Your new cooktop has gas burners. If you are used | The best types of cookware to use, plus |
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units, you will notice some differences when you use | surface unit you have. |
gas burners. | The following chart will help you to understand the |
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| other type of cooktop you may have used in the past. |
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| How it Works |
Gas Burners |
| Regular or sealed |
| Flames heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not critical to cooking results, but |
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| pans should be well balanced. Gas burners heat the pan right away and change |
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| either LP gas |
| heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away. |
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Radiant |
| Electric coils |
| Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat on |
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| the bottom for good cooking results. The glass cooktop stays hot enough to |
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| ceramic cooktop. |
| continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit if |
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Induction |
| High frequency |
| Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is |
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| induction coils |
| produced by a magnetic circuit between the coil and the pan. Heats up right away |
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| under a glass |
| and changes heat settings right away, like a gas cooktop. After turning the control |
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| off, the glass cooktop is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops right away. |
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Electric Coil |
| Flattened metal |
| Heats by direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under the pan. For best |
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| cooking results, use good quality pans. Electric coils are more forgiving of |
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| warped pans than radiant or solid disks. Heats up quickly but does not change | |
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| heat settings as quickly as gas or induction. Electric coils stay hot enough to | |
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| continue cookin~ for a short time after they are turned off. |
Solid Disk |
| Solid cast iron |
| Heats by direct contact with the pan, so pans must be flat on the bottom for good |
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| disk sealed to the |
| cooking results. Heats up and cools down more slowly than electric coils. The |
| cooktop surface. |
| disk stays hot enough to continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan | |
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Lighting Instructions for Electric Ignition Models
Your surface burners are lighted by electric ignition, eliminating the need for standing pilot lights with
In case of a power failure, you can light the surface burners on your range with a match. Hold a lighted match to the burner, then turn the knob to the LITE position. Use extreme caution when lighting burners this way.
Surface burners in use when an electrical power failure occurs will continue to operate normally.
The electrode of the spark igniter is exposed. When one burner is turned to LITE, all the burners spark. Do not attempt to disassemble or clean around any burner while another burner is on.
An electric shock may result, which could cause you to knock over hot cookware.
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