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Steaming
1Measure 3 cups of water with the measuring cup and pour it into the inner pot.
The amount of water varies according to the quantity of food being steamed. It will take approx. 8 minutes for 3 cups of water to come to the boil.
2Put the food to be steamed on a plate or in the steam tray.
To ensure even steaming, the food should be spread out evenly and should not be piled up.
3Put the steam tray in the inner pot.
When you combine steaming and rice cooking, make sure you measure out an amount of rice that leaves enough room for the steam tray.The steamed food will be ready when the rice cooking process is finished.
4If you are using a separate plate, put it in the steam tray.
5Follow steps 7 to 10 in section ‘Cooking rice’.
,The cook light/rice light goes on and the steaming process starts.
,The steamed food will be ready when the rice cooking process is finished.
6Open the lid and carefully remove the steamed food from the plate or steam tray. Use a kitchen glove or a cloth, as the plate and the steam tray will be very hot.
Beware of the hot steam.
7To end the steaming, pull up the control lever, switch off the mains and remove the mains plug from the wall socket (Fig. 14).
Keeping warm
This mode allows you to keep your rice warm for a longer period of time.
When the rice cooking process is finished, the rice cooker automatically switches to the
We advise you to keep rice warm for not more than 12 hours so as to preserve its taste.
The cook light/rice light may go on occasionally to indicate that the temperature inside the rice cooker has become too low and the heating element has switched on to heat up the rice cooker to the right
To end the
The congee function does not have a keep warm mode.
Cleaning
Unplug the rice cooker before you start cleaning it.
Wait until the rice cooker has cooled down sufficiently before cleaning it.
To protect the
-use the inner pot for washing dishes;
-put vinegar in the pot.
1Take the steam tray and the inner pot out of the body of the appliance.
2Detach the steam vent cap from the outer lid by pulling it upwards (Fig. 19)
3To take the steam vent cap apart, twist and turn to unlock (Fig. 20).
4To reattach, push the two halves onto each other and twist and turn to close.
5To put the steam vent cap back into the vent hole of the outer lid, insert it into the hole and push it down firmly (Fig. 21)
