GE 49-8549 - Manual (Page 8)

HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE
TO YOUR OLD ONE?
Your new range has radiant glass ceramic cooktop. The types cookware to use, plus heat-up and
you are used to cooking with burners or electric cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or
surface units, you will notice some differences when surface unit you have.
vou use the radiant cooktop.
The following chart will help you to understand the
differences between radiant cooktops and any other
type cooktop you may have used in the past.
Type Cooktop
Radiant
Ceramic)
Cooktop
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Induction
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Electric Coil
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Solid Disk
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Gas Burners
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Description
Electric
under a
ceramic cooktop.
High frequency
induction coils
under a
Flattened
tubing containing
electric resistance
wire
over a drip pan.
Solid cast iron
disk
to
Cooktop
LP
or natural gas.
How it Works
Heat travels surface and then to the cookware, pans must be
on the bottom for good cooking results. The cooktop stays hot enough to
continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the from the surface unit if
want cooking to stop.
Pans must be made ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is
produced by a magnetic circuit the coil and the pan. Heats up right away
and changes heat settings right like cooktop. After turning the control
the cooktop hot the of the pan, but cooking stops right away.
by direct contact with the pan 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 solid Heats up quickly but does not change
heat quickly as induction. Electric coils stay hot enough to
continue cooking are turned
Heats by direct contact with the pan, so pans be flat on the bottom for good
cooking Heats up and down more slowly than electric coils. The
dish stays hot enough to continue cooking it is turned off. Remove the pan
from the disk if want the cooking stop.
Flames heat the pans flatness is not critical to cooking results, but
pans should be well balanced. Gas burners heat the pan right away and change
heat
right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
SURFACE UNIT CONTROLS
At both OFF and positions, there a niche
so control “clicks” those positions: on the word
marks the highest setting; the
setting is the
word LO. In quiet kitchen you may hear
“clicking” sounds during cooking, indicating heat
settings selected are being maintained.
Switching heats to higher settings always shows a
quicker change than switching to lower settings.
How to Set the Controls
1. Push the control knob in.
2. Turn either clockwise or
to the
desired setting.
The control must be pushed to set only from the
OFF position. When the control is in any position
other than
OFF, it may be turned without pushing
it in.
you turn the control to OFF when you
finish cooking.
The surface unit ‘bon” indicator light will glow
when
unit is on.
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