Glass-ceramic cooking range with heating elements which glow quickly during the heating-up phase

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention concerns glass-ceramic cooktops and/or cooking ranges with radiating heating elements.
Glass-ceramic cooking ranges with radiating heating elements are already known.
They are low priced and they have stood the test for years a million times over.
These radiating heating elements are quite sluggish in the first minutes of warm-up.
As a result of the type and design of the insulation material, and because of the type and fixation of the heating conductor (heating wire or filament), the bulk of the heating conductor and the immediately adjacent mass of insulation has to be heated up initially after the switching on of current to the heating conductor.
This leads to the situation that in the first seconds after switching on the heating element, the heating conductor or coil does not glow and thus are not visible, even through a sufficiently translucent glass-ceramic cooking surface.
This lack of visibility is considered to be a great disadvantage.
On the other hand, the quick visibility of the switched on heating conductor is greatly desired by the housewife, in order to be able to perceive quickly the on-condition of the heating conductor, especially to be able to perceive immediately when the heating element has been switched on mistakenly.
At least for this reason, heating elements for glass-ceramic cooking ranges have been developed with halogen lamps, where the halogen lamp lights up brightly immediately following the switching on of current to the corresponding heating conductor.
The big disadvantage of these halogen lamps, and the manufactured heating elements employing such lamps is that they are very expensive and that special heating element geometries or designs are not possible because of the rod-shaped halogen lamps.
The goal of the present invention is a glass-ceramic cooking range, which is so constructed, and whose heating elements are electrically so configured, that the disadvantageous sluggishness of the radiating heating element during the warm-up phase is circumvented, whereby the high costs of heating elements with halogen lamps are avoided and simultaneously the hitherto diversity of heating element geometries and designs can be retained