GE JCP67 Use And Care & Installation Manual page 8

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If you are used to cooking with gas burners or other
types of electric moktops, you will notice some
differences when you use electric coils.
Electric Coti
tubing containing
electric resistana
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
Radiant Electric coils
under a glass-
Ceramic)
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Induction
High frequency
induction coils
under a @ass
Solid Disk
Solid cast iron
disk sealed to the
Gas Burners
Regular or sealed
gas burners use
either LP gas
At both 0~ and ~ the control "clicks" into position.
You may hear slight "clicking" sounds during
rooking, indiating the ~ntrol is keeping the unit at
the heat level or power level you set.
How to Set the Contmh
turn in either direction
to the desired heat setting.
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surface unit you have.
other type of moktop you may have used in the past.
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direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under
Heats by
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
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. me
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.
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.
Switching heats to higher setings always shows a
quicker change than switching to a lower setting.
the
position other than 0~, it may be turned without
pushing it in.
Be sure you turn control to 0~ when you finish
position. When the control is in any
the pan. For best