GE JP340 How Does This Cooktop Compare With Your Old One?, Type of Cooktop, Description

HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE

WITH YOUR OLD ONE?

Your new cooktop has a radiant glass ceramic cooktop. If you are used to cooking with gas burners or electric surface units, you will notice some differences when you use the radiant cooktop.

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 radiant cooktops and any other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.

Type of Cooktop	Description	How It Works
Radiant (Glass	Electric coils	Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat
Ceramic) Cooktop	under a glass-	on the bottom for good cooking results. The glass cooktop stays hot enough to
	ceramic cooktop.	continue cooking long after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit
		if you want cooking to stop.
Electric Coil	Flattened metal	Heats by direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under the pan. For
	tubing containing	best 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
	wire suspended	change heat settings as quickly as gas or induction. Electric coils stay hot enough
	over a drip pan.	to continue cooking for a short time after they are turned off.
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.
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.
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.

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