AEG HK312000MB - Manual (Page 17)

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 operates incorrectly.
HELPFUL HINTS AND TIPS
Cookware
• The bottom of the cookware must be as thick and flat as possible.
• Cookware made of enamelled steel and with aluminium or copper bottoms can cause
the colour change on the glass-ceramic surface.
Energy saving
• If it is possible, always put the lids on the cookware.
• Put cookware on a cooking zone before you start it.
• Stop the cooking zones before the end of the cooking time to use residual heat.
• The bottom of pans and cooking zones must have the same dimension.
The Examples of cooking applications
The data in the table is for guidance only.
Heat
setting
Use to: Time Hints
1 Keep warm the food you cooked as re-
quired
Put a lid on a cookware
1-2 Hollandaise sauce, melt: butter, choco-
late, gelatine
5-25
min
Mix from time to time
1-2 Solidify: fluffy omelettes, baked eggs 10-40
min
Cook with a lid on
2-3 Simmer rice and milkbased dishes, heat-
ing up ready-cooked meals
25-50
min
Add the minimum twice as much
liquid as rice, mix milk dishes part
procedure through
3-4 Steam vegetables, fish, meat 20-45
min
Add some tablespoons of liquid
4-5 Steam potatoes 20-60
min
Use max. ¼ l water for 750 g of po-
tatoes
4-5 Cook larger quantities of food, stews
and soups
60-150
min
Up to 3 l liquid plus ingredients
6-7 Gentle fry: escalope, veal cordon bleu,
cutlets, rissoles, sausages, liver, roux,
eggs, pancakes, doughnuts
as nec-
essary
Turn halfway through
7-8 Heavy fry, hash browns, loin steaks,
steaks
5-15
min
Turn halfway through
9 Boil large quantities of water, cook pasta, sear meat (goulash, pot roast), deep-fry chips
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