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USING YOUR SMOOTHTOP COOKTOP
COOKING
AREAS
SIGNAL
LIGHTS
materials can cause permanent dam-
The four surface cooking areas on your
Cooktops are equipped with one to four
age to the cooktop.
cooktop are identified by permanent
signal lights to indicate when a surface
patterns in the cooktop. There are two
element is on. The light will remain on
IMPORTANT; Watch sugary solu-
large and two small areas. Use the
until the element is turned off. After a
tions carefully to avoid boilover. If
smaller areas for small cooking utensils
cooking operation, be sure element and
sugar solution (such as jam, jelly,
and the larger areas for large utensils,
signal light are off.
candy) isallowedtoboilover,itmay pit
the glass. Wipe up sugary boilovers
Immediately - turn elementto LOW.
HOT SURFACE LIGHT
Useawooden-handled metalspatula
The cooktopis equipped with a HOT
to scrapeboiloverto a coolerarea of
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SURFACE light. This red light will turn
the cooktopor use several layers of
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on-to indicate that the cooking area is
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hotand will remain on until the area has
a paper towel is used, be careful to
cooled,
avoid steam bums. Turn element off.
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When cool, use a singlHdge
razor
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blade such as Widget by Gillette to
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COOKING HINTS
scrapeoff soil. Clean with Elco Cook-
During the first few hours of use, you
top C ean ng Creme rinse and dry.
may notice that the cooktop emits a
slight burning odor and a light smoke.
To protect the top, it is not recom-
Bothof these conditions are normal and
mendedto usethe top as a work surface
When a cooking area is turned ON,
are caused by the insulation material of
or as a cutting board or to cook food di-
the coil element under the cooktop
the heating elements in a new cooktop,
rectly on the cooktop without a utensil.
will heat up and a red glow from the
coilcanbe seen throughthe smooth-
top.The elementwill cycleon andoff
To help keep cooktop clean be sure
Do not use a trivetor metal stand(such
to maintainthe heat setting. When
cookingarea and utensil bottom are
as a wokring)between the utensiland
the element cycleson, it is normalto
cleanand dry beforeuse.
the cooktop.These itemscan mark or
etchthe surface and affectcookingeffi-
see a redglow.
ciency.
Turn control knob to the desired heat
KNOBS
setting. If in doubt as to the correctset-
ting, it is better to select a lower setting
Thin gauge aluminum cookware, alumi-
Thecooking areacontrolsarecalled IN-
and increase to a higher setting as
num foil or foil containers such as pop-
FINITE controls. This type of control
needed. It will take longer for the cook-
corn poppers are NOT recommended
provides an infinite choice of heat set-
ing area to cool to a lower temperature
for use on the cooktop. They will leave
tings from LOW to HIGH. The control
than to heat up to a higher temperature,
metal marks and may permanently melt
can be set either on any of the num-
onto the top.
bered settings or between the num-
beredsettings.
If food is cookingtoofast or if boilovers Do not slide -glass items across the
occur,removelidand reduceto a lower cooktop.They may scratchor damage
To operate control: Push down and setting.Allowenoughtimefor the cook-
the top.
turnknob,in eitherdirection,to the de-
ing area to adjustto the new setting.
sired heat setting.
Do NOT slide aluminum cookware
THINGS
TO
REMEMBER
across the cooktop.This may result in
Do not allowplasticobjects, aluminum aluminummarkswhichthenmustbeim-
foil,sugar, orfoodswithhighsugaroon-
mediately removed with a recom-
tentto meltontothehotcooktop.Melted
mendedcooktopcleaner.
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