Maintenance
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Cleaning your pressure cooker
Normally food residues can most easily be wiped out,
if directly after the food has been taken out, the cooker
is rinsed with water. Yet in the case of persistent resi-
dues, do not scratch or use a wire brush. Instead first
soak and then bring them to the boil adding a special
cleaner from Silit suitable for Silitsteel, stainless steel
or Silargan
®
. Of course, the cooker body may be cle-
aned in the dishwasher, too.
Cleaning the lid
All you need is to rinse the lid under hot running water
(optionally adding some washing-up liquid). Take out
lid gasket before cleaning it separately.
The valve and the steam release opening also just
need to be rinsed under running water.
l Clean lid only manually. Do not put into the dish-
washer (protecting the seals).
l Not even for intensive care should you detach the
lid handle. Have taking apart and mounting of the
lid handle be done only by an authorised expert (i.e.
any Silit dealer or Silit after-sales service).
l For thorough cleaning (manually rinsing) take out
the grey working valve and the black safety valve
cleaning them separately.
Cleaning / replacing the lid gasket
Wipe clean, rinse under warm running water or clean
in washing-up water.
As soon as the lid gasket has hardened (brownish
discoloration), it must be replaced. Mostly after using
the cooker about 400 times, yet after two years at the
very latest. Disregarding these data can impair the
safety of the lid gasket.
Replacing the pressure indicator seal
If the seal is defective, please replace immediately by
a new one. First clean the pressure indicator area
before putting on the moistened pressure indicator
seal.
Storage
After cleaning and drying your Sicomatic, store it in a
clean, dry and protected place. Do not mount lid in
operating position or seal it. Rest it on rim of pot upsi-
de down, for example. Do not place any heavy objects
on top as these can damage the lid.
Only use original Sicomatic
®
spare parts. Only this
way, function and safety of your Sicomatic
®
can be
guaranteed. Inside the lid gasket the printed name
of Sicomatic
®
must be visible.
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