How To Use The Oven; General Information About Baking, Roasting; And Grilling; How To Operate The Electric Oven - Defy DBO482 Instruction Manual

4. How to use the oven

General information on baking, roasting

and grilling

DANGER:
Be careful when opening the oven
door as steam may escape.
Exiting steam can scald your
hands, face and/or eyes
Tips for baking
Use non-sticky coated appropriate metal
plates or aluminum vessels or heat-resistant
silicone moulds. Make best use of the
embossed shelf runners.
Place the baking mould in the middle of the
shelf.
Select the correct embossed shelf runner
position before turning the oven or grill on.
Do not change the shelf position when the
oven is hot. Keep the oven door closed.
Tips for roasting
Treating whole chicken, turkey and large
pieces of meat with dressings such as lemon
juice and black pepper before cooking will
increase the cooking performance.
It takes about 15 to 30 minutes longer to
roast meat with bones when compared to
roasting the same size of meat without
bones.
Each centimeter of meat thickness requires
approximately 4 to 5 minutes of cooking
time. Leave meat in the oven for about
10 minutes after the cooking time is over.
The juice is better distributed all over the
roast and does not run out when the meat is
cut.
Fish should be placed on the middle or lower
shelf in a heat-resistant plate.
Tips for grilling
When meat, fish and poultry are grilled, they
quickly brown, develop a crust and do not
dry out quickly. Flat pieces, meat skewers
and sausages are particularly suited for
grilling as are vegetables with high water
content such as tomatoes and onions.
Distribute the pieces to be grilled on the wire
shelf or in the baking tray on the wire shelf
so that the space covered does not exceed
the size of the grill element.
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Slide the wire shelf or baking tray into the
desired level of the oven. If you are grilling
on the wire shelf, slide the baking tray to the
lower rack to collect any fats. Add some
water in the tray for easy cleaning.
Foods that are not suitable for
grilling create a fire risk. Only grill
food which is suitable for intensive
grilling heat. Do not place the food
too far in towards the back of the
grill. This is the hottest area and
fatty food may catch fire.

How to operate the electric oven

1. Set the Temperature knob to the desired
temperature.
2. Set the Function knob to the desired
operating mode.
» Oven heats up to the adjusted temperature
and maintains it. During heating,
temperature lamp stays on.
Switching off the electric oven
Turn the function knob and temperature
knob to the off position.

Using the oven

Baking
This product is supplied with a chromed
oven shelf and a roast pan. If required,
additional shelves, roast pans and broiler
may be purchased from Defy spares.
Set the selector knob to the desired baking
mode. See descriptions on page 14. Top
and Bottom elements or Bottom element
only. Set the oven thermostat to the required
temperature.
The thermostat indicator light will glow and
remain on until the oven has reached the
selected temperature. The light will then
switch off.
Thereafter place the food in the oven.
During the baking cycle, the indicator light
will switch on and off as the thermostat
maintains the selected temperature.
After baking is completed, the thermostat
and the selector knob must be turned to the
"0"position in an anti clockwise direction.