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The most important habits are simple: avoid impacts, avoid unnecessary thermal shock, don’t drag heavy cookware, and pay attention to manufacturer instructions.
And if your cooktop is already cracked, don’t gamble with it.
The Bottom Line
Your glass-top stove doesn’t need to be treated like a fragile museum piece.
You can cook on it. You can use it every day. You can make pancakes, pasta, sauces, soups, casseroles—you name it!
But don’t assume that because the surface handles high cooking temperatures, it can handle every kind of heat and impact.
One of the easiest mistakes is placing an extremely hot object onto a cooler section of the glass.
Add heavy cookware, a sudden temperature change, or a hard impact, and you could end up with damage that turns a convenient cooking surface into a very expensive repair.
So next time you finish cooking, resist the temptation to drop that