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To avoid burns and other injuries:
• Always heat water with the lid closed, otherwise
the automatic cut-out may not function.
Boiling water can then spray out over the edge.
• Hot steam clouds may be released.
The kettle also becomes very hot during use.
Wear oven mitts.
• Ensure that the appliance is standing securely
and vertically before switching it on.
Boiling water can cause an unstabile kettle to fall
over.
• This appliance is not intended for use by indivi-
duals (including children) with restricted physical,
physiological or intellectual abilities or deficien-
ces in experience and/or knowledge unless they
are supervised by a person responsible for their
safety or receive from this person instruction in
how the applianice is to be used.
• Children should be supervised to ensure that
they do not play with the appliance.
• Do not use an external timing switch or a separa-
te remote control system to operate the appliance.
Start-up
• Before taking the appliance into use, ensure that...
– the appliance, the plug and the power cable are
in good working order and...
– all packaging materials have been removed
from the appliance.
• Fill the appliance with water up to the MAX
mark and let it come to a full boil once – as des-
cribed in the next section.
• Pour this water away when the procedure has
been completed.
• Rinse the kettle out with clear water.
• Fill the appliance with water up to the MAX mar-
king on the scale
7
and then bring it to the boil.
Once again, pour this water away.
The appliance is now ready for use.
Boiling water
Danger!
Never place the electrical base
4
in close proxi-
mity to water – a potentially fatal risk!
Notice:
Always use freshly drawn water. Do not consume
any water that has already stood in the water boiler
for longer than one hour. Do not reboil water that
has cooled down. Always pour old water away.
Microbes could have formed in it!
• Lift the kettle off of the base when filling it!
• Press the unlocking button
2
and open the lid
1
.
• Hold the kettle upright while filling it.
Only in this way can you correctly read the mar-
kings on the scale
7
.
Fill the kettle...
– at least to the MIN mark, so that the appliance
does not overheat,
– no higher than the MAX mark, so that no boiling
water spills out.
• First close the lid
1
...
• then place the kettle on the base
4
so that it
stands straight on the base
4
.
• Now insert the plug into the power socket.
• Press the ON/OFF switch
3
down until it enga-
ges downwards.
• The control lamps
6
indicates that the applian-
ce is now heating up.
• The appliance switches itself off and the control
lamps
6
go out as soon as the water is on the
boil. The ON/OFF switch
3
is released up-
wards.
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