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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.
10. Cooking Guidelines
11. 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 – 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
