Belling XOU250 Installation And User Instructions Manual page 11

The oven programmer offers you the following features:
1. Time of Day
2. Minute Minder
3. Automatic Cooking with cook and delay cooking
functions.
We recommend following the guidelines below, to
ensure the best performance from you oven when using
automatic cooking programs,
1. Select foods which will take the same time to cook
and require approximately the same temperature.
2. Set the oven programmer so that the food has just
finished or about to finish cooking on your return
to the oven. This will ensure the food has not cooled
down and does not require reheating before
serving.
3. Food should be as cold as possible when it goes
into the oven, ideally straight from the refrigerator.
Frozen meat and poultry should be thawed
thoroughly before it is put in the oven.
4. We advise that warm food should never be placed
in the oven if there is to be a delay period. Stews
prepared by frying the meat and vegetables should
be cooked as soon as possible.
5. We advise dishes containing left-over cooked
poultry or meat, for example
Shepherds Pie, should not be cooked automatically
if there is to be a delay period.
6. Stews and joints should be cooked by the long slow
method, so that the delay period is kept to a
minimum.
7. On warm days, to prevent harmful bacterial growth
in certain foods (i.e. poultry, joints, etc) the delayed
start should be kept to a minimum.
8. Wine or beer may ferment and cream may curdle
during the delay period, so it is best to add these
ingredients just before serving.
9. Foods which discolour should be protected by
coating in fat or tossing in water to which lemon
juice has been added, prior to placing food in the
oven.
10. Dishes containing liquid should not be filled too full
to prevent boiling over.
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11. Foods should be well sealed (but not airtight) in a
12. Ensure food is cooked thoroughly before serving.
container to prevent the loss of liquid during cooking.
Aluminium foil gives a good seal.
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