Cooking with your Sicomatic
®
-D
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Modern pressure cookers like the Sicomatic
®
have
two cooking levels:
1. Cooking level 1 for gentle cooking
2. Cooking level 2 for fast cooking
These two cooking levels enable you to cook tender,
delicate food like dishes normally requiring longer
cooking times.
The Sicomatic
®
-D has two fixed cooking level settings
to be selected with ease by means of the slider con-
trol.
What do ‘two fixed cooking level settings’
mean, actually?
Pressure and temperature are two concomitant physi-
cal properties, i.e. the higher the pressure, the higher
the temperature.
On cooking level 1, the working valve opens up at a
pressure of 0.3 bars. So the temperature inside the
pressure cooker is limited to ca 107°C. Gentle steam
release is an indicator for excessive energy supply.
Cooking level 2 is working on the same principle yet at
a pressure of 0.9 bars and a temperature of ca 119°C.
●
Temperature setting I (approx. 107°C/first white ring)
This is used for steaming and ste-
wing delicate foods which require
only a short cooking time. The
food is cooked in inserts, which
prevents the boiling water from
draining it of nutrients and aro-
mas. Suitable for fine vegetables
and fish, for example.
●
Temperature setting II (approx. 119°C/second white ring)
This is used for boiling and ste-
wing foods which require a long
cooking time and for preserving
and sterilizing foods and extrac-
ting juices. Particularly suitable for
hearty foods and dishes such as
meats, soups and stews.
Today’s Sicomatic
®
generation is technologi-
cally unrivalled.
The Sicomatic
®
has a unique torsion-spring valve
system. Once the preset cooking level is exceeded,
there is no sudden or shocking outburst of steam, just
a gradual setting in of the steam release.
In the case of some pressure cookers having two coo-
king levels, the desired temperature of cooking level 1
is considerably exceeded in part, if the energy supply
is reduced too late. The Sicomatic
®
valve systems pre-
vents this. Even minimum excess of cooking level
temperature initiates gentle steam release. Now redu-
ce energy supply in order to avoid any further tempe-
rature increase.
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