EHF6140FOK
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EN HOB
USER MANUAL
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CONTENTS
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2.
3.
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8.
SAFETY INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
HELPFUL HINTS AND TIPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
CARE AND CLEANING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
TROUBLESHOOTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
TECHNICAL INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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.
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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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1. SAFETY INFORMATION
Before the installation and use of the appliance, carefully
read the supplied instructions. The manufacturer is not
responsible if an incorrect installation and use causes injuries and damages. Always keep the instructions with
the appliance for future reference.
1.1 Children and vulnerable people safety
WARNING!
Risk of suffocation, injury or permanent disability.
• This appliance can be used by children aged from 8
years and above and persons with reduced physical,
sensory or mental capabilities or lack of experience and
knowledge if they are supervised by an adult or a person who is responsible for their safety.
• Do not let children play with the appliance.
• 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.
• Cleaning and user maintenance shall not be made by
children without supervision.
1.2 General Safety
• The appliance and its accessible parts become hot
during use. Do not touch the heating elements.
• Do not operate the appliance by means of an external
timer or separate remote-control system.
• Unattended cooking on a hob with fat or oil can be
dangerous and may result in fire.
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• Never try to extinguish a fire with water, but switch off
the appliance and then cover flame e.g. with a lid or a
fire blanket.
• Do not store items on the cooking surfaces.
• Do not use a steam cleaner to clean the appliance.
• Metallic objects such as knives, forks, spoons and lids
should not be placed on the hob surface since they
can get hot.
• If the glass ceramic surface is cracked, switch off the
appliance to avoid the possibility of electric shock.
2.
SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
2.1 Installation
WARNING!
Only a qualified person must install this appliance.
• Remove all the packaging.
• Do not install or use a damaged appliance.
• 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 drawers make sure that the space, between
the bottom of the appliance and the upper drawer, is sufficient for air circulation.
• The bottom of the appliance can get
hot. We recommend to install a non-
combustile 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.
• The appliance must be earthed.
• Before carrying out any operation make
sure that the appliance is disconnected
from the power supply.
• Use the correct electricity mains cable.
• Do not let the electricity mains cable
tangle.
• Make sure the mains cable or plug (if
applicable) does not touch the hot appliance or hot cookware, when you
connect the appliance to the near sockets
• Make sure the appliance is installed
correctly. Loose and incorrect electricity
mains cable or plug (if applicable) can
make the terminal become too hot.
• Make sure that a shock protection is installed.
• Use the strain relief clamp on cable.
• Make sure not to cause damage to the
mains plug (if applicable) or to the
mains cable. Contact the Service or an
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electrician to change a damaged mains
cable.
• The electrical installation must have an
isolation device which lets you disconnect 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 contactors.
2.2 Use
WARNING!
Risk of injury, burns or electric
shock.
• Use this appliance in a household environment.
• Do not change the specification of this
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
surface 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 remnants, can cause fire at a lower temperature than oil used for the first time.
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• Do not put flammable products or items
that are wet with flammable products
in, near or on the appliance.
WARNING!
Risk of damage to the appliance.
• Do not keep hot cookware on the control 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 appliance.
• 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.
2.3 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.
2.4 Disposal
WARNING!
Risk of injury or suffocation.
• Contact your municipal authority for information on how to discard the appliance correctly.
• Disconnect the appliance from the
mains supply.
• Cut off the mains cable and discard it.
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3. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
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2
145 mm
180 mm
1 Cooking zone
2 Cooking zone
3 Control knobs
4 Cooking zone
180 mm
3
145 mm
5 Residual heat indicator
6 Cooking zone
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5
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3.1 The control knob
1 Assignment of control knobs
1
2 Heat setting (0-12)
2
3.2 Residual heat indicator
3.3 The heat setting
The residual heat indicator comes on
when a cooking zone is hot.
To activate and increase the heat setting
turn the knob clockwise. To decrease the
heat setting turn the knob counterclockwise. To deactivate turn the knob to the
0.
WARNING!
The risk of burns from residual
heat!
4. HELPFUL HINTS AND TIPS
4.1 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 glassceramic surface.
4.2 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.
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• The bottom of pans and cooking zones
must have the same dimension.
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4.3 Examples of cooking
applications
The data in the table is for guidance only.
Heat
setting
Application:
Time
Hints
1
To keep cooked food warm.
as required
Put a lid on the cookware.
1-3
To make Hollandaise sauce and 5-25
to melt butter, chocolate and ge- min
latine.
Mix at intervals.
1-3
To solidify fluffy omelettes and
baked eggs.
10-40
min
Cook with a lid on.
4-6
To simmer rice and milk-based
dishes and to heat up readycooked meals.
25-50
min
Add a minimum of two times
as much liquid as rice.
Stir milk dishes halfway
through.
4-6
To steam vegetables, fish and
meat.
20-45
min
Add some tablespoons of a
liquid.
5-7
To steam potatoes.
20-60
min
Use a maximum of ¼ l of water for 750 g of potatoes.
5-7
To cook larger quantities of food, 60-150 Add a maximum of 3 l of a
stews and soups.
min
liquid to the ingredients.
8-9
To lightly fry escalopes, veal cor- as redon bleu, cutlets, rissoles, saus- quired
ages, liver, eggs, pancakes and
doughnuts and to cook roux.
10-11 To fry hash browns, loin steaks
and steaks.
5-15
min
Turn halfway through.
Turn halfway through.
11-12 To boil large quantities of water, cook pasta, sear meat (goulash, pot
roast) and to deep-fry chips.
5. 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:
– Remove immediately: melted
plastic, plastic foil, and food with
sugar. If not, the dirt can cause
damage to the appliance. Use a
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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
cleaning agent for glass ceramic or
stainless steel.
Clean the appliance with a moist cloth
and some detergent.
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3.
At the end rub the appliance dry
with a clean cloth.
6. TROUBLESHOOTING
Problem
You cannot activate or
operate the appliance.
The residual heat indicator does not come on.
Possible cause
Remedy
The appliance is not connected to an electrical
supply or it is connected
incorrectly.
Check if the appliance is
correctly connected to
the electrical supply (refer
to connection diagram).
Problem with the house
electrical system.
Examine the fuse in the
electrical system of the
house in the fuse box. If
the fuses blow again and
again, speak to qualified
electrician.
The cooking zone is not
hot because it operated
only for a short time.
If the cooking zone operated sufficiently long to
be hot, 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 service and conditions of guarantee
are in the guarantee booklet.
7. INSTALLATION
WARNING!
Refer to the Safety chapters.
Before the installation
Before the installation of the appliance, record the information below from the rating
plate. The rating plate is on the bottom of
the appliance casing.
• Model ...........................
• PNC .............................
• Serial number ....................
7.1 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.
7.2 Connection cable
• The appliance is supplied with the connection cable.
• Replace the damaged mains cable with
a special cable (type H05BB-F Tmax
90°C; or higher). Speak to your local
Service Centre.
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7.3 Assembly
min.
500mm
min.
50mm
R 5mm
min.
55mm
490+1mm 560+1mm
min.
12 mm
min.
20 mm
min.
28 mm
If you use a protection box (an additional
accessory1)), 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.
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8. TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Modell EHF6140FOK
Prod.Nr. 949 596 009 00
Typ 58 PEE 01 AO
220-240 V 50-60 Hz
Made in Germany
Ser.Nr. ..........
6 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 — 180 mm
1800 W
9. ENVIRONMENT CONCERNS
Recycle the materials with the symbol
. Put the packaging in applicable
and electronic appliances. Do not dispose
appliances marked with the symbol
containers to recycle it.
Help protect the environment and human
health and to recycle waste of electrical
with the household waste. Return the
product to your local recycling facility or
contact your municipal office.
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