Controls - GE JCAS745 Manual De Uso

Using the surface units.
Throughout this manual, features and appearance may vary from your model.
Surface Cooking Controls
Your surface units and controls are designed to
give you a variety of heat settings for surface
unit cooking.
At both LO and HI positions, there is a slight niche
so control clicks at those positions; HI marks the
highest setting; LO, the lowest setting.
How to Set the Controls
1. Push the control knob in.
2. Turn either clockwise or counterclockwise to
desired heat setting.
Control must be pushed in to set only from the
OFF position.
Heat Setting Guide
MAX - Quick start for cooking; bring water to boil.
MEDIUM HIGH - Fast fry, pan broil; maintain fast
boil on large amount of food.
MED - Sauce and brown; maintain slow boil on
large amount of food.
MEDIUM LOW - Cereal; maintain serving tem-
perature of most foods.
MIN - Cook after starting at HI; cook with little
water in covered pan. Use to steam rice.
Cooking Tips
Use medium- or heavyweight cookware. Alumi-
num cookware conducts heat faster than other
metals. Cast-iron and coated cast-iron cookware
is slow to absorb heat, but generally cooks
evenly at low or medium heat settings. Steel
pans may cook unevenly if not combined with
other metals.
Do not overfill cookware with fat that may spill
over when adding food. Frosty foods bubble vig-
orously. Watch foods frying at high tempera-
tures. Keep range and hood clean from accumu-
lated grease.
In a quiet kitchen, you may hear slight clicking
sounds during cooking, indicating heat settings
selected are being maintained.
Switching heats to higher settings always shows
a quicker change in temperature than switching
to lower settings.
When control is in any position other than OFF,
you can turn it without pushing in.
Be sure you turn control to OFF when you finish
cooking. An indicator light will glow when ANY
surfaces unit is on.
A Burner On indicator light will glow when ANY
surface unit is on.
NOTES:
1. At MAX or MEDIUM HIGH, never leave food un-
attended. Boilovers cause smoking; greasy
spillovers may catch fire.
2. At MIN, melt chocolate, butter on small unit.
To conserve the most cooking energy, pans
should be flat on the bottom, have straight side
and tight-fitting lids. Match the size of the sauce-
pan to the size of the surface unit. A pan that ex-
tends more than an inch beyond the edge of the
drip pan traps heat, which causes "crazing" (fine
hairline cracks) on porcelain, and discoloration
ranging from blue to dark gray on chrome drip
pans.
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