INTRODUCTION This manual has been carefully prepared and checked to provide reliable and helpful information for proper installation, use and maintenance that will ensure proper operation and prolong the life of the oven. This manual is divided into two parts, the first part dedicated to the installation of the equipment at the working point, and the second part focused on cleaning and maintenance of the oven.
MYCHEF CONCEPT Control The figure below shows the control panel of a MyChef Concept oven. It consists of a central LCD screen with different elements such as displays and icons, buttons, a rotary knob and visual indicators of different colours.
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LCD display LCD screen containing all the icons and displays needed to show the status and allow user interaction with the oven. Rotary control Used to edit values and navigate through the configuration menus. It also has a multi-coloured LED display, which indicates the status of the oven.
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temperature firing has been chosen. This icon indicates that cooking has started. This icon indicates that an automatic or assisted manual cleaning cycle is being performed. This icon marks the setting mode. Allows you to display and edit the oven configuration parameters.
This icon indicates that the oven needs to be charged to continue the firing cycle. When it turns on and flashes, the door must be opened and charged to continue. If a self-cleaning process is being performed, the icon indicates that the detergent tablet must be inserted into the camera.
This colour indicates that you are cooking. This colour indicates that a cleaning or rinsing process is in progress. This colour has three different meanings. If the oven is cooking or washing, it indicates that the cooking is about to end: if there is 1 minute left to finish a time cooking or cleaning process, or, if a probe cooking is taking place, it will light up when 5ºC is missing for the final temperature.
For example, pressing the humidity button defined in Table 1 will flash the moisture display and you can adjust the humidity level. To leave a program in continuous mode, press the time button and turn the rotary knob counter clockwise until "Cont" appears on the time display. When you change any parameters of the user programs, the manual program is automatically selected to avoid modifying the data of the original program.
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Steam 30 a 130ºC 100% Table 4: Cooking modes in MyChef ovens. In order to prolong the life of your oven, it may automatically reduce the maximum cooking chamber temperature. In all cooking modes it is possible to humidify the chamber at will. To do this, press the HUMIDITY button until the blue humidity graph bars on the left side of the LCD display light up.
2.1.5 Cooking control 2.1.5.1 Cooking by temperature and time control The temperature and time control mode is the simplest, we simply choose a temperature and time by rotating the circular knob after pressing the TEMPERATURE and TIME buttons respectively. When the START/STOP button is pressed, the oven will start heating the chamber and stop after the set time has elapsed.
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the feed occurs, therefore the start of cooking, the temperature in the chamber is equal to the selected one. The oven automatically calculates the ambient temperature in the chamber and decides whether a heating or cooling process should be carried out depending on the desired value.
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Figure 8: Oven temperature. 2.1.5.3 Temperature cooking and core probe control The core probe controlled temperature control mode terminates cooking when the temperature in the food core is equal to the selected temperature. The chamber temperature is kept constant and equal to the value selected on the temperature display.
Example of cooking at 90º until the temperature in the heart of the food is 55º: Figure 12: Example. Cooking 90ºC in steam mode and core temperature 55ºC. Figure 13: Oven temperature (blue) and core probe (yellow). For this cooking mode, the multipoint probe or the sous-vide probe must be connected.
If we are editing a program that has not been saved, the temperature and other values will appear empty in the display screens and the LEDs will guide us to define all cooking parameters. The indicator will blink along with the segments of the display that represent the value associated with each parameter.
2.1.7.2 Delete To delete a phase, enter program editing mode. Briefly pressing the STEP button will take you from one phase to the next until you want to delete it. This will be deleted by pressing the "Convection”, “Combined" or "Steam" button (depending on the mode selected in the previous phase) whose light indicator will flash.
fan will continue to rotate. This way, and with the door open, the temperature of the chamber can be lowered in a few seconds. Once in this mode, the display for the camera probe shows the temperature of the camera probe continuously. To exit the quench mode, briefly press START/STOP. Note that in this mode, the convection fan works when the door is open.
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. Before manual cleaning, make sure you have all the necessary equipment. This material can be purchased from your local mychef dealer. Cleaning shower Spray gun for spraying cleaning products...
o Density 1.1 gr/cc. approx. o pH: >13 Then remove any solid food scraps/rests that may be inside the chamber manually. Do not use the manual shower faucet accessory to remove food scraps from the cooking chamber, remove them beforehand and prevent them from coming out of the drain. Do not place trays or grills during the washing process.
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Automatic cleaning programs are only enabled if the oven is equipped with this option. 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. It also includes a polishing additive for a perfect all-in-one finish.
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The automatic cleaning cycle can then be started. To do this, select one of the cleaning programs or rinse process on the control panel depending on the dirt in the chamber. To do this, press the CLEAN button and navigate through all four programs with the rotary knob.
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Figure 22: Housing for MyCare detergent. Before starting any cleaning or rinsing process, check that a temperature adjustment of the cooking chamber is not necessary. Before starting any cleaning process other than rinsing, make sure that the detergent tablet has been placed in the oven. To insert the detergent tablet into the chamber, it is essential to stop the fan.
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protective gloves. Open the door, remove all the pieces, close it and then press RINSE for perfect rinsing. If the cleaning process has been stopped without the cleaning process being completed automatically, it is mandatory to remove all undissolved pieces of detergent tablet from the chamber before proceeding with the final rinse.
Configuration menu To access the setup menu, first change the temperature value in the camera to "Off". Then simultaneously press the CONVECTION and START/STOP button. Figure 14: Access to the configuration menu. The following icon will light up when you confirm the entry in the setup menu. Figure 24: Configuration menu icon This menu is structured in 6 blocks of registers or parameters that contain all the oven information from the date and time settings to the firmware or serial number.
The firmware can also be updated here. To do this, with a FLASH memory connected to the USB port, press the START/STOP button for a few seconds. The new firmware must be located in the drive's DISTFORM®MYCHEF®FW folder and be called IMAGE. HEX.
2.3.1.2 Firmware Default Restores factory default values. To do this, enter the configuration mode as explained at the beginning of the section. Access the first parameter block, find register 3 and press the START/STOP button. The restoration will start automatically. All values shall be restored except for the oven type, the number of TSC channels, the self-cleaning type, the fan type and the statistical values of the oven.
Hours Date and time setting: Hour Minutes Date and time setting: Minute Seconds Date and time setting: Seconds Table 7: Block P2, Date and time. Each register allows you to query and edit values to enter the date and time in the oven. 2.3.3 Block P3, Configuration SAT This block 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...
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Use the HACCP data record to always check firings. See chapter 2.1.12. 2.3.3.2 Automatic steam extraction from the chamber In order to avoid burns or steam discomfort when opening the door, MyChef ovens can remove steam from the chamber at the end of the cooking process. Even when in convection mode, this extraction can be useful to eliminate steam that may be released from food in the cooking chamber.
2.3.4 Block P4, Probe This block allows you to consult the temperature readings of the oven at different points. Block Register Name Parameter Editable Probe 1 Multipoint probe. Point 1 Probe 2 Multipoint probe. Point 2 Probe 3 Multipoint probe. Point 3 Probe 4 Multipoint probe.
These statistical records primarily store values of operating time, cycle repetition, and the rate of use and wear of certain elements to monitor the useful life and maximize the efficiency of all oven components. 2.3.6 Block P6, Errors This block is a record of the last 7 errors that have occurred during the operation of the oven.
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ALARM WATER No water detected. Make sure that the water supply is connected correctly. ERROR WASHING No detergent/brightener detected. Not used. ERROR PROBE1 TEMP SENSOR External probe not connected. Check the external probe and CONNECTED connector. ERROR PROBE1 TEMP SENSOR SHORTED External short-circuited probe.
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Always run a self-cleaning or rinsing program when Error 26 occurs.
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