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Adjust the oven thermostat—Do it yourself!
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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
Press the BAKE and BROIL HI/LO pads
at the same time for 3 seconds until
the display shows SF.
Press the BAKE pad. A two digit
number shows in the display.
Press 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. Press the
number pads the same way you
read them. For example, to change
the oven temperature 15°F., press
1
and 5.
When you have made the
adjustment, press the START pad
to go back to the time of day display.
Use your oven as you would normally.
The type of margarine will affect baking performance!
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.