Technical data

Know Your Timer

The oven timer offers you the following features:

1. Time of Day

2. Automatic Cooking

3. Minute Minder

The Main fan oven can be controlled automatically.

1. Select foods which will take the same time to cook and

require approximately the same temperature.

2. Set the oven timer so that the food has just finished or about

to finish cooking on your return to the oven. This will ensure

the food has not cooled down and does not require reheating

before serving.

3. Food should be as cold as possible when it goes into the

oven, ideally straight from the refrigerator. Frozen meat and

poultry should be thawed thoroughly before it is put in the

oven.

4. We advise that warm food should never be placed in the oven

if there is to be a delay period. Stews prepared by frying the

meat and vegetables should be cooked as soon as possible.

5. We advise dishes containing left-over cooked poultry or meat,

for example Shepherds Pie, should not be cooked automatically if

there is to be a delay period.

6. Stews and joints should be cooked by the long slow method,

so that the delay period is kept to a minimum.

7. On warm days, to prevent harmful bacterial growth in certain foods (ie

poultry, joints, etc) the delay start should be kept to a minimum.

8. Wine or beer may ferment and cream may curdle during the

delay period, so it is best to add these ingredients just before

serving.

9. Foods which discolour should be protected by coating in fat

or tossing in water to which lemon juice has been added,

prior to placing food in the oven.

10. Dishes containing liquid should not be filled too full to prevent boiling

over.

11. Foods should be well sealed (but not airtight) in a container

to prevent the loss of liquid during cooling. Aluminium foil

gives a good seal.

12. Ensure food is cooked thoroughly before serving.

Automatic Cooking

Guidance on

automatic cooking