AEG HKH81700XB User Manual

EN User Manual

Hob

HKH81700XB

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CONTENTS

1. SAFETY INFORMATION.................................................................................................3

2. CONDITIONS OF USE....................................................................................................4

3. SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS................................................................................................ 4

4. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION.............................................................................................. 6

5. DAILY USE........................................................................................................................8

6. HINTS AND TIPS........................................................................................................... 14

7. CARE AND CLEANING................................................................................................ 15

8. TROUBLESHOOTING...................................................................................................16

9. INSTALLATION............................................................................................................. 18

10. TECHNICAL INFORMATION.....................................................................................20

11. ENERGY EFFICIENCY.................................................................................................21

12. WARRANTY ................................................................................................................ 22

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CUSTOMER CARE AND SERVICE

Always use original spare parts.
When contacting our Authorised Service Centre, ensure that you have the following
data available: Model, PNC, Serial Number.
The information can be found on the rating plate.

Warning / Caution-Safety information
General information and tips
Environmental information

Subject to change without notice.

1. SAFETY INFORMATION

Before the installation and use of the appliance,
carefully read the supplied instructions. The
manufacturer is not responsible if an incorrect
installation and use causes injuries and damages. Always
keep the instructions with the appliance for future
reference.

1.1 Children and vulnerable people safety

• This appliance can be used by children aged from 8

years and above and persons with reduced physical,
sensory or mental capabilities or lack of experience
and knowledge if they have been given supervision or
instruction concerning use of the appliance in a safe
way and understand the hazards involved.

• Do not let children play with the appliance.

• Keep all packaging away from children.

Keep children and pets away from the appliance when

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it operates or when it cools down. Accessible parts are
hot.

• If the appliance has a child safety device, we

recommend you activate it.

• Cleaning and user maintenance shall not be made by

children without supervision.

• Children of less than 3 years should be kept away

unless continuously supervised.

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1.2

General Safety

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The appliance and its accessible parts become hot
during use. Do not touch the heating elements.

• Do not operate the appliance by means of an external

timer or separate remote-control system.

• Unattended cooking on a hob with fat or oil can be

dangerous and may result in fire.

• Never try to extinguish a fire with water, but switch off

the appliance and then cover flame e.g. with a lid or a
fire blanket.

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• Do not store items on the cooking surfaces.

• Metallic objects such as knives, forks, spoons and lids

should not be placed on the hob surface since they
can get hot.

• Do not use a steam cleaner to clean the appliance.

• After use, switch off the hob element by its control

and do not rely on the pan detector.

• If the glass ceramic surface / glass surface is cracked,

switch off the appliance to avoid the possibility of
electric shock.

• If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by

the manufacturer, an authorized Service or similarly
qualified persons in order to avoid a hazard.

2. CONDITIONS OF USE

This appliance is intended to be used in
household and similar applications such
as:

• Farm houses

3. SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

3.1 Installation

WARNING!

Only a qualified person must
install this appliance.

• Remove all the packaging.

• Do not install or use a damaged
appliance.

• Obey the installation instruction
supplied with the appliance.

• Keep the minimum distance from the
other appliances and units.

• Always be careful when you move the
appliance because it is heavy. Always
wear safety gloves.

• Seal the cut surfaces with a sealant to
prevent moisture to cause swelling.

• Protect the bottom of the appliance
from steam and moisture.

• Do not install the appliance adjacent
to a door or under a window. This
prevents hot cookware to fall from the
appliance when the door or the
window is opened.

• By clients in serviced apartments,
holiday apartments and other
residential type environments.

• If the appliance is installed above
drawers make sure that the space,
between the bottom of the appliance
and the upper drawer, is sufficient for
air circulation.

• The bottom of the appliance can get
hot. Make sure to install a non­combustile separation panel under
the appliance to prevent access to the
bottom.

• Make sure that the ventilation space
of 2 mm, between the worktop and
the front of the below unit, is free.
The warranty does not cover damages
caused by the lack of an adequate
ventilation space.

3.2 Electrical Connection

WARNING!

Risk of fire and electrical
shock.

• All electrical connections should be
made by a qualified electrician.

• The appliance must be earthed.

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• Before carrying out any operation
make sure that the appliance is
disconnected from the power supply.

• Make sure that the electrical
information on the rating plate agrees
with the power supply. If not, contact
an electrician.

• Make sure the appliance is installed
correctly. Loose and incorrect
electricity mains cable or plug (if
applicable) can make the terminal
become too hot.

• Use the correct electricity mains
cable.

• Do not let the electricity mains cable
tangle.

• Make sure that a shock protection is
installed.

• Use the strain relief clamp on the
cable.

• Make sure the mains cable or plug (if
applicable) does not touch the hot
appliance or hot cookware, when you
connect the appliance to the near
sockets

• Do not use multi-plug adapters and
extension cables.

• Make sure not to cause damage to
the mains plug (if applicable) or to the
mains cable. Contact our Authorised
Service Centre or an electrician to
change a damaged mains cable.

• The shock protection of live and
insulated parts must be fastened in
such a way that it cannot be removed
without tools.

• Connect the mains plug to the mains
socket only at the end of the
installation. Make sure that there is
access to the mains plug after the
installation.

• If the mains socket is loose, do not
connect the mains plug.

• Do not pull the mains cable to
disconnect the appliance. Always pull
the mains plug.

• Use only correct isolation devices: line
protecting cut-outs, fuses (screw type
fuses removed from the holder), earth
leakage trips and contactors.

• The electrical installation must have
an isolation device which lets you
disconnect the appliance from the
mains at all poles. The isolation
device must have a contact opening
width of minimum 3 mm.

3.3

Use

WARNING!

Risk of injury, burns and
electrical shock.

• Remove all the packaging, labelling
and protective film (if applicable)
before first use.

• Use this appliance in a household
environment.

• Do not change the specification of
this appliance.

• Make sure that the ventilation
openings are not blocked.

• Do not let the appliance stay
unattended during operation.

• Set the cooking zone to “off” after
each use.

• Do not rely on the pan detector.

• Do not put cutlery or saucepan lids on
the cooking zones. They can become
hot.

• Do not operate the appliance with
wet hands or when it has contact with
water.

• Do not use the appliance as a work
surface or as a storage surface.

• If the surface of the appliance is
cracked, disconnect immediately the
appliance from the power supply. This
to prevent an electrical shock.

• Users with a pacemaker must keep a
distance of minimum 30 cm from the
induction cooking zones when the
appliance is in operation.

• When you place food into hot oil, it
may splash.

WARNING!

Risk of fire and explosion

• Fats and oil when heated can release
flammable vapours. Keep flames or
heated objects away from fats and oils
when you cook with them.

• The vapours that very hot oil releases
can cause spontaneous combustion.

• Used oil, that can contain food
remnants, can cause fire at a lower
temperature than oil used for the first
time.

• Do not put flammable products or
items that are wet with flammable
products in, near or on the appliance.

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WARNING!

Risk of damage to the
appliance.

• Do not keep hot cookware on the
control panel.

• Do not let cookware to boil dry.

• Be careful not to let objects or
cookware fall on the appliance. The
surface can be damaged.

• Do not activate the cooking zones
with empty cookware or without
cookware.

• Do not put aluminium foil on the
appliance.

• Cookware made of cast iron,
aluminium or with a damaged bottom
can cause scratches on the glass /
glass ceramic. Always lift these
objects up when you have to move
them on the cooking surface.

• This appliance is for cooking
purposes only. It must not be used for
other purposes, for example room
heating.

3.4 Care and cleaning

• Clean regularly the appliance to
prevent the deterioration of the
surface material.

• Deactivate the appliance and let it
cool down before you clean it.

• Disconnect the appliance from the
electrical supply before maintenance.

• Do not use water spray and steam to
clean the appliance.

• Clean the appliance with a moist soft
cloth. Only use neutral detergents. Do
not use abrasive products, abrasive
cleaning pads, solvents or metal
objects.

3.5 Disposal

WARNING!

Risk of injury or suffocation.

• Contact your municipal authority for
information on how to discard the
appliance correctly.

• Disconnect the appliance from the
mains supply.

• Cut off the mains cable and discard it.

3.6 Service

• To repair the appliance contact an
Authorised Service Centre.

• Use original spare parts only.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

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4.1 Cooking surface layout

Induction cooking zone

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Control panel

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Flexible induction cooking zone

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4.2 Control panel layout

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Symbol Function Comment

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ON / OFF To activate and deactivate the hob.

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4.3 Cooking zone panel

To see the cooking zone panel tap a cooking zone symbol in control panel.

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- The cooking zone oper-

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- Status bar To show shortcuts and show the Reminder

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Position of the zone To show the position of the zone. To activate

the zone touch the symbol.

To change the heat setting or set additional

ates

Menu To select additional functions and settings.

Lock Now To lock the control panel.

Reminder To activate the function and show the time.

Pro Cook To activate and deactivate the function.

PAUSE To activate the function.

functions touch the symbol.

time. To see the shortcuts activate them in
the shortcuts menu.

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Sym­bol

- Cooking zone symbol To show the heat setting.

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- Control bar To set the heat setting.

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4.4 Residual heat

WARNING!

There is a risk of burns from
residual heat.

5. DAILY USE

WARNING!

Refer to Safety chapters.

Function Comment

Power Boost / Automatic
Heat Up

CountUp Timer To show how long the cooking zone oper-

Count Down Timer To show the remaining cooking time.

Menu To select additional functions and settings

Power Boost / Automatic
Heat Up

To show that the function operates. Timer
counts down until the function deactivates.

ates.

for the zone.

To activate and deactivate the function.

The induction cooking zones make the
heat necessary for cooking process
directly in the bottom of the cookware.
The glass ceramic is heated by the heat
of the cookware.

5.2 Activating and

deactivating

5.1 First activation

When you activate the hob for the first
time first set the language. After you set
the language the hob activates some tips
and tricks telling you how to operate it.
To change the screens slide your finger
to the left or to the right.

If you want to skip the tips tap Done. You
can access the tips later using the Menu.

Touch
deactivate the hob.

for 1 second to activate or

5.3 General information

The hob control panel is a touch area.
You operate the hob by taping the
symbols, scrolling the menus and sliding
control bars and screens. The hob
recognises the touch when you release
the finger the control panel.

Read the information displayed on the
screen. The hob gives you hints and
commands to make the operation easy.

CAUTION!

Do not place hot cookware
on the control panel. There
is a risk of damage to the
electronic.

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5.4 Menu functions

Use symbol: to access and change
settings of the hob. You can also activate
and deactivate functions and crate
shortcuts. The table shows basic menu
functions. To access a function tap it.
Choose a setting you want and confirm
your selection.

More Options

Lock Now

Pro Cook

PAUSE

Reminder

Menu Tips and Tricks

Shortcuts

Safety

Language

Display

Sound

Service

5.5 AUTO OFF

The function deactivates the hob
automatically if:

• all cooking zones are deactivated,

• you do not set the heat setting after
you activate the hob,

• you spill something or put something
on the control panel for more than 10
seconds (a pan, a cloth, etc.). An
acoustic signal sounds and the hob
deactivates. Remove the object or
clean the control panel.

• the hob gets too hot (e.g. when a
saucepan boils dry). Let the cooking
zone cool down before you use the
hob again.

• you use incorrect cookware or there is
no cookware on the zone. The zone
colour changes to grey. The flexible
induction cooking zone deactivates
after 10 seconds and the induction
zones deactivate after 2 minutes.

• you do not deactivate a cooking zone
or change the heat setting. After
some time, the hob deactivates.

The relation between the heat setting
and the time after which the hob
deactivates:

Heat setting The hob deacti-

vates after

1 - 3 6 hours

4 - 7 5 hours

8 - 9 4 hours

10 - 14 1.5 hour

Deactivate the hob and activate it again
or touch the zone symbol to remove the
AUTO OFF.

5.6 Changing the language

To change the language touch in the
control panel. Choose Menu from the
list. Than select the language menu and
the correct language. Tap the language
to confirm the selection.

5.7 Using the cooking zones

Put the cookware directly on the crosses
or on the flexible cooking zone.
Induction cooking zones adapt to the
dimension of the bottom of the
cookware automatically. Tap the cooking
zone symbol to open the cooking zone
panel.

5.8 The heat setting

Touch the symbol of the zone you want
to use. The cooking zone panel appears.

You can change the heat setting by:

• touching the control bar at the correct
heat setting,

• sliding your finger along the control
bar. Release your finger when you
reach the correct heat setting.

• touching the zone symbol and sliding
your finger to the right to increase or
to the left to decrease the heat
setting.