Smeg DUCO4SS - Manual (Page 15)

Instructions for the user
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LOWER HEATING ELEMENT
Keep the oven door closed during cooking.
This function is recommended when blind-baking pastry
or cooking pizza. It may also be used to finish off quiches
or flans to ensure the base pastry is properly cooked.
Preheating is recommended in particular when baking
cakes and pizza.
How to cook?
SMALL OVEN: Set the small oven function knob on the
symbol.
VENTILATED HEATING ELEMENT
UPPER HEATING ELEMENT + VENTILATED HEATING
ELEMENT
Keep the oven door closed during cooking.
Dishes can be cooked on one or several shelves using
the fan oven. The hot air circulation produces an even
cooking temperature. Fan oven cooking is recommended
for all types of dishes.
How to cook?
In fan-assisted mode preheating should be carried out at
30/40°C above the cooking temperature. This
considerably shortens cooking times and reduces power
consumption, as well as giving better cooking results.
Set the function knob on the / symbol and use the
thermostat knob to select the temperature between 50°C
and 250°C.
Fan oven cooking generally requires a lower temperature
than conventional cooking.
The fan oven has even heating on all runner positions.
This means that batches of the same food can be cooked
in the oven at the same time.
However, the top shelf may brown slightly quicker than
the lower one. This is quite usual. There is no mixing of
flavours between dishes.