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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 use electric coils.
Description
Electric Coil
Flattened metal
tubing containing
electric resistance
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
Electric coils
Radiant
(Glass Ceramic)
Cooktop
ceramic cooktop.
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Induction
High frequency
induction coils
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under a glass
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surface.
Solid
Disk
Solid cast iron
disk sealed to the
cooktop surface.
Regular or sealed
gas burners use
either LP gas
or natural gas.
niche so the control "clicks" at those positions; HI
marks the highest setting; the lowest setting is the
word WM. In a quiet kitchen, you may hear slight
"clicking" sounds during cooking, indicating the heat
settings selected are being maintained.
How to Set the Controls
1. Grasp the control knob
and push in.
2. Turn the knob either
clockwise or
counterclockwise to the
desired heat setting.
TO YOUR OLD ONE?
Works
How it
Heats by direct
cooking results, usc good quality
heat settings as quickly m gas or induction. Electric coils stay hot enough to
continue cooking for a shor[ time after they m turned of'f.
Heat travels [() the glass surl'ace and then [o the cookware, so pans must be flat on
the bottom For good cooking results. The glass cook[op stays hot enough to
continue cooking after it is turmxi 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 (be coil and (he pm.
and changes heat settings right away, like a gas cooktop. After turning the control
Heats by direct contact with the pan, so pans
cooking results. Heats up and
disk stays hot enough to continue cooking after it is turned off. Rcmove 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
heat settings right awa).
SURFACE CONTROLS
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 electric coil surface units and any
other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.
pans. Electric coils
must
down more slowly than electric coils. The
COOIS
When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
Switching heats to higher settings always shows
quicker change than switching to lower settings.
The control knob must be pushed into set only
from the OFF position. When the control is in any
position other than OFF, it may be turned without
pushing it in.
Be sure you turn the control knob to OFF when you
finish cooking.
The surface unit "on" indicator light will glow when
ANY surface unit is on. ~
arc more forgiving of
Heats
up right away
bottom for good
and change
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