Abstract: The cooking unit has a glass-ceramic panel (1) providing a cooking surface, which is made of transparent colorless glass-ceramic bulk material or a glass panel made of pre-stressed transparent colorless glass material. Radiant heating elements (3) are provided under the glass or glass-ceramic panel, which heat respective cooking zones. The glass or glass-ceramic panel has a full surface decorative coating (7) on its upper side, which makes dirt and usage marks less conspicuous, and an IR permeable coating (6) having a solid or plain color, preferably bisque-like, on its underside. The IR permeable coating having the solid or plain color prevents an observer from viewing the internal components of the cooking unit that are under the cooking panel from above it.

Abstract: The cooking unit has a glass-ceramic panel (1) providing a cooking surface, which is made of transparent colorless glass-ceramic bulk material or a glass panel made of pre-stressed transparent colorless glass material. Radiant heating elements (3) are provided under the glass or glass-ceramic panel, which heat respective cooking zones. The glass or glass-ceramic panel has a full surface decorative coating (7) on its upper side, which makes dirt and usage marks less conspicuous, and an IR permeable coating (6) having a solid or plain color, preferably bisque-like, on its underside. The IR permeable coating having the solid or plain color prevents an observer from viewing the internal components of the cooking unit that are under the cooking panel from above it.

Abstract: A glass ceramic article is decorated with ceramic paints in a screen printing process in accordance with which two, mutually corresponding grate-shaped structural elements are arranged on the surface of the glass ceramic article to form a closed, full-surface decorative coating so that the surface beneath it is not visible. The first structural element consists of ceramic paint members covering respective separate parts of the surface with intermediate spaces between them, while the second grate-shaped structural element consists of other ceramic paint members covering the intermediate spaces between the ceramic paint members of the first structural element but only at most overlapping edges of the ceramic paint members of the first structural element without covering them. The closed full-surface decorative coating can have a two-color pattern, such as a black and white pattern.