The Key Features of Your Appliance
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The Key Features of Your Appliance•Ceramic glass Cooking Surface: the appliance has a VITRAMIC®
cooking surface made of glass ceramic and 4 fast heating cooking
zones. The particularly powerful radiant heater elements significantly
shorten the amount of time taken for the zones to heat up.
•Sensor Buttons: your appliance is operated using TOUCH CONTROL
sensor buttons.
•Cleaning: the advantage of the glass ceramic cooking surface and
the sensor buttons is their ease of cleaning. A wipe with a damp cloth
is often all that is required. (See Section: “Cleaning and Care“)
•Mains button: the appliance has a separate mains button. The “On/
Off“ button enables the electricity supply to the appliance to be com-
pletely switched off at the touch of a button.
•Displays: digital displays and indicators provide information on the
heat setting chosen, the functions that are activated and any heat
remaining in the cooking zone.
•Lock Button: in addition the appliance is fitted with a lock button.
The control panel can be completely locked using this button. In this
way inadvertent changes to the settings are prevented.
•Automatic Function: your appliance is equipped with an electroni-
cally controlled automatic warm up function on all four cooking
zones. The built-in function switches automatically from the maxi-
mum heat setting to the lower heat setting selected for further cook-
ing.
•Safety Switch: a safety switch automatically switches off all the
cooking zones when no changes have been made to the settings for a
set period of time.
•Keep Warm Setting: ! is the heat setting at which food can be kept
warm.
•Residual Heat Indicator: an h illuminates in the display if the cook-
ing zone is sufficiently hot to cause burns.
•Multipurpose Cooking Zone: the VITRAMIC® cooking surface is
equipped with a multipurpose/casserole zone. Depending on the set-
ting, it can be used as a round or oval cooking zone.
•Triple Ring Cooking Zone: in addition, the cooking surface has a tri-
ple ring cooking zone. This enables you to save energy.