Top-Of-Range Cookware; Using A Wok - GE JGBS10 Manual Del Propietário

Surface Burners (Cont.)
Surface Burner
The round burner is for general cooking purposes. Size
cookware appropriately to the flames.

Top-of-Range Cookware

Aluminum: Medium-weight cookware is recommended
because it heats quickly and evenly. Most foods brown
fitting lids when cooking with minimum amounts of water.
Stainless Steel: This metal alone has poor heating
properties and is usually combined with copper,
aluminum or other metals for improved heat distribution.
Combination metal skillets usually work satisfactorily if
they are used with medium heat or as the manufacturer
recommends.
Cast-Iron: If heated slowly, most skillets will give
satisfactory results.
Stove Top Grills
Do not use an after-market stove top grill on your
gas surface burners. A stove top grill will cause
incomplete combustion resulting in carbon monoxide
levels above allowable standards. This could be
hazardous to your health.

Using a Wok

or less. Make sure the wok bottom sits flat on the grate.
burner or grate may cause the burner to work improperly,
resulting in carbon monoxide levels above allowable
standards. This could be hazardous to your health.
Lighting Burners with a Match (cordless range)
If the battery is too weak to light the burners, you can
light the gas surface burners on your range with a
wooden kitchen match. Hold a lit match to the burner,
then push in and turn the control knob to the LITE
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Enamelware:
of some cookware may melt. Follow the cookware
manufacturer's recommendations for cooking methods.
Glass:
for oven use only and those for top-of-range cooking
very slowly.
Heatproof Glass Ceramic: Can be used for either
surface or oven cooking. It conducts heat very slowly and
cools very slowly. Check the cookware manufacturer's
directions to be sure it can be used on gas ranges.
Do not use stove top grills
way. Surface burners in use when an electrical power
failure occurs will continue to operate normally.
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