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CAUTION: High amount of steam may be released from the cooking valve and scald
your face or other parts of your body. During quick pressure drop, you may hear a
high hissing sound that occurs only during “quick opening”. This is perfectly normal.
The lid can be opened only when the steam is fully released. Quick pressure drop
should not be chosen for vegetables, grains or foodstuff that produces foam.
4. Cleaning and Maintenance
4.1 Cleaning the Cooker Body
The body of the pressure cooker can be hand-washed or cleaned in the dishwasher like the
other stainless steel cookers. Please do not use metal brushes, abrasive cleaning materials
or bleaching agents, as they damage the surface. In order to remove the heavy dirt and
discoloration, fill the pressure cooker with lemon juice (by mixing half a lemon with 2 glasses
of water). Leave the mixture to boil with pressure for 5 minutes. Lift the pressure cooker from
the stove and leave it to cool down. You can now rinse your pressure cooker with hot water.
The lid should be cleaned only with hot water and dish detergent.
DO NOT PUT THE LID INTO THE DISHWASHER. Do not use hard and abrasive materials
for cleaning.
Caution: Do not wash the lid and silicon gasket in the dishwasher. To store it in the
cupboard, invert the lid on the pressure cooker and place it on the cooker body; this
protects the silicon gasket. The pressure cooker can be stored only without food in
it; it should be clean and completely dry when you put it in the cupboard to store.
4.2 Cleaning the cooking valve
• After each use, the cooking valve must be cleaned. Take the lid in your hands and unscrew
the cooking valve nut, which is under the lid, with your hand.
• You should replace the o-ring under the nut. To avoid losing the o-ring, unscrew carefully.
• Unscrew the valve plastic, clean and replace the same way. Screw the valve by paying
attention to the direction.
• Replace the cleaned o-ring under the nut and screw.
4.3 Cleaning the silicon lid gaske
After each use of the pressure cooker, remove the silicon gasket from the lid, hand-wash
the gasket with hot water and soapy sponge thoroughly, and then dry it. Based on the use
frequency of your pressure cooker (if used daily), the lid gasket should be replaced with an
original gasket every two years.
5. Trouble shooting
5.1 The pressure cooker cannot be closed
• Place the gasket properly into the lid.
• Provide the full opening of the clamps on either side
• If there is boiling food in the cooker, when you put the lid on, the pressure inside will raise
the lid and locking the lid will be harder.
• Turn the cooking valve to “pressure release” position and try to close the lid by pushing.
• The lid mechanism could be out of order. Take the cooker to the place you bought or
consult the manufacturer.
5.2 Too much steam release from the cooking valve during cooking.
• Heat source is too high. Decrease the heat as much as possible.
• Cooking valve could be dirty. After releasing the cooker pressure, unscrew and clean the
valve.
• Cooking valve could be out of order. Take a new one from the manufacturer and replace.
5.3 Steam leaks uncontrollably from the bottom and along the sides of the pressu-
re cooker lid. Water drops.
• The cooking valve could be dirty or clogged. Cool the cooker completely and in accordan-
ce with the instructions, remove the cooking valve and clean.
• There could be no water in the cooker. Add at least one glass of water
• The gasket could be damaged. Check it.
• Make sure that the o-ring under the valve nut is in place
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