HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE
TO YOUR OLD ONE?
Your new cooktop has a
glass ceramic
The best types of cookware to use, plus heat-up and
cooktop. If you are used to cooking with gas burners
cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or
or electric surface units, you will notice some
surface unit you have.
differences when you use the
cooktop.
The following chart will help you to understand the
differences between
cooktops and any
other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.
Type of Cooktop
Halogen/Radiant
(Glass Ceramic)
CooktoP
o
Electric Coil
Solid Disk
Gas Burners
Description
Radiant:
Electric
coils
under a
cooktop.
Halogen:
Quartz
tube filled with
halogen gas around
a tungsten wire
heating element
under a glass
ceramic cooktop.
Flattened metal
tubing containing
electric resistance
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
High frequency
induction coils
under a glass
surface.
Solid cast iron
disk sealed to the
cooktop surface.
Regular or sealed
gas burners use
either LP gas
or natural gas.
How it Works
Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat
on the bottom for good cooking results. The glass cooktop stays hot enough to
continue cooking long after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface 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 of
warped pans than halogen/radiant or solid disks. Heats up quickly but does not
change heat settings as quickly as gas or induction. Electric coils stay hot enough
to continue cooking for a short time after they are turned off.
Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is
produced by a magnetic circuit between the coil and the pan. Heats up right away
and changes heat settings right away, like a gas cooktop. After turning the control
off, the glass cooktop is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops right away.
Heats by direct contact with the pan, so pans must be flat 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 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 and change
heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
CONTROL KNOBS
At both OFF and HI the control “clicks” into position.
In a quiet kitchen, you may hear slight “clicking”
(The halogen control clicks in every postion.)You
sounds—an indication that the heat settings you
may hear slight “clicking” sounds during cooking,
selected are being maintained.
indicating the control is keeping the unit at the heat
level or power level you set.
Switching heats to higher settings always results
in a quicker change than switching to lower settings.
How to Set the Controls
Push the knob in and turn in
Be sure you turn the control knob to OFF when
either direction to the desired
you finish cooking.
heat setting.
The surface “UNIT ON” indicator light will glow
when ANY heat on any surface unit is on.
6
