Surface Cooking
LO: Use to simmer foods, keep foods warm and melt chocolate or butter. Some cooking may take place on the LO setting if the pan is covered.
HI: Use to bring liquid to a boil, or reach pressure in a pressure cooker. Always reduce setting to a lower heat when liquids begin to boil or foods begin to cook.
An intermediate flame size is used to continue cooking. Food will not cook any faster when a higher flame setting is used than needed to maintain a gentle boil. Water boils at the same temperature whether boiling gently or vigorously.
Surface Controls
CAUTION
¥If flame should go out during a cooking operation, turn the burner off. If a strong gas odor is detected, open a window and wait five minutes before relighting the burner.
¥Be sure all surface controls are set in the OFF position before supplying gas to the range.
¥NEVER touch cooktop until it has cooled. Expect some parts of the cooktop, especially around the burners, to become warm or hot during cooking. Use potholders to protect hands.
Pilotless Ignition
Pilotless ignition eliminates the need for a constant standing pilot light. There are two ignitors for conventional surface burners. Each sealed burner has a spark ignitor. When cleaning around the surface burner use care. If cleaning cloth should catch the ignitor, it could damage it preventing ignition.
Graphics next to the knob identify which burner the knob controls. For example, the graphic at right shows the left front burner location.
Setting the controls:
The size and type of cookware will affect the heat setting. For information on cookware and other factors affecting heat settings, refer to ÒCooking Made SimpleÓ booklet.
1.Place a pan on the burner grate.
¥The burner flame may lift off or appear separated from the port if a pan is not placed on the grate.
2.Push in and turn the knob counterclockwise to the LITE setting.
¥A clicking (spark) sound will be heard and the burner will light. (All four ignitors will spark when any surface burner knob is turned to the LITE position.)
3.After the burner lights, turn knob to desired flame size.
¥The ignitor will continue to spark until the knob is turned past the LITE position.
If the surface burner does not light, check if ignitor is broken, soiled or
wet. If clogged,
BURNER HEAD CAP
Operating During a Power Failure
clean the small port beneath
PORTS
CAUTION
the ignitor using a straight pin.
Surface Con- trol Knobs
IGNITOR
PORT BELOW IGNITOR
When lighting the surface burners, be sure all of the controls are in the OFF position. Strike the match first and hold it in position before turning the knob to LITE.
1. | Hold a lighted match to the desired surface burner head. |
2. | Push in and turn the control knob slowly to LITE. |
Use to turn on the surface burners. An infinite choice of heat settings is available from LO to HI. At the HI setting a detent or notch may be felt. The knobs can be set on or between any of the settings.
3. Once lit, adjust the flame to the desired level. |
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