Cooking with your Sicomatic
®
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1. Filling the pressure cooker with liquid
Fill the pressure cooker with the quantity of liquid
necessary for steam build-up. (2 cups for the 4,5-l
Sicomatic
®
, 3 cups for the 6,5-l Sicomatic
®
; one cup
corresponding to about
1
⁄8 l). Water, meat juices, sauce,
etc. may also be regarded as liquids.
Important:
Always fill in enough liquid (water) for steam to build
up. Under no circumstances must the pressure coo-
ker boil dry, as this may seriously damage pressure
cooker and hotplate.
2. Filling in the ingredients
Fill in the ingredients either in direct contact with the
cooker bottom or use an insert.
l Please add salt only to boiling water stirring it so that
the cooker bottom is not damaged due to the salt.
l Max.
1
⁄2 filling in case of swelling and frothing dis-
hes. Before closing the Sicomatic
®
, frothing dishes
should be brought to the boil and the foam be
skimmed off.
l Max.
2
⁄3 filling in all other cases.
Check if there is enough distance between the food to
be cooked and the lid, the pressure indicator and the
valve parts. This distance is indispensable any time.
3. Closing the pressure cooker
Please observe the information on page 37.
4. Bringing to the boil on suitable cooking
zone at high temperature setting
Important:
When using your pressure cooker on a gas stove, do
not allow gas flame to exceed the diameter of the
cooker bottom in order to avoid energy waste, over-
heating or damage to the cooker handles.
5. Setting of cooking level/bringing to the boil
Set cooking level I or II by pushing the slider control.
Venting is automatically being done by an automatic
venting mechanism activated depending on the air-
flow, so for bringing to the boil, there is no need for
manual venting any more. Once the airflow is strong
enough, the valve closes all by itself. Then the pressu-
re indicator begins to rise.
6. Cooking
The actual operating pressure, i.e. operating tempera-
ture and thus the beginning of the cooking time is
reached when the first ring (temperature setting I) or
the second ring (temperature setting II) becomes visi-
ble respectively. See diagram on pg. 46. If the
Sicomatic
®
still gets too much energy supply, then,
accompanied by a continuously increasing sound,
steam is released over an outlet in the lid handle (at
the centre of the lid). Reduce the energy supply avoi-
ding useless waste of energy and the danger of ‘boi-
ling dry’. Always keep an eye on your Sicomatic
®
.
7. Steam release/cooling down see page 38.
8. Opening the Sicomatic
®
see page 37.
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