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HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE
Your new cooktop has electric coil surface units.
If you are used to cooking with gas burners or other
types of electric cooktops, you will notice some
differences when you u;e electric coils.
Electric Coil
Flattened metal
tubing containing
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electric resistance
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
Radiant
Electric coils
(Glass Ceramic)
under a glass-
Cooktop
ceramic cooktop.
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Induction
High frequency
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induction coils
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under a glass
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surface.
Solid cast iron
Solid Disk
disk sealed to the
cooktop surface.
Gas Burners
Regular or sealed
gas burners use
either LP gas
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or natural gas.
At both OFF and HI the control "clicks". You
may hear slight "clicking" sounds during cooking,
indicating the control is keeping the unit at the heat
level you set.
How to Set the Controls
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TO YOUR OLD ONE?
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 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.
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 magnetic 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, so pans must be flat on the bottom for good
cooking results.
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.
Flames heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not
pans should be well balanced. Gas burners heat the pan right away and change
heat settings right away. \\'hen you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
Push the knob in
and turn in either
direction to the
desired heat setting.
The best types of cookware to use, plus heat-up and
cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or
surface unit you have.
The following chart will
differences b;tween electric-coil surface units and any
other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.
Heats
up and cools down more slowly than electric coils. The
Switching heats to higher settings always shows a
quicker change than switching to a lower setting.
Be sure you turn the control knob to OFF when
you finish cooking.
The surface unit "on" indicator light will glow
when ANY heat setting on any surface unit is on.
help you to understand the
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