Helpful Hints And Tips - Electrolux EHC326BA User Manual

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Helpful hints and tips

Cookware
• The bottom of the cookware must be as thick
and flat as possible.
• Cookware made of enamelled steel and with alumini-
um or copper bottoms can cause discoloration on
glass ceramic surface.
Energy saving
• If possible, always put the lids on the cookware.
• Put cookware on a cooking zone before you
start it.
Heat
setting
1 Keep cooked foods warm
1-3 Hollandaise sauce, melt: butter, choco
late, gelatine
1-3 Solidify: u y omelettes, baked eggs 10-40
3-5 Simmer rice and milk based dishes,
heating up ready-cooked meals
5-7 Steam vegetables, sh, meat
7-9 Steam potatoes
7-9 Cook larger quantities of food, stews
and soups
9-12 Gentle fry: escalope, veal cordon bleu,
cutlets, rissoles, sausages, liver, roux,
eggs, pancakes, doughnuts
12-13 Heavy fry, hash browns, loin steaks,
steaks
14
Boil large quantities of water, cook pasta, sear meat (goulash, pot roast), deep fry chips
Information on acrylamides
Important! According to the newest scientific
knowledge, if you brown food (specially the one which
Use to:
• Stop the cooking zones before the end of the cooking
time to use residual heat.
• The bottom of pans and cooking zones must have
the same dimension.
Examples of cooking applications
The data in the table is for guidance only.
Time
as re- Cover
quired
5-25 Mix occasionally
min
Cook with a lid on
min
25-50 Add at least twice as much liquid
min as rice, stir milk dishes part way
through
20-45 Add a few tablespoons of liquid
min
20-60 Use max. ¼ l water for 750 g of
min potatoes
60-150 Up to 3 l liquid plus ingredients
min
as re Turn halfway through
quired
5-15 Turn halfway through
min
contains starch), acrylamides can pose a health risk.
Thus, we recommend that you cook at the lowest
temperatures and do not brown food too much.
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