GE 10-95 CG User Manual

Electric coils 

Heat travels to the glass surface and then to the cookware, so pans must be flat on 

under a glass

the bottom for good cooking results. The glass cooktop stays hot enough to 

cooktop.

continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit if 
you want cooking to stop.

High frequency 

Pans must be made of ferrous metals (metal that attracts a magnet). Heat is 

induction coils 

produced by a magnetic circuit between the coil and the pan. Heats up right 

under a glass 

away and changes heat settings right away, like a gas cooktop. After turning the 

surface.

control off, the glass cooktop is hot from the heat of the pan, but cooking stops 
right away. 

Flattened metal

Heats by direct contact with the pan and by heating the air under the pan. For best

tubing containing  

cooking results, use good quality pans. Electric coils are more forgiving of 

electric resistance 

warped pans than radiant or solid disks. Heats up quickly but does not change 

wire suspended

heat settings as quickly as gas or induction. Electric coils stay hot enough to 

over a drip pan.

continue cooking for a short time after they are turned off.

Solid cast iron 

Heats by direct contact with the pan, so pans must be flat on the bottom for good

disk sealed to the

cooking results. Heats up and cools down more slowly than electric coils. The 

cooktop surface.

disk stays hot enough to continue cooking after it is turned off. Remove the pan 
from the solid disk if you want the cooking to stop.

Regular or sealed 

Flames heat the pans directly. Pan flatness is not critical to cooking results, but 

gas burners use

pans should be well balanced. Gas burners heat the pan right away and change 

either LP gas

heat settings right away. When you turn the control off, cooking stops right away.

or natural gas.

This new range has a Radiant glass cooktop. 
The radiant cooktop works differently than any 
other type, as to how it conducts heat and how it
interacts with different types of cookware.

The following information will help you understand
the differences between the Radiant Cooktop and any
other type you may have owned in the past.

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