Hob - Helpful Hints And Tips - Electrolux EKC603601 User Manual

Knob
1 - 9
1. Turn the knob to a necessary heat
setting.
2. To stop the cooking, turn the knob to
the 0 position.
Use the residual heat to decrease
energy consumption. Deactivate

6. HOB - HELPFUL HINTS AND TIPS

WARNING!
Refer to the Safety chapters.
6.1 Cookware
• The bottom of the cookware
• Cookware made of enamelled
6.2 Energy saving
• If possible, always put the lids
Heat
set-
ting
1
1-2
1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
Function
Heat settings
(1 - lowest heat setting, 9 -
highest heat setting)
must be as thick and flat as
possible.
steel and with aluminium or
copper bottoms can cause dis-
coloration on glass ceramic sur-
face.
on the cookware.
Use to:
Keep cooked foods warm
Hollandaise sauce, melt: butter,
chocolate, gelatine
Solidify: fluffy omelettes, baked
eggs
Simmer rice and milkbased
dishes, heating up ready-cooked
meals
Steam vegetables, fish, meat
Steam potatoes
the cooking zone approximately 5
- 10 minutes before the cooking is
completed.
5.2 Residual heat indicator
The residual heat indicator comes on
when a cooking zone is hot.
WARNING!
Risk of burns from residual heat!
• Put cookware on a cooking
zone before you start it.
• Stop the cooking zones before
the end of the cooking time to
use residual heat.
• The bottom of pans and cook-
ing zones must have the same
dimension.
6.3 Examples of cooking
applications
The data in the table is for guidance only.
Time Hints
as re- Cover
quired
5-25 Mix occasionally
min
10-40 Cook with a lid on
min
25-50 Add at least twice as much
min liquid as rice, stir milk dishes
part way through
20-45 Add a few tablespoons of liq-
min uid
20-60 Use max. ¼ l water for 750 g
min of potatoes
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