Electrolux E4431-5 user manual Uses, Tables and Tips, Cooking table, Keeping, Melting, Boiling

28Uses, Tables and Tips

Uses, Tables and Tips

Cooking table

The information given in the following table is for guidance only.

Heat	Cooking-	suitable for	Cooking	Tips/Hints
setting	process		time
0		Residual heat, Off position
1	Keeping	Keeping cooked foods warm	as required	Cover
	food warm
	Melting	Hollandaise sauce,	5-25 mins.	Stir occasionally
1-2		melting butter, chocolate,
		gelatine
	Solidifying	Fluffy omelettes, baked eggs	10-40 mins.	Cook with lid on
	Simmer-	Simmering rice and milk-		Add at least twice as
		based dishes		much liquid as rice, stir
2-3	ing on low		25-50 mins.
		Heating up ready-cooked		milk dishes part way
	heat
		meals		through cooking
3-4	Steaming	Steaming vegetables, fish	20-45 mins.	With vegetables add only
				a little liquid (a few table-
	Braising	braising meat
				spoons)
				Use only a little liquid, e.
		Steaming potatoes	20-60 mins.	g.: max. ¼ l water for
4-5	Boiling			750 g potatoes
		Cooking larger quantities of	60-150 mins.	Up to 3 l liquid plus in-
		food, stews and soups		gredients
	Gentle	Frying escalopes, veal cor-
6-7		don bleu, cutlets, rissoles,	Steady frying	Turn halfway through
	Frying	sausages, liver, roux, eggs,		cooking
		pancakes, doughnuts
	Heavy	Hash browns, loin steaks,	5-15 mins.	Turn halfway through
7-8		steaks, Flädle (pancakes for
	Frying		per pan	cooking
		garnishing soup)
	Boiling
9	Searing	Boiling large quantities of water, cooking pasta, searing meat (goulash,
	Deep	pot roast), deep frying chips
	frying

3We recommend when boiling or searing foods using the highest heat setting at first and then letting foods requiring a longer cooking time finish cooking on the desired heat setting.

1Overheated fats and oils can ignite very quickly. Warning! Fire hazard!