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Cooking guidelines
9. Cooking guidelines
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Risk of fire!
Be careful when frying, as oil and grease heat very quickly and
can easily catch fire at extremely high temperatures.
10. Heat settings
Cooking Tips
• When food is beginning to boil, reduce the power setting.
• Using a lid will reduce cooking times and save energy by
retaining the heat.
• Minimize the amount of liquid or fat to reduce cooking times.
• Start cooking on a high setting and reduce the setting when
the food has heated through.
Heat setting
Suitability
1 – 2
• delicate warming for small amounts
of food
• melting chocolate, butter, and foods
that burn quickly
• gentle simmering
• slow warming
3 – 4
• reheating
• rapid simmering
• cooking rice
5 – 6
• pancakes
7 – 8
• sauteing
• cooking pasta
9/Boost
• stir-frying
• searing
• bringing soup to the boil, boiling water
