• To avoid damaging the appliance, you
should ensure that the base always contains
at least 0.25 litres of liquid, so that sufficient
steam can be produced and the pan doesn't
overheat.
7. Fill the base with water or stock.
8. Place the lid 2 on the base 8.
9. Push down lever 4. Locks 6 are drawn
inwards and seal the cooker.
6.2 Cooking
1. Choose the desired cooking setting on the
pressure control valve 9:
1:
Steam
cooking:
pressure control valve will
display a white ring.
2: Fast cooking: the pressure
control valve will display two
white rings.
Please note: Steam cooking uses 0.6 bar
(600 hPa) and fast cooking uses 1.1 bar
(1000 hPa) pressure.
2. Place the pressure cooker on a hob which is
a similar size to the base of the pressure
cooker.
Caution! The hob should
not be bigger than the
base
of
the
cooker.
Otherwise
could lead to too much
heat rising up the sides of the base, thereby
damaging the plastic handles.
3. Turn the hob onto the highest setting.
As soon as there is pressure in the base, the
red safety valve 5 will move upwards
thereby locking the lid.
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the
pressure
this
Please note: At the beginning of the
cooking time, a little steam may emerge from
the safety valve.
4. As soon as steam escapes from steam
outlet 10, reduce the energy supply to about
1/3 so that only a very little steam escapes.
This is when the "cooking time" starts.
Please note: When there is hardly any
steam coming out, the pressure cooker is
cooking the food quickly and saving energy.
6.3 Steam cooking
The gentlest way to prepare food, especially
vegetables, is by using the steam cooking setting.
When food is cooked using this method it only
comes into contact with hot steam and scarcely
with the liquid water. This prevents minerals,
vitamins and other important elements in the food
from being lost during cooking.
Steam cooked vegetables also have a more
intensive taste than when they are cooked using
the normal method.
1. Pour in at least 0.25 l water
2. Lay the tripod 12 inside the base 8.
3. Place the food to be cooked in the steamer
insert 11.
4. Stand the steamer insert 11 on the tripod
12.
5. Continue with cooking as explained in
"6.2 Cooking" on page 24.