User Manual - Page 13

Our ranges are equipped with an exclusive restaurant style sealed burner system. This unique burner

system is equipped with 23,000 BTU front burners, 15,000 BTU rear burners and one 8,000 rear burner.

The 23,000 BTU burners are designed to provide extra high heat output, expecially when using large pans,

and should be used for boiling large quantities or if you need to bring something to a boil quickly. While

boil rapidly, they are also able to be turned down low enough to provide a very low and delicate simmer

making this the most versatile burner system on the market.

Simmering is a cooking technique in which foods are cooked in hot liquids kept at or just barely below the boiling point of water. Simmering

ensures gentler treatment than boiling to prevent food from toughening and/or breaking up. The size of the pan and the volume of food can

have a significant effect on how high or low a flame is needed for simmering. For this reason, Viking range and rangetop burners are engineered

with a Vari-Simmer setting. The Vari-Simmer setting is not just one simmer setting, but provides a variable range of simmer settings. This variable

range of simmer settings allows you to adjust the flame height to achieve the best simmer depending on the type and quantity of food being

simmered. It is this ability that makes the Vari-Simmer setting the most accurate and trustworthy simmer on the market.

To light the surface burners, push and turn the appropriate control knob counter clockwise to any position. This control is both a gas valve and

an electric switch. Burners will ignite at any “ON” position with the automatic re-ignition system. If the flame goes out for any reason, the burners

will automatically reignite if the gas is still flowing. When gas is permitted to flow to the burners, the electric igniters start sparking. On all surface