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Cooking guidelines
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Risk of fire!
Be careful when frying, as oil and grease heat very quickly. Oil and
grease can easily catch fire at extremely high temperatures even.
9. Cooking guidelines
10. Heat settings
Cooking tips
• When food comes to the boil, reduce the power setting.
• Using a lid will reduce cooking times and save energy by
retaining the heat.
• Minimise 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 – 3
• delicate warming for small amounts of
food
• melting chocolate, butter, and foods
that burn quickly
• gentle simmering
• slow warming
4 - 6
• reheating
• rapid simmering
• cooking rice
7 – 9
• pancakes
10 – 12
• sauteing
• cooking pasta
13 - 14 / B
• stir-frying
• searing
• bringing soup to the boil, boiling water
