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GE Monogram
®
Use and Care Guide
Component
Cooktop System
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Consumer Information Component Cooktop System Introduction Your new Monogram cooktop makes an eloquent statement of style, convenience and kitchen planning flexibility. Whether you chose it for its purity of design, assiduous attention to detail— or for both of these reasons—you’ll find that your Monogram cooktop’s superior blend of form and function will delight you for years to come. Your Monogram cooktop was designed to provide the flexibility to blend in with your kitchen cabinetry. Its sle
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Before Read this guide carefully. It is intended to help If you don’t understand something or need you operate and maintain your new cooktop more help, call: using your components properly. cooktop GE Answer Center® Keep it handy for answers to your questions. 800.626.2000 system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week Write You’ll find them on a label on the bottom of Before sending in this card, please write these each component. numbers here: down the model & These numbers are also on the Consumer Prod
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTICE • The California Safe Drinking Water and • Gas appliances can cause minor exposure to Toxic Enforcement Act requires the four of these substances, namely benzene, Governor of California to publish a list of carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and soot, substances known to the state to cause caused primarily by the incomplete cancer, birth defects or other reproductive combustion of natural gas or LP fuels. harm, and requires businesses to warn Prop
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SAFETY PRECAUTIONS • CAUTION: ITEMS OF INTEREST TO • Do not use water on grease fires. Never pick CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE STORED IN up a flaming pan. Turn the controls off. CABINETS INSTALLED ABOVE THE Smother a flaming pan on a surface unit by COOKTOP SYSTEM—CHILDREN covering the pan completely with a well- CLIMBING ON THE COOKTOP SYSTEM fitting lid, cookie sheet or flat tray. Use a TO REACH ITEMS COULD BE multi-purpose dry chemical or foam-type fire SERIOUSLY INJURED. extinguisher. • Never wear
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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS USING YOUR COMPONENT COOKTOP • Use proper pan size—this cooktop system has • Be sure the downdraft vent grille is not components equipped with electric surface covered. Be sure the filter is in place. Its units or gas burners. Select cookware having absence during cooking could damage blower flat bottoms large enough to cover the selected parts. surface unit or burner. The use of undersized • Do not cover or block the area around the cookware will expose portions of
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USING YOUR COMPONENT COOKTOP • After cleaning, use a dry cloth or paper towel to • Let the gas burner grate and other surfaces remove all Cooktop Cleaning Cream residue. cool before touching them. • Read and follow all instruction and warnings • Do not leave grates removed from any on Cooktop Cleaning Cream labels. component where children can reach them. • Clean the cooktop with caution. If a wet sponge • Never leave gas burners unattended at high or cloth is used to wipe spills on a hot surfac
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Optional Components Component Cooktop System General Some of the components must be cured or Components available are discussed in this preconditioned before using them for the first section. You may only have some installed in information time. your kitchen. All components are permanently installed with the exception of the grill. Components and accessories should be cleaned after each use. The longer a soil Read each component section for specific remains, the harder it is to clean. See each i
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Gas burner This component has one large 10,500-BTU burner (rear) and one smaller 6,000-BTU cooktop burner (front). The grate is removable for cleaning. Part Numbers: ZGW124–right controls ZGW125–left controls Grate Electric The downdraft vent component has an integral variable-speed blower control. grill with downdraft vent Part Number: ZEW166–240 volts ZEW176—downdraft vent only Electric With this component, you can charbroil meat indoors all year long. Fat drains away and updraft grill collec
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Halogen/Radiant Component Component Cooktop System Halogen The controls selected for the halogen/radiant component will give you a full range of heat surface unit settings for cooking. The control knobs must be pushed down to turn from the off (0) position. When the control knobs are in any position other than off (0), they may be turned without pushing down. You may notice that the knob that operates the halogen surface unit is slightly harder to turn than the knob for the radiant surface unit.
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General The halogen/radiant cooktop features heating Use only flat-bottomed cookware. Do not let pots units beneath a smooth glass ceramic surface. boil dry. Overheated metal can bond to glass information The surface units are shown by outlines on the cooktop. An overheated copper pot will leave a about halogen/ glass. residue that will permanently stain the glass. radiant surface Before you use the cooktop for the first time, Sliding aluminum cookware across the glass units clean it with Cookto
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Halogen/Radiant Component Component Cooktop System Types of The following information will help you choose However, do not let these pots boil dry. cookware which will give good performance. Overheated metal can bond to the glass surface cookware units. An overheated copper bottom pot will Stainless Steel: recommended leave a residue that will permanently stain the Especially good with a sandwich clad bottom. surface units if not removed immediately. The sandwich bottom combines the benefits of
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For best • Place only dry pans on the surface units. Do not place lids on the surface units, particularly results wet lids. • Do not use woks that have support rings. This type of wok will not heat on the glass surface units. • We recommend that you use only a flat- Do not place wet pans on the glass surface units. bottomed wok. They are available at your local retail store. The bottom of the wok should have the same diameter as the surface unit to insure proper contact. • Some special cooki
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Home Canning Tips Component Cooktop System Observe the Note: Flat-bottomed following canners are required points in for glass surface Right! Wrong! units. canning NOTE: Canning cannot be done on the grill When canning with water-bath or pressure component. canner, larger-diameter pots may be used. This is because boiling water temperatures Safe canning requires that harmful (even under pressure) are not harmful to microorganisms are destroyed and that the the cooktop surfaces surrounding the ja
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Gas Burner Component Component Cooktop System Before The ZGW124 and ZGW125 gas cooktops are not convertible to LP gas. They are designed to operate using your on natural gas only. gas burners This component has one large 10,500-BTU burner and one smaller 6,000-BTU burner. When a downdraft vent is used next to a gas component, food will cook faster if you use a low vent setting and keep the pan covered (if recipe allows). Automatic Both burners on this gas cooktop component All the igniters make
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Gas Burner Component Component Cooktop System To light a 1. The gas burner controls must turn counterclockwise to the LITE position to burner ignite the burner. The burner ignites automatically. 2. Once the burner is ignited, turn the control knob counterclockwise to adjust the flame lower. A sparking sound caused by the igniter is normal until ignition occurs. 3. The burners will relight at any setting. Push the control knob in and turn it counterclockwise to the desired position. However, for
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Cookware Aluminum: Medium-weight cookware is Heatproof Glass Ceramic: Can be used for recommended because it heats quickly and either surface or oven cooking. It conducts evenly. Most foods brown evenly in an heat very slowly and cools very slowly. Check aluminum skillet. Use saucepans with tight- cookware manufacturer’s directions to be sure fitting lids for cooking with minimum amounts it can be used on gas cooktops. of water. Stainless Steel: This metal alone has poor Cast Iron: If heated slo
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Grill Component Component Cooktop System Before NOTE: The grill grate must be preconditioned before using it for the first time. To using your precondition, first wash it in soap and water. grill Dry with a soft cloth. Then use a paper towel to apply a small amount of no-stick cooking spray to the grate. Remove excess with a clean paper towel. Use the grill for preparing meals with the appearance and flavor of commercially char- broiled meats. The grill must be very hot for this type of cooking
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Grill tips • The grill must be preheated to get the grill • Make sure the removable grease collector jar components hot enough to sear the meat and and drip pan are clean and in place before seal in the juices. Preheat the grill for 10 using the grill. minutes at HI heat setting, then turn to the • Remove grease from the grease collector jar desired setting for cooking. after each use to avoid spillovers. • The grill element is divided so the front and • The grates should be oiled or sprayed wi
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Grill Component Component Cooktop System Questions Q. When cooking many individual foods, what Q. I follow the cooking times suggested, but my can I do to insure that foods will cook foods don’t get done properly. Is there and evenly? something wrong with my grill? answers A. When cooking foods of various sizes and A. Probably not. Suggested cooking times thicknesses, start larger or thicker pieces should be used only as a general guide. first and add quicker-cooking smaller pieces Variables in
