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Your
new
modular cooktop may have several types of
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following chart
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help you to understand the
rooking
sbw
units. You
til
noti~
some
differenms
differences among the various cooking surface units
when you use each one.
and how they differ from others you may have used
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best types of cookware to use, plus heat-up and
in the past.
cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or
surfa=
unit you are using.
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of Cooktop
Radiant
(Gbss Ceramic)
Cooktop
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Induction
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E1ectric
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Solid Disk
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Gas Burners
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Description
Electric roils
under
a
glass-
ceramic
mktop.
High frequency
induction coils
under a glass
surfa~.
Flattened metal
tubing
mntaining
elwtric
resistance
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
Solid
at
iron
disk sealed to the
cooktop
surfa~.
Regular or sealed
gas burners use
either
LP
gas
or natural gas.
How it Works
Heat travels
to the glass
surfam
and then to the
mokware,
so pans must be flat on
the bottom for good rooking results.
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glass cooktop stays hot enough to
mntinue
cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the
surfaw
unit if
you want cooking to stop.
Pans must be made of
ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet).
Heat is
produced by a magnetic circuit
betw~n
the
mil
and the pan. Heats up right away
and changes heat settings right away, like a gas cooktop.
Mer
turning the control
off, the glass cooktop is hot from the heat of
the
pan, but rooking stops right away.
Heats by
dirmt
mntact
with the pan and by heating the air under the pan. For best
aking
results, use good quality pans. Elwtric
wils
are more forgiving of
warped pans than radiant or solid disks. Heats up
quicuy
but does not change
heat settings as
quicMy
as gas or induction. Electric roils stay hot enough to
mntinue
rooking for a short time after they are turned off.
Heats by
dirat
mntact with the pan, so pans must be flat on the bottom for good –
cooking results. Heats up and
mols
down more slowly than electric
ails.
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disk stays hot enough to
mntinue
cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan
from the solid disk if you want the cooking to stop.
Flames heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not critical to rooking results, but
pans should be well
baland.
Gas burners heat the pan right away and change
heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
Cam
of the Modules
Some of the
moddes
must be cured or
men
not in the cooktop, modules and
preconditioned before using them for the first time.
accessories should be stored in a
clea~
dry place.
Modules and accessories shotid be cleaned after
&ways be careful not to drop the
moddes
or they
each use.
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longer a soil remains, the harder it is to
could be damaged.
clean. See each modtie section in this guide for specific
imtructions.
Never immerse any module in water.
Using the
Electfic
Sutiace
Unit Modules
You must consider heat up and cool down times for
Start cooking at a higher setting to heat the
sufia~
the electric surface
uniti when determining
unit faster, then turn to a lower setting to finish
cooking times.
Heat up and cool down times depend
cooking. Remember, cooking continues after the
on initial temperature settings, the type of cookware
surface unit is turned off.
used and the amount of food being cooked.
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