Electrolux EHF6241FOK User manual

EHF6241FOK
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EN HOB USER MANUAL

CONTENTS
SAFETY INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
DAILY USE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
HELPFUL HINTS AND TIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
CARE AND CLEANING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
TROUBLESHOOTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
TECHNICAL INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
ENVIRONMENT CONCERNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
WE’RE THINKING OF YOU
Thank you for purchasing an Electrolux appliance. You’ve chosen a product that brings with it
decades of professional experience and innovation. Ingenious and stylish, it has been designed with
you in mind. So whenever you use it, you can be safe in the knowledge that you’ll get great results
every time.
Welcome to Electrolux.
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CUSTOMER CARE AND SERVICE
We recommend the use of original spare parts.
When contacting Service, ensure that you have the following data available.
The information can be found on the rating plate. Model, PNC, Serial Number.
Warning / Caution-Safety information
General information and tips
Environmental information
Subject to change without notice.
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SAFETY INFORMATION
Before the installation and use of the appli-
ance, carefully read the supplied instruc-
tions. The manufacturer is not responsible
if an incorrect installation and use causes
injuries and damages. Always keep the in-
structions with the appliance for future ref-
erence.
CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE
PEOPLE SAFETY
WARNING!
Risk of suffocation, injury or perma-
nent disability.
• Do not let persons, children included,
with reduced physical sensory, reduced
mental functions or lack of experience
and knowledge use the appliance. They
must have supervision or instruction for
the operation of the appliance by a per-
son who is responsible for their safety.
• Do not let children play with the appli-
ance.
• Keep all packaging away from children.
• Keep children and pets away from the
appliance when it operates or when it
cools down. Accessible parts are hot.
• If the appliance has a child safety device,
we recommend that you activate it.
INSTALLATION
WARNING!
Only a qualified person must install
this appliance.
• Remove all the packaging.
• Do not install or use a damaged appli-
ance.
• Obey the installation instruction supplied
with the appliance.
• Keep the minimum distance from the
other appliances and units.
• Always be careful when you move the
appliance because it is heavy. Always
wear safety gloves.
• Seal the cut surfaces with a sealant to
prevent moisture to cause swelling.
• Protect the bottom of the appliance from
steam and moisture.
• Do not install the appliance adjacent to a
door or under a window. This prevents
hot cookware to fall from the appliance
when the door or the window is opened.
• If the appliance is installed above draw-
ers make sure that the space, between
the bottom of the appliance and the up-
per drawer, is sufficient for air circulation.
• The bottom of the appliance can get hot.
We recommend to install a non-combus-
tile separation panel under the appliance
to prevent access to the bottom.
Electrical connection
WARNING!
Risk of fire and electrical shock.
• All electrical connections must be made
by a qualified electrician.
• Before every wiring make sure the main
terminal of the appliance is not live.
• Make sure the appliance is installed cor-
rectly. Loose and incorrect plug and
socket can make the terminal become
too hot.
• Make sure that a shock protection is in-
stalled.
• Do not let the electricity bonds touch the
appliance or hot cookware, when you
connect the appliance to the near sock-
ets.
• Do not let the electricity bonds tangle.
• Use a strain relief clamp on cable.
• Use the correct mains cable.
• Make sure not to cause damage to the
mains plug and to the mains cable. Con-
tact the Service or an electrician to
change a damaged mains cable.
• The electrical installation must have an
isolation device which lets you discon-
nect the appliance from the mains at all
poles. The isolation device must have a
contact opening width of minimum 3
mm.
• Use only correct isolation devices: line
protecting cut-outs, fuses (screw type
fuses removed from the holder), earth
leakage trips and contractors.
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USE
WARNING!
Risk of injury, burns or electric
shock.
• Use this appliance in a household envi-
ronment.
• Do not change the specification of this
appliance.
• Do not use an external timer or a sepa-
rate remote-control system to operate
the appliance.
• Do not let the appliance stay unattended
during operation.
• Do not operate the appliance with wet
hands or when it has contact with water.
• Do not put cutlery or saucepan lids on
the cooking zones. They become hot.
• Set the cooking zone to “off” after use.
• Do not use the appliance as a work sur-
face or as a storage surface.
• If the surface of the appliance is cracked,
disconnect immediately the appliance
from the power supply. This to prevent
an electrical shock.
WARNING!
Risk of fire or explosion.
• Fats and oil when heated can release
flammable vapours. Keep flames or
heated objects away from fats and oils
when you cook with them.
• The vapours that very hot oil releases
can cause spontaneous combustion.
• Used oil, that can contain food rem-
nants, can cause fire at a lower tempera-
ture than oil used for the first time.
• Do not put flammable products or items
that are wet with flammable products in,
near or on the appliance.
• Do not try to extinguish a fire with water.
Disconnect the appliance and cover the
flame with a lid or a fire blanket.
WARNING!
Risk of damage to the appliance.
• Do not keep hot cookware on the con-
trol panel.
• Do not let cookware to boil dry.
• Be careful not to let objects or cookware
fall on the appliance. The surface can be
damaged.
• Do not activate the cooking zones with
empty cookware or without cookware.
• Do not put aluminium foil on the appli-
ance.
• Cookware made of cast iron, aluminium
or with a damaged bottom can cause
scratches on the glass ceramic. Always
lift these objects up when you have to
move them on the cooking surface.
CARE AND CLEANING
WARNING!
Risk of damage to the appliance.
• Clean regularly the appliance to prevent
the deterioration of the surface material.
• Do not use water spray and steam to
clean the appliance.
• Clean the appliance with a moist soft
cloth. Only use neutral detergents. Do
not use abrasive products, abrasive
cleaning pads, solvents or metal objects.
DISPOSAL
WARNING!
Risk of injury or suffocation.
• Disconnect the appliance from the mains
supply.
• Cut off the mains cable and discard it.
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
GENERAL OVERVIEW
145 mm
120/210 mm
180 mm
145 mm
3
5
1 2
4
1
Cooking zone
2
Cooking zone
3
Cooking zone
4
Control panel
5
Cooking zone
CONTROL PANEL LAYOUT
1
4
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Use the sensor fields to operate the appliance. The displays and indicators
tell which functions operate.
sensor field function
1
To activate and deactivate the appliance.
2
/ To increase or decrease the heat settings.
3
Heat setting display To show the heat setting.
4
To activate and deactivate the outer rings.
HEAT SETTING DISPLAYS
Display Description
The cooking zone is deactivated.
- The cooking zone operates.
There is a malfunction.
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Display Description
A cooking zone stay hot (residual heat).
Lock/The Child safety device operates.
The Automatic Switch Off operates.
RESIDUAL HEAT INDICATOR
WARNING!
The risk of burns from residual
heat!
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DAILY USE
ACTIVATION AND
DEACTIVATION
Touch for 1 second to activate or deac-
tivate the appliance.
AUTOMATIC SWITCH OFF
The function deactivates the appliance
automatically if:
•All cooking zones are deactivated ( ).
• You do not set the heat setting after you
activate the appliance.
• You spill something or put something on
the control panel for more than 10 sec-
onds, (a pan, a cloth, etc.). Remove the
object or clean the control panel.
• You do not deactivate a cooking zone or
change the heat setting. After some time
comes on and the appliance deacti-
vates. See below.
• The relation between heat setting and
times of the Automatic Switch Off func-
tion:
•- — 6 hours
•- — 5 hours
•— 4 hours
•- — 1.5 hours
THE HEAT SETTING
Touch to increase the heat setting.
Touch to decrease the heat setting. The
display shows the heat setting. Touch
and at the same time to deactivate the
cooking zone.
ACTIVATION AND
DEACTIVATION OF THE OUTER
RING
You can adjust the surface you cook to the
dimension of the cookware.
To activate the outer ring touch the sensor
field . The indicator comes on.
Do the procedure again to deactivate the
outer ring. The indicator goes out.
THE CHILD SAFETY DEVICE
This function prevents an accidental opera-
tion of the appliance.
To activate the child safety device
•Activate the appliance with . Do not
set the heat settings.
•Touch of the two front cooking zones
for 4 seconds. The symbol comes
on.
•Deactivate the appliance with .
To deactivate the child safety device
•Activate the appliance with . Do not
set the heat settings. Touch of the
two front cooking zones for 4 seconds.
The symbol comes on.
•Deactivate the appliance with .
To override the child safety device for
only one cooking time
•Activate the appliance with . The
symbol comes on.
•Touch of the two front cooking zones
for 4 seconds. Set the heat setting in
10 seconds. You can operate the appli-
ance.
• When you deactivate the appliance with
, the child safety device operates
again.
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HELPFUL HINTS AND TIPS
COOKWARE
Information about the cookware
• The bottom of the cookware must be as
thick and flat as possible.
• Cookware made of enamelled steel and
with aluminium or copper bottoms can
cause the colour change on the glass-
ceramic surface.
ENERGY SAVING
How to save energy
• If it is possible, always put the lids on the
cookware.
• Put cookware on a cooking zone before
you start it.
• Stop the cooking zones before the end
of the cooking time to use residual heat.
• The bottom of pans and cooking zones
must have the same dimension.
THE EXAMPLES OF COOKING
APPLICATIONS
The data in the table is for guidance only.
Heat
set-
ting
Use to: Time Hints
1Keep warm the food you cooked as re-
quired
Put a lid on a cookware
1-2 Hollandaise sauce, melt: butter,
chocolate, gelatine
5-25
min
Mix from time to time
1-2 Solidify: fluffy omelettes, baked
eggs
10-40
min
Cook with a lid on
2-3 Simmer rice and milkbased
dishes, heating up ready-cooked
meals
25-50
min
Add the minimum twice as
much liquid as rice, mix milk
dishes part procedure through
3-4 Steam vegetables, fish, meat 20-45
min
Add some tablespoons of liq-
uid
4-5 Steam potatoes 20-60
min
Use max. ¼ l water for 750 g
of potatoes
4-5 Cook larger quantities of food,
stews and soups
60-150
min
Up to 3 l liquid plus ingredi-
ents
6-7 Gentle fry: escalope, veal cordon
bleu, cutlets, rissoles, sausages,
liver, roux, eggs, pancakes,
doughnuts
as nec-
essary
Turn halfway through
7-8 Heavy fry, hash browns, loin
steaks, steaks
5-15
min
Turn halfway through
9Boil large quantities of water, cook pasta, sear meat (goulash, pot roast),
deep-fry chips
Information on acrylamides
Important! According to the newest
scientific knowledge, if you brown food
(specially the one which contains starch),
acrylamides can pose a health risk. Thus,
we recommend that you cook at the lowest
temperatures and do not brown food too
much.
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CARE AND CLEANING
Clean the appliance after each use.
Always use cookware with clean bottom.
Scratches or dark stains on the
glass-ceramic cause no effect on
how the appliance operates.
To remove the dirt:
1.
–Remove immediately: melted
plastic, plastic foil, and food with
sugar. If not, the dirt can cause
damage to the appliance. Use a
special scraper for the glass . Put
the scraper on the glass surface at
an acute angle and move the blade
on the surface .
–Remove after the appliance is
sufficiently cool: limescale rings ,
water rings, fat stains, shiny metallic
discolorations. Use a special clean-
ing agent for glass ceramic or stain-
less steel.
2.
Clean the appliance with a moist cloth
and some detergent.
3.
At the end rub the appliance dry
with a clean cloth.
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TROUBLESHOOTING
Problem Possible Remedy
You cannot activate the
appliance or operate it.
Activate the appliance
again and set the heat set-
ting in less than 10 sec-
onds.
You touched 2 or more
sensor fields at the same
time.
Touch only one sensor
field.
There is water or fat stains
on the control panel.
Clean the control panel.
The appliance deactivates. You put something on the
sensor field .
Remove the object from
the sensor field.
The residual heat indicator
does not comes on.
The cooking zone is not
hot because it operated
only for a short time.
If the cooking zone oper-
ated sufficiently long to be
hot, speak to the service
centre.
You cannot activate the
outer ring.
Activate the inner ring first.
The sensor fields become
hot.
The cookware is too large
or you put it too near to
the controls.
Put large cookware on the
rear cooking zones if nec-
essary.
comes on. The Automatic Switch Off
operates.
Deactivate the appliance
and activate it again.
comes on. The Child Safety Device
function operates.
Refer to the chapter “Op-
erating instructions”.
and number comes on. There is an error in the ap-
pliance.
Disconnect the appliance
from the electrical supply
for some time. Disconnect
the fuse from the electrical
system of the house. Con-
nect it again. If comes
on again, speak to the
service centre.
If you tried the above solutions and cannot
repair the problem, speak to your dealer or
the customer service. Give the data from
the rating plate, three digit letter code for
the glass ceramic (it is in the corner of the
glass surface) and an error message that
comes on.
Make sure, you operated the appliance
correctly. If not the servicing by a customer
service technician or dealer will not be free
of charge, also during the warranty period.
The instructions about the customer serv-
ice and conditions of guarantee are in the
guarantee booklet.
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INSTALLATION
WARNING!
Refer to "Safety information" chap-
ter.
Before the installation
Before the installation of the appliance, re-
cord the information below from the rating
plate. The rating plate is on the bottom of
the appliance casing.
• Model ...........................
• PNC .............................
• Serial number ....................
BUILT-IN APPLIANCES
• Only use the built-in appliances after you
assemble the appliance into correct
built-in units and work surfaces that align
to the standards.
CONNECTION CABLE
• Use the correct mains cable of type
H05BB-F Tmax 90°C (or higher) for a
single phase or two phase connection.
• Replace the damaged mains cable with
a special cable (type H05BB-F Tmax
90°C or higher). Speak to your local
Service Centre.
ASSEMBLY
min.
50mm
min.
50mm
min.
500mm
==
490+1mm 560+1mm
600mm
R 5mm
min.
25 mm
min.
20 mm
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min.
28 mm
If you use a protection box (an additional
accessory
1)
), the protective floor directly
below the appliance is not necessary.
You can not use the protection box if you
install the appliance above an oven.
1) The protection box accessory may not be available in some countries. Please contact your
local supplier.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Modell EHF6241FOK Prod.Nr. 949 596 002 00
Typ 58 HAD 03 AO 220-240 V 50-60 Hz
Made in Germany
Ser.Nr. .......... 6.4 kW
ELECTROLUX
Cooking zones power
Cooking zone Nominal Power (Max heat setting)
[W]
Right rear —180 mm 1800 W
Right front — 145 mm 1200 W
Left rear — 145 mm 1200 W
Left front — 120/210 mm 750/2200 W
ENVIRONMENT CONCERNS
Recycle the materials with the symbol .
Put the packaging in applicable containers
to recycle it.
Help protect the environment and human
health and to recycle waste of electrical
and electronic appliances. Do not dispose
appliances marked with the symbol with
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the household waste. Return the product
to your local recycling facility or contact
your municipal office.
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