Gaggenau VI 230 112 User manual

Instructions for Use
VI 230 112
501 769 (9216) 00-8109
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Index
Important information
Environmental protection..........................................18
Notes on disposal.....................................................18
Before connecting your new appliance ....................18
General safety information .......................................19
Notes ........................................................................20
The advantages of cooking by Induction .................21
Description on functions
Hobs with built-in controls ........................................22
Using the hob
Hotplate control ........................................................23
Residual heat indicator.............................................23
The Booster function ................................................24
Recommendations .................................................25
Maintenance............................................................27
Instructions shoud a fault arise............................28
What to do if a fault arises ....................................29
Technical information ............................................30

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Environmental
protection
❏ We are constantly developing new solutions and
technology which reduce energy consumption
and spare natural resources, thus actively
contributing to the protection of the environment.
❏ In order to save on energy, we recommend that
you follow the tips on choice and use of dishes
which are given in these operating instructions.
Important information
❏ Your new appliance was protected by suitable
packaging while it was on its way to you. All
materials used for this purpose are environment-
friendly and suitable for recycling. Please make a
contribution to protecting the environment by
disposing of the packaging appropriately.
❏ Old appliances are not wortheless rubbish!
Environment-conscious recycling can reclaim
valuable raw materials. Before disposing of your
old appliance, please make sure that it is
unusable, or label it with a sticker stating
"Caution: This appliance is defective!"
❏ Up-to-date information concerning options for
disposing of your old appliance and the
packaging from the new one can be obtained
from your retailer or local municipal office.
Notes on disposal
Before connecting
your new
appliance
Please read this instruction manual carefully before
using your new hob for the first time. The
instructions contain important information with
regard to user safety and appliance use and care.
❏ Your appliance should only be connected to the
mains electricity supply by an authorised
electrician. The electrician should ensure that the
appliance is correctly installed in compliance with
the regulations and legal considerations in force
in your country.

General safety
information
❏ This appliance complies with all regulations
relevant to electrical appliances. Repairs should
only be carried out by service engineers trained
by the manufacturer. Repairs that have not been
carried out properly represent a considerable
hazard to the user.
❏ This appliance must be used for the preparation
of food only.
❏ The hob and pans or utensils can become very
hot while it is in use. Make sure that children
are always kept away from the hob.
❏ Remain in the vicinity of the food when cooking
with fat or oil. Oil that overheats can ignite.
Never add water to burning fat or oil. Risk of fire!
In the event of fire, extinguish the flames by
covering the cookware. Switch off the hotplate,
and leave the cookware to cool.
Warning!
❏ You must not store any combustible items or
spray cans beneath the hob.
❏ The connecting cords of electrical appliances
must not come into contact with the hot cooking
surfaces. This could result in damage to the
connecting cord’s insulating jacket.
❏ In the event that a drawer is located beneath the
hob, you must not store any combustible items in
this drawer. Do not place any combustible items
on top of the hob.
❏ In the event that cracks, tears or fissures appear
on the hob, the appliance must be switched off
immediately. Always switch off the appliance via
the cooker fuse or the circuit-breaker in the fuse
box or, where applicable, by removing the cooker
plug.
❏ Please retain these operating and installation
instructions. The envelope for the operating
instructions contains details of the after-sales
service which you may need to call if repairs are
required. Please submit the operating and
installation instructions to any subsequent user
of the appliance.
❏ Do not operate the hob if transport damage is
apparent.
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Notes
❏ To comply with relevant safety regulations, the
fitter must install a disconnection device with
open poles with an opening of at least 3 mm.
This step is not necessary when connection is
done through a plug, if the plug is accessible to
the user and the plug is earthed.
Warning!
❏ The saucepan base and the hotplate must be dry
whilst cooking. Any liquid between the cookware
base and the hotplate will vaporize. The ensuing
steam pessure can cause the saucepan to jump
violently. Risk of injury!
❏ Observe the residual heat indicator. This
provides an indication of which hotplates are still
hot.
❏ Do not place food wrapped in silver foil, cutlery,
cooking-receptacle lids or any other kind of
metal object on the induction cooking hob.
Should the appliance be connected for any
reason, these objects will heat up very quickly
and may produce burns.
❏ A slight buzzing can be heard while the cooking
zones are heating up. Individual cooking zones
may glow more brightly than others. There are
technical reasons for this and they have no effect
on quality or function.
❏ The hob is surrounded by a thick elastic seal. It
is possible therefore, depending on the surface
of the worktop, that there will be a small uneven
gap between the worktop and the hob. This does
not however have a detrimental effect on the
function of the seal.
❏ Irregularities on the surface are a natural
characteristic of glass-ceramic products. The
hob’s mirror finish can mean that even the
smallest bubble, less than 1 mm in diameter, is
more or less visible. They neither impair the
performance nor the durability of the glass hob.
This appliance is in full compliance with electromagnetic safety and compatibility
standards. Persons fitted with pacemakers, hearing aids or other similar
devices are not, however, recommended to use the appliance given the
impossibility of guaranteeing that 100% of such devices available on the market
comply with these same standards. It is, therefore, not possible to rule out
interference which may adversely affect the correct working order of such
devices.

The advantages of
cooking by
induction
The heating process takes place at great speed
within the receptacle used in the total absence of
either flame or perceivable heat source. It is not
necessary for heat to pass from the surface to the
cooking receptacle. That is why cooking by
induction offers the following advantages:
❏ Great cooking and frying speed, saving on both
time and energy consumption..
❏ The energy supply automatically adapts to the
diameter of the receptacle in use, meaning that
the smaller the receptacle, the lower the energy
consumption..
❏ The hob supplies or cuts heat once the control
knob is activated. It even cuts the heat supply off
should the receptacle be removed from the
cooking plate without having been previously
turned off. Should a cloth or some other
inflammable object be carelessly left on top of
the plate, it will not catch fire even with the plate
on.
❏ Splashes or spillages of foodstuffs do not burn
on the cooking hob and smoke is not formed
because the hob does not reach temperatures
high enough to do so.
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Description of functions
Hobs with built-in
controls
(*) Smaller receptacles can be used on the
cooking plate. The power supplied adapts to
receptacle diameter without wasting energy.
Fig. 1a
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14.5 cm.ø induction-
cooking plate with
"Booster" function for 14-
16 cm. ø cooking
receptacles (*)
Cooking-plate
control and
setting-pad area.
Residual heat indicator
18 cm. ø/1600 W
induction-cooking plate,
with "Booster" function
and 18-22 cm. ø cooking
receptacles.
Fig. 1b
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Hotplate control
"Booster"
function
indicator
Cooking-plate
under control
position indicator

Using the hob
Hotplate control The hotplate controls are used to set the heat
setting of the individual hotplates.. Fig. 2.
1 = lowest power
9= highest power
Warming, according to amount 1–5
Boiling
Boil start 9/Booster
Boiling large amounts 6-8
Boiling small amounts 4-6
Frying
Heating fat/initial frying 8-9
Continued frying 7-8
Fig. 2
Residual heat
indicator
While the heat remaining on the glass is still
capable of causing burns, the residual heat
indication on the right-hand side of the middle of
the glass lights up, fig. 4.
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"Stand-by" pad
with indicator ligth
When a hotplate is switched on, the ON/OFF light
comes on.
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
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The Booster
function
The booster function gives the respective hotplate
150% of the maximum heating power and therefore
requires watching when in operation. It is used for
quick heating, e.g. frying grease. After heating, reduce
the heat setting to save energy and prevent ignition of
frying medium.
To activate this function, set the respective hotplate
switch to setting 9.
Set the switch to another position, when you no longer
require this setting.
Connecting the "Booster" function:
In order to connect the "Booster" function, turn the
control knob for , fig. 5, and release the knob. On so
doing, the knob will automatically go back to 9.
The signal will light up to indicate that this position has
been activated.
Disconnecting the "Booster" function:
In order to disconnect the "Booster" function, turn the
control knob to any position other than 9.
❏ The "Booster" function can only be activated on a
cooking area when the other area on the hob has
been turned off. If the other cooking area is not off,
then the "Booster" function indicator will flash and
finally go out altogether, indicating that the function
cannot be used.
❏ The cooking hob may turn the Booster function off
automatically under certain conditions in order to
protect interior electronic components. Should this
occur, the function has to be turned on once more; if
the control indicator remains flashing after the
function has been turned off automatically, it is
necessary to wait a few minutes before trying to turn
the function back on again.
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Limits on use of the
Booster function
Heating power setting Approx. percentage of ma.
heating power setting
00%
13,5%
2 6,5 %
3 9,5 %
4 15,5 %
5 20,5 %
6 25 %
7 47 %
8 72 %
9 100 %
Booster 150%
Heating-power
setting
characteristics
table
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Choosing the right
heating power
❏ Those recipes which traditionally use the “bain
Marie” method, such as sauces and creams
containing egg, can be cooked in the receptacle
itself at lower power levels, obtaining the same
results and without the risk of the sauces or
creams curdling.
❏ Perfect heat setting also offers improvements in
the cooking of foods involving as chocolate
baths, "choux" pastry (for profiteroles) or others
requiring long cooking times, by not preventing
food from sticking to the sides of the receptacle.
The lowest possible heating-power settings
should be used to achieve this. When the
cooking temperature falls too much, turn it up by
1-2 settings. If the temperature rises too much,
all you need do is turn the setting down; it is not
necessary to remove the receptacle from the
heat.
❏ When deep-frying, it is recommended that the oil
should be heated up at the highest possible
power setting and then turned down to a mid-
setting when the foodstuffs are placed in the
heated oil. This setting should then be kept for
the remainder of the cooking process.
❏ Liquids and soups can be brought to boiling point
using the Booster function. Once boiling point
has been reached, the remainder of the process
can be performed at a lower power setting. In
this way, little evaporation will take place and the
energy-consumption level is kept at a minimum.
On turning the cooking plate off, residual heat is
not enough to keep the cooking process going.
Recommendations
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Suitable cooking
receptacles and
how to use them
❏ Only ferromagnetic receptacles are suitable
for cooking by Induction. To see if your
receptacles are suitable, make sure that they
are attracted by the magnet supplied with
your hob.
❏ Make sure the base of the cooking receptacle is
ferromagnetic. Receptacles made of enamelled
steel, cast iron or special stainless-steel
receptacles (designed for cooking by induction)
can all be used. Do not use receptacles made of
thin normal steel or glass, earthenware, copper
or aluminium.
❏ Always use saucepans and frying pans with their
lids on.
❏ When the saucepan or receptacle base has the
same diameter as the cooking plate, heat
transmission reaches optimum levels. When you
buy saucepans and receptacles, you should take
into account the fact that manufacturers normally
indicate the saucepan or receptacle’s upper
diameter. Base diameter is usually less than this.
❏ Ensure enamelled saucepans are not allowed to
heat up when empty. Otherwise, both the
saucepan base and the vitroceramic surface
may be damaged.
❏ Observe the manufacturer’s instructions before
using a special receptacle.
❏ Turn down the cooking plate’s selected heating-
power setting at the right moment. Water should
not bubble violently when boiled.
Fig. 6

❏ Never use the cooking hob as a work surface or
to rest things on. Always use the work surfaces
on your kitchen units. Salt, sugar or grit from
cleaning vegetables can scratch the cooking-
plate hob.
❏ Make sure that no hard or sharp objects fall onto
your cooking-plate hob.
❏ Never place hot casserole dishes or frying pans
on the control panel or cooking-hob frame, fig. 7.
❏ Casserole dishes and frying pans should not
have rough bottoms, as these can scratch the
cooking- hob surface.
❏ No not use metal scouring pads, brushes or
heavy-duty cleaning products like oven sprays or
stain removers.
How to prevent the
cooking-hob
surface from being
damaged
Fig. 7
Maintenance and cleaning
The glass on your hob does not allow dirt to
become embedded and can, therefore, simply be
cleaned with a warm, soapy cloth.
The cooker’s control panel must only be cleaned
using a soft, dry cloth and light soapy solution. Do
not use any commercially available stainless steel
cleaners as these may be aggressive to the printed
markings.
Clean the cooking surface regularly with the
Gaggenau cooker cleaner (nr.: 098690).
This appliance does not come with a glass
scraper as it is not necessary.
Remove baked-in food remainders and coarse dirt
with our small scraper (nr.: 087670).
Scrapers can be bought at any suitable shop or
from our official Service Centres.
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Instructions should a fault arise
Before getting in touch with our Customer Service,
read the following instructions to discover the
possible cause of the fault. Some problems can be
solved without needing to get in touch with the
Customer Service. Should, however, you still need
to contact our Customer Service, please quote the
model and the appliance’s factory number. This
information can be found on the appliance’s
characteristics plate.
Warning!
Never interfere with the inside of your appliance
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Fig. 8
When light-brown or metallic stains appear on the
cooking plates, it means scaling has first occurred
and then been overheated; similar marks appear
when pans with uneven bases are used.
These stains are caused by unsuitable cleaning
products or because a pan base is worn. Brown
tainting can also occur when scaling is overheated.
Tainting of this kind can be removed by using the
same cleaning products as those employed for
cleaning fine-steel kitchen sinks.
If any slight de-coloration or chalk stains are
observed, use vinegar or lemon juice.
The best way to clean the decoration on the hob is
to use lukewarm bleach. Do not use scouring pads,
pointed objects or glass scrapers.
Acid-based agents, like vinegar or lemon juice,
should be removed immediately with a damp cloth.
Decoration
Tainting
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What to do if a fault arises
The cooking-plate hob fails to heat up and no
lights come on.
❏ Make sure this is the case for all of the cooking
plates.
❏ Make sure the mains electricity supply is in
order.
When I turn the cooking-plate hob on, the
mains fuse box current limiter triggers.
❏ Call Customer Service immediately.
On placing a receptacle on an Induction
cooking plate, the selected cooking plate
indication flashes (the power supply is cut).
❏ Make sure that the receptacle is made of a
ferromagnetic material (it attracts a magnet).
❏ Make sure the diameter of the receptacle base is
big enough.
❏ Check to see if the cooking plate works properly
with other cooking receptacles.
❏ If the cooking-plate hob is turned off and, when
turned back on again, it does not give any light
indications, disconnect it from the mains supply,
wait about 20 seconds and connect it up once
more.
❏ Let the receptacle cool off to make sure it has
not heated up too much on being used.
When boiling or deep-frying for a long period of
time, the receptacle fails to retain temperature.
❏ Check to see if the cooking plate works properly
"from cold". The appliance is equipped with an
automatic power-reduction system to prevent
both overheating when cooking at high
temperatures and cooking without liquid.
❏ If you wish, you can use a different induction-
cooking plate until the previously-used one has
cooled down.

The residual heat light and relevant cooking
plate indication flash.
❏ If the glass surface is cold, ring our Service
Centre.
❏ If the surface is warm, let the hob cool down
before using it again.
The Booster-function indicator flashes and
goes out
The Booster-cooking function makes the cooking
plate work at its maximum power. For this reason,
the cooking-plate hob itself might automatically turn
the Booster-cooking function off so as to prevent
excessive overheating on the appliance. You can
carry on using it when the indicator does not flash
The induction-cooking plates’ residual heat
indicators “take a long time to come on”.
Induction-cooking plate residual heat indicators
take longer to come on than those fitted on older
appliances. This depends on the system and is
considered normal.
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Technical
Information
Voltage:.................................................230 V 50 Hz
Inductive elements:......................... 1600 and 1200 W
Booster Function
Large cooking plate:.....................................2400 W
Booster Function
Short-sized cooking plate:........................... 1800 W
Inductive elements
working frequency: ...................................34-48 kHz