Viking F20111C manual Cleaning and Maintenance, Glass Ceramic Top, Control Knobs, Problem, Cause

Cleaning and Maintenance

Any piece of equipment works better and lasts longer when maintained properly and kept clean. Cooking equipment is no exception. Your cook- top must be kept clean and maintained properly.

Glass Ceramic Top

Cleaning of glass ceramic tops is different from cleaning a standard porce- lain finish. To maintain and protect the surface of your new glass ceramic top, follow these basic steps:

Allow the cooktop to cool! Using a damp paper towel, rub a few drops of ceramic cleaning cream on the soiled area. Wipe until all soil and cream are removed. Frequent cleaning leaves a protective coating which is es- sential in preventing scratches and abrasions.

For heavy burned soil:

1.Apply a few drops of glass ceramic cleaning cream to the cool soiled area.

2.Using a damp paper towel, rub cream into burned on area.

3.Carefully scrape remaining soil with a razor scraper. Hold the scraper at a 30o angle against the ceramic surface.

4.If any soil remains, repeat the steps above. For additional protection, after all soil has been removed, polish the entire surface with the clean- ing cream.

5.Buff with a dry paper towel. As the cleaning cream cleans, it leaves a protective coating on the glass surface. This coating helps to prevent buildup of mineral deposits (water spots) and will make future cleaning easier. Dishwashing detergents remove this protective coating and therefore make the glass ceramic top more susceptible to staining.

Control Knobs

Make sure all the control knobs point to the OFF position before re-

moving. Pull the knobs straight off. Wash in detergent and warm water. Dry completely and replace by pushing firmly onto stem.

Cleaning Problems on Glass Ceramic Top

Problem	Cause	To Prevent	To Remove
Brown streaks and	Cleaning with	Use cleaning cream	Use light applica-
specks	sponge or cloth	with clean damp	tion of cream with
	containing soil-	paper towel.	clean damp towel.
	laden detergent
	water.
Blackened burned-	Spatters or	Wipe up all	Clean area with
on spots	spillovers onto a hot	spillovers as soon as	cream and damp
			towel, or non-abra-
	cooking area or ac-	it is safe and do not
			sive pad. Carefully
	cidental melting of	put plastic items on
			scrape with razor
	a plastic film, such	cooking area.
			held at 30o angle.
	as a bread bag.
Fine brown/gray	Coarse particles	Wipe the bottom of	Fine scratches are
lines or fine	(salt, sugar) can get	cookware before	not removable but
scratches or abra-	caught on the bot-	cooking. Clean top	can be minimized
sions which have	tom of cookware	daily with cream.	by daily use of
collected soil	and become em-	Inspect surface of	cleaning cream.
	bedded into top.	ceramic cookware
	Scratches from	for rough spots.
	rough cookware.
Smearing or Streak-	Use of too much	Use small amount	Dampen towel with
ing	cleaning cream or	of cream. Rinse	vinegar and water
	use of a soiled	thoroughly before	and wipe surface.
	towel.	drying.	Dry with clean
			paper towel.
Metal markings or	Sliding or scraping	Do not slide metal	Remove metal
silver/gray marks	metal utensils	objects across glass	marks with cleaning
	across glass top.	top.	cream.
Hard water spots	Condensation from	Make sure the bot-	Mix cleaning cream
	cooking may cause	tom of the cook-	with water to form
	minerals found in	ware is dry before	paste. Scrub vigor-
	water and acids in	cooking. Use clean-	ously. Also try using
	foods to drip onto	ing cream daily to	vinegar and water
	glass and cause	remove mineral de-	mixture.
	grey deposits.	posits.
Pitting or flaking	Boilover of sugar	Watch sugar and	Turn element to Lo;
	syrup on a hot glass	syrup carefully to	using several paper
	top. This can cause	avoid boilovers.	towels, wipe spill up
	pitting if not re-		immediately. Use
	moved immediately.		scraper if needed.

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