Whirlpool AKP511 oven - can't figure it out

Cheetah Designs · 11 Mar 2013 at 20:32

Trying to cook dinner for the first time in my flat but I can't figure out the damn oven.

Is anybody able to find me the instructions online, have spent the last 30 minutes trying to find them

...or able to tell me how I use the damn thing!

Traffic_Warden · 11 Mar 2013 at 20:50

How it works?

I presume just push the buttons in and they will pop out, then twist them.

If it's never been ran, then it will need to be activated somehow, usually pressing buttons in a sequence activates it.

Biohazard · 11 Mar 2013 at 20:53

Stop trying to use the washing machine to cook your food.

qqg3 · 11 Mar 2013 at 20:55

Don't press that! Oh dear... he's gone.

ince · 11 Mar 2013 at 20:57

Put some clothes in and press a few buttons

Cheetah Designs · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:02

haha. No what I meant was that it doesn't seem to heat up. I can hear the fan going, but it doesn't seem to heat.

Biohazard · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:10

Light a fire behind the oven then silly.

nutcase · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:12

www.dominos.co.uk

saw something about auto timer has to be set for it to do anything?

DaleTheWhale · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:19

That's a microwave.

/Serious

http://www.nodevice.com/manual/newmans/whirlpool/8577_511_15050pdf/get51291.html

^ Turns out it's a service manual, not user manual. My bad.

Fuzz · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:27

Set the clock first..

Fuzz · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:32

Do the controls look anything like this?

Cheetah Designs · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:47

No the controls do not look like that.

Nightglow · 11 Mar 2013 at 21:58

Take a photo of oven control panel, we might be able to figure it out then.

Cheetah Designs · 11 Mar 2013 at 22:02

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4Mz-WnXHUIIOXNQdU5KakpwbDQ/edit?usp=sharing

Fuzz · 11 Mar 2013 at 22:17

Function knob to "Oven"

Temp to 200°C If it doesn't get hot after ten mins it's broken.

Red light should come on if you've twiddled the knobs correctly, then it should extinguish when it reaches 200°C

Fuzz · 11 Mar 2013 at 22:21

Close up pic of "F" knob...??

Biohazard · 12 Mar 2013 at 00:03

He ended up ordering in...

Cheetah Designs · 12 Mar 2013 at 07:32

Fuzz said:
Function knob to "Oven"

Temp to 200°C If it doesn't get hot after ten mins it's broken.

Red light should come on if you've twiddled the knobs correctly, then it should extinguish when it reaches 200°C

Well I had turned the function button to what I thought was oven with fan and turned it to 200. The light went on, and went off again a short while after, no way it was 200*C though.

Biohazard said:
He ended up ordering in...

Yup...haha

TheCrow · 12 Mar 2013 at 16:23

Some ovens I have used need you to set the temp etc (lights would come on), then press one of the small buttons on the left to get it to heat it up.

might not be but worth a try.

FartInferno · 12 Mar 2013 at 17:56

Bit late now but, how about some really vague instructions for the AKP512:
http://docs.whirlpool.eu/_doc/501910053473GB.pdf