Gas Range or Cooktop - Cooking Utensils

Recommended cookware when using the surface burners:

  • Aluminum: Medium-weight cookware is recommended because it heats quickly and evenly. Most food brown evenly in an aluminum skillet. Use saucepans with tight fitting lids when cooking with minimum amounts of water.
  • Cast-Iron: If heated slowly, most skillets will give satisfactory results.
  • Enamelware: Under some conditions, the enamel of some cookware may melt. Follow cookware manufacturer’s recommendations for cooking methods.
  • Glass: There are two types of glass cookware – those for oven use only and those for top-of-range cooking (saucepans, coffee and teapots). Glass conducts heat very slowly.
  • Heatproof Glass Ceramic: Can be used for either surface or oven cooking. It conducts heat very slowly and cools very slowly. Check cookware manufacturer’s directions to be sure it can be used on gas ranges.
  • Stainless Steel: This metal alone has poor heating properties and is usually combined with copper, aluminum or other metals for improved heat distribution. Combination metal skillets usually work satisfactorily if they are used with medium heat as the manufacturer recommends.
  • Stove Top Grills: (on sealed gas burners) Do not use stove top grills on sealed gas burners. If you use the stove top grill on a sealed gas burner, it will cause incomplete combustion and can results in exposure to carbon monoxide levels above allowable current standards. This can be hazardous to your health.
  • Flat bottom griddles: May be used because there is room underneath for proper air circulation. Also, for cooktop grill units, follow the manufacturer’s instructions/information for proper use on a gas cooktop.
  • Woks: We recommend the use of a flat-bottomed wok. They are available at local retails stores.
    • Note: Do not use a flat-bottomed wok with a support ring or wok holder (wok ring). Placing the ring over the burner or grate may cause the burner to work improperly, resulting in carbon monoxide levels above allowable current standards. This could be dangerous to the user’s health.
    • Exception: Cafe Professional Ranges and Monogram ranges have reversible grates. The other side of the grate is curved to hold a wok.