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Cookware
To achieve optimum cooking
performance,
use heavy gauge,
flat, smooth
bottom
cookpots that conform to the diameter of the cooking area. Proper cookpots will minimize
cooking times, use less electricity, cook food more evenly and require less water or oil.
Cookpots with thin, uneven bottoms do not adequately conduct heat from the cooking
area to the food in the cookpots which results in hot spots, burned or underdone food.
Using bad cookpots also requires more water, time, and energy to cook food.
Selecting
Proper
Cookware
•
Select heavy gauge cookpots.
Usually heavy gauge cookpots will not change
shape when heated.
•
Use cookpots
with flat, smooth
bottoms.
The two ways to determine
if
cookpots have a flat, smooth bottom are the ruler test and the cooking test.
Ruler
Test:
1. Place the edge of a ruler across the bottom of the pot.
2. Hold up to the light.
3. No light should be visible under the ruler.
Cooking
Test:
1. Put 1 inch of water into the cookpot.
2. Place cookpot on the cooking area. Turn
control to the HI setting.
3. Observe the bubble formation to deter-
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mine the heat distribution. If the bubbles
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are uniform across
the cookpot,
the
cookpot will perform satisfactorily.
If the
bubbles are not uniform, the bubbles will
indicate the hot spots.
•
Match the size of the cookpot to the size of the element.
Ideally, the cookpot
will be the same size or slightly larger.
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