4.1 Causes Of Damage; Environmental Protection And Saving En- Ergy - Bosch PBP6C Series User Manual

4 Causes of damage
Causes of damage to the hotplate
4.1 Causes of damage
WARNING ‒ Risk of electric shock!
Incorrect repairs are dangerous.
Repairs to the appliance should only be carried out
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by trained specialist staff.
Only use genuine spare parts when repairing the
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appliance.
If the power cord of this appliance is damaged, it
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must be replaced by the manufacturer, the manufac-
turer's Customer Service or a similarly qualified per-
son in order to prevent any risk.
Only use the hotplates when cookware has been
1.
placed on top of them. Do not heat up empty pots
or pans. The pot base will be damaged.
Only use pots and pans with an even base.
2.
Place the pot or pan centrally over the burner. This
3.
will optimise transfer of the heat from the burner
flame to the pot or ban base. The handle or grip is
not damaged, and greater energy savings are guar-
anteed.
Ensure that the hotplate burners are clean and dry.
4.
The burner cup and burner cover must be in exactly
the right position.
5 Environmental protection and saving energy
Help protect the environment by using your appliance
in a way that conserves resources and by disposing of
reusable materials properly.
5.1 Disposing of packaging
The packaging materials are environmentally compat-
ible and can be recycled.
Sort the individual components by type and dispose
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of them separately.
Information about current disposal methods are
available from your specialist dealer or local author-
ity.
5.2 Saving energy
If you follow these instructions, your appliance will use
less energy.
Choose a burner roughly the same size as your pan.
Centre the cookware on the hob.
Use cookware whose base diameter is the same dia-
meter as the hotplate.
Tip: Cookware manufacturers often give the upper
diameter of the saucepan. It is often larger than the
base diameter.
¡ Unsuitable cookware or incompletely covered cook-
ing zones consume a lot of energy.
If you operate your appliance with a gas cylinder,
5.
stand the gas cylinder upright. If a gas bottle is
used when it is laying on its side, internal parts of
the appliance may be damaged and this may result
in a gas leak.
Do not place hot cookware on the display or the
6.
frame.
Salt, sugar and sand may cause scratches on the
7.
glass. Do not use the hotplate as a work surface,
kitchen worktop or storage space.
Damage may occur if hard or pointed objects fall on
8.
the hotplate. Do not store any objects on the hot-
plate.
Sugar or food with a high sugar content may dam-
9.
age the hotplate. Remove boiled-over food immedi-
ately with a glass scraper. Caution: The scraper is
pointed.
The area around the appliance must be clean and
10.
dry. Always keep the appliance and the area around
it clean and dry after cleaning. Ensure that there are
no cleaning materials, cleaning products or water
marks on any of the appliance's surfaces.
Lyes or similar chemicals which get into the gas
11.
components below the hotplates or on the burner
seat may lead to problems with the gas compon-
ents. When removing food remnants or residual li-
quids from the burner seat, do not use lye or simil-
arly effective chemicals.
Cover saucepans with suitable lids.
¡ Cooking without a lid consumes far more energy.
Lift the lid as infrequently as possible.
¡ When you lift the lid, a lot of energy escapes.
Using a glass lid
¡ You can see into the pan through a glass lid
without having to lift it.
Use cookware suited to the quantity of food.
¡ Large items of cookware containing little food need
more energy to heat up.
Cook with little water.
¡ The more water in cookware, the more energy is re-
quired to heat it up.
Turn down to a lower heat setting early on. Use a suit-
able ongoing cooking setting to continue cooking.
¡ If you continue cooking with an ongoing cooking
setting that is too high, you'll waste energy
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