GE Cooktop Use and Care Manual
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Before
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your
cooktop,
read this book carefully.
It is intended to help you operate
and maintain your new
properly.
Keep it handy for answers to your
questions.
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or need more help, write (include
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GE Appliances
Appliance Park
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cooktop
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and serial numbers.
You’ll find them on a label on the
bottom of the
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are
dso
Ownership Registration Card that
came with your
sending in this card, please write
these numbers here:
cooktop.
on the Consumer Product
cooktop. Before
If you received
a
dam~ed
Immediately contact the dealer (or
builder) that sold you the
cooktop...
cooktop.
Save time and money.
Before you request
service...
Check the Problem Solver on
page 14. It lists causes of minor
operating problems that you can
correct yourself.
Mdel
Number
Sefial
Number
Use these numbers in any
correspondence or service calls
concerning your
cooktop.
Your Direct Line to General Electric
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Induction
Cooting
How it
When you touch ON, select a
power level and center a cast iron
or steel pan on the cooking
surface, the induction coil circuit
detects the pan and allows the
induction coil to be activated.
This high-frequency coil,
just below the cooking surface,
generates a magnetic
the molecules of ferrous metal in
the pan to vibrate. Molecular
friction produces heat.
The pan begins to heat immediately
and, in turn, heats the contents.
The cooking unit itself does not
heat.
unit is that which is transferred
from the cooking pan, and no heat
is generated unless a pan is placed
on the cooking area.
Power response is virtually
instantaneous,
control. No time is lost waiting for
the cooking unit to heat. And no
cool-down time is required after
cooking.
work
located
field
that causes
The only heat in the cooking
for precise cooking
Remember, magnetic induction
cooking requires the use of
cookware made of ferrous
metils-metals
will stick, metals such as iron or
steel.
to which magnets
Cooktop
Features
Models
1. Cooking Surfaces—two
and two 8-inch units.
2.
Electronic Touch Control Panel.
Each cooking surface has its own
control. Controls for the two left
units are located at the
panel. Controls for the two right
units are located at the right of the
panel. See page 6 for Electronic
Touch Control Panel Features.
lefi
JP690
6-inch
of the
and JP691
3. Air Intake Openings on the
underside of the cooktop allow
air to circulate under the cooking
surfaces to keep the induction
coils cool when cooking.
Note: You’ll hear a slight noise
when cooking—the sound of the
automatic fans circulating the cooling
air. Fans go off automatically when
cooking units are turned off.
4. Air Vents at rear of
If your cooktop is equipped for
downdraft exhaust venting, smoke
and cooking odors from the
are drawn down and out of the
kitchen through these vents.
Otherwise, cooling air circulating
under the cooking surfaces flows
up and out of the
these vents.
5. Downdraft Venting Control
Area
contains control knob for
downdraft venting system on
cooktops
control lets you select an infinite
variety of exhaust fan speeds.
so equipped. This
cooktop
5
cooktop.
cooktop
through
OFF
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VARIABLE SPEED VENT
Downdraft
Accessory
(optional at extra cost)
If your cooktop did not come
already equipped for downdraft
exhaust venting, you may convert
contact your local
speci&
includes blower, vent connection,
power connection, grease filter,
and a variable-speed control which
replaces the blank plate in the rear
grill. This
ductwork required to vent the
cooktop
Kit
to the outside.
Efiamt Ventiq
Kt
cooktop
JXDV69.
kit does not include
supplier;
This kit
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