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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.
To Adjust the Thermostat
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.
Touch
BAKE
once to decrease (-)
the oven temperature, or twice to
increase (+).
The oven temperature can be adjusted
up as much as 35°F or down as much
as 35°F. Touch the number pads the
same way you read them. For example,
to change the oven temperature 15°F,
touch
1
and
5.
When you have made the adjustment,
touch the
START
pad to go back to
the time of day display. Use your
oven as you would normally.
NOTE:
The thermostat adjustment for Baking
will also affect Convection Baking or
Convection Roasting.
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.
Adjust the upper oven thermostat—Do it yourself!
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The type of margarine will affect baking performance!
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