven is too hot or too cold, you can adjust the thermostat
yourself.
Do not use thermometers, such as those found in grocery stores, to check the temperature setting of your oven.
These thermometers may vary 20–40 degrees.
NOTE:
This adjustment will not affect the broiling or the self-cleaning temperatures. The adjustment will be retained
in memory after a power failure.
Adjust the oven thermostat—Do it yourself!
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To Adjust the Thermostat
(on some models)
Touch the
Bake
and
Broil Hi/Lo
pads
at the same time for 3 seconds until
the display shows
SF.
Touch the
Bake
pad. A two-digit number
shows in the display.
The oven temperature can be adjusted
up to (+) 35°F hotter or (–) 35°F cooler.
Touch the
+
pad to increase the
temperature in 1-degree increments.
Touch the
–
pad to decrease the
temperature in 1-degree increments.
When you have made the adjustment,
touch the
Start/On
pad to go back to
the time-of-day display. Use your oven
as you would normally.
NOTE:
This adjustment will not affect the
broiling or self-cleaning temperatures. It will
be retained in memory after a power failure.
Most recipes for baking have been developed using high-fat products such as butter or margarine (80% fat).
If you decrease the fat, the recipe may not give the same results as with a higher-fat product.
Recipe failure can result if cakes, pies, pastries, cookies or candies are made with low-fat spreads. The lower the fat
content of a spread product, the more noticeable these differences become.
Federal standards require products labeled “margarine” to contain at least 80% fat by weight. Low-fat spreads,
on the other hand, contain less fat and more water. The high moisture content of these spreads affects the texture and flavor
of baked goods. For best results with your old favorite recipes, use margarine, butter or stick spreads containing at least 70%
vegetable oil.
The type of margarine will affect baking performance!
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Front of OVEN TEMP knob
(knob appearance may vary)
To Adjust the Thermostat
(on models with an
OVEN TEMP
Knob)
Pull the OVEN TEMP knob off the range
and look at the back side.
To make an
adjustment, loosen (approximately one
turn), but do not completely remove,
the two screws on the back of the knob.
With the back of the knob facing you,
hold the outer edge of the knob with one
hand and turn the front of the knob with
the other hand.
To increase
the oven temperature,
move the top screw toward the right.
You’ll hear a click for each notch you
move the knob.
To decrease
the oven temperature,
move the top screw toward the left.
Each click will change the oven
temperature approximately 10°F. (Range
is plus or minus 60°F from the arrow.)
We suggest that you make the
adjustment one click from the original
setting and check oven performance
before making any additional
adjustments.
After the adjustment is made,
retighten
screws so they are snug, but be careful
not to overtighten.
Replace the knob, matching the flat area
of the knob to the shaft, and check
performance.
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(knob appearance may vary)
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