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HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE
Your new cooktop has a halogetiradiant glass ceramic
cooktop. If you are used to cooking with gas burners
or electric surface units, you will notice some
differences when you use the halogetiradiant cooktop.
Description
Radiant:
coils under a glass-
ceramic cooktop.
Cooktop
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Halogen: Quartz
tube filled with
halogen gas around
a tungsten wire
heating element
under a glass
ceramic cooktop.
Flattened metal
Electric Coil
—
tubing containing
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electric resistance
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
Induction
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induction coils
under a glass
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surface.
Solid
cast iron
disk sealed to the
cooktop surface.
Regular or sealed
Gas Burners
gas burners use
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either LP gas
or natural gas.
At both OFF and HI the control "clicks" into position.
(The halogen control clicks in every postion.)
In a quiet kitchen, you may hear slight "clicking"
sounds—an indication that the heat settings you
selected are being maintained.
How to Set the Controls
the knob in and turn in
Push
either direction to the desired
heat setting.
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TO YOUR OLD ONE?
How it Works
Electric
Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat
on the bottom
continue cooking long after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit
if you want cooking to stop.
Heats by direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under the
best co{king results, use good q;ality pan;. Electr;c coils are Inore forgiving of
warped pans than halogen/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.
Pans must be lnade 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 bottonl for good
cooking results. Heats up and cools down more slowly than electric coils. The
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 critical to cooking results, but
pans should be well balanced. Gas burners heat the pan right away and change
heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
CONTROL
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 help you to understand the
differences between halogetiradiant cooktops and any
other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.
for good cooking results. The glass cooktop stays hot enough to
KNOBS
Switching heats to higher settings always results
in a quicker change than switching to lower settings.
Be
sure you turn the control knob to OFF when
you finish cooking.
The surface "UNIT ON" indicator light will glow
when ANY heat on any surface unit is on.
For
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