Setting Up Appliance; Familiarising Yourself With Your Appliance; Appliance; Rotary Switch - Bosch 8 OptiMUM Series Information For Use

en Familiarising yourself with your appliance
4.3 Setting up appliance
WARNING
Risk of fire!
Intense heat may cause the appli-
ance and other parts to catch fire.
▶
Never place the appliance on or
near hot surfaces.
ATTENTION!
During operation warm exhaust air
escapes from the vent grille at the
rear. If this is blocked, it may cause
the appliance to overheat.
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Set up the appliance at a sufficient
distance from walls, easily dam-
aged surfaces and other appli-
ances.
Place the appliance on a stable,
1.
level, clean and flat work surface.
Pull the power cable out to the re-
2.
quired length.
→ "Cable length", Page 33
Do not insert the mains plug.
5 Familiarising yourself
with your appliance
5.1 Appliance
You can find an overview of the parts
of your appliance here.
→ Fig.
2
1
Stainless steel mixing bowl
2
Lid with integrated filling shaft
3
Protective cover for drive 2
4
Protective cover for drive 3
6

Rotary switch

7
Swivel arm
30
8
Release button for swivel arm
9
Drive 2, yellow
10
Drive 3, red
11
Main drive, black
12
Recesses for bowl
13
Cord store
5.2 Rotary switch
The rotary switch is used to start and
stop processing and select the
speed.
Symbol Function
⁠ Stop processing.
⁠ Fold in ingredients at the
lowest speed.
⁠ Process ingredients at low
speed.
⁠ Process ingredients at
maximum speed.
⁠ Process ingredients briefly
at maximum speed.
→ "Using instantaneous
switching", Page 35
Tip: You can adjust the speed step-
lessly between 1 and 7.
5.3 Drives
Your appliance is equipped with dif-
ferent drives, which are specially de-
signed for its tools and accessories.
Note: Drives 2 and 3 come with pro-
tective covers.
→ "Drive cover", Page 35
Colour coding
The drives are colour-coded.
The colour coding is also marked on
the accessories to ensure they are
matched to the correct drive.