Hob - Helpful Hints And Tips - Electrolux EKC603600W User Manual

Heat settings
Control knob
0 Off position
Heat settings
1-9 (1 = lowest heat setting; 9=
highest heat setting)
1. Turn the control knob to a necessary
heat setting.
2. To complete the cooking process, turn
the control knob to the "0" position.

HOB - HELPFUL HINTS AND TIPS

Warning! Refer to "Safety information"
chapter.
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 discoloration on
glass ceramic surface.
Energy saving
• If possible, always put the lids on the
cookware.
Heat
set-
ting
1 Keep cooked foods warm
1-2 Hollandaise sauce, melt: butter, choco-
late, gelatine
1-2 Solidify: fluffy omelettes, baked eggs
2-3 Simmer rice and milkbased dishes,
heating up ready-cooked meals
3-4 Steam vegetables, fish, meat
4-5 Steam potatoes
4-5 Cook larger quantities of food, stews
and soups
6-7 Gentle fry: escalope, veal cordon bleu,
cutlets, rissoles, sausages, liver, roux,
eggs, pancakes, doughnuts
Function
Use to:
When a cooking zone operates, it
hums for a short time. This is typical of
all ceramic glass cooking zones and
does not show that the appliance oper-
ates incorrectly.
Residual heat indicator
The residual heat indicator comes on when
a cooking zone is hot.
Warning! Risk of burns from residual
heat!
• Put cookware on a cooking zone be-
fore you start it.
• Stop the cooking zones before the
end of the cooking time to use resid-
ual heat.
• The bottom of pans and cooking
zones must have the same dimen-
sion.
Examples of cooking applications
The data in the table is for guidance only.
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
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