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Your new cooktop has electric coil surface units.
If you are used to cooking with gas burners or other types of electric moktops, you will notice some differences when you use electric coils.
me best types of cookware to use, plus
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How it Works
Heats by direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under the pan. For best cooking results, use good quality pans. Electric coils are more forgiving of warped pans than radiant or solid disks. Heats up quictiy but does not change heat settings as quicMy as gas or induction. Electric roils stay hot enough to continue cooking for a short time after they are turned off.
Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat on the bottom for good rooking resdts. fie glass cooktop stays hot enough to continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit if you want inking to stop.
Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is produ~d by a magnetic circuit between the mil and the pan. Heats up right away and changes heat settings right away, like a gas cooktop. After turning the wntrol off, the glass cooktop is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops right away.
Heats by direct contact with the pan, so pans must be flat on the bottom for good cooking results. Heats up and cools down more slowly than electric coils. me disk stays hot enough to continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the solid disk if you want the cooking to stop.
Rames heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not critical to cooking results, but pans should be well balanmd. Gas burners heat the pan right away and change heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.
S~ACE CO~OLS
At both 0~ and ~ the control “clicks” into position. You may hear slight “clicking” sounds during rooking, indiating the ~ntrol is keeping the unit at the heat level or power level you set.
Switching heats to higher setings always shows a quicker change than switching to a lower setting.
How to Set the Contmh
fish the knob in and turn in either direction to the desired heat setting.
me control must be pushed into set ody from the 0~ position. When the control is in any position other than 0~, it may be turned without pushing it in.
Be sure you turn control to 0~ when you finish Woking.
me surface unit indicator light will glow when N heat on any surfa~ unit is on.
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