GE JBP2, Use And Care & Installation Manual

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HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE
TO YOUR OLD ONE?
Your new cooktop has electric surface types heat-up
If you used cooking with or cool-down times. upon the type burner or
types of electric you some surface unit you
differences when you use electric
chart will vou the
differences surface units and any
other type of cooktop you used in the past.
Type Cooktop Description
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How it
Works
Coil Flattened
contact
the and heating under the
tubing containing cooking results. good quality Electric coils
electric resistance than or disks. up u but not
wire quickly or induction. Electric enough
a drip pan. cooking time after they are turned
Radiant Heat and then to the cookware, pans flat
(Glass Ceramic)
a @ass- bottom cooking The cooktop hot
Cooktop
ceramic
cooktop. the pan the i
o
want
Induction High made of” attracts a magnet). Heat
A
induction produced by circuit between coil and pan. up
under a settings right away, like a gas cooktop. control
,
the glass cooktop hot the heat the pan, but i right away.
Solid Disk
Solid iron contact the pan. pans must flat on the
the i n and more than electric 1 The
hot continue cooking it turned the pan
id disk if’ you stop.
Burners
Regular
the is not critical to cooking
— burners use should well balanced. burners heat the pan away and
either heat right
turn the control cooking
CONTROLS
both OFF and HI the control “clicks” Switching heats to higher
position. You may hear “clicking”’ sounds quicker change than switching to
during cooking, indicating control
the unit the heat or you
How the Controls
knob in and turn in either the
desired heat setting.
Be sure turn the knob OFF w
finish cooking.
surface unit “on” indicator glow when
on any surface unit
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