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Abstract

A cooktop appliance may include a cooktop plate, a capacitance grid, a plurality of burners, and a controller. The cooktop plate may define an upper cooking surface. The capacitance grid may be mounted to the cooktop plate. Each burner of the plurality of burners may include an electric heating element mounted below the cooktop plate. The controller may be operatively coupled to the capacitance grid and the plurality of burners. The controller may be configured to direct a cooking operation including receiving a plurality of capacitance signals from the capacitance grid, detecting a capacitance delta based on the plurality of capacitance signals, identifying a burner level of an engaged burner of the plurality of burners based on the detected capacitance delta, and directing a responsive action on the cooktop appliance based on the identified burner level.

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