User Manual

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Cooking with the Duo Plus
Introduction to Pressure Cooking
Pressure cooking uses steam pressure to raise the boiling point of water above.
This energy-efcient cooking method is the fastest way to thoroughly cook a
variety of your favourite meals.
Pressure cookers go through 3 stages when pressure cooking:
1. Pre-Heating and Pressurisation
The cooker waits 10 seconds to ensure you have nished inputting your selections,
then displays On to indicate it has begun pre-heating. While the cooker pre-heats,
it vaporises liquid in the inner pot to create steam. Once enough steam has built
up inside the inner pot, the oat valve pops up and locks the lid of the cooker in
place for safe pressure cooking.
When the oat valve pops up, the silicone cap attached to the bottom of the oat
valve (on the underside of the lid) seals the steam inside the cooking chamber
(the inner pot) and allows the pressure to rise even higher. A higher pressure
means a higher cooking temperature.
While it is normal to see some steam escaping through the oat valve during
Pre-Heating, if you see steam escaping from around the sides of the lid, press
Cancel and refer to
Troubleshooting.
Note: The time it takes your cooker to pressurise is determined by a variety of factors,
including food and liquid volume.
2. Cooking
After the oat valve pops up, the cooker needs a few minutes to nish building
pressure. When the required pressure level is reached, cooking begins. The
display switches from On to the cooking countdown timer, displayed in HH:MM
(hours : minutes) format.
Smart Programme settings (e.g., cooking time, temperature and/or pressure level,
and whether Keep Warm will come on automatically or not) can be adjusted at any
time during cooking. Refer to
Smart Programme Settings for details.