Steaming - Cook's essentials CEPC800 Owner's Manual

Cooking with Your Programmable
Pressure Cooker

STEAMING

This function quickly brings cooking liquid to a boil for steaming food.
1. Place the Removable Cooking Pot into the Cool-to the-Touch Housing.
2. To Steam food, pour 1-cup of water into the Removable Cooking Pot.
Arrange food in a heat resistant steaming basket and use basket han-
dles to lower basket into the Removable Cooking Pot. Fold handles
down. (You may add more food on top of and around basket, but do
not fill more than two thirds full.
3. Place the Self-Locking Lid onto the Removable
Cooking Pot. Keep the Safety Lock in the
UNLOCK position. Turn the Pressure Regulator
to STEAM.
4. Press the COOK MODE Button for STEAM. The
Green Indicator Light next to STEAM will be lit.
5. Press COOK TIME for the desired cooking time,
up to 99 minutes. Press the START/STOP
Button; the Green Indicator Light will be lit and the Green STEAM
Indicator Light will blink slowly and then faster as the temperature
increases and the liquid comes to a boil.
6. The Lid can be opened while cooking to check the food.
WARNING: Use caution when opening Lid. Steam escapes as soon
as the Lid is opened. Use oven mitts when handling hot materials.
7. The Red Indicator Light will illuminate and the appliance will beep three
times at the end of the preset cooking time. Press and hold
START/STOP Button until it beeps.
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CLEAN
STEAM
PRESSURE