Helpful Hints And Tips - AEG HK624000XB User Manual

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5. HELPFUL HINTS AND TIPS

5.1 Cookware
Information about the cookware
• The bottom of the cookware must be
as thick and flat as possible.
• Cookware made of enamelled steel
and with aluminium or copper bot-
toms can cause the colour change on
the glass-ceramic surface.
5.2 Energy saving
How to save energy
Heat
set-
ting
1
1-2
1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
4-5
6-7
7-8
9
Use to:
Keep warm the food you
cooked
Hollandaise sauce, melt: butter,
chocolate, gelatine
Solidify: fluffy omelettes, baked
eggs
Simmer rice and milkbased
dishes, heating up ready-
cooked meals
Steam vegetables, fish, meat
Steam potatoes
Cook larger quantities of food,
stews and soups
Gentle fry: escalope, veal cor-
don bleu, cutlets, rissoles, saus-
ages, liver, roux, eggs, pan-
cakes, doughnuts
Heavy fry, hash browns, loin
steaks, steaks
Boil large quantities of water, cook pasta, sear meat (goulash, pot
roast), deep-fry chips
• If it is possible, always put the lids on
the cookware.
• Put cookware on a cooking zone be-
fore you start it.
• Stop the cooking zones before the
end of the cooking time to use residu-
al heat.
• The bottom of pans and cooking
zones must have the same dimension.
5.3 The Examples of cooking
applications
The data in the table is for guidance on-
ly.
Time Hints
as re- Put a lid on a cookware
quired
5-25 Mix from time to time
min
10-40 Cook with a lid on
min
25-50 Add the minimum twice as
min much liquid as rice, mix milk
dishes part procedure
through
20-45 Add some tablespoons of
min liquid
20-60 Use max. ¼ l water for 750 g
min of potatoes
60-150 Up to 3 l liquid plus ingredi-
min ents
as nec- Turn halfway through
essary
5-15 Turn halfway through
min