AEG C81700K User manual

C81700K
Glaskeramik-Kochfeld
Glaskeramische kookplaat
Taque de cuisson vitrocéramique
Ceramic glass hob
Montage- und Gebrauchsanweisung
Montage- en gebruikshandleiding
Instructions de montage et mode d’emploi
Installation and Operating Instructions

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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.
0 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
The Key Features of Your Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Discription of the hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Hob Surface and Control Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Digital Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Cooking Zone Safety Cut-out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Before Using for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Initial Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Operating the Hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
TOUCH CONTROL Sensor Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Switching On the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Switching Off the Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Cooking Zone Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Heat Setting Selection + and - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Switching the Double and Triple Ring Cooking Zone On and Off . . . . 108
Switching the Casserole Zone On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Switching off a Cooking Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Residual Heat Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Cooking with the Automatic Warm up Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Cooking without the Automatic Warm up Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Locking/Unlocking the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Uses, Tables and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Pans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Advice on Cooking with and without Automatic Warm up . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Cleaning and Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Hob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Hob Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
What do I do if ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

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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 a registered specialist.
•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 Service Force Centre 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,
–switch off or remove the hob fuse.
Child Safety
The cooking zones will become hot when you cook. Therefore, always
keep small children away from the appliance.

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Safety Whilst Using
•This appliance may only be used for boiling and frying food in the
home.
•Do not use the hob to heat the room.
•Take care when connecting electric appliances to sockets nearby.
Connection cables must not make contact with hot cooking rings.
•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
Switch the appliance off before cleaning. For safety reasons cleaning
the appliance with a steam jet cleaner or high-pressure water cleaner is
not permissible.

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To Avoid Damaging your Appliance
•Do not use the hob as a work surface or for storage.
•Do not operate the cooking zones when there is no pan or the pans
are empty.
•Glass ceramic is resistant to changes in temperature and very robust;
however it is not unbreakable. Especially sharp and hard objects that
fall on the cooking surface can damage it.
•Do not use cast iron pans or pans with a rough, burred or damaged
base. Scratching may occur if the pans are slid across the surface.
•Do not place any pans on the hob frame. Scratching and damage to
the paint may occur.
•Make sure that no acidic liquids, e.g. vinegar, lemon or descaling
agents, are spilt onto the hob frame, since these cause dull spots.
•If sugar or a preparation with sugar comes into contact with the hot
cooking zone and melts there it must be cleaned off immediately
with a scraper while it is still hot. If it cools, the surface may be dam-
aged when it is removed.
•Keep all items and materials that can melt away from the glass
ceramic surface, e.g. plastics, aluminium foil, or oven foils. If some-
thing of this nature should melt onto the glass ceramic surface, it
must also be removed immediately using the 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 smooth, flat
surface is easy to clean (see section: “Cleaning and Care”).
•On/Off sensor field: The “On/Off”sensor field provides the appliance
with a separate mains switch. Touching this switches the power sup-
ply on or off completely.
•Displays: Digital displays show information about selected heat set-
tings, functions activated and any possible residual heat in the appro-
priate cooking zone.
•Safety cutoff: A safety cutoff 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.
•Multipurpose cooking zone: The hob is equipped with a multipur-
pose/casserole cooking zone. Depending on the setting, it can be used
as a round or oval cooking zone, e.g. for oval casseroles or for keeping
dishes or food warm.
•Double and triple cooking zone: In addition the hob has a double
and a triple cooking zone. This means the appliance offers cooking
zones of variable sizes, suitable, for example, for smaller milk pans.
This enables you to save energy.
•Timer: All rings can be automatically switched off using the inte-
grated timer. When the end of the cooking time has been reached,
the cooking zone switches off.

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Discription of the hob
Hob Surface and Control Panel Features
145 mm
170 mm
275/210/145 mm
100/180 mm
265 mm

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Digital Displays
The four display fields that are assigned to the four cooking zones dis-
play:
–j, after being switched on and when the safety function causes an
automatic cut-out,
–=when a cooking zone is selected,
–!to ), depending on the selected heat setting,
–aduring automatic warm up,
–hwhen there is residual heat,
–fwhen there is a fault.
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.
h appears in the ring display for all rings that are switched on, and j
after they have cooled down.
The rings are switched off at:
To switch on, reactivate the cooking zone (see section “Operation”).
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 else the required function is carried out.
Switching On the Appliance
The entire appliance is switched on using the “On/Off”n sensor field.
0 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.

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0 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.
Cooking Zone Selection
To select the required cooking zone
0 touch the corresponding sensor field for approx. one second.
A zero with a decimal point will light up in the appropriate cooking
zone display window =.
3 The decimal point indicates that settings may only be made for this
cooking zone.

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Heat Setting Selection +and -
For setting and adjusting the heat setting (!to )) for the selected
cooking zone.
0 Use sensor field +to increase the heat setting.
Lower the heat setting with sensor field -.
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 setting. The decimal point in the display
shows which cooking zone has been selected.

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Switching the Double and Triple Ring Cooking Zone
On and Off
Depending on the size of the pot or pan it is possible when using the
double or triple ring cooking zone to activiate the larger heating ring in
addition to the smaller one using the “booster”(X) sensor field on the
glass ceramic hob.
3 These can only be activiated if the smaller ring is already switched on.
1. Select the appropriate cooking zone.
2. Set the required heat setting.
0 3. Touch the “booster”(X) sensor field.

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The middle ring is switched on. The control indicator under the
symbol II is illuminated.
4. Pressing the “booster”sensor field again activates the outer heating
ring. The control indicator under symbol III is illuminated.
5. To switch off the outer heating ring touch the “booster”sensor field;
the corresponding heating ring is switched off.

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Switching the Casserole Zone On and Off
0 1. Select the appropriate cooking zone.
2. Set the required heat setting.
3. To switch the casserole zone on or off place your finger flat on the
“booster”(X) touch control sensor field, until the control indicator
comes on or goes off.

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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.

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Residual Heat Indicator
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.
Even after the cooking zone has been switched off, the residual heat
indicator only goes out when the cooking zone is cold.
2 You can use the residual heat for melting and keeping food warm.
1 Important! As long as the residual heat indicator is illuminated, there
is a risk of burns.
1 Important! If the power supply is interrupted the h symbol will also
go out and information about residual heat will no longer be available.
However, it is still possible to burn yourself. This can be avoided by
being particularly attentive.

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Cooking with the Automatic Warm up Function
All four of the hob's cooking zones can be controlled in nine stages and
have an automatic warm up function:
–!, lowest heat setting
–), highest heat setting
–a, automatic warm up function
When you select the required heat setting using the + sensor field,
the cooking zone will work for a specific time on full power and then
switch automatically to the set heat setting.
The duration of the automatic warm up function depends on the heat
setting selected.
0 1. Select the required cooking zone with the cooking zone sensor fields.
Touch sensor field +until it reaches the required heat !to (. The
set heat setting will be displayed first. After five seconds a (= auto-
matic warm up function) will replace the heat setting in the display. At
the end of the warm up time the heat setting will be shown again.
3 If during the automatic warm up function you select a higher setting,
eg. from # to %, the warm up time is adjusted to match. If you select
a lower setting, the warm up time ends at once.

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2 If you start cooking again on a cooking zone that is still warm, the
automatic warm up function uses the residual heat. This saves time and
energy.
3 If you again wish to switch on a cooking zone on which hot items are
already standing, you should always select the required heat setting
with the - sensor field. In this way you can avoid making the food
boil over as a result of the extra burst of heat from the automatic warm
up.
Cooking without the Automatic Warm up Function
If you wish to use the cooking zone without automatic warm up, select
the required heat setting with the -sensor field.
0 1. Switch on the appliance and select the desired cooking zone using the
cooking zone selection buttons.
2. Touch sensor field -to select the required heat setting from )to !.
3 You can adjust the heat setting at any time using the +and -but-
tons, providing the cooking zone has been selected.
Switching off a cooking zone
0 1. Select the desired cooking zone using the cooking zone buttons.
2. Press the +and -buttons simultaneously to switch off.
1 When the rings are still hot cooking should be carried out without
automatic warm up.