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U SER MANUAL MYC HEF EVOLUTION

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  • Page 1 PROFESSIONAL C OMBI OVEN U SER MANUAL MYC HEF EVOLUTION...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Switching on the equipment.................. 8 2.1.1 Rotary knob LED indicator ................8 First use ........................9 Main menu ......................9 Mychef evolution main functions ............... 11 Navigation ......................13 CHEF ..........................13 Cooking options: ......................14 Menu CHEF ......................16 3.1.1...
  • Page 3 System ........................48 9.10 Restore factory default values................48 9.11 Accounts ....................... 48 9.12 USB ........................49 9.13 Consumption ......................50 9.14 Measurement system ..................50 9.15 Advanced settings ....................51 9.16 NightWatch ......................52 9.17 Error and alarms....................52...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    MYCHEF EVOLUTION This section provides an overview of the basic functions and all the information necessary for the correct use of the user interface of the mychef evolution combi steamer. For a description of more specific functions, refer to the help available on each screen..

  • Page 5: Switching On The Equipment

    Switching on the equipment The equipment is switched on or off using a switch on the control panel to the left of the panel. In order to protect the oven from overtemperature, it is possible that some protective elements may work even if the oven is switched off. When the oven is at a safe temperature, they will turn off automatically.

  • Page 6: First Use

    Table1: Colour description of the rotary knob. First use Once you have connected your mychef oven for the first time, you will need to access the WiFi or Ethernet network to synchronize with the cloud. A check on available software updates and if necessary the download and update of the system will then be executed.
  • Page 7 This menu is structured in three main sections: Cooking (Chef, SmartCooking, CookingPlanner, Regenerate) Self-cleaning (Mycare) Recipes and Settings The main functions shown in the menu are as follows: Chef - Cooking with manual mode parameter settings. SmartCooking - Food selection assisted cooking CookingPlanner –...

  • Page 8: Mychef Evolution Main Functions

    MyCare – Self-cleaning programs Recipes – Access to user and Mychef recipe books Settings – Access to oven settings Mychef evolution main functions Chef The Chef cooking mode allows cooking by manual parameter adjustment:  Convection  Mixed  Steaming By setting additional functions to the cooking modes, it is possible: ...
  • Page 9  My Recipes: With this recipe book you can create your own recipes in a simple and intuitive way, from your mychef oven or from the mobile phone or tablet application "mychef cloud". Up to 400 different recipes can be cooked and administered.

  • Page 10: Navigation

    "My Recipes" for future use. It is also possible to add a description of the steps required for cooking. By using the "MyChef Cloud" application or the USB, it will be possible to add images of the plating procedure and suggestion.

  • Page 11: Cooking Options

    Save. Allows you to save a recipe setting in the recipe book. (See Page 27) Info. Provides information and help on the current screen. Cooking Indicator WiFi/Ethernet connection indicator Displays the current date Hour Cycles indicator Add/ Delete Cycles Cooking on Hold Cooking options Cooking options: During the course of a cooking in progress, it is possible to perform the following...
  • Page 12 Convection Mixed Steaming (30ºC-300ºC) (30ºC-300ºC) (30ºC-130ºC)    Roasting Roasting Steam cooking    Baking Gratine Sous-Vide    Grill Braising Boiling   Sauté   Griddle Fogging   Smoked Ferment Aditional functions: Convection Mixed Steaming ...

  • Page 13: Menu Chef

    When you press add alert, you are prompted to enter a text message and select the time when the message will be displayed. When the cooking starts and the indicated time has elapsed, the message will notify. Menu CHEF There are 400 programs that can be edited and retrieved at the user's request. All of them can have up to 9 cooking cycles.

  • Page 14: Temperature Cooking And Time Control

    The steam mode saturates the cooking chamber with moisture. -100 % <-> 100 % 100% Humidity ΔT Tª Temperature Time Tº Probe Continuous Auto Manual In order to prolong the life of your oven, it may automatically reduce the maximum cooking chamber temperature. In all cooking modes, the chamber can be humidified at will via direct steam injection using the cooking options button: 3.1.1 Temperature cooking and time control...
  • Page 15 Figure: Example. Cooking 90ºC in steam mode for 10 minutes. 3.1.1.1 Automatic temperature adjustment Whenever cooking is started by pressing START/STOP, the oven automatically calculates the room temperature in the chamber and decides whether a heating or cooling process should be carried out depending on the desired value. If necessary, the following display for the temperature adjustment process will be displayed before cooking begins, indicating the chamber temperature.
  • Page 16 If the user wishes, he or she can interrupt this process and start directly with cooking. Pressing the START/STOP button omits preheating and starts cooking. Once the oven reaches the preheating temperature, the user will be told that the oven can be charged by means of an acoustic and visual warning: an animation will be shown on the screen as in the picture.
  • Page 17 If the probe is not connected, the oven will indicate this by means of the displayed message and an acoustic signal. In this case, connect the probe and press OK. For this cooking mode, the multipoint probe or the sous-vide probe must be connected.
  • Page 18 When the oven is in the process of cooking controlled by means of a core probe, the chamber temperature display shows the temperature to be reached in the chamber, and the core probe display shows the actual temperature of the food. 3.1.1.3 Fan speed selection In any cooking mode, the user can select the fan speed that best suits his needs.

  • Page 19: Editing Cycles

    Figure 1: Fan combinations manual mode In order to be able to regulate the temperature in the chamber correctly, in certain situations (low temperature, etc.) the oven can automatically select the reduced convection speed. 3.1.2 Editing cycles The editing of the cycles can be done directly by navigating through the cycle indicator or you can add phases to the user programs.
  • Page 20 By accessing the edit option of the header by selecting "Cooking parameters", you can access the editing of the parameters. By selecting "Elaboration", it will also be possible to edit the other fields of the recipe. To add or remove phases in programs 1 to 400 before you must enter the program edit mode.

  • Page 21: End Of Cooking

    This screen shows a summary of the programmed cooking cycles and allows you to view and navigate between them to see the parameters in detail. Each time a cycle ends or automatically moves to the next cycle, an acoustic signal is emitted. If cooking is to be started, selecting "Start now"...

  • Page 22: Smartcooking

    Once the cooking message is finished, you must choose one of the options shown. Cooking check: Display of resources used during cooking, temperature, time, water and energy. Adjust: Sometimes it is necessary to add time to a cooking. This option allows you to fine-tune the result by adjusting the time.
  • Page 23 Some foods allow probe cooking, this option can be selected when compatible. It will be possible to carry out cooking by probe and sous vide.
  • Page 24 This cooking allows the food to be cooked more gently, lose less juice and preserve its qualities. It is possible to stop the cooking at any time by pressing START/STOP. The MYCHEF menu header displays the following options: 1. Back 2. Home 3.

  • Page 25: Go & Cook

    4.1.1 Go & Cook The Go&Cook cooking mode is a direct cooking method, suitable for each food category. Once the category has been selected, for example: “Meat", the Go&Cook option will show us directly the available preparations for meats: Fry, Grill, Grill, Grill, Grill, Roast, Stew, Steam, Sous video and MySmoker.

  • Page 26: Saving Cooking Or Recipe Set Up Or Creating A Recipe

    It is considered that it is previously on the CHEF screen, and the cooking parameters have been adjusted or a recipe has been created from the "MyChef Cloud" application. After selecting the Save button, the following screen appears where you must enter the necessary data to correctly describe the recipe you want to save.
  • Page 27 After selecting a category and entering a name with which to save the recipe, you must choose the type of tray that is recommended for cooking: Selecting the ingredients field will open a new window in which you can enter the ingredients that make up the recipe.

  • Page 28: Cooking Planner

    It is possible to adjust the number of diners or trays to know exactly the quantities of ingredients to be used in each case. By means of the parametric calculation, the ingredients section will show the new quantities required for the preparation of the recipe.
  • Page 29 To load a cooking planner, select Multilevel or JustInTime and press the (+) button at the desired level, then access the recipe book where the recipes compatible with this cooking mode appear. Then select a first recipe and click "Add to Multilevel" or "Add to JustInTime".
  • Page 30 when each tray must be removed at the end of cooking. Additional products can be loaded, cooking stops when the door is opened. When the door closes, the process will resume. JustInTime: for recipes that we want to be ready at the same time, notifying you when to load the trays at different times.

  • Page 31: Save Cooking Planner

    Save Cooking planner You can save a list of recipes in Multilevel or JustInTime under "My Recipes", either after loading all the recipes you want to cook, through the save option in the header, or once the process is finished, as shown below: REGENERATE The regenerating mode allows the regeneration of almost all types of previously cooked foods, where they are finished cooking and prepared to be served, for this...

  • Page 32: Mycare

    Simply select the type of feed and adjust the parameters shown in the following screen and press START/STOP. MYCARE Using the MyChef cleaning system allows automatic cleaning of the cooking chamber. This option includes several self-cleaning profiles available, as shown below:...
  • Page 33 Rinse: Program of rinsing the chamber with water. Eco Washing: This program allows an efficient washing with optimization of resources. Short wash: Short wash cycle - Short wash cycle Medium Wash: Medium duration washing program. Long Wash: Long lasting wash program The necessary time to complete each program and the use and usefulness of each program are listed in the table below: Program...
  • Page 34 For the use of the washing processes in as much as for the handling of the products used in the process, appropriate protections must be used. Cleaning programs are specifically designed to use MyCare cleanduo detergent. The special formulation of this product stands out for having twice the concentration of active product than that of most similar products available on the market.
  • Page 35 At this point it is important to stop the fan using the START/STOP button, open the door and insert the detergent into the dedicated housing. Once entered, close the door again to start the cleaning program. Before starting any cleaning process, make sure that the water flow to the unit is open.

  • Page 36: Recipes

    (error 26) when the oven is turned on again. In this case, and in order to prevent detergent and brightener residue from remaining in the chamber, run a rinse program. Always run a self-cleaning or rinsing program when error 26 occurs. RECIPES The Mychef combi steamer allows recipe management as follows:...
  • Page 37 Recipes: When you access this recipe booklet, by scrolling horizontally you will be able to see all the recipes available in the mychef cloud. This recipe booklet will be updated every time new recipes are made available in the cloud, as long as the oven has an Internet connection.
  • Page 38 When you select a recipe, the recipe display corresponds to the structure shown in section 4.1.2. My recipes: this recipe book offers the possibility of displaying the recipes you have created and managing them according to your needs. The recipes listed here can be created from Chef, SmartCooking or Cooking planner mode.

  • Page 39: Managing Recipes From Mychef Cloud

    SETTINGS This section describes the operations required for the correct configuration of the mychef combi steamer. Some of the functions have access rights, so it will only be possible to access them by entering a password. For more detailed information, refer to the help available on the screen.

  • Page 40: Date/ Time

    Date/ Time To set the date and time, press or select with the rotary control on the buttons and adjust. To exit, press the back arrow and the setting will be saved. Language To change the language, navigate between the available languages by pressing the arrows or using the rotary control, and select the desired language.

  • Page 41: Lighting

    certain functions. For example, the end of a cooking or an alarm. In this case, it is possible to select by pressing the intensities entirely between Silence, Medium or High. In addition, the warning tone can be selected from different options in the side menu. Lighting The duration of the camera lighting can be adjusted between the options displayed on the screen.

  • Page 42: Maintenance

    Maintenance The mychef combi steamer has a preventive maintenance plan that will allow the life of the oven to be extended and its operation in optimum conditions. Depending on the hours of use, the user interface will show which maintenance plan to follow and the service contact you should contact.
  • Page 43 The top bar shows the progress in operating hours associated with servicing. Once the revision has been carried out, the date on which it was carried out will be indicated as shown in the image above. Check A: Water hardness testing Cleaning of cooling fans Electronic cleaning Cleaning of the drain tray...

  • Page 44: Probe

    Probe This section allows you to display the oven temperature readings at different points. By clicking on each probe, it is possible to edit the values. Register Name Parameter Editable Probe 1 Multipoint probe 1 Probe 2 Multipoint probe 2 Probe 3 Multipoint probe 3 Probe 4...

  • Page 45: System

    Water connection: Check that the connections of the hydraulic system have been made correctly to avoid any type of leakage. Door: by opening and closing the door, a problem will be detected in the sensor that controls the door. The existence of any anomaly in any of the previous points will prevent the operation of the oven.

  • Page 46: Usb

    9.12 The equipment allows the loading and unloading of recipes and images in addition to HACCP data. The equipment allows the recording of temperatures and events occurring during normal use. To record data, insert a memory into the USB connector in the lower right corner of the oven.

  • Page 47: Consumption

    Figure 3: USB connector housing. They can be viewed from a computer to read text files. 9.13 Consumption In this section you can consult the data corresponding to the energy consumption of the oven and HACCP. In order to know the water and energy consumption, it is possible to delimit the desired range, be it annual, monthly, daily or hourly.

  • Page 48: Advanced Settings

    9.15 Advanced settings This Section allows to consult the internal configuration parameters of the oven and facilitates the diagnosis of faults and malfunctions as well as its solution to the technical assistance service. Name Parameter Editable Type Oven type No(SAT) Number of TSC channels (0 - 4) No(SAT) Autoclean...

  • Page 49: Nightwatch

    NightWatch functionality. Pressing the START/STOP key in this state will cancel automatic recovery. If it is not cancelled, the MyChef oven automatically checks the temperature of the cooking chamber. If the temperature is below 56°C there may be a risk of bacterial contamination.
  • Page 50 The table below shows the different errors and alarms, as well as possible solutions to them. Error Internal definition Explanation NO ERROR No Error ERROR GENERAL PURPOSE INPUT General error entry. Not used. ERROR OVERTEMPERATURE General error entry. Not used. ERROR OVERTEMPERATURE PCB Over temperature PCB.
  • Page 51 CONNECTED ERROR PROBE7 TEMP SENSOR SHORTED Restricted. Not used. ERROR PROBE8 TEMP SENSOR Camera probe not connected. Check probe and wiring. CONNECTED ERROR PROBE8 TEMP SENSOR SHORTED External short-circuited probe. Check the external probe and connector. ERROR PROGRAM NOT TERMINATED Reserved.

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