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What to keep in mind during use...
• This appliance operates with hot air. In general, you can prepare all meals that can also be
prepared with a conventional convection oven. It is suitable, among other things, for hot air
frying of French fries and potato wedges from fresh potatoes, for preparing frozen French
fries and other frozen convenience products and for preparing fi nely cut foods of all kinds
(fresh vegetables, fresh meat and fresh fi sh).
• Generally speaking, you do not have to preheat the appliance. When preparing meals, which
must be cooked “to perfection”, preheating the oven is still recommended in order to facili-
tate the determination of the exact cooking time. To preheat the appliance, use the temper-
ature control to set the desired cooking temperature and set the timer to more than three
minutes. Once the temperature control light turns off (after approximately 3 minutes), the
appliance has reached the set temperature. You can now prepare your meals.
• You generally do not require oil to prepare your meals. You can add oil to the foods you are
preparing in order to enhance their fl avour by spraying your foods with a small amount of oil
dispensed from an oil atomizer. You can also prepare marinated or breaded foods.
• Cooking times depend on the size and quantity of food and the cooking temperature. How-
ever, cooking times tend to be shorter than in a conventional oven. Start with short cooking
times and then gradually adjust them to suit your personal taste.
• Please observe the manufacturer’s specifi cations on time and temperature when preparing
frozen foods. To keep your meals crispy, never add fat to industrially produced frozen foods
when preparing them as they are generally par-fried. The cooking time may be somewhat
shorter. Before the specifi ed cooking time has expired, check whether your food has already
been cooked to completion.
• Please keep the following advice in mind when preparing home made French fries:
– Use waxy potatoes. Young potatoes have more water and must therefore be cooked for
longer. It is therefore possible that they are not quite as crispy.
– Wash the sliced potatoes in clean, cold water in order to remove excess starch in the
potatoes. IMPORTANT: Then dry the potatoes thoroughly. The French fries will become
crispier the less moisture there is.
– Thinner potato sticks turn out crispier.
– Spray the raw potatoes as needed with oil from the oil atomizer for crispier results.
– Parboiled potatoes cook more evenly! Cut the potatoes into sticks and parboil them for
approximately 5 minutes. This prevents your French fries from being crispy on the outside
and not cooked to completion on the inside.
• With some foods (e.g. French fries, potato wedges or similar), it is recommended that you
mix them from time to time to ensure they are evenly cooked. To do so, take the tray out of
the appliance and gently shake the food back and forth to mix it. Then put the tray back in the
appliance and continue the cooking process.
