Patent ID: 8097837

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a cooking stove with a glass ceramic top providing a cooking surface, said cooking stove comprising at least one radiant heating body arranged below said glass ceramic top, a top structure for the glass ceramic top, and a temperature-limiting device cooperating with said at least one radiant heating body, which limits a surface temperature of the cooking surface to a maximum allowable value, said method of manufacturing comprising the steps of: a) providing said cooking stove with said top structure; b) providing a plurality of different glass ceramic tops with different infrared spectral transmittances for installation in said cooking stove with said top structure, said plurality including one of said different glass ceramic tops with a lowest infrared spectral transmittance of all of said different glass ceramic tops; c) installing a temperature-limiting device in said cooking stove that would cooperate with said different glass ceramic top with said lowest infrared spectral transmittance to limit the surface temperature of the cooking surface to said maximum allowable value when said different glass ceramic top with said lowest infrared spectral transmittance is installed in said cooking stove; d) selecting another one of said different glass ceramic tops with an infrared spectral transmittance greater than said lowest infrared spectral transmittance; e) providing said another one of said different glass ceramic tops with means for absorbing or reflecting infrared radiation so as to adjust said infrared spectral transmittance of said another one of said different glass ceramic tops to said lowest infrared spectral transmittance; and then f) installing said another one of said different glass ceramic tops with said means for absorbing or reflecting infrared radiation according to step e) in said top structure of said cooking stove without any changes of the temperature-limiting device installed in the cooking stove in step c).