Transparent, dyed cook top or hob with improved color display capability, consisting of a glass-ceramic comprising high quartz mixed crystals as predominant crystal phase whereby the glass ceramic, except of some unavoidable traces, contains none of the chemical refining agents arsenic oxide and/or antimony, characterized by transmission values of greater than 0.1% within the entire wavelength range of visible light larger than 450 nm, a light transmission in the visible from 0.8 to 2.5% and a transmission in the infrared at 1600 nm of 45-85%, and wherein the glass ceramic comprises Fe2O3 and V2O5, wherein the Fe2O3 content is at least as high as the V2O5 content and thus meet the condition