AEG C6400K Specification sheet

C6400K
Das Glaskeramik-Kochfeld
Het vitrokeramische kookveld
Plan de cuisson vitrocéramique
The Glass Ceramic Hob

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Dear Customer,
Please read these operating instructions carefully.
Above all, please observe the “safety”section on the first few
pages. Please retain these operating instructions for future reference.
Pass them on to any subsequent owners of the appliance.
1 The warning triangle and/or key words (Warning!,
Caution!, Important!) are used to highlight instructions that are
important for your safety or for the function of the appliance. It is
essential that these instructions are observed.
1. This symbol guides you step by step through the operation of the appli-
ance.
2. ...
3 This symbol gives you additional information and practical tips on using
the appliance.
2 Tips and information about the economical and environmentally
friendly use of the machine are marked with the clover leaf.
These operating instructions contain information on steps you can take
yourself to rectify a possible malfunction. Refer to the section “What to
do if...”.
Printed on environmentally friendly paper.
Thinking ecologically means acting ecologically ...

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CONTENTS
Operating Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
The Key Features of Your Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Discription of the hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Cooking and Control Section Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Digital Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Cooking Zone Safety Cut-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Before Using for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Initial Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Operating the Hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
TOUCH CONTROL Sensor Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Switching On the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Switching Off the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Cooking Zone Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Heat Level Selection + and - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Switching off a Cooking Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Residual Heat Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Child-Safety Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Uses, Tables and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Pans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Cleaning and Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
The Hob Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
What do I do if ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Rectifying faults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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Installation Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Regulations, Standards, Directives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Safety Instructions for the Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Electrical Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Operating Instructions
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OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
1 Safety
The safety aspects of this appliance comply with accepted technical
standards and the German Appliance Safety Law. However, as manufac-
turers we also believe it is our responsibility to familiarise you with the
following safety instructions.
Electrical Safety
•The installation and connection of the new appliance must only be
carried out by qualified personnel.
•Repairs to the appliance are only to be carried out by approved serv-
ice engineers. Repairs carried out by inexperienced persons may cause
injury or serious malfunctioning. If your appliance needs repairing,
please contact your local AEG customer center or your dealer.
3 Please follow these instructions, otherwise the warranty is void in the
event of damages.
•Flush-mounted appliances may only be operated following installa-
tion in suitable installation cabinets and workplaces which conform
to the relevant standards. This ensures sufficient protection against
contact for electrical units as required by the VDE [Association of
German Electrical Engineers].
•If your appliance malfunctions or if fractures, cracks or splits appear:
–switch off all cooking zones,
–disconnect the hob from the electricity supply.
Child Safety
The cooking zones will become hot when you cook. Therefore, always
keep small children away from the appliance.
Safety During Use
•This appliance may only be used for normal cooking and frying in the
home. It is not designed for commercial or industrial purposes.
•Do not use the hob to heat the room.
•Take care when plugging electric appliances into mains sockets near
the hob. Connection leads must not come into contact with the hot
surface.

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•Overheated fats and oils catch fire quickly. You should supervise
cooking when preparing foods in fat or oil (e.g. chips).
•Switch off the cooking zones after use.
Safety When Cleaning
•For safety reasons do not clean the appliance with a steam jet or high
pressure cleaner.
•Clean the hob in accordance with the maintenance and cleaning
instructions in this manual.
How to Avoid Damaging Your Appliance
•Do not use the hob surface as a working surface or for storage.
•Do not use the cooking zones with empty pans or without pans.
•Ceramic glass is insensitive to temperature shock and very robust,
however, it is not unbreakable. Hard and sharp objects, in particular,
can damage the cooking surface if they fall on it.
•Do not use cast iron pots or pans with damaged bases that are rough
or burred. Scratching may occur when the lids are slid.
•Do not place any pans on the hob frame. Scratching may occur or the
paint damaged.
•Ensure that liquids containing acids, e.g. vinegar, lemon limescale
removing agents do not come into contact with the hob frame, oth-
erwise matt spots will appear.
•If sugar or a dish containing sugar comes into contact with a hot
cooking zone and then melts, remove the soiling immediately whilst
still warm, using a glass scraper. If it cools, damage to the surface
may occur.
•Keep all items and materials that melt away from the ceramic glass
surface, e.g. plastics, aluminium foil or oven foils. If something of this
nature should melt onto the ceramic glass surface, it must be
removed immediately using a glass scraper.

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2 Disposal
Disposing of the packaging material
•All parts of the packaging can be fully recycled; foil and expanded
polyurethane parts are appropriately identified. Please dispose of
packaging material and, if appropriate, your old appliance properly.
•Please follow the national and regional regulations and material
identification (material separation, refuse collection, waste disposal
sites).
Information on disposal
•The appliance must not be disposed of with household rubbish.
•You can obtain information about collection dates or public refuse
disposal sites from your local refuse department or council.
•Warning! Before disposing of old appliances make them inoperable.
Remove the mains lead.

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The Key Features of Your Appliance
•Glass ceramic cooking surface: The appliance has a glass ceramic
cooking surface and 4 rapid response cooking zones. The particularly
powerful radiant heater elements significantly shorten the amount of
time taken for the zones to heat up.
•Sensor fields: Your appliance is operated using
TOUCH CONTROL sensor fields.
•Cleaning: The advantage of the glass ceramic cooking surface and
the sensor fields is their accessibility for cleaning. The flat surface is
easy to clean (see section: “Cleaning and Care”)
•On/Off sensor field: In addition to the sensor field “On/Off”switch,
the appliance has a separate mains switch with which the mains sup-
ply to the appliance can be completely switched on and off with one
touch.
•Displays: Digital displays show information about selected heat set-
tings, functions activated and any possible residual heat in the appro-
priate cooking zone.
•Safety cut-out: A safety cut-out ensures that all cooking zones
switch off automatically after a period of time if the setting has not
been changed.
•Keep warm setting: ! is the setting for keeping foods warm.
•Residual heat indicator: An hfor residual heat is shown in the dis-
play if the cooking zone becomes so hot that there is a risk of burn-
ing.
•Child safety feature: This function makes it possible to lock the hob
to prevent it being switched on unintentionally.

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Discription of the hob
Cooking and Control Section Features
Digital Indicators
Four display fields, one for each cooking zones show up as follows:
–jafter switch-on and with automatic switch-off by the safety
function,
–=when selecting a cooking zone,
–!to )depending on heat setting selected,
–hwith residual heat,
–fwith malfunction,
–gwith child safety device.

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1 Cooking Zone Safety Cut-out
If one of the cooking zones is not switched off after a certain time or if
the heat setting is not changed, the corresponding cooking zone
switches itself off automatically.
happears in the ring display for all rings that are switched on, and j
after they have cooled down.
The rings are switched off at:
3 If one or more cooking zones switch off before the times indicated see
section “What to do if …”.
Cancelling the Safety Cut-out
To cancel the activated safety cut-out the appliance must be switched
off and then on again using the ON/OFF nsensor panel. After this the
cooking zones are again ready for use.
Switching Off for Other Reasons
Liquids that boil over onto the control panel cause all cooking zones to
switch off immediately.
If you place a wet cloth on the control panel it has the same effect. In
both cases the appliance has to be switched on again using the mains
switch nafter removing the liquid or cloth.
Before Using for the First Time
Initial Cleaning
Wipe the glass ceramic surface with a damp cloth.
1 Important: Do not use any caustic, abrasive cleaners! The surface could
be damaged.
•Heat setting 1 - 2 after 6 hours
•Heat setting 3 - 4 after 5 hours
•Heat setting 5 after 4 hours
•Heat setting 6 - 9 after 1.5 hours

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Operating the Hob
3 When a cooking zone is switched on, it may hum briefly. This is a char-
acteristic of all glass ceramic cooking zones and does not impair either
the function or the life of the appliance.
TOUCH CONTROL Sensor Field
To operate the TOUCH CONTROL sensor field place your finger from
above flat onto the required field until the appropriate displays come
on or go out or the required function is carried out.

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Switching On the Appliance
The entire appliance is switched on using the “On/Off”n sensor field.
Touch the “On/Off”sensor field for approx. 2 seconds.
The digital displays will show jand the decimal point will flash.
3 Once the “On/Off”sensor field has been operated to switch on the
appliance, one of the cooking zones must be selected within approx.
10 seconds using the cooking zone selection buttons. Otherwise the
appliance switches off again for safety reasons.
Switching Off the Appliance
To switch off the appliance completely activate the “On/Off”n
sensor field.
Touch the “On/Off”sensor field for approx. 1 second.
3 When an individual cooking zone or the entire hob is switched off, any
residual heat is shown with an h(for “Hot”) in the digital display for
the appropriate cooking zones.

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Cooking Zone Selection
To activate a cooking zone keep the corresponding control touched for
0 about one second.
A zero with digital point = comes on in the corresponding cooking
zone display.
3 The decimal point indicates that settings may only be made for this
cooking zone.

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Heat Level Selection +and -
For setting or changing the heat level for the cooking zones from
!to ).
0 Use the +touch control to increase the heat level.
Use the -touch control to reduce the heat level.
3 If several cooking zones are being used simultaneously, the required
cooking zone must be selected by touching the appropriate sensor field
before adjusting the heat level. The decimal point in the display shows
which cooking zone has been selected.

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Switching off a Cooking Zone
0 1. Select the required cooking zone with the cooking zone sensor fields.
2. Touch sensor fields +and -simultaneously to switch off or turn sen-
sor field - back to zero.
3 A cooking zone may only be switched off when the decimal point is on
in the cooking zone display.
Residual Heat Indicator
After switching off a single cooking zone or the entire hob any residual
heat is indicated by h(“hot”) showing in the display of the corre-
sponding cooking zone.
Even after switching off a cooking zone the residual heat indicator will
go out only after sufficient cooling down of the cooking zone.
2 The residual heat can be used for the melting and keeping dishes warm.
1 Caution! While the residual heat indicator is illuminated the hob is hot
and there is a risk of burning.
1 Caution! If there is a power failure the h will go out even if there is
residual heat in the hob. Care will have to be taken until there is no
longer a risk of burning.

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Child-Safety Device
Acitivating the child-safety device
The child-safety device prevents the cooking zones being switched on
accidentally.
3 The child-safety device can only be activated when the hob is switched
on.
0 1. Touch the “ON/OFF”control.
2. Touch the Plus and Minus sensors
simultaneously for approx. one sec-
ond, then release.
3. Touch the Plus sensor field again.
gwill be indicated in the digital
displays for about 10 seconds. The
child-safety device is now activated.

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Use of the cooking area with the child-safety device activated
0 1. Touch the “ON/OFF”control.
gis shown in the digital display.
2. Within the next ten seconds touch
the Plus and Minus sensor fields
simultaneously for approx.
one second.
The digital displays show jand the
digital point flashes.
3. Select the cooking zone
4. Set the heat setting as desired
1 The child-safety device remains deactivated until you next switch off
the apliance. All cooking zones and settings can be used as normal.

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Deacitivating the child-safety device
3 The child-safety device can only be deactivated when the hob is
switched off.
0 1. Touch “ON/OFF”control, Lis indi-
cated in the digital displays.
2. Touch the Plus and Minus sensors
simultaneously for approx.
one second, then release.
3. Touch the Minus sensor field again.
Symbol gwill go out in the digital
displays and jwill be indicated.
The child-safety device is now
deactivated.

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Uses, Tables and Tips
Pans
The better the pan, the better the results.
•You can recognise good pans by their bases. The base should be as
thick and flat as possible.
•Pay particular attention when buying new pans to the diameter of
the base. Manufacturers often give only the diameter of the upper
rim.
•Pots with aluminium or copper bases can cause metallic discolouring
on the glass ceramic surface, which is very difficult or impossible to
remove.
•Do not use cast iron pans or pans with a rough, burred or damaged
base. This can produce permanent scratching if the pan is slid across
the surface.
•When cold, pan bases are normally bowed slightly
inwards (concave). They should never be bowed
outwards (convex).
•If you wish to use special types of pan (e.g. a pres-
sure cooker, simmering pan, wok, etc.), please
observe the manufacturer's instructions.
2 Energy saving tips
You can save valuable energy by observing the following points:
•Always position pots and pans before switching on the cooking zone.
•Dirty cooking zones and pan bases increase power
consumption.
•Whenever possible always position the lids firmly
on pots and pans to cover completely.
•Switch off the cooking zones before the end of the
cooking time to use the residual heat such as to
keep foods warm or for melting.
•The base of the pan should be the
same size as the cooking zone.
•Using a pressure cooker reduces
cooking times by up to 50%.

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Charts
Settings for Cooking on the Rings
The setting position required for cooking processes is dependent on the
quality of the pots and on the type and amount of the food.
3 When heating up or frying, we recommend heat setting “9", and then
continue cooking foods at an appropriate lower heat setting.
Switch
position Cooking method Examples
9Parboiling
Starting of cooking and roasting, cooking of large
quantities of liquid, then switch-back to appro-
priate setting
7-9 Frying
Quick frying
French fries, pan-cakes
Fillet of pork and beef, steaks goulash
6-7
Roasting
Frying without
crust
Frying of meat, schnitzel, cutlets, meat-balls,
sausages, liver, fish-fillet in deep fat, Frying eggs
or chops
4-5 Boiling
Braising
Boiled potatoes, stews, soups, hot-pot, sauces in
large quantities
3-4 Simmering
Stewing
Simmering of vegetables, braising of meat, lightly
cooking
small amount of fruit with little liquid
2-3 Gentle
simmering
Simmering of rice and food with milk (sometimes
stirring), Stewing of smaller amount of potatoes
or vegetables, Warming up of prepared meal
1-2 Melting
Omelette, fried eggs, Hollandaise sauce, Keeping
warm a meal or small amount of hot-pot
Melting of butter, chocolate, gelatine.
0Residual heat, OFF-position