Cooking with your Sicomatic
®
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1. Fill with liquid
Pour the liquid required to generate steam into the
bottom of the pressure cooker. (1/8 l for the 2.5 l
Sicomatic
®
/ 1/4 l for the 3.0 l + 4.5 l Sicomatic
®
/ 3/8
l for the 6.5 l Sicomatic
®
). Water, stock, sauce etc. can
be used as liquid.
Always fill with sufficient liquid (water) to
generate steam. The pressure cooker
must not under any circumstances “boil
dry”, as otherwise the pressure cooker
and cooking zone may be damaged.
2. Fill with food
Either fill the food in directly or place the insert with
the food in the pressure cooker.
Please only add salt once the water is already boi-
ling and stir round to prevent the salt eroding the
bottom of the pressure cooker.
Max.
1
⁄
2
full for frothing and swelling foodstuffs. Boil
up frothing foodstuffs and skim off before closing
the Sicomatic
®
.
Max.
2
⁄
3
full for all other foodstuffs.
Check that there is enough space between the food to
be cooked and lid, pressure indicator and valve parts.
Food must be far enough apart from these at all times .
3. Close pressure cooker
Please observe instructions on page 43.
4. Bring to the boil on a suitable high power
cooking zone
When using on gas cookers: To avoid
power loss and overheating or destruction
of the pressure cooker handles, do not set
the gas flame higher than the base of the
pressure cooker.
5. Setting of cooking level / bringing to the boil
Select setting 1 or 2 by moving the slide control.
Venting is performed automatically by an automatic
venting mechanism activated depending on the air flow
so that manual venting is dispensed when bringing to
the boil . If the circulation speed is high enough the
valve will close by itself. Then the pressure indicator
begins to rise.
6. Cooking
The actual operating pressure or temperature and
therefore the start of the cooking time are reached
when steam begins to issue at the selected setting and
the rings of setting 1 or 2 can be seen on the pressure
indicator. Keep this position until cooking is finished by
adjusting the power setting on the cooker accordingly.
If, at this stage, the Sicomatic
®
is still exposed to too
high a power setting, steam will be released via the
discharge opening in the lid handle (in the middle of
the lid), accompanied by an increasingly louder noise.
Reduce the heat and thus avoid an unnecessary waste
of energy as well as the risk of boiling dry.
Never leave the Sicomatic
®
unattended when in use.
7. Steam release / cooling down
See instructions on
page 44.
8. Opening the Sicomatic
®
See instructions on page
43.
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