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Cover saucepans with suitable lids.
¡ Cooking without a lid consumes far more energy.
Lift lids as infrequently as possible.
¡ When you lift a lid, a lot of energy escapes.
Using a glass lid
¡ You can see into the pan through a glass lid
without having to lift it.
Use pots and pans with flat bases.
¡ Uneven bases increase energy consumption.
4 Suitable cookware
Cookware that is suitable for induction cooking must
have a ferromagnetic base, i.e. it must be attracted by
a magnet. The base must also match the size of the
Items of cookware
Recommended
Suitable
Not suitable
Notes
¡ Do not use adapter plates between the hob and the
cookware.
¡ Do not heat up empty cookware and do not use
cookware with a thin base, as they can become
very hot.
Materials
Stainless steel cookware in a sandwich
design that distributes the heat well.
Ferromagnetic cookware made of enamelled
steel, cast iron or special induction cookware
made of stainless steel.
Base is not fully ferromagnetic.
Cookware bases with aluminium content.
Cookware made from normal thin steel,
glass, clay, copper or aluminium.
Use cookware suited to the quantity of food.
¡ Large items of cookware containing little food need
more energy to heat up.
Cook with little water.
¡ The more water contained in cookware, the more
energy is required to heat it up.
Turn down to a lower heat setting early on. Use a suit-
able ongoing cooking setting to continue cooking.
¡ If you continue cooking with an ongoing cooking
setting that is too high, you'll waste energy
cooking zone. If cookware is not detected on a cooking
zone, place this on the cooking zone with the next
smallest diameter.
4.1 Size and characteristics of the cookware
To be able correctly detect the cookware, you must
take the size and the material of the cookware into con-
sideration. All cookware bases must be perfectly flat
and smooth.
You can use the Cookware test function to check
whether your cookware is suitable. You can find more
information about this under
→ "Cookware test", Page 10.
Properties
These distribute the heat evenly, heat up
quickly and receive sufficient power.
These heat up quickly and provide sufficient
power.
If the ferromagnetic area is smaller than the
base of the cookware, only the area that is
ferromagnetic heats up. As a result, the heat
is not distributed evenly.
These reduce the ferromagnetic area, which
means that less power is emitted to the
cookware. This cookware may not be suffi-
ciently detected or may not be detected at all
and therefore does not heat sufficiently.
Suitable cookware en
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