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Using the cooking zones
Cooking zone description
• The "Haloring" halogen zones comprise a circular quartz tube within which a tungsten
filament is "protected" by a halogen gas, along with a circular heating element. The
cooking zones ensure the immediate visibility of their operation and provide instant
heat.
We recommend you use these zones to cook dishes requiring fierce heat and for
rapidly heating up small quantities of food.
• The "Quickring" radiant zones comprise circular heating elements whose filament
turns red. Unlike halogen zones, radiant cooking zones take longer to turn red. We
recommend their use for simmering and slow-cooking.
Cooking zone control
Halogen zones and radiant zones are controlled by means of the corresponding control
knobs that ensure the correct supply of energy according to time: the cooking zones do
not heat constantly, but rather in pre-set sequences. This feature has many advantages:
the utmost reliability, extremely quick temperature rises and accurate control, ideal for
cooking over very low heat and for delicate dishes.
1-2 very low (melted chocolate, melted butter,
keeping delicate sauces warm, like hollandaise,
Béarnaise, etc.)
2-3 low (keeping food warm, scrambled eggs,
etc.)
4-5 moderate (simmering, etc.)
5-6 moderately high (to reduce sauces on
reaching boiling point, etc.)
6-7-8 high (soups, fried eggs, Wiener schnitzel,
cooking pasta and rice on reaching boiling point,
etc.)
9-10 fierce (steak, fish, omelettes, etc)
11-12 very fierce (to boil large quantities of
water; to fast boil water for cooking pasta, rice and
hard-boiled eggs, cooking greens, etc.)
What cookware to use
All types of cooking utensils can be used. However, we do recommend you use saucepans
with a thick and very flat base - such as copper and stainless steel sandwich bases or
heavy duty bases tapered slightly inward for example - and to avoid at all costs all cookware
with irregular rough bases which could scratch the glass surface. For best results, you
should match the size of the cookware to the diameter of the respective cooking
zone, indicated on the glass hob surface. This will ensure considerable savings on energy
and shorter cooking times. It is also preferable that you cover your cookware with a
suitable lid to speed up the rise in temperature.
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