Maintaining your appliance _50MAINTAINING YOUR APPLIANCERemoving metal marks and scratches1. Be careful not to slide pots and pans across your cooktop. It will leave marks on the cooktopsurface. You can remove these marks by applying ceramic cooktop cleaner with a cleaningpad for ceramic cooktops.2. If pots with a thin overlay of aluminum or copper are allowed to boil dry, the overlay may leaveblack discoloration on the cooktop. You should remove this discoloration immediately or it maybecome permanent.WARNINGCarefully check the bottoms of pans for roughness that may scratch the cooktop.Cleaning the cooktop sealTo clean the seal around the edges of the glass, lay awet cloth on it for a few minutes, then wipe clean witha nonabrasive cleaner.Potential for permanent damage to the glass surface• Sugary spillovers (such as jellies, fudge, candy, syrups) or melted plastics can cause pittingof the surface of your cooktop. This is not covered under the warranty. You should clean thespill while it is still hot. Take special care when removing hot substances. Refer to the followingsection.• When using a scraper, be sure it is new and the razor blade is still sharp. Do not use a dull ornicked blade.Cleaning sugary spills and melted plastic1. Turn off all surface units. Remove hot pans.2. Wearing an oven mitt, use a single-edge razor-blade scraper to move the spill to a cool area ofthe cooktop. Remove the spill with paper towels.3. Any remaining spillover should be left until the surface of the cooktop has cooled.4. Don’t use the surface units again until all of the residue has been completely removed.If pitting or indentations in the glass surface have already occurred, the cooktop glass willhave to be replaced. In this case, service will be necessary.NE595R0ABSR_AC_DG68-00425A-05_EN.indd 50 2015-02-27 �� 4:37:13