Preparing To Cook With Smoothtop Elements; Cooking With Surface Elements - Amana ZRT6510 Owner's Manual

Preparing to Cook with Smoothtop
Elements
!
WARNING
To avoid risk of serious personal injury never cook on
a broken smoothtop cooking surface. Spillovers or
cleaners can penetrate surface and create a risk of
electrical shock. If smoothtop cooking surface breaks,
discontinue use and notify an authorized servicer
immediately.
• Before cooking on smoothtop, wipe top with cleaner
conditioner. Conditioning smoothtop before use makes
marks and stains easier to remove.
• Use heavy-gauge metal cookware not including cast
iron.
• Bottom of cookware must be flat. Cookware that is
warped or slightly curved on the bottom heats slowly
and may not boil water. Cookware with an aluminum
disk bottom makes excellent contact with cooking
surface. See Utensils section for more information.
• Smoothtop cooking surface is not "scratch proof".
Surface is highly scratch and impact resistant. With
recommended cooking utensils and proper care, it will
continue looking good through years of use.
• Do not use glass, glass-ceramic, or enamel-porcelain
cookware. Small imperfections on bottom of such
cookware can scratch smoothtop surface.

Cooking with Surface Elements

!
To avoid risk of serious personal injury, property
damage, or fire, do not leave surface elements
unattended while in operation. Grease and spillovers
can ignite causing a fire.
1. Push in and turn surface element control to desired
setting.
• Elements will cycle on and off to maintain desired
heat setting.
• Ranges with coil elements have two indicator lights,
one for elements on right side and one for elements
on left side of range. When either front or rear
element is on, corresponding indicator light glows.
• Some ranges have four indicator lights. After the
surface controls are turned off, the appropriate
surface indicator light will continue to glow until the
surface elements have cooled. The length of time
each light remains on will vary. Do not expect the
lights for two different heating areas to go off at the
same time even if the elements were turned off
simultaneously.
2. When finished cooking, turn control to OFF position.
LO
Surface Element Control Knobs
Surface Element Settings
LO —Use to prepare food at less than boiling
temperatures or to simmer.
MED—Use to maintain boiling of larger amounts of food,
low temperature frying and to maintain correct pressure
in a pressure cooker.
HI—Use to bring food to boiling temperatures. When food
is boiling, temperature setting should be reduced to LO
through MED.
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WARNING
OFF
HI
MED