Range Benefits of Halogen Burners
Halogen burners have been available in the past on some glass top ranges. Halogen burners offered very concise low temperature cooking. They also have an "instant on". All halogen burners in our cooktops operate off of a ten step switch. The ten step switch offers less than 50% power on the first seven settings. This provides great simmer selections.
All halogen burners, regardless of manufacturer, are made up of a halogen lamp heat source and also a radiant heating element to assist in the heating process.This is because the halogen bulb itself cannot generate enough wattage to cook food.
The precision of the control provides for more consistent temperatures and provides heat continuously instead of cycling on and off at full power.
The following information shows the operation of the ten step control on the halogen cooktop models:
| Control Setting | Element Involved | Visual Response | % of power | Power output (watts) |
| off | off | 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | Radiant only | Invisible | 5% | 100 |
| 2 | Radiant only | Invisible | 8% | 150 |
| 3 | Radiant only | Invisible | 11% | 200 |
| 4 | Radiant/Halogen | Low | 16% | 290 |
| 5 | Radiant/Halogen | Low | 23% | 410 |
| 6 | Radiant/Halogen | Medium | 30% | 540 |
| 7 | Radiant/Halogen | Medium | 41% | 740 |
| 8 | Radiant/Halogen | High | 56% | 1000 |
| 9 | Radiant/Halogen | High | 76% | 1370 |
| 10 | Radiant/Halogen | Full | 100% | 1800 |
Halogen freestanding range controls offer:
- Variable setting controls
- Instant on (immediate visual response)
- Cycle on and off at full power (100%) to keep the temperature of selected setting
The following occurrences would be considered normal:
- Halogen units are brighter than radiant elements.
- Halogen units hum louder than radiant elements when they are turned on.
- Halogen units click as they are cycling on and off.
- Radiant coils take about 10 seconds longer to glow than halogen.