HOW DOES THIS COOKTOP COMPARE
TO YOUR OLD ONE?
Your new cooktop has electric
surface
types
heat-up
If you
used cooking with
or
cool-down times.
upon the type burner or
types of electric
you
some
surface unit you
differences when you use electric
chart will
vou
the
differences
surface units and any
other type of cooktop you
used in the past.
Type Cooktop
Description
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How it
Works
Coil
Flattened
contact
the
and
heating
under the
tubing containing
cooking results.
good quality
Electric coils
electric resistance
than
or
disks.
up u
but
not
wire
quickly
or induction. Electric
enough
a drip pan.
cooking
time after they are turned
Radiant
Heat
and then to the cookware,
pans
flat
(Glass Ceramic)
a @ass-
bottom
cooking
The
cooktop
hot
Cooktop
ceramic
cooktop.
the pan
the
i
o
want
Induction
High
made of”
attracts a magnet). Heat
A
induction
produced by
circuit between
coil and
pan.
up
under a
settings right away, like a gas cooktop.
control
,
the glass cooktop hot
the heat the pan, but
i
right away.
Solid Disk
Solid
iron
contact
the pan. pans must
flat on the
the
i n
and
more
than electric
1 The
hot
continue cooking
it turned
the pan
id disk if’ you
stop.
Burners
Regular
the
is not critical to cooking
—
burners use
should
well balanced.
burners heat the pan
away and
either
heat
right
turn the control
cooking
CONTROLS
both OFF and HI the control “clicks”
Switching heats to higher
position. You may hear
“clicking”’ sounds
quicker change than switching to
during cooking, indicating
control
the unit the heat
or
you
How
the Controls
knob in and turn in either
the
desired heat setting.
Be sure
turn the
knob OFF w
finish cooking.
surface unit “on” indicator
glow when
on any surface unit
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