HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE

TO YOUR OLD ONE?

Your new cooktop has gas burners. If you are used to cooking with induction or other electric surface units, you will notice some differences when you use gas burners.

The best types of cookware to use, plus heat-up and cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or surface unit you have.

The following chart will help you to understand the differences between gas burner cooktops and any other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.

Type of Cooktop

Description

How it Works

Gas Burners

Regular or sealed

Flames heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not critical to cooking results, but

 

gas burners use

pans should be well balanced. Gas burners heat the pan right away and change

 

either LP gas

heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.

 

or natural gas.

 

 

 

 

Radiant

Electric coils

Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat on

(Glass Ceramic)

under a glass-

the bottom for good cooking results. The glass cooktop stays hot enough to

Cooktop

ceramic cooktop.

continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit if

 

 

you want cooking to stop.

 

 

 

Induction

High frequency

Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is

 

induction coils

produced by a magnetic circuit between the coil and the pan. Heats up right away

 

under a glass

and changes heat settings right away, like a gas cooktop. After turning the control

 

surface.

off, the glass cooktop is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops right away.

 

 

 

Electric Coil

Flattened metal

Heats by direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under the pan. For best

 

tubing containing

cooking results, use good quality pans. Electric coils are more forgiving of

 

electric resistance

warped pans than radiant or solid disks. Heats up quickly but does not change

 

wire suspended

heat settings as quickly as gas or induction. Electric coils stay hot enough to

 

over a drip pan.

continue cooking 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

 

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

 

 

from the solid disk if you want the cooking to stop.

 

 

 

 

 

SURFACE COOKING

Electric Ignition

Your surface burners are lighted by electric ignition, eliminating the need for standing pilot lights with constantly burning flames.

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.

Surface Burner Controls

The knobs that turn the surface burners on and off are located on the control panel on the front of the range. The 2 knobs on the left control the left front and left rear burners. The 2 knobs on the right control the right front and right rear burners

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GE JGBP19 HOW does this Cooktop Compare To Your OLD ONE?, Surface Cooking, Electric Ignition, Surface Burner Controls

164D2966P079, JGBP19 specifications

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