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Choice of pan/frying pan
A cooker with a ceramic glass plate makes
greater demands on your pots and pans that a
cooker with heating plates. Remember the
following:
• Check the bottoms of pots and pans.
Pans with a convex bottom (bulging
outwards) tend to swivel on the
ceramic glass plate and provide poor
heating contact.
• Aluminium has good heat
conductivity, but can leave silvery
marks on the plate.
• Casseroles and pans that are made of
glass or are enamelled with deep
patterns cause more wear if they are
pulled backwards and forwards on
the plate than pots and pans made of
other materials.
In order to save both time and energy
the bottom of a pan or frying-pan
• must cover the zone completely. But
if the bottom is too small, then boil-
over can easily stick to the plate.
• must be smooth or finely patterned.
• must be absolutely flat. If the bottom
bulges too much outwards or
inwards, heating-up times become
longer.
When you buy new pans, it is advisable to
choose a stainless steel model with a
sandwich-bottom, that is to say a bottom
with layers of different metals. Certain pans
are concave when cold but become flat when
they are heated up.
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