Frigidaire FPIC3695MS Preheat Recommendations, Keep Warm Feature, Minute Timer Feature

Preheat Recommendations

When preheating a pan on the cooktop always watch carefully. Whenever using the cooktop, always pay attention to any items cooking and remain attentive until the cooking process is complete.

Keep in mind that induction may decrease the amount of time required to preheat a cooking utensil.

Keep Warm Feature

The Warm feature may be used with any of the Cooking Zones.

To Turn the Keep Warm Feature ON:

1.Select the zone you want to set to warm. If the zone is off, turn it on, otherwise you can touch either the or key on the zone you want to set to warm. The most recently used zone is one that will be placed into warm.

2.Touch the key pad located in the main control area. The Cooking Zone display will show “L” (Low heat) indicating that the Cooking Zone is properly set to Keep Warm.

Minute Timer Feature

The Minute Timer feature may be useful in the kitchen if a recipe calls for keeping track of time. This feature will keep track of time from 1 to 99 minutes. The display located to the left of the Timer UP/DOWN arrow key pads will begin to count down minutes once set.

To Set the Minute Timer:

1.Set the cooktop timer to the desired time by touching

the listed next to the word “TIMER”. Touching and

releasing the or the key pads will increase or decrease the Minute Timer setting by 1 minute with each key press (up to 99 minutes). You may also hold the

or key to slew the time to your designated time.

2.Once the Timer displays the desired amount of time, release the or key pads. The timer will display the time remaining in minutes within the countdown process. During the last 60 seconds, the timer will countdown in seconds.

3.Once the Minute Timer reaches 00 a long beep will sound

every 5 seconds until and key pads are touched at the same time and the timer display will flash “00” indicating that the time is up.

To Cancel the Minute Timer:

1.Touch the and key pads at the same time or

touch and hold either the or key pad and scroll to 00.

2.If cancelling the Minute Timer using the scrolling method, once the Main Control display reaches 00, release the Arrow key pad.

3.The set time will disappear from the LED indicating that the Minute Timer is no longer active.

SETTING COOKTOP CONTROLS

Locking the Controls Feature

The Induction Cooktop may be locked in order to prevent the cooktop from accidentally being turned ON.

To Turn ON the Controls Lock Feature:

1.The Cooktop Lock will not activate until the cooktop is OFF. If the cooktop power is not OFF, touch and hold

the key pad until a beep sounds (about 1 second).

The Power LED located above the key pad will turn OFF.

2.Touch the key pad until a beep sounds (about 3 seconds). The Lock LED above the key pad will turn ON indicating the cooktop is locked. This will keep any Cooking Zone or Cooktop functions from being accidentally turned ON.

To Turn OFF the Controls Lock Feature:

1.Touch the key pad until a beep sounds (about 3 seconds). The Lock LED above the key pad will turn OFF indicating the cooktop is unlocked. The Cooking Zones or any of the other Cooktop functions may now be used.

2.If the cooktop is needed you must touch and hold the

key pad until a beep sounds (about 1 second). The

Power LED located above the key pad will turn ON. You may now activate any of the Cooking Zones.

Power Sharing

In order to give you more flexibility, your induction cooktop is equipped with more cooking zones than the number of induction generators. Each of those generators is assigned to power a specific cooking zone (see Figure on next page). One or two cooking zones are assigned to each generator. To be able to give you access to the highest power ratings, the generator will focus its power onto only one cooking zone. If you use more than one cooking zone at high power on the same generator, the generator will need to share its power to both cooking zones, thus lowering the power level of one of the cooking zones.

When you are sharing power (cooking in both zones), the last zone set will cook at the power setting you selected. The other zone will experience a slight decrease from its power setting if both zones are set high enough.

Depending on the size of your cooktop, 2 or 3 sections are available:

•The 30” cooktop is equipped with 4 cooking zones within 2 sections.

•The 36” cooktop is equipped with five cooking zones within

3 sections. Note that on the 36” cooktop the right cooking zone has its own section and will not share its power.

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