Hotpoint SEO100 User Manual

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User Instruction Book

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Hotpoint

Steam Oven

SEO100

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L i s t o f c o n t e n t s

Introduction Steam cooking

General remarks

Your oven, how it works Accessories

How to install your oven

Electrical connection Fitting

How to use your oven

Setting the time

Cooking immediately

Managing the water

Delayed cooking The timer Cooking times

How to maintain your oven Changing the light bulb? Troubleshooting ?

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I n t r o d u c t i o n

Dear Customer,

Thank you for buying a Hotpoint oven.

Our design staff have produced a new generation of kitchen equipment, to make everyday cooking a pleasure.

You will find that the clean lines and modern appearance of your Hotpoint oven blend in perfectly with your kitchen decor and form a perfect alliance of technological control, high quality cooking and aesthetic luxury.

Hotpoint also makes a range of products that will enhance your kitchen such as hobs, extractor hoods, built-in dishwashers, microwave ovens and refrigerators. There are models to complement your new Hotpoint oven.

Of course, we make every effort to ensure that our products meet all your requirements, and our Customer Relations department is at your disposal, to answer all your questions and to listen to all your suggestions.

Hotpoint is certain that by setting new standards of excellence by which comparisons can be made, customers will find that Hotpoint appliances offer a better and more exciting way of living.

Hotpoint

Steam cooking

General remarks

Used in accordance with the instructions, steam cooking has many advantages over other methods. Healthy and natural, steam cooking preserves the true taste of your food. A fine sauce flavoured with aromatic herbs can make all the difference in the world.

Steam cooking is odourless. There is no need to flavour the cooking water with herbs or spices, though - fish, for example, can be flavoured by placing it on a bed of seaweed, or EN

chicken on a bunch of rosemary or tarragon.

Meat, fish and vegetables can be cooked simultaneously.

Pasta, rice and purees can be reheated without drying out or sticking to the pan.

Cooking custards, flans, or milky rice dishes is facilitated by steam cookery. Covered in aluminium foil, the condensation will not reach the food.

There is no need to season prior to cooking, not even the cooking water. Meat can browned by a quick searing in hot butter on each side.

In comparison to boiling, steam cookery wins hands down.

It is quick: cooking starts immediately, whereas the cooking time of food in boiling water is only counted from the return of the water to the boil.

It is healthy: the hydro soluble vitamins and minerals are conserved because they barely dissolve in the condensed water that surrounds the food.

In addition, no fat is used in cooking.

Steam respects the food's own flavour. It adds neither flavour, nor the grilled or fried taste. It doesn't remove any flavour either, because there is no dilution in water.

The other side of the coin: it is not worth cooking a fish that isn't fresh, or vegetables that have been forgotten at the back of the refrigerator for a week: in this way - the results will be catastrophic !

Steam does not transfer tastes or odours, so you can save both time and money by cooking - side by side but not touching - a fish and a dessert, for example.

Steam is also highly suitable for blanching, defrosting and reheating, as well as keeping warm - especially sauces.

Meats such as poultry, veal, and pork should be lightly browned in very little oil prior to cooking, to render them appetisingly golden.

Then finish their cooking by steam.

Foods will cook more quickly and evenly if they are cut into pieces than if they are left whole.

Your oven, how it works

Display	Indicator
	Indicator
	panel
Water supply
tube
	Tank
Steam
generator
	Channel

The indicator panel in detail

	START
	STOP					SET
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1.	Steam cooking control		8.	Temperature display
2.	Defrosting button		9.	+/- controls for timer
3.	Start/Stop control		10.	Selector button
4.	Time and delay display		11.	Autonomous timer
5.	or timed period		12.	Water circuit problem signal
5.	Steam cooking symbol		13.	Defrosting symbol
6.	Cooking time symbol		14.	Display of the cooking period or delayed
7.	End of cooking time symbol			start time
			15. Control panel locked