GE Automatic Griddle
OK, so here's how it works:
Thomas E Stiyer <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> Since I have two of these in white, I will be glad to answer your
> questions. The outlet labeled Automatic Grill has a very interesting
> function. You see the small left front surface unit with the sensor?
> Note that in the bank of pushbuttons, there is one lens with no
> buttons that is labeled Automatic? OK, the dial on the left of the
> meat thermometer gauge is the control for the automatic unit. It is
> not labeled in degrees, but in settings explained in the owner's
> manual, like for frozen vegetables set to *. When you plug the big
> aluminum griddle into the outlet it links the large rear surface unit
> and small automatic one so that both are thermostatically controlled,
> but it does something else to make the heat even. The 8 inch
> elements are configured like the 6 inch element in front with an
> inner section and an outer section. When you plug in the griddle,
> only the outer section of each element heats. The griddle has two
> raised rings on the underside that sit on these parts of the two
> surface units so that theoretically the heat will travel to the outer
> edge of the griddle in about the time it takes to travel inward to
> signal the sensor that the selected setting has been reached. As for
> the knob to the right of the meat thermometer, it is the switch for
> the fluorescent surface light just above it under the chrome and it
> lights the GE emblem and the words.
>
> Now, the neatest part of the range, and this was the last year they
> were used, is the clear pushbuttons and the Tele-Cook lights. Each
> heat had a color and when you pushed a button, a C-7 bulb in the
> button assembly in the control panel lighted and light coming through
> a color lens behind the button made the lighted color. The Automatic
> unit just lights up clear. There are also lights for both the oven
> set dials (Bake, Time Bake, Broil in the Companion Oven and those
> three plus Rotisserie in the Master Oven) that are lighted as long as
> the oven is on and a light over each of the oven thermostat dials
> that cycles with the oven elements.
>
> I have a double wall oven with woodtone brown doors with a window in
> the top oven and a solid door in the lower oven. These ovens are
> both the same size as the master oven in the range, a huge 23 inches
> and I can place two Bundt pans on the rack in both upper and lower
> ovens.
