Sears 629.42869 - Manual (Page 2)

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
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All appliances -- regardless of the manufacturer—have the potential through improper or careless use to create safety
problems. Therefore the following safety precautions should be observed:
1. Be sure your appliance is properly installed and
grounded by a qualified technician.
2. Never use your appliance for warming or heating
the room.
3. Children should not be left alone or unattended in
area where appliance is in use. They should never
be allowed to sit or stand on any part of the
appliance.
4. Wear proper apparel. Loose-fitting or hanging
garments should never be worn while using the
appliance.
5. Do not repair or replace any part of the appliance
unless specifically recommended in this manual.
All other servicing should be referred to an
authorized Service Contractor.
6. Flammable materials should not be stored in an
oven or near surface units.
7. Do not use water on grease fires. Smother fire or
flame oruse dry chemical orfoam-type extinguisher.
8. Use only dry potholders. Moist or damp potholders
on hot surfaces may result in bums from steam. Do
not let potholder touch hot heating elements. Do
not use a towel or other bulky cloth.
9. Use proper pan size. Many appliances are equipped
with one or more surface units of different size.
Select cookware having flat bottoms large enough
to cover the surface unit heating element. The use
of undersized cookware will expose a portion of
the heating element to direct contact and may
result in ignition of clothing. Proper relationship of
cookware to heating element will also improve
efficiency and performance.
10. Never leave surface units unattended at high heat
settings. Boil over causes smoking and greasy
spillovers that may ignite.
11. Glazed cookware — only certain types of glass,
glass-ceramic, ceramic, earthenware or other glazed
cookpots are suitable for cooktop surface without
breaking due to the sudden change in temperature.
Use only such cookware as you know has been
approved for this purpose.
12. Cookware handles should be turned inward and
not extend over adjacent surface heating elements
to avoid bums, ignition of flammable materials and
spillage due to unintentional contact with the
cookware.
13. CAUTION — Do not store items of interest to
children in cabinets above cooktop - children
climbing on the cooktop to reach items could be
seriously injured.
14. Do not soak or immerse removable heating elements
in water.
15. Do not touch surface units or areas near units.
Surface units or heating elements may be hot even
though they are dark in color. Areas near surface
units may become hot enough to cause bums.
During and after use, do not touch or let clothing
or other flammable materials contact these areas
until they have had sufficient time to cool. Other
surfaces may become hot enough to cause bums -
-among these surfaces are the cooktop.
16. Clean only parts listed in this manual and use
procedures recommended.
17. Do not cook on glass-ceramic cooking surface if
the cooktop is broken. Cleaning solutions and
spillovers may penetrate the broken cooktop and
create a shock hazard. Contact an authorized
Service Contractor.
18. Clean glass-ceramic cooktops with caution. If wet
sponge or cloth is used to wipe spills on a hot
cooking area, be careful to avoid steam bums.
Some cleansers can produce noxious fumes if
applied to a hot surface.
19. Do not operate with damaged cooking element
after any product malfunction until proper repair
has been made.
20. Keep all switches “Off’ when unit is not in use.
21. On conventional element cooktops make sure that
drip pans are in place. Absence of these pans
during cooking may subject wiring or components
underneath to damage.
22. Do not use aluminum foil to line surface unit drip
pans or grill basin. Installation of these liners may
result in electric shock or fire hazard.
23. This appliance has been tested for safe performance
using conventional cookware. Do not use any
devices or accessories that are not specifically
recommended in this manual. Do not use eyelid
covers for the surface units, stovetop grills, or add­
on convection systems. The use of devices or
accessories that are not expressly recommended in
this manual can create serious safety hazards,
result in performance problems, and reduce the life
of the components of the appliance.
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