Care And Cleaning - AEG HK854220XB User Manual

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Care and cleaning

Heat
setting
Keep cooked foods warm
1
1-3 Hollandaise sauce, melt: butter, choco-
late, gelatine
1-3 Solidify: fluffy omelettes, baked eggs
3-5 Simmer rice and milkbased dishes, heat-
ing up ready-cooked meals
5-7 Steam vegetables, fish, 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
The Power function is suitable for heating large quantities of water.
Information on acrylamides
According to the newest scientific knowledge, if you brown food (specially the one which
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.
Operating noises
If you can hear
• cracking noise: cookware is made of different materials (Sandwich construction).
• whistling: you use one or more cooking zones with high power levels and the cookware
is made of different materials (Sandwich construction).
• humming: you use high power levels.
• clicking: electric switching occurs.
• hissing, buzzing: the fan operates.
The noises are normal and do not refer to any defects.
Care and cleaning
Clean the appliance after each use.
Use to: Time
as re- Cover
quired
5-25 Mix occasionally
min
10-40 Cook with a lid on
min
25-50 Add at least twice as much liquid as
min 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 po-
min tatoes
60-150 Up to 3 l liquid plus ingredients
min
as re- Turn halfway through
quired
5-15 Turn halfway through
min
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