HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE
TO YOUR OLD ONE?
Your new cooktop has electric coil surface units.
The best types cookware to use, plus heat-up and
If you are used 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
coils.
The following chart
help you to understand the
differences
electric-coil surface units and any
other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.
of Cooktop
Electric Coil
o
Radiant
(Glass Ceramic)
Cooktop
o
Induction
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Solid Disk
Gas Burners
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Flattened metal
tubing containing
electric resistance
wire suspended
over a drip pan.
Electric
under a
ceramic cooktop.
High frequency
induction coils
under a glass
surface.
Solid cast iron
disk sealed to the
cooktop surface.
Regular or sealed
gas burners use
either
gas
or natural gas.
How it Works
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 radiant or
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.
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 after it is turned 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 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.
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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
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to cooking results, but
pans should be well balanced. Gas burners heat the pan right away and change
heat settings right away.
you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
CONTROLS
At both OFF and HI the control “clicks”. You
Switching heats to higher settings always shows a
may hear slight “clicking” sounds during cooking,
quicker change than switching to a lower setting.
indicating the control is keeping the unit at the heat
level you set.
How to Set the Controls
Push the knob in
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Be sure you turn the control knob to OFF when
and turn in either
you finish cooking.
direction to the
desired heat setting.
The surface unit “on” indicator light will glow
when ANY heat setting on any surface unit is on.
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