Environmental Protection; Saving Of Energy; Cooking Guidelines - Pkm IF 2 Bedienungsanleitung

4. Environmental protection

❖ Use proper cookware for cooking.
❖ Cookware with thick, flat bases can save up to1/3 of electric energy. Remember
to cover your cookware if possible; otherwise you will use four times as much
energy!
❖ Match the size of the cookware to the surface of the heating plate. A cookware
should never be smaller than a heating plate.
❖ Ensure that the heating plates and the cookware are clean.
❖ Soils prevent heat-transfer. Repeatedly burnt-on spillages can often be removed
by products, which will damage the environment, only.
❖ Do not uncover the cookware too often (a watched pot-content will never boil!).
❖ Decrease the power level as soon as the desired cooking temperature is reached.
❖ Use pot-lids to shorten cooking times and save energy.
❖ Minimize the amount of cooking liquids or fat/oil to shorten cooking times.
❖ Select a high-power level, when you start cooking. Reduce the power level, when
your food has been heated up.
❖ For long cooking times: Switch off the cooking zones 5 to 10 minutes before you
will finish cooking. This saves up to 20 % of energy.
❖ You can use the residual heat of the cooking zones for saving energy when
starting a new cooking procedure on a cooking zone which is still warm / hot.
❖ Do not install the appliance near of refrigerators / freezers. Otherwise the energy
consumption increases unnecessarily.

5. Cooking guidelines

WARNING! Be very careful when frying, because oil and fat heat up
very fast especially when operating a high-power level. Extremely hot oil
and fat inflame spontaneously and represent a serious fire risk.
WARNING! NEVER try to extinguish a fire with water, but switch off
the appliance and then cover flame e.g. with a lid or a fire blanket.
Caution! Cooking utensils may become hot because of the heat
transferred by the heated food. Potholders or oven gloves may be needed
to handle such utensils.
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