GE 164D2966P079 User Manual

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Your new cooktop has gas burners. If you are used 
to cooking with induction or other electric surface
units, you will notice some differences when you use
gas burners.

The best types of cookware to use, plus heat-up and
cool-down times, depend upon the type of burner or
surface unit you have.

The following chart will help you to understand the
differences between gas burner cooktops and any
other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.

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.

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 

ceramic 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 away

under a glass 

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

surface.

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.

Your surface burners are lighted by electric ignition,
eliminating the need for standing pilot lights with
constantly burning flames.

In case of a power failure, you can light the surface
burners on your range with a match. Hold a lighted
match to the burner, then turn the knob to the LITE
position. Use extreme caution when lighting
burners this way. 

Surface burners in use when an electrical power
failure occurs will continue to operate normally. 

The knobs that turn the surface     
burners on and off are located on
the control panel on the front of
the range. The 2 knobs on the left
control the left front and left rear
burners. The 2 knobs on the right
control the right front and right
rear burners