Abstract: The invention offers a simple and economical mounting possibility for gas burners in molded parts made of a brittle-friable material, such as glass, glass-ceramic or ceramic, by means of which gas burners can be mounted without stresses, in a leakage-proof and gastight fashion in cooking surfaces of such a material without having to impose a restriction as to a special appliance and/or a specific burner type. The molded part which is made of the brittle-friable material, is the sole support for the gas burners, however, if the molded part breaks, the gas burners will drop onto a lower metal support so that the gas feed lines do not rupture.

Abstract: A cooking range with cooking surfaces made of glass-ceramic or comparable material, which has radiating heat elements with at least two heating circuits and suitably fitted control elements. These heating circuits are so arranged, or the heating conductors are so wired or connected by such circuitry, that in the warm-up phase one or more heat conductors are briefly overloaded so that in a very short time they begin to glow and thereby, through translucent cooking surfaces, begin to light up.