Recommended Surface Cooking Settings

Setting Surface Controls

Recommended Surface Cooking Settings

Operating Single Surface Radiant Controls

Recommended Surface Cooking Settings

Recommended settings for the Single, Bridge & Triple Surface Radiant Cooktop Elements

Setting

Type of Cooking

HIGH (8.0 - Hi)

Start most foods, bring water to a boil or pan broiling

MEDIUM HIGH (5.0 - 8.0)

Continue a rapid boil, fry or deep fat fry

MEDIUM (3.0 - 5.0)

Maintain a slow boil, thicken sauces and gravies or steam vegetables

MEDIUM LOW (2.0 - 4.0)

Keep foods cooking, poach or stew (2.8 or lower is a simmer setting).

LOW/SIMMER (Lo - 2.0)

Keep warm, melt or simmer (2.8 or lower is a simmer setting).

Fig. 1

Note: The size and type of cookware used will influence the setting needed for the best cooking results. The simmer settings are used to simmer and keep larger quantities of foods warm such as stews and soups. The lower simmer settings are ideal for delicate foods and melting chocolate or butter.

Operating Single Radiant Surface Elements

The cooktop has 2 SINGLE radiant surface elements; the RIGHT REAR position and the LEFT REAR element positions may be used as single element (See Fig. 2 or 3). Refer to Fig. 1 for recommended surface cooking settings.

To Operate the Single Radiant Surface Elements:

Fig. 2

Fig. 3

 

1.Place correctly sized cookware on the radiant surface element.

2.Touch and hold the Setting pad for the desired element position until a beep is heard. The

display will show " -- ".

NOTE: Each time a pad is touched a beep will sound. If no further pads are touched within 10 seconds the request to power the element ON will clear.

3. Touch the element position’s Type of Cooking pad once to turn ON the power level Hi or HIGH (8.0 - Hi) pad

once for Lo (See Fig. 4). The Hot Surface indicator light will turn ON when the element becomes hot.

4. Each touch of the MEDIUM (3.0 - 5.0) or Operating Single Radiant Surface Elements pad will decrease or increase the power level by 1/2 from

9.0 through 3.0. Simmer power levels between 3.0 and 1.0 will decrease or increase by .2 increments. Lo is the lowest power level available. Note: The power level may be adjusted at any time while the element is ON.

5. When cooking has been completed touch the To Operate the Single Radiant Surface Elements: pad once to turn the element OFF.

Each surface element provides a constant amount of heat at each setting. A glowing red surface heating area extending beyond the bottom edge of the cookware indicates the cookware is too small for the surface heating area.

Note: The Hot Surface indicator light will remain ON if the cooktop is still hot and will remain

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ON until the heating surface area has cooled sufficiently.

Fig. 4

Manual background Radiant surface elements may appear to have cooled after they have been turned off. The glass surface may still be hot and burns may occur if the glass surface is touched before it has cooled sufficiently.

Manual background Do not place aluminum foil or plastic items such as salt and pepper shakers, spoon holders or plastic wrappings on top of the range when it is in use. These items could melt or ignite. Potholders, towels or wooden spoons could catch fire if placed too close to the surface elements.

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Kenmore 790-9663 Recommended Surface Cooking Settings, Operating Single Radiant Surface Elements, Type of Cooking, English