Patent ID: 6930289

Claim:
An electric stove to cook food, said electric stove comprising: an electric stove body; said electric stove body comprising a bottom base portion; said electric stove body comprising an upper housing portion; an electric cook top; said electric cook top being mounted in or on said upper housing portion; said electric cook top comprising an electric smooth-top cook top to cook food thereon; said electric smooth-top cook top comprising an electric hob; an arrangement to attach said electric hob to said electric stove body; said electric hob comprising a layer which becomes an upper layer upon installation in a kitchen; said electric hob comprising an electric cooking surface configured to cook food; said electric cooking surface being disposed at or adjacent to said upper layer of said electric hob; said electric cooking surface, at or adjacent to said upper layer of said electric hob, being configured to receive a bottom of a cooking vessel to cook food therein; said electric cook top comprising at least one electrical heat source; said at least one electrical heat source being configured to electrically heat said electric cooking surface to thereby cook food in a cooking vessel; said at least one electrical heat source being disposed adjacent to said electric cooking surface; said electric hob comprising a body; said electric cooking surface being disposed adjacent to or comprising a part of said hob body; said electric hob comprising an electric glass ceramic hob including a reduced vanadium coloring agent in the glass that has been reduced with at least one reducing agent at a temperature of at least about one thousand seven hundred fifty degrees Celsius, which glass is substantially free of the toxic agents arsenic oxide and antimony oxide, which electric glass ceramic hob is thus configured with said agent to maximize heat passing through said electric hob body from said at least one electrical heat source to a vessel supported on said electric cooking surface and also is configured to sufficiently darken said electric hob to a darkness sufficient to visually conceal said at least one electrical heat source from view of a user of said electric stove when said electric stove is not in use; and electric control apparatus being configured and disposed to control said electric hob; said electric control apparatus being connected to control said at least one electrical heat source and thus is configured to control heat of said electrically heated cooking surface to cook food in a vessel.