Complete Owner's Guide

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SETTING SURFACE CONTROLS
SETTING SURFACE CONTROLS
Setting surface controls
The ability to heat food quickly and in large vol-
umes increases as the burner size increases. Your
gas appliance may be equipped with many dier-
ent sized surface burners.
It is important to select cookware that is suitable
for the amount and type of food being prepared.
Select a burner and flame size appropriate for the
cookware size.
• The standard size burner or burners may be
used for most surface cooking needs.
• Small burners are best used for low-flame heat-
ing of small amounts of food.
• Large burners are best for bringing large quan-
tities of liquid to temperature or heating larger
quantities of food.
Setting a surface burner:
1. Place cooking utensil on center of surface
burner grate. Be sure the cooking utensil rests
stable on the burner grate.
2. Push the burner’s surface control knob in and
turn counterclockwise out of the OFF position
(Figure 6).
3. Release the surface control knob and rotate to
the LITE position ( ). Visually check that the
burner has a steady gas flame.
4. Once the surface burner has a flame, push the
surface control knob in and turn counterclock-
wise to the desired flame size setting. Adjust
the flame as needed using the knob markings.
Figure 6: Surface control knob
CAUTION
Do not place flammable items such as plastic
wrappings, spoon holders, or plastic salt and
pepper shakers on the cooktop when it is in use.
These items could melt or ignite. Potholders, tow-
els, or wooden spoons could catch fire if placed
too close to the surface burners.
NOTE
When setting a surface control knob to the lite
position, all of the electronic surface ignitors will
spark at the same time. However, only the surface
burner you are setting will ignite.
In the event of an electrical power outage, the
surface burners may be lit manually. To light a
surface burner, hold a lit match to the burner
head, then slowly turn the surface control knob
to lite. Once the burner ignites, push in and turn
knob out of lite then to the desired flame setting.
Use caution when lighting surface burners man-
ually.