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Register your product and get support at www.philips.com/welcome HD4744 User manual...
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Do not use the appliance if the plug, the power cord, the inner pot, the sealing ring, or the main body is damaged. • Make sure that the damaged power cord is replaced by Philips, a service center authorized by Philips or similarly qualiÀ ed persons in order to avoid a hazard. •...
• If the appliance is used improperly or for professional or semi-professional purposes or if it is not used according to the instructions in this user manual, the guarantee becomes invalid and Philips refuses liability for any damage caused. Electromagnetic À elds (EMF) This appliance complies with all standards regarding electromagnetic À...
Product Overview Detachable inner lid Lid release button Control panel Main body Sealing ring Steam bracket Inner pot Detachable steam vent cap Outer lid Heating element Cooker handle Mounting brackets Mains plug Measuring cup Rice scoop...
Control panel Cooking time/Ready time * Indicator lights up when cooking time or ready time displays on the display screen. Preset * Press once to activate preset program Cancel/Keep warm * Press once to cancel operation * Press twice to activate keep warm program Display screen * display operations like menu number,...
For the first time use Take out all the accessories from inner pot wipe the cooker with soft cloth. Clean the inner pot and inner lid with 6-Steam menu. • Fill half pot of water in the inner pot. Close the outer lid and connect the mains plug to power supply.
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Rice, Quick Measure the rice with the measuring cup supplied. Rinse rice, put the washed rice in the inner pot, and fill in water. For example, if you’re cooking 6 cups of rice, add water to scale 6. Wipe off water outside of the inner pot and put it into the main body.
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Rice, Quick Press this button repeatedly to select 1-Plain rice or 2-Quick When the cooking is finished, the rice cooker beeps and turns into warm keeping automatically. BEEP Press Cancel to cease warm keeping, and unplug the power Press OK to confirm Starts cooking and the LED digit The rice cooker remains at warm keeping for 12 hours with time counting in 0.5 hour, after that it ceases...
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Congee/Thick Congee Put ingredients for the congee into the inner pot and add water according to the scale in the inner pot. Wipe off the water outside of the inner pot and put it into the main body. Press this button repeatedly to select 3-Congee or 4-Thick congee Starts cooking and the LED digits loop around, menu number displays after each 3 loops...
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Soup Put ingredients into the inner pot, add water as needed, and stir a little bit. Wipe off the water outside of the inner pot and put it into the main body. Press this button repeatedly to select 5-Soup Starts cooking and the LED digits loop around, menu number displays after each 3 loops. BEEP Press Cancel to cease warm keeping, and unplug the power Press OK to confirm...
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Steam Put 5 cups of water into the inner pot (you can adjust water level as needed). Put the steam basket into the inner pot. Put the food into the steam basket, and close the outer lid. Press this button repeatedly to select 6-Steam.
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Preset time for delayed cooking - Rice menus Press this button repeatedly to select menu you need Preset program activated, ready time starts counting down in 0.5 hours When counting down to the required cooking time for the selected menu, the cooking process starts automatically. Press Preset Adjust the ready time as Press OK...
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Preset time for delayed cooking - Soup, and Congee Press this button repeatedly to select menu you need The default ready time is displayed Adjust the ready time as needed Press OK to confirm Press Preset Press OK to confirm Preset program activated, ready time The default cooking time is displayed...
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Reheat Loosen the cooled rice and evenly distribute it in the inner pot. Pour water onto the rice. The quantity of the water depends on the amount of rice. For example: add 3/4 cup (with the measuring cup supplied) of water to reheat the amount of rice up to “RICE”...
Keep warm Under idle mode with LED digit displays “1”, press Cancel button twice to start the warm keeping process. Warm keeping time counts up in 0.5 hours. The rice cooker remains at warm keeping for 12 hours, after that it ceases warm keeping process with a long beep sound.
Clean after use Heating Heating Heating element element element Inside of the outer lid and the main body: Wipe with wrung out and damp cloth. Make sure to remove all the food residues stuck to the rice cooker. Surface of the outer lid and outside of the main body: Wipe with a cloth damped with soap water.
Troubleshooting If you encounter problems when using this cooker, check the following points before requesting service. If you cannot solve the problem, contact the Philips Consumer Care Center in your country. Problem Possible cause The light on the buttons There is a connection problem.
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Problem Possible cause Water spills out of the You added too much water to the appliance during cooking. rice. Inner pot is not well cleaned and Rice smells bad after leftover from previous cooking cooking. contaminates the rice. Can’t get to the desired You did not press Menu button cooking function Error message E5...
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Recipes Congee with Grains Ingredients Mixed grains: 165g Water: rice’s watermark at 4 Mixed grains: 330g Water: rice’s water mark at 7 Thick Congee Ingredients Rice: 0.5 cup Water: congee’s 0.5 level Pumpkin: 80g Procedure: 1 Cook pumpkins until soft, mesh the pumpkin and set aside. 2 Soak rice in water (room temp) for 30 minutes, then discard the soaked water.
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