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Your
new
cooktop
has electric coil surface units.
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best types of cookware to use, plus heat-up and
If you are used to cooking with gas burners or other
mol-down
times, depend upon the type of burner or
types of electric
moktops,
you will notice some
surface unit you have.
differences when you use electric coils.
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following chart
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help you to understand the
differen~s
between
electric-tiil
sutiace
units and any
other type of
moktop
you may have used in the past.
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of
Cooktop
Electric
Coti
@
Radiant
(Ghss
Ceramic)
Cooktop
o
Induction
gg~
Solid Disk
o
@
Gas Burners
*
Dewnption
Rattened
metal
tubing containing
electric
resistana
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
Electric
coils
under a
glass-
wramic
moktop.
High frequency
induction coils
under a
@ass
surfa~.
Solid cast iron
disk sealed to the
cooktop
surface.
Regular or sealed
gas burners use
either
LP
gas
I
ornaturalgas.
How
it Works
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
quictiy
but does not change
heat settings as
quicMy
as gas or induction. Electric roils stay hot enough to
continue cooking for a short time after they are turned off.
Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat on
the bottom for good rooking
resdts.
fie
glass
cooktop
stays hot enough to
continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit if
you want inking to stop.
Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is
produ~d by a magnetic circuit between the
mil
and the pan. Heats up right away
and changes heat settings right away, like a gas
cooktop.
After turning the
wntrol
off, the glass
cooktop
is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops right away.
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.
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disk stays hot enough to continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan
from the solid disk if you want the cooking to stop.
Rames
heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not critical to cooking results, but
pans should be well
balanmd.
Gas burners heat the pan right away and change
heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
S~ACE
CO~OLS
At both
0~
and
~
the control “clicks” into position.
Switching heats to higher
setings
always shows a
You may hear slight “clicking” sounds during
quicker change than switching to a lower setting.
rooking, indiating the ~ntrol is keeping the unit at
the heat level or power level you set.
How to Set the Contmh
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the knob in and
turn in either direction
to the desired heat setting.
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control must be pushed into set
ody
from
the
0~
position. When the control is in any
position other than
0~,
it may be turned without
pushing it in.
Be sure you turn control to
0~
when you finish
Woking.
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surface unit indicator light
will
glow when
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heat on any surfa~ unit is on.
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