Environmental protection and saving energy en ▶ Never place cookware containing water on the cooking compartment floor. The prolonged presence of moisture in the cooking compartment leads to corrosion. ▶ Always wipe away the condensation after cooking. Always allow the cooking compartment to cool down with the door closed after cooking at high temperatures. ▶ Do not keep moist food in the cooking compartment for a long time with the door closed. ▶ Do not store food in the cooking compartment. ▶ Take care not to trap anything in the appliance door. Fruit juice dripping from the baking tray leaves stains that cannot be removed.
▶ When baking very juicy fruit flans, do not pack too much on the baking tray. ▶ If possible, use the deeper universal pan. Using oven cleaner in a hot cooking compartment damages the enamel. ▶ Never use oven cleaner in the cooking compartment when it is still warm. ▶ Remove all food remnants from the cooking com- partment and the appliance door before you next heat up the appliance. If the seal is very dirty, the appliance door will no longer close properly during operation. This may dam- age the front of adjacent kitchen units. ▶ Keep the seal clean at all times. ▶ Never operate the appliance if the seal is damaged or missing. Sitting or placing objects on the appliance door may damage it.
▶ Do not place, hang or support objects on the appli- ance door. ▶ Do not place cookware or accessories on the appli- ance door. With certain models, accessories may scratch the door pane when closing the appliance door. ▶ Always push accessories fully into the cooking com- partment. If aluminium foil comes into contact with the door pane, it could cause permanent discolouration. ▶ Do not allow aluminium foil in the cooking compart- ment to come into contact with the door pane. 3 Environmental protection and saving energy 3.1 Disposing of packaging Open the appliance door as little as possible during operation. The packaging materials are environmentally compat- ible and can be recycled.
▶ Sort the individual components by type and dispose of them separately. Ў This maintains the temperature in the cooking com- partment and eliminates the need for the appliance to reheat. When baking multiple dishes, do so in succession or in parallel. 3.2 Saving energy If you follow these instructions, your appliance will use less energy. Only preheat the appliance if the recipe or the recom- mended settings tell you to do so. → "How it works", Page 17 Ў The cooking compartment is heated after baking the first dish. This reduces the baking time for the subsequent cakes. For longer cooking times, you can switch the appli- ance off 10 minutes before the cooking time ends.
Ў Not preheating the appliance can reduce the en- Ў There is sufficient residual heat to finish cooking ergy used by up to 20%. Use dark-coloured, black-coated or enamelled baking tins. the dish. Remove any accessories that are not being used from the cooking compartment. Ў Accessories that are not being used do not need to Ў These types of baking tin absorb the heat particu- larly well. be heated. Allow frozen food to defrost before cooking. Ў This saves the energy that would otherwise be re- quired to defrost it. 5