Care And Cleaning - AEG IKE42640KB User Manual

6.3 Öko Timer (Eco Timer)
To save energy, the heater of the cooking
zone deactivates before the count down timer
sounds. The difference in the operation time
depends on the heat setting level and the
length of the cooking operation.
6.4 Examples of cooking
applications
The correlation between the heat setting of a
zone and its consumption of power is not
Heat setting Use to:
1 Keep cooked food warm.
1 - 2 Hollandaise sauce, melt: butter, choco‐
late, gelatine.
1 - 2 Solidify: fluffy omelettes, baked eggs.
2 - 3 Simmer rice and milkbased dishes,
heat 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.
7 - 8 Heavy fry, hash browns, loin steaks,
steaks.
9 Boil water, cook pasta, sear meat (goulash, pot roast), deep-fry chips.
Boil large quantities of water. PowerBoost is activated.

7. CARE AND CLEANING

WARNING!
Refer to Safety chapters.
7.1 General information
• Clean the hob after each use.
• Always use cookware with a clean base.
linear. When you increase the heat setting, it
is not proportional to the increase of the
consumption of power. It means that a
cooking zone with the medium heat setting
uses less than a half of its power.
The data in the table is for guidance only.
Time Hints
(min)
as neces‐ Put a lid on the cookware.
sary
5 - 25 Mix from time to time.
10 - 40 Cook with a lid on.
25 - 50 Add at least twice as much liquid as
rice, mix milk dishes halfway through
the procedure.
20 - 45 Add a couple of tablespoons of liquid.
20 - 60 Use max. ¼ l of water for 750 g of po‐
tatoes.
60 - 150 Up to 3 l of liquid plus ingredients.
as neces‐ Turn halfway through.
sary
5 - 15 Turn halfway through.
• Scratches or dark stains on the surface
have no effect on how the hob operates.
• Use a special cleaner suitable for the
surface of the hob.
• Use a special scraper for the glass.
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