Cleaning and maintenance of
For reasons of hygiene and safety, the cooking zones must be kept clean. Grease stains and spilled food generate smoke when heated, and can even cause fire.
3.Wipe the ceramic hob clean with a damp cloth or kitchen roll. Tough stains can be removed by rubbing the stain hard with kitchen roll.
4.Wipe off remaining cleaning agent with a damp cloth.
5.Wipe with a dry cloth, if required.
Never use metal wool, metal sponges or other abrasive cleaning agents.
The ceramic glass hob
Immediately scrape off stains caused by food which has boiled over using the scraper supplied with the hob, spilled sugar, dishes containing sugar (jam, juice, etc.), melted plastic and aluminium foil while the ceramic hob is still hot. If the ceramic hob is allowed to cool it may become damaged. A dirty ceramic hob decreases the heat transfer between cooking zones and cookware.
After use the cooking zones should be wiped with a damp cloth with washing up liquid. For severe soiling you can follow these steps:
1.Remove stains etc., with the ceramic hob scraper.
2.Make sure that the ceramic hob has cooled down. Use a ceramic cleaning agent, such as vitroclen.
Make sure that the ceramic hob is dry when you heat it up again. Ceramic hobs can develop
Stainless steel surfaces
Clean the appliance after use with a soft cloth well wrung out in warm water, use a small amount of liquid detergent for stubborn soiling. Stainless steel parts may become straw coloured with use, use a proprietary stainless steel cleaner to remove this straw discolouration.
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