Hotpoint EG1000GX - Manual (Page 4)

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Oven Timer Operation
The oven timer (only ventilated Oven) offers you the
following features:
1. Time of Day
2. Automatic Cooking
3. Minute Minder
AUTOMATIC COOKING
The main oven can be controlled automatically.
GUIDANCE ON AUTOMATIC COOKING
1. Select foods which will take the same time to cook.
2. Set the oven timer so that the food has just finished
or is just about to finish cooking on your return to
the oven. This will ensure the food has not cooled
down and does not require reheating before serving.
3. Food should be as cold as possible when it goes
into the oven, ideally straight from the refrigerator.
Frozen meat and poultry should be thawed
thoroughly before it is put in the oven.
4. Warm food should never be placed in the oven if
there is to be a delay period. Stews prepared by
frying the meat and vegetables should be cooked
as soon as possible.
5. Dishes containing left-over cooked poultry or meat,
for example Shepherds Pie, should not be cooked
automatically if there is to be a delay period.
6. Stews and joints should be cooked by the long slow
method, so that the delay period is kept to a
minimum.
7. On warm days, to prevent harmful bacterial growth
in certain foods (ie poultry, joints, etc) the delayed
start should be kept to a minimum.
8. Wine or beer may ferment and cream may curdle
during the delay period, so it is best to add these
ingredients just before serving.
9. Foods which discolour should be protected by
coating in fat or tossing in water to which lemon
juice has been added, prior to placing food in the
oven.
10.Dishes containing liquid should not be filled too
full to prevent boiling over.
11.Food should be well sealed (but not airtight) in a
container to prevent the loss of liquid during
cooking. Aluminium foil gives a good seal.
12.Ensure food is cooked thoroughly before serving.
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CLOCKFACE
The timer incorporates a 24 hour
clock.
Ensure the correct time of day is
always set, before using your
cooker.
SYMBOLS
A 'bell' symbol will light up when
you select a Minute Minder
Period and will remain lit for the
period set.
At the end of the Minute Minder
Period, the timer will emit an
audible tone and the 'bell'
symbol will disappear.
The 'cookpot' symbol will light
up either:-
- When the timer is in manual
mode, or
- During the actual Cook Period.
'AUTO' will light up:-
- When the timer is first turned
on it will flash. It will go out when
a time of day is set or when the
timer is set to manual.
The 'AUTO' symbol will flash at the end of an Auto
Cooking programme to indicate that the programme
has finished.
(When the 'AUTO' symbol is flashing, to return
the oven to Manual operation, turn the oven
controls off, ensure that the correct time of day is
set, and press the "Manual" button - The 'AUTO'
symbol will go out).
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