Electrolux E36EC70FSS Owners Guide - Page 14

14 Setting Surface Controls OPERATING THE DUAL SURFACE RADIANT ELEMENT Both the 30" and 36" cooktops are equipped with dual radiant surface element located as shown in Figs. 1 & 2. A touch key pad on the element controls is used to select one of the 2 positions of the element. Symbols and indicator lights on the control panel are used to indicate which coil of the dual radiant element will heat. The symbol indicates that only the INNER coil will heat (Fig. 3). The symbol indicates that both INNER and OUTER coils will heat (Fig. 4). You may switch from either coil setting at any time during cooking. On/Off On/Off On/Off On/Off POWER Fig. 1 Fig. 2 To Operate the Dual Surface Element: 1. Place correctly sized cookware on the radiant surface element. 2. Touch and hold the key pad until a beep sound. The power POWER indicator light above the will turn ON. Note: If no other key pad is POWER touched within 20 seconds the request to Power ON the cooktop will clear. 3. Touch and hold the pad for the dual element position until a beep On/Of f is heard. The display will show " -- ". Note: If no further pads are touched within 10 seconds the request to power the element ON will clear. Fig. 3 Fig. 4 4. Select the INNER (Fig. 3) or INNER and OUTER (Fig. 5) to heat by touching the key pad. 5. Touch pad once to turn ON the power level to HI. Touch pad once for Lo. 6. Each touch of the or pad will decrease or increase the power level from 9.0 through 3.0 by .5 increments. Simmer power levels between 3.0 and 1.0 will decrease or increase by .2 increments. Lo is the lowest power level available. Note: The power level may be adjusted at any time while the element is ON. 7. Start most cooking operations on a higher setting and then turn to a lower setting to finish cooking. Each surface element provides a constant amount of heat at each setting. A glowing red surface heating area extending beyond the bottom edge of the cookware indicates the cookware is too small for the surface heating area. 8. When cooking has been completed touch the pad once to turn the element OFF and On/Of f if no other surface element is used touch the key pad to turn off the cooktop. POWER Note: The HE message will appear in the display after turning the control knob to OFF if the cooktop is still hot and remain on until the heating surface area has cooled sufficiently. CAUTION Radiant surface elements may appear to be cooled after they have been turned OFF. HE (Hot Element) message will turn ON and will continue to glow until the glass cooktop has cooled down to a moderate level. The glass surface may still be hot and burns may occur if the glass surface is touched before the indicator light has turned OFF.