Dear customer, Please read these operating instructions carefully. Pay particular attention to the section "Safety information" on the first few pages. Please retain these operating instructions for later reference. Pass them on to possible new owners of the appliance. The following symbols are used in the text: 1 3 2 Safety instructions Warning: Information concerning your personal safety. Important: Information on how to avoid damaging the appliance. Information and practical tips Environmental information 1. These numbers indicate step by step how to use the appliance. 2. ... 3. ... Printed on environmentally friendly paper. Thinking ecologically means acting ecologically ... 98 Contents Operating Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 The Key Features of Your Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Discription of the hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cooking zones and control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Digital Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cooking Zone Safety Cut-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 105 106 106 Before Using for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Initial Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Operating the Hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOUCH CONTROL Sensor Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Switching On the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Switching Off the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cooking Zone Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heat Setting Selection + and - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Switching off a Cooking Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Residual Heat Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Child-Safety Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 107 108 108 109 110 111 111 113 Uses, Tables and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Pans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Cleaning and Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Hob Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 What do I do if ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Rectifying faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Installation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regulations, Standards, Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Safety Instructions for the Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Electrical Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rating Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 123 124 125 126 128 Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 99 Operating Instructions 1 Safety The safety aspects of this appliance comply with accepted technical standards and the German Appliance Safety Law. However, as manufacturers we also believe it is our responsibility to familiarise you with the following safety instructions. Electrical Safety · The installation and connection of the new appliance must only be carried out by qualified personnel. · Repairs to the appliance are only to be carried out by approved service engineers. Repairs carried out by inexperienced persons may cause injury or serious malfunctioning. If your appliance needs repairing, please contact your local AEG customer center or your dealer. 3 Please follow these instructions, otherwise the warranty is void in the event of damages. · Flush-mounted appliances may only be operated following installation in suitable installation cabinets and workplaces which conform to the relevant standards. This ensures sufficient protection against contact for electrical units as required by the VDE [Association of German Electrical Engineers]. · If your appliance malfunctions or if fractures, cracks or splits appear: ­ switch off all cooking zones, ­ disconnect the hob from the electricity supply. Child Safety The cooking zones will become hot when you cook. Therefore, always keep small children away from the appliance. 100 Safety During Use · This appliance may only be used for normal cooking and frying in the home. It is not designed for commercial or industrial purposes. · Do not use the hob to heat the room. · Take care when plugging electric appliances into mains sockets near the hob. Connection leads must not come into contact with the hot surface. · Overheated fats and oils catch fire quickly. You should supervise cooking when preparing foods in fat or oil (e.g. chips). · Switch off the cooking zones after use. Safety When Cleaning · For safety reasons do not clean the appliance with a steam jet or high pressure cleaner. · Clean the hob in accordance with the maintenance and cleaning instructions in this manual. 101 To Avoid damaging your appliance · Do not use the hob as a work surface or for storage. · Do not operate the cooking zones when there is no pan or the pans are empty. · Glass ceramic is insensitve to temperature shock and very robust; however it is not unbreakable. Especially sharp and hard objects that fall on the cooking surface can damage it. · Do not use cast iron pans or pans with a rough, burred or damaged base. Scratching may occur if the pans are slid across the surface. · Do not place any pans on the hob frame. Scratching and damage to the paint may occur. · Make sure that no acidic liquids, e.g. vinegar, lemon or descaling agents, are spilt onto the hob frame, since these cause dull spots. · If sugar or a preparation with sugar comes into contact with the hot cooking zone and melts there it must be cleaned off immediately with a scraper while it is still hot. If it cools, the surface may be damaged when it is removed. · Keep all items and materials that can melt away from the glass ceramic surface, e.g. plastics, aluminium foil, or oven foils. If something of this nature should melt onto the glass ceramic surface, it must also be removed immediately using the scraper. 102 2 Disposal Disposing of the packaging material · All parts of the packaging can be fully recycled; foil and expanded polyurethane parts are appropriately identified. Please dispose of packaging material and, if appropriate, your old appliance properly. · Please follow the national and regional regulations and material identification (material separation, refuse collection, waste disposal sites). Information on disposal · The appliance must not be disposed of with household rubbish. · You can obtain information about collection dates or public refuse disposal sites from your local refuse department or council. · Warning! Before disposing of old appliances make them inoperable. Remove the mains lead. 103 The Key Features of Your Appliance · Glass ceramic cooking surface: The appliance has a glass ceramic cooking surface and 4 rapid response cooking zones. The particularly powerful radiant heater elements significantly shorten the amount of time taken for the zones to heat up. · Sensor fields: Your appliance is operated using TOUCH CONTROL sensor fields. · Cleaning: The advantage of the glass ceramic cooking surface and the sensor fields is their accessibility for cleaning. The smooth, flat surface is easy to clean (see section: "Cleaning and Care"). · On/Off sensor field: The "On/Off" sensor field provides the appliance with a separate mains switch. Touching this switches the power supply on or off completely. · Displays: Digital displays show information about selected heat settings, functions activated and any possible residual heat in the appropriate cooking zone. · Safety cut-out: A safety cut-out ensures that all cooking zones switch off automatically after a period of time if the setting has not been changed. · Keep warm setting: ! is the setting for keeping foods warm. · Residual heat indicator: An h for residual heat is shown in the display if the cooking zone becomes so hot that there is a risk of burning. · Child safety feature: This function makes it possible to lock the hob to prevent it being switched on unintentionally. 104 Discription of the hob Cooking zones and control panel Single-ring cooking zone 1200W Single-ring cooking zone 1800W Single-ring cooking zone 2300W Control panel Single-ring cooking zone 1200W Rear cooking zone selector Selected heat setting/residual heat display Front cooking zone selector Sensor field Heat setting selection "+" and "-" "On/Off" 105 Digital Displays The four display fields that are assigned to the four cooking zones display: ­ j, after being switched on and when the safety function causes an automatic cut-out, ­ = when a cooking zone is selected, ­ ! to ), depending on the selected heat setting, ­ a during automatic warm up, ­ h when there is residual heat, ­ f when there is a fault. 1 Cooking Zone Safety Cut-out If one of the cooking zones is not switched off after a certain time or if the heat setting is not changed, the corresponding cooking zone switches itself off automatically. h appears in the ring display for all rings that are switched on, and j after they have cooled down. The rings are switched off at: · Heat setting · Heat setting · Heat setting · Heat setting 1-2 3-4 5 6-9 after 6 hours after 5 hours after 4 hours after 1.5 hours 3 If one or more cooking zones switch off before the times indicated see section "What to do if ...". Cancelling the Safety Cut-out To cancel the activated safety cut-out the appliance must be switched off and then on again using the ON/OFF n sensor panel. After this the cooking zones are again ready for use. Switching Off for Other Reasons Liquids that boil over onto the control panel cause all cooking zones to switch off immediately. If you place a wet cloth on the control panel it has the same effect. In both cases the appliance has to be switched on again using the mains switch n after removing the liquid or cloth. 106 Before Using for the First Time Initial Cleaning Wipe the glass ceramic surface with a damp cloth. 1 Important: Do not use any caustic, abrasive cleaners! The surface could be damaged. Operating the Hob 3 When a cooking zone is switched on, it may hum briefly. This is a characteristic of all glass ceramic cooking zones and does not impair either the function or the life of the appliance. TOUCH CONTROL Sensor Field To operate the TOUCH CONTROL sensor field place your finger from above flat onto the required field until the appropriate displays come on or go out or the required function is carried out. 107 Switching On the Appliance The entire appliance is switched on using the "On/Off" n sensor field. Touch the "On/Off" sensor field for approx. 2 seconds. The digital displays will show j and the decimal point will flash. 3 Once the "On/Off" sensor field has been operated to switch on the appliance, one of the cooking zones must be selected within approx. 10 seconds using the cooking zone selection buttons. Otherwise the appliance switches off again for safety reasons. Switching Off the Appliance To switch off the appliance completely activate the "On/Off" n sensor field. Touch the "On/Off" sensor field for approx. 1 second. 3 When an individual cooking zone or the entire hob is switched off, any residual heat is shown with an h (for "Hot") in the digital display for the appropriate cooking zones. 108 Cooking Zone Selection To select the required cooking zone touch the corresponding sensor field for approx. one second. A zero with a decimal point will light up in the appr ...