Philips HD9171 [9/188] English

- To steam large-sized foods (e.g. whole chickens, corn cobs), you can remove the removable

bottoms from the medium steaming basket (2) and the large steaming basket (3) to create one

large basket.

Note: The maximum capacity of the steaming baskets is 1kg.

7 Put one or more steaming baskets on the drip tray. Place the baskets properly and make

sure they do not wobble (Fig. 9).

- You do not have to use all 3 steaming baskets.

- The steaming baskets are numbered from 1 to 3. You nd the numbers of the steaming baskets

on their handles. You can stack any larger basket on top of a smaller basket, but the baskets t

larger basket with the medium steaming basket (2) underneath, you can still place the soup

bowl to prepare sh, rice or soup on top (Fig. 12).

- When you take out the removable bottom from the medium steaming basket (2) to create a

larger basket with the small steaming basket (1) underneath, you can still place the large

steaming basket (3) on top.

8 Put the lid on the top steaming basket (Fig. 13).

Note: If the lid is not or not correctly placed on the steaming basket, the food does not get steamed

properly.

using the appliance

The steamer has two steaming modes:

, The default steaming time (20 minutes) appears on the control panel and the three steaming

basket buttons light up (Fig. 14).

2 Choose one of the two steaming modes and follow the required steps (see the sections for

the different steaming modes below).

Note: You cannot use both steaming modes at the same time.

Note: If you steam large quantities of food, stir the food halfway through the steaming process with a

kitchen utensil with a long handle. Make sure you wear oven mitts.

Note: During the rst 5 minutes of the steaming process, the turbo light lights up. This indicates that the

steamer uses extra power to heat up quickly.

3 When the steaming process has nished, the appliance beeps 5 times and then automatically