GE JAS02V owner manual Using the surface units, Instructions Safety, Surface Cooking Controls

Instructions

Using the surface units.

Throughout this manual, features and appearance may vary from your model.

Instructions Safety

Surface Cooking Controls

Your surface units and controls are designed

to give you a variety of heat settings for surface unit cooking.

At both OFF and HI positions, there is a slight niche so control clicks at those positions; HI marks the highest setting; LO, the lowest setting.

In a quiet kitchen, you may hear slight 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.

Care and Cleaning Operating

How to Set the Controls

Push the control knob in.

Turn either clockwise or counterclockwise to desired heat setting.

Control must be pushed in to set only from the OFF position.

When control is in any position other than OFF, you can turn it without pushing in.

Be sure you turn control to OFF when you finish cooking. An indicator light will glow when ANY heat on any surface unit is on.

Tips Installation Instructions

	Heat Setting Guide
	HI—Quick start for cooking; bring water
	to boil.
	MEDIUM HIGH—Fast fry, pan broil;
	maintain fast boil on large amount
	of food.
Medium high	Medium low MED—Saute and brown; maintain slow
	boil on large amount of food.
	MEDIUM LOW—Steam rice, cereal;
	maintain serving temperature of
	most foods.

LO—Cook after starting at HI; cook with little water in covered pan.

NOTE:

At HI or MEDIUM HIGH, never leave food unattended. Boilovers cause smoking; greasy spillovers may catch fire.

At MEDIUM LOW or LO, melt chocolate, butter on small unit.

Customer Service Troubleshooting

Cooking Tips

■Use medium- or heavy-weight cookware. Aluminum cookware conducts heat faster than other metals. Cast-iron and coated cast-iron cookware is slow to absorb heat, but generally cooks evenly at low or medium heat settings. Steel pans may cook unevenly if not combined with other metals.

	■Do not overfill cookware with fat
	that may spill over when adding food.
	Frosty foods bubble vigorously. Watch
	foods frying at high temperatures.
	Keep range and hood clean from
6	accumulated grease.

■To conserve the most cooking energy, pans should be flat on the bottom, have straight sides and tight fitting lids. Match the size of the saucepan to the size of the surface unit. A pan that extends more than an inch beyond the edge of the drip pan traps heat, which causes “crazing” (fine hairline cracks) on porcelain, and discoloration ranging from blue to dark gray on chrome drip pans.