This document is a user manual for the AEG CME565000M Microwave Combi-Oven, providing comprehensive information on its functions, safety, usage, and maintenance.
Function Description
The AEG CME565000M is a versatile microwave combi-oven designed for household use, offering a range of cooking functions to simplify meal preparation. It combines conventional oven heating with microwave capabilities, allowing for diverse cooking methods.
Heating Functions:
- Microwave: Heats food directly, suitable for pre-prepared meals, drinks, defrosting meat/fruit, and cooking vegetables/fish.
- True Fan Cooking: Ideal for baking on up to two shelf positions simultaneously and drying food. It recommends setting the temperature 20-40°C lower than conventional cooking.
- Pizza Setting: Specifically designed for baking pizza, aiming for intensive browning and a crispy bottom.
- Conventional Cooking (Top / Bottom Heat): For baking and roasting food on a single shelf position.
- Bottom Heat: Used for baking cakes with a crispy bottom and preserving food.
- Defrost: Defrosts food (vegetables and fruit), with defrosting time dependent on the amount and size of the frozen food.
- Grilling: For grilling flat food and toasting bread.
- Fast Grilling: For grilling large quantities of flat food and toasting bread.
- Turbo Grilling: For roasting larger meat joints or poultry with bones on one shelf position, and for making gratins and browning.
- Microwave Combi: Combines microwave function with any of the heating functions for faster cooking and browning.
Clock Functions:
- Time of Day: Displays and allows setting/changing the current time when the oven is off.
- Duration: Sets how long the oven operates, active only when a heating function is set.
- End: Sets when the oven turns off, active only when a heating function is set.
- Time Delay: Combines Duration and End functions for delayed cooking.
- Minute Minder: Sets a countdown timer that does not affect oven operation and can be set at any time, even when the oven is off.
Additional Functions:
- Child Lock: Prevents accidental activation of the oven.
- Function Lock: Locks temperature and time settings of a running oven function to prevent accidental changes.
- Residual Heat Indicator: Shows if the oven temperature is above 40°C after being turned off.
- Automatic Switch-off: For safety, the oven turns off automatically after a period if no temperature changes are made during an active function.
- Cooling Fan: Operates automatically to keep oven surfaces cool during and after operation.
Important Technical Specifications
- Model: CME565000M
- Power Settings (Microwave): Changes in 100 Watt steps. Examples include 1000W for heating liquids, 900W for searing, 800W for cooking vegetables, 700W for defrosting/heating frozen meals, 600W for heating one-plate meals, 500W for simmering stews, 400W for continuing to cook meals, 300W for delicate food/baby food, 200W for defrosting meat/fish, and 100W for defrosting cheese/cream/butter/fruit/cakes/bread.
- Electrical Connection: Requires a qualified electrician for installation. The appliance must be earthed, and parameters on the rating plate must match mains power supply. It includes an electric cooling system.
- Internal Lighting: Uses a 300°C heat-resistant halogen lamp for household use only.
Usage Features
- Retractable Knobs: Knobs can be pressed in for a flush control panel when not in use.
- Display: Features indicators for timer/temperature/microwave power, heat-up and residual heat, microwave mode, core temperature sensor (selected models), door lock (selected models), hours/minutes, demo mode (selected models), and clock functions.
- Accessories: Includes a wire shelf for cookware, cake tins, and roasts, and a baking tray for cakes and biscuits. The wire shelf has small indentations and a high rim for safety and to prevent cookware from slipping.
- Cookware Compatibility: A detailed table specifies suitable cookware materials for microwave, heating/cooking, and microwave combi functions, emphasizing the avoidance of metallic containers during microwave-only cooking unless specified by the manufacturer.
- Cooking Recommendations: Provides guidelines for temperature, cooking time, and shelf position for various foods, including baking, roasting, grilling, frozen foods, defrosting, preserving, and drying.
- Microwave Specific Tips: Advises on covering food, avoiding overcooking, piercing foods with skin/peel, cutting vegetables into similar-sized pieces, stirring liquid dishes, and allowing food to stand after cooking. For defrosting, it recommends placing unwrapped food on an upturned plate with a container below or on a defrosting rack.
Maintenance Features
- Cleaning:
- The oven front should be cleaned with a soft cloth, warm water, and a mild cleaning agent.
- Metal surfaces require a dedicated cleaning agent.
- The oven interior and cavity roof should be cleaned after each use to prevent fat accumulation and food remains, which can cause fire.
- Accessories should be cleaned after each use with a soft cloth and cleaning agent, but not in a dishwasher, especially nonstick items.
- Stubborn dirt can be removed with a special oven cleaner.
- Moisture in the cavity should be wiped dry after each use to prevent corrosion.
- Abrasive cleaners, sharp metal scrapers, and steam cleaners should not be used. Catalytic enamel should not be cleaned with any detergent.
- Removing Shelf Supports: Shelf supports can be removed for easier cleaning of the oven cavity.
- Replacing the Lamp: Instructions are provided for safely replacing the internal lamp, emphasizing disconnection from power and waiting for the oven to cool.
- Troubleshooting: A table lists common problems, possible causes, and remedies, including advice on electrical faults and contacting customer care.
Safety Information:
The manual stresses the importance of reading all instructions before installation and use. It includes warnings regarding children and vulnerable people, general safety (e.g., hot surfaces, use of oven gloves, electrical disconnection before maintenance), installation (qualified personnel only, proper earthing), use (e.g., not operating empty, avoiding sealed containers for liquids, not using as a work surface), and care/cleaning (e.g., switching off before lamp replacement, not using steam cleaners or abrasive materials). It also highlights the risk of delayed eruptive boiling with microwave heating of beverages and the danger of heating eggs in their shell.
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