JENN-AIR Use and Care Manual Radiant Cooktop MODEL CCR466B
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS Read before operating your cooktop All appliances -- regardless of the manufacturer -- have the potential through improper or careless use to create safety problems. Therefore the following safety precautions should be observed: 1. Be sure your appliance is properly installed and grounded by a qualified technician. 2. Never use your appliance for warming or heating the room. 3. Children should not be left alone or unattended in area where appliance is in use or still hot.
10. Never leave surface units unattended at high heat settings. Boil over may cause smoking and greasy spillovers that may ignite. 11. Glazed cookware -- only certain types of glass, glassceramic, ceramic, earthenware, or other glazed cookpots are suitable for cooktop surface without breaking due to the sudden change in temperature. Use only such cookware as you know have been approved for this purpose. 12.
About Jenn-Air Your Congratulations on your choice of a Jenn-Air radiant cooktop. The four cooking areas are identified by circles on the ceramic cooktop. When an element is turned ON, the element under the cooktop will heat up and the red glow of the wire can be seen through the ceramic top. The element will cycle on and off for all control settings except HI. It is normal to see the red glow of the element whenever it cycles on. For best results, always use proper cookware.
Control Settings 1. Control 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 3. 4. Locations Left rear heating element Left front heating element Right rear heating element Right front heating element Hot Indicator Light A red light will come on to indicate that the cooking area is hot and will remain on until the area has cooled. To Set Controls • Since the controls are a push-turn type, they must be pushed down before turning.
Cookware To achieve optimum cooking performance, use heavy gauge, flat, smooth bottom cookpots that conform to the diameter of the cooking area. Proper cookpots will minimize cooking times, use less electricity, cook food more evenly and require less water or oil. Cookpots with thin, uneven bottoms do not adequately conduct heat from the cooking area to the food in the cookpot which result in hot spots, burned or underdone food. Using bad cookpots also requires more water, time, and energy to cook food.
Improper Cookware • Cookware that does not have flat bottoms. • Thin, uneven, grooved or rough bottom cookpots. • Unbalanced that does not rest flatly. cookware • Cookware that extends more than 1 inch beyond the cooking • Nonflat specialty items that are oversized, uneven or do not meet proper cookware specifications such as round bottom woks with rings, griddles, rippled bottom canners, lobster pots, large pressure canners, etc. area.
Cooking Procedures IMPORTANT During the first few hours of use, you may notice that the surface elements emit a slight burning odor and a light smoke. Both of these conditions are normal and are caused by the insulation material of the heating elements in a new glass-ceramic cooktop. • BEFORE FIRST USE, CLEAN COOKTOP (see p. 9) • Make sure bottom of cookware is clean before placing on cooktop. • Cover cookware with lids to shorten cooking time and save energy.
Cleaning BEFORE CLEANING, BE CERTAIN COOKTOP IS COOL. Glass-ceramlc CAUTION: and Care ALL ELEMENTS ARE TURNED OFF AND THE Top Do NOT use a cooktop cleaner on a hot cooktop. The fumes can be hazardous to your health, and can chemically attack the glassceramic surface.
Save on Clean-up Time • Make sure bottoms of cookpots are always clean and dry. Before using cookpots on the glass-ceramic cooktop for the first time, and periodically as needed, clean the bottoms with scouring pads or other cleansers. Rinse and dry thoroughly. Soil from the cookpot bottom can be transferred to the cooktop surface. • Make it a practice to wipe cooktop surface with a clean damp cloth or paper towel before each use; dry thoroughly.
Before You Call for Service Check the following list to be sure a service call is really necessary. A quick reference of this manual may prevent an unnecessary service call. If surface indicator lights or elements fall to come on: • check for a blown circuit fuse or a tripped main circuit breaker. • check if cooktop is properly connected to electric circuit in house. If cooktop elements do not get hot enough: • surface controls may be improperly set. • cookware may not be flat or the correct size or shape.
