GE 164D2966P161-1 Manual De Usuario

Your new cooktop has a halogen/radiant glass ceramic
cooktop. If you are used to cooking with gas burners
or electric surface units, you will notice some
differences when you use the halogen/radiant cooktop.

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 halogen/radiant cooktops and any
other type of cooktop you may have used in the past.

Halogen/Radiant Radiant: Electric

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

coils under a glass-

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

ceramic cooktop.

continue cooking long after it is turned off. Remove the pan from the surface unit 

Halogen: Quartz 

if you want cooking to stop.

tube filled with 
halogen gas around
a tungsten wire 
heating element
under a glass 
ceramic cooktop.

Flattened metal

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

tubing containing  

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

electric resistance 

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

wire suspended

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

over a drip pan.

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

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. 

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.

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