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Note: To prevent burns, wear oven mitts when you remove the lid. Remove the lid slowly and away from

you. Let condensation drip off the lid into the steaming basket.

Note: Use a kitchen utensil with long handles to remove the food from the steaming baskets.

5 When you remove a steaming basket, let condensation drip off the basket in the underlying

steaming basket or the drip tray.

6 Remove the plug from the wall socket and let the steamer cool down completely before you

remove the drip tray.

7 Empty the water tank after each use by tilting the base backwards and pouring the water

from the back of the base (Fig. 3).

Be careful when you remove the drip tray and empty the water tank, because the water in both

of them may still be hot, even if the other parts of the appliance have cooled down already.

Note: If the water runs out during steaming, the ‘water tank empty’ light and the light ring start ashing

to indicate that you need to rell the water tank (Fig. 15).

Note: If you want to steam more food and need more water, you can add small quantities of water

through the water rell spout to rell the water tank.

Note: The appliance automatically goes into the standby mode if it has not been used for 2 minutes.

Press the start/stop button to activate the control panel again.

Manual mode

Use this mode to activate the steamer quickly.

1 Turn the timer adjustment knob to the left or right to select the required steaming

time (Fig. 16).

2 Press the start/stop button to start steaming (Fig. 17).

, The steaming process starts. The light ring and the turbo light ash slowly and the timer

counts down the set steaming time (Fig. 18).

, When the set steaming time has elapsed, the appliance beeps and switches to the keep-warm

mode. The keep-warm light goes on (Fig. 19).

Meal mode

Use this mode to prepare a complete meal with different preparation times for each steaming

basket. The appliance automatically starts to steam the food in the steaming basket with the longest

preparation time and beeps to let you know when to place the steaming basket or baskets with a

shorter preparation time. The last steaming basket has the lowest preparation time.

Note: If you want to prepare a meal without using all three steaming baskets, only set the timer for the

steaming baskets you are using.

1 Press steaming basket button 1, 2 or 3 to select one of the baskets (Fig. 20).

, The corresponding light starts to ash.

2 Turn the timer adjustment knob to the left or right to select the required steaming

time (Fig. 16).

3 Press the steaming basket button you are setting the time for again to conrm (Fig. 21).

, The dot below the steaming basket button goes on to indicate that the time has been set.

4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have set the time for all steaming baskets you want to use.

5 Put the ingredients in the steaming baskets. When you use all three steaming baskets, put the

food with the longest preparation time in the smallest steaming basket (1), the food with the

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