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USING THE SURFACE COOKING AREAS (CONT.)USING YOUR RANGE
Home canning information
To protect your range:
• Use flat-bottomed canners/pans for best results.
• Use the largest
surface cooking area for
best results. Also, use a
canner/pan that you can
center over the surface
cooking area and that
does not extend more
than one inch outside
the surface cooking
area. Large diameter
canners/pans, if not
centered correctly, trap heat and can cause
damage to the cooktop.
• Do not place your canner on 2 surface cooking
areas at the same time.
Too much heat will build
up and damage the
cooktop.
• Start with hot water.
This reduces the time
the control is set on
high. Reduce the heat
setting to the lowest
position needed to keep
water boiling.
•When canning for long periods of time, alternate
use of the surface cooking areas between batches
to allow the areas to cool down, or prepare food in
small batches.
•On coil element model, keep your reflector bowls
clean so that they will always reflect heat well.
•Refer to your canner manual for specific
instructions.
Optional canning kit
(Coil element model)
Most water-bath or pressure canners have large
diameters. If you do canning with them at high heat
settings for long periods of time, you can shorten the
life of regular coil elements. This can also damage
the cooktop. If you plan to use the cooktop for
canning, we recommend the installation of a
Canning Kit. Order the kit (Part No. 242905) from
your Whirlpool dealer or authorized Whirlpool
service company.
Using cookware
•Use the correct cookware to prevent damage to
the surface cooking area, cooktop, wiring, and
surrounding areas.
•If the cookware is too small for the surface
cooking area or the bottom is not flat, the surface
cooking area could stay glowing red for an
extended length of time causing damage to
the range.
•If you start cooking on high, it is important to turn
the control down to a lower setting to complete
cooking.
•The surface cooking area could overheat or be
damaged if a pot has boiled dry or has been left
empty on a hot surface cooking area.
1" 1"
Pan
Surface
cooking area
Using the right cookware
makes a big difference
•Flat bottomed cookware, including woks,
canners, and teakettles, will provide
better contact with the surface cooking
area and provide the best cooking results.
•Warped, dented, and ribbed-bottomed
cookware can result in uneven cooking
due to incomplete contact with the
surface cooking area.
•Cookware that has been designed with
slightly indented bottoms or small
expansion channels can be used.
•Choose medium to heavy gauge
(thickness) cookware.
•The pan material (type of metal or glass)
affects how quickly and evenly the
pan heats.