Indesit K6 C11/R: Practical Cooking Advice

Practical Cooking Advice

When cooking in the oven, use only one dripping pan or

rack at a time. Select from among the top or bottom rack

Cooked well on the inside but sticky on the

heights based on whether the dish needs more or less

outside

heat from the top.

Use less liquid, lower the temperature, and increase

Preheating

the cooking time.

If the oven must be preheated (this is generally the case

when cooking leavened foods), we recommend you use

The pastry sticks to the pan

the “convection mode” to reach the desired temperature

as quickly as possible. When preheating is over, which is

Grease the pan well and sprinkle it with a dusting of

indicated by the red light “E” going out, select the

flour.

required cooking mode.

Cooking Fish and Meat

I used more than one level and they are not all at

When cooking white meat, fowl and fish, use temperature

the same cooking point

settings from 180 °C to 200 °C.

For red meat that should be well done on the outside while

Use a lower temperature setting. It is not necessary to

tender and juicy in the inside, it is a good idea to start with

remove the food from all the racks at the same time.

a high temperature setting (200°C-220°C) for a short time,

then turn the oven down afterwards.

Using the Grill

In general, the larger the roast, the lower the temperature

Use the

“grill” mode, placing the food under the cen-

setting. Place the meat on the centre of the grid and place

tre of the grill (situated on the 3rd or 4th rack form the

the dripping pan beneath it to catch the fat.

bottom) because only the central part of the top heating

Make sure that the grid is inserted so that it is in the centre

element is turned on.

of the oven. If you would like to increase the amount of

Use the bottom rack (1st from the bottom), placing the

heat from below, use the low rack heights. For savoury

dripping pan provided to collect any sauce and/or grease

roasts (especially duck and wild game), dress the meat

and prevent the same from dripping onto the oven bot-

with lard or bacon on the top.

tom.

Baking Cakes

When using this mode, we recommend you set the ther-

When baking cakes, always preheat the oven and do not

mostat to the highest setting. However, this does not mean

open the oven door during baking to prevent the cake

you cannot use lower temperatures, simply by adjusting

from dropping. In general:

the thermostat knob to the desired temperature.

In models fitted with a rotisserie

, you can use the spit

Pastry dropped

kit provided when using the “grill” mode. In this case, cook

with the oven door shut, placing the spit kit on the third

Use less liquid or lower the temperature by 10°C.

oven rack from the bottom and the dripping pan on the

bottom rack to collect any sauce and /or dripping fat.

Pastry is too dark on top

Important: always use the grill with the oven door shut.

This will allow you both to obtain excellent results and to

Place it on a lower rack, lower the temperature, and

save on energy (approximately 10%).

increase the cooking time.

Therefore the best results when using the grill modes

are obtained by placing the grid on the lower racks

(see cooking table) then, to prevent fat and grease

from dripping onto the bottom of the oven and smoke

from forming, place a dripping-pan on the 1st oven

rack from the bottom.

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