GE JP345, Use And Care Manual

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HOW DOES COOKTOP COMPARE
TO YOUR OLD ONE?
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Your new cooktop has a radiant 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 radiant cooktop.
The best types of cookware to use, heat-up
cool-down depend upon the type of burner or
surface unit you have.
The following chart will help you to understand the
differences between radiant
any other
type of cooktop you may have used in the past.
Type of Cooktop
Radiant (Glass
Ceramic) Cooktop
Electric
Coil
Induction
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Solid
Disk
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Gas
Burners
Electric coils
under
ceramic cooktop.
Flattened metal
tubing containing
electric resistance
suspended
over a drip pan.
High frequency
induction coils
under a glass
surface.
Solid cast iron
disk sealed to
cooktop surface.
Regular or sealed
gas burners use
either LP gas
or natural gas.
How it
Works
Heat travels to the surface then to cookware, so pans flat
on the bottom for good cooking results. The glass cooktop stays hot enough to
continue cooking long
it is turned off. Remove pan the unit
if you want cooking to stop.
Heats by direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under the pan. For
best cooking results, use good quality pans. Electric coils are more forgiving
warped pans than radiant or solid disks. Heats up quickly
does not
change heat settings as quickly gas or induction. Electric coils stay hot enough
to continue cooking for a short
after they turned off.
Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is
produced by a magnetic circuit between
the coil the pan. Heats up away
and changes settings right away, a gas cooktop. After turning control
off, the glass cooktop is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops right away.
Heats by direct contact with the so pans must be on the bottom 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
want the cooking to stop. .
Flames heat the pans directly. Pan is not critical to cooking 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
CONTROL KNOBS
At both OFF and HI the control “clicks” into position.
Switching heats to higher settings always results
In a quiet kitchen, you may hear slight “clicking”
in a quicker change than switching to lower settings.
sounds—an indication that the heat settings you
selected are being maintained.
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