USING YOUR SMOOTHTOP COOKTOP
COOKING AREAS SIGNAL LIGHTS materials can cause permanent dam-
The four surface cooking areas on your Cooktops areequipped with one to four age to the cooktop.
cooktop are identified by permanent signal lights to indicate when a surface
patterns in the cooktop. There are two element is on. The light will remain on
large and two small areas. Use the until the element is turned off. After a
smaller areas for small cooking utensils cooking operation, be sureelement and
and the larger areas for large utensils, signal light are off.
HOT SURFACE LIGHT
The cooktopis equipped with a HOT
_._/1_ _ _ SURFACE light. This red light will turn
on to indicate that the cooking area is
_]/_ O hotandwill remain onuntilt he area has
cooled.
® COOK NGHINTS
During the first few hours of use, you
may notice that the cooktop emits a
slight burning odor and a light smoke. To protect the top, it is not recom-
Bothofthese conditions arenormal and
mendedto use the topas awork surface
are caused by the insulation material of or as a cutting board or to cook food di-
the heating elements in a new cooktop, rectly on the cooktop without a utensil.
To help keep cooktop clean be sure Do not use a trivet or metal stand (such
cooking area and utensil bottom are as a wok ring) between the utensil and
clean and dry before use. the cooktop. These items can mark or
etch the surface and affectcooking effi-
ciency.
Turn control knob to the desired heat
KNOBS setting. If in doubt as to the correct set-
ting, it is better to select a lower setting Thin gauge aluminum cookware, alumi-
Thecooking area controls arecalled IN- and increase to a higher setting as humfoil or foil containers such as pop-
FINITE controls. This type of control needed. Itwill take longer for the cook- corn poppers are NOT recommended
provides an infinite choice of heat set-
ing area to cool to a lower temperature for use on the cooktop. They will leave
tings from LOW to HIGH. The control thanto heatup to a highertemperature, metal marksand may permanently melt
can be set either on any of the num- onto the top.
bered settings or between the num-
bered settings. If food is cooking too fast or if boilovers
Do not slide glass items across the
occur, removelid and reduceto a lower
To operate control: Push down and setting. Allow enough time for the cook- cooktop. They may scratch or damage
turn knob, in either direction, to the de- ing area to adjust to the new setting, the top.
sired heat setting.
Do NOT slide aluminum cookware
THINGS TO REMEMBER across the cooktop. This may result in
Do not allow plastic objects, aluminum aluminummarkswhichthenmustbeim-
foil, sugar, orfoodswithhighsugarcon- mediately removed with a recom-
tentto melt ontothe hot cooktop. Melted mended cooktop cleaner.
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