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HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE
WITH YOUR OLD ONE?
Your new cooktop has gas burners. If you are used
The best types of cookware to use,
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heat-up
and
to cooking with induction or other electric surface
cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or
units, you will notice some differences when you use
surface unit you have.
gas burners.
The following chart will help you to understand the
differences between gas burner
cooktops and any
other type of
cooktop you may have used in the past.
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Cooktop
Gas Burners
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(Glass Ceramic)
Cooktop
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Induction
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Description
Regular or
sealed
gas burners use
either
LP
gas
or
natural
gas.
Electric coils
under a glass-
ceramic
cooktop.
High frequency
induction coils
under a glass
surface.
Flattened metal
tubing containing
electric resistance
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
Solid cast iron
disk sealed to the
cooktop surface.
How It Works
Flames heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not critical to cooking results, but
pans should be
well
balanced. Gas burners heat the
pan
right
aw~y
and
change
heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
Heat travels to the
glass
surface and then to the cookware, so pans must
be
flat
on
the bottom for good cooking results. The
glass
cooktop
stays hot enough to
continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit if
you want cooking to stop.
Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is
produced by a
ma&netic
circuit between the coil and the pan. Heats up right away
and changes heat settings right away, like a gas
cooktop.
After turning the control
off, the glass
cooktop
is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops right away.
Heats by direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under the pan. For best
cooking results, use good quality pans. Electric coils are more forgiving of
warped pans than radiant or solid disks. Heats up quickly but does not change
heat settings as quickly
as
gas or induction. Electric coils stay
hot
enough to
continue cooking
for a short time after they are turned off.
Heats by direct contact with the pan, so pans must be
flat
on the bottom for good
cooking results. Heats up and cools down more slowly than electric
coils.
The
disk stays hot enough
‘o
continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan
from the solid disk if you want the cooking to stop.
SUWACE
COO~NG
Electric Ignition
Your surface burners are lit by electric ignition,
Surface burners in use when an electrical power
eliminating the need for standing pilot
lights
with
failure occurs will continue to operate normally.
constantly burning flames.
In case of a power failure,
you can light the surface
burners on your range with a match. Hold a lit match
to the burner, then push in and turn the control knob
to the
LITE
position.
Use extreme caution when
lighting burners in this manner.
Surface Burner Controls
The knobs that turn the surface burners on and off
The two knobs on the left control the left front and
are located on the lower control panel in front of
left rear burners. The two knobs on the right control
the burners.
the right front and right rear burners.