Your new
has electric coil surface units.
best
of cookware to use, plus heat-up and
If you are
to cooking with gas burners or other
cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or
types of electric
you will notice some
surface unit you have.
differences when you use electric coils.
following chart will help you to understand the
differences between electric-coil surface units and any
other type of
you may have used in the past.
of
(Glass Ceramic)
Gas Burners
tubing
containing
electric resistance
suspended
over a
pan.
Electric coils
under a
under a-s
surface.
Solid cast iron
disk
to the
surface.
or
gas burners use
either
gas
or
gas.
How it Works
Heats by
with the pan and by
the air under
pan. For best
cooking results, use good quality pans. Electric coils
forgiving of
warped pans than 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
time after they are turned off.
Heat travels to the glass
and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat on
bottom for good cooking results.
glass
stays hot enough to
continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove
pan from
surface unit if
you want cooking to stop.
Pans must be made of ferrous
that attracts a
Heat is
produced by a magnetic circuit
the coil and the pan.
up right away
and changes heat settings right away, like a gas
turning
control
off, the glass
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
results. Heats up and
down
slowly than electric coils.
disk stays hot enough to continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan
from the solid disk if
want the
to
heat the pans
Pan flatness is not critical to
results, but
pans should be well
Gas burners heat the pan right away and change
heat settings right away.
you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
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