GE 49-85179, JGB428SERSS Safety, Operating Instructions, Top-of-RangeCookware, Care and

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Safety

Top-of-Range Cookware

Aluminum: Medium-weight cookware

is recommended because it heats quickly and evenly. Most foods brown evenly in an aluminum skillet. Use saucepans with tight-fitting lids when cooking with minimum amounts of water.

Cast-Iron:If heated slowly, most skillets will give satisfactory results.

Enamelware: Under some conditions, the enamel of some cookware may melt. Follow cookware manufacturer’s recommendations for cooking methods.

Glass: There are two types of glass cookware—those for oven use only and those for top-of-range cooking (saucepans, coffee and teapots). Glass conducts heat very slowly.

Heatproof Glass-Ceramic: Can be used for either surface or oven cooking. It conducts heat very slowly and cools very slowly. Check cookware manufacturer’s directions to be sure it can be used on gas ranges.

Stainless Steel: This metal alone has poor heating properties and is usually combined with copper, aluminum or other metals for improved heat distribution. Combination metal skillets usually work satisfactorily

if they are used with medium heat as the manufacturer recommends.

Instructions

Operating Instructions

Care and

Stove Top Grills (on models with sealed burners)

Do not use stove top grills on your sealed gas burners. If you use the stove top grill on the sealed gas burner, it will cause incomplete combustion and can result in exposure to carbon monoxide levels above allowable current standards.

This can be hazardous to your health.

	Wok This Way (on models with sealed burners)
	We recommend that you use a 14″ or smaller	Do not use a flat-bottomed wok on a support
	flat-bottomed wok. Make sure the wok bottom	ring. Placing the ring over the burner or grate
Use a flat-bottomed wok.	sits flat on the grate. They are available at your	may cause the burner to work improperly,
	local retail store.	resulting in carbon monoxide levels above

Only a flat-bottomed wok should be used.	allowable standards. This could be dangerous
	to your health.

In Case of Power Failure

In case of a power failure, you can light	Surface burners in use when an electrical
the gas surface burners on your range with	power failure occurs will continue to operate
a match. Hold a lit match to the burner,	normally.
then push in and turn the control knob
to the LITE position. Use extreme caution
when lighting burners this way.

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