ASKO HID945MC (01) PDF Document

Before use, read the Safety instructions first.

• The appliance is not intended to be operated by means of an external timer or separate remote-control system.

• If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the manufacturer, its service agent or similarly qualified persons in order to avoid a hazard.

• Do not use steam cleaners or high-pressure cleaners to clean the appliance, as this may result in an electric shock.

• CAUTION: The cooking process has to be supervised. A short term cooking process has to be supervised continuously.

• Metallic objects such as knives, forks, spoons and lids should not be placed on the hob surface since they can get hot.

• After use, switch off the hob element by its control and do not rely solely on the pan detector.

• Danger of fire: Do not store items on the cooking surfaces.

• WARNING: Unattended cooking on a hob with fat or oil can be dangerous and may result in fire. 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.

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 have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance in a safe way and understand the hazards involved. Children shall not play with the appliance. Cleaning and user maintenance shall not be made by children without supervision.

Children should be supervised to ensure that they do not play with the appliance.

WARNING: The appliance and its accessible parts become hot during use. Care should be taken to avoid touching heating elements. Children younger than 8 years of age shall be kept away unless continuously supervised.

WARNING: Accessible parts may become hot during use. Young children should be kept away. To avoid burns and scalds children should be kept away.

WARNING: If the surface is cracked, switch off the appliance to avoid the possibility of electric shock.

The cooking-time limiter is a safety function of your cooking appliance. It will operate if you forget to switch off your hob. Depending on the setting you have chosen, the cooking time will be limited as follows:

The boost setting switches automatically to setting 12 after 10 minutes. The cooking-time limiter for a specific cooking zone is reset after the user has changed the cooking level of that zone. Cooking zone related timers take priority over the cooking-time limiter.

• Place the tip of your finger flat on the control to achieve the best results. You do not have to apply any pressure.

• The touch sensors only react to the light pressure of a fingertip. Do not operate the controls with any other objects.

• The cooking hob is operated by a slider. You can either touch the selected part of the slider or slide in a circular motion clockwise to increase or anti-clockwise to decrease the power level and temperature.

• To set the cooking zone power level, touch the desired spot on the slider. As you touch the slider, the selected power level will appear on the cooking zone display unit.

• The selected part of the slider will be fully lit.

A magnetic field is generated in the appliance. By placing a pan with an iron base on a cooking zone, a current is induced in the pan base. This induced current generates heat in the base of the pan.

Easy: The electronic controls are accurate and easy to set. On the lowest setting, you can melt chocolate directly in the pan, for example.

Fast: Thanks to the induction hob’s high power levels, bringing liquid to the boil is very quick.

Clean: Because the cooking zones do not get any hotter than the pans themselves, food spills cannot be burnt on the cooking zone.

Safe: The heat is generated in the pan itself. The glass top does not get any warmer than the pan. Once a pan has been taken away, the cooking zone cools down quickly.

This induction hob is equipped with a smart power management system that ensures a maximum permissible power cannot be exceeded for safety reasons.

• The system will arrange the power distribution across the zones automatically. This means the hob could automatically decrease the power on one zone when the power level of another zone is increased.

• If the combined zones reach the maximum available power when a new power level is set, the power levels of one or more zones are automatically reduced. This is indicated by the flashing of the relevant control element.

• In case a zone is used for Celsius Cooking, this zone always gets the highest priority.

• Intervention by the power management system is more likely when the current limiter is set to a lower level.

Induction cooking requires a particular quality of pan. Only use pans that are suitable for induction cooking with a thick base (minimum 2.25 mm) and a flat base. Pans that have already been used for cooking on a gas hob are no longer suitable. You can check if your pans are suitable by using a magnet; a pan is suitable if the base of the pan is sufficiently attracted by the magnet.

Be careful with enamelled sheet-steel pans as the enamel may chip if you switch the hob on at a high setting when the pan is dry, the base may warp due to overheating, and they should be heated up slowly.

A ticking sound: This can be caused at lower power level settings or by the automatic pot detection.

Pans are making noise: Pans can make some noise during cooking. This is caused by the energy flowing from the hob to the pan. This is perfectly normal for some pans and will not damage the pans or the hob.

The fan is making noise: To increase its lifespan, the appliance is equipped with fans. During intense use, the fan is activated to cool down the appliance and you will hear a buzzing sound. The fan still runs for several minutes after the hob has been switched off.

The settings depend on the quantity and composition of the contents of the pan. The table below is a guideline only.

Touch the on/off key to switch on the hob. A short beep will be emitted. Rings on all sliders will light up, then gradually fade out. The slider will only remain lit on the cooking zones where you have placed pans. When a pan is removed, the slider will be switched off, while all internal rings will remain lit.

When no cooking zone is active for 60 seconds, the cooking hob will power off.

The cooking hob controls can be locked to prevent it from being switched on inadvertently. Child lock should be activated before starting to clean the hob to avoid accidental switching.

1. Turn on the hob by pressing the on/off key.

2. Touch the on/off key and hold it for 3 seconds.

3. The indication L will appear on the display unit, and the hob controls will be locked.

To unlock the controls, proceed in the same way. The indication L together with sliders will appear on all cooking zone displays where pans are present, and the hob controls will be unlocked.

The Boost function allows you to rapidly heat large amounts of food using extra power. Boost is active for no more than 10 minutes; then, the power level automatically decreases to 12. If the cooking hob is not too hot, the boost can be reactivated for another 10 minutes after it is switched off.

Activating boost:

First activate power level 12 and then press the button for power level 12 a second time. “boost” will appear on the display. Alternatively, activate power level 12 clockwise and slide a little beyond the button 12. If auto boost is activated in the settings, boost is always activated together with power level 12.

Deactivating boost:

To deactivate the boost for the selected cooking zone, press level 12 again or select any other power level on the slider.

If you remove a pan from an active cooking zone and place it on a different cooking zone within 6 seconds, all the timer and cooking-related settings can be transferred to the new cooking zone. To do this, touch the slider of the new cooking zone. To indicate this possibility, the new cooking zone displays copied settings on the slider. When the confirmation is done, the previous cooking zone is deactivated.

Two adjacent square cooking zones can be merged into a single large cooking zone. When a pan is placed on the hob, the pan recognition function will recognize its position and automatically connect the bridge cooking zones depending on the size of the pan. The power level or temperatures are displayed simultaneously on both bridged cooking zones, but can only be adjusted on the left or upper slider. You can un-bridge or manually bridge the cooking zones by touching the two corresponding sliders at the same time.

The pause function can be used to pause the operation of the entire cooking hob for up to 10 minutes. This allows you to walk away from the appliance or safely clean the cooking hob without losing your settings.

Switching on the pause:

At least one cooking zone must be active. Touch the pause button (II). You will hear a short beep. The settings on all active hobs are reduced to level 2, and all timer functions are paused. All keys are inactive except the pause and on/off key. If no key is pressed within 10 minutes, all active hobs automatically turn off.

Switching off the pause:

Press the pause key again within 10 minutes. The hob continues to operate with the same settings as before the break. Timers are also unpaused.

This feature allows you to recall all the settings of the cooking zones if the hob was accidentally switched off. Within 6 seconds, the hob must be switched back on. Pressing anywhere on the slider within those 6 seconds recalls all the settings from before the appliance was last switched off.

Every cooking zone has two timers: a count-down program timer and a stopwatch (count-up timer).

Setting the count-down timer:

1. Press the count-down timer selector key for the desired active cooking zone. The key and 0:00 will flash on the display.

2. Set the desired cooking time with + and -.

3. If the time is not set within five seconds, the count-down timer is disabled.

Deactivating the count-down timer: Press the icon for the selected cooking zone and hold it for 3 seconds. The timer will be switched off.

Using the stopwatch: The stopwatch starts counting automatically in the background when you cook. Press the stopwatch key to display the time. To reset the stopwatch, press the key for 3 seconds.

The hob is fitted with a cooling fan which cools the electronic components during cooking. The fan may operate for a while even after the end of the cooking process.

The induction hob is also fitted with an overheating protector. When the cooking zone temperature gets very high, the cooking power is automatically reduced. If this does not suffice, the power continues to decrease until the safety mechanisms switch off the cooking zone completely. When the cooking hob has cooled off, its total power will be available again.

The PLUS menu allows cooking with semi-automatic programs, enabling temperature cooking for all kinds of cookware.

1. Touch the PLUS menu key to display the program line: keeping warm/heating up, frying/wok, and grill (in bridge mode).

2. Choose one of the Plus programs by touching the relevant symbol. Then set the temperature with the slider.

3. When the selection does not change for 3 seconds, the program is activated. To deactivate a PLUS program, press the active program key for about three seconds or select a power level manually.

Always add water, oil, or butter before starting a program; do not use an empty pan or pot.

Functions:

• Keeping warm and Heating up: Melt chocolate (45 °C), keep food warm (70 °C), simmer (94 °C), or bring to a boil (100 °C).

• Frying/wok: Cook vegetables, fish, bacon, meat, fried potatoes, or eggs using butter or oil.

• Grill: This function is exclusively for bridged cooking zones, optimized for ASKO induction accessories grill plate and teppanyaki.

Prepare Probe:

1. Pull the battery protection tab out of the Probe housing.

2. The Probe is ready to be used. If necessary, replace the battery by unscrewing the battery cover. Insert the new battery with the negative (-) side going in first and replace the cover without overtightening.

Insert Probe into Pan:

1. Slide the suspension bracket over the pan edge.

2. Slide the Probe pin from the top into the suspension bracket. The tip of the probe should be 1 cm or more from the pan bottom.

Prepare Cookware:

1. Insert an AAA battery in the panhandle (negative (-) end goes in first).

2. Insert the handle cap into the panhandle and turn it a quarter to secure.

Assign Cookware to Cooking Zone:

1. Switch on the hob.

2. Place the Celsius°Cooking™ cookware or a regular pot with the probe on a desired cooking zone.

3. After it has been detected, quickly tap twice on the handle cap sensor or the probe housing to activate it.

4. The Celsius°Cooking™ mode key will light up on every possible cooking zone. Press the mode key on the needed cooking zone.

5. The Celsius°Cooking™ menu will open.

Cooking Programs:

• Heating up and frying: Reaches high temperatures rapidly. Always add oil or butter before starting.

• Boiling or cooking with water: Reaches high water temperatures quickly. Always add water before starting.

• Slow cooking or sous vide: Controls low to medium temperatures. Stir occasionally for even heat distribution.

If you own a compatible RF enabled hood, it can be connected to your hob. Pairing is done via the ‘hth’ (Hob to Hood) parameter in the Settings menu.

Switching extraction on and off:

• Press the key + for a higher fan setting. Press and hold + for 1 second for the highest setting.

• Press the key – to select a lower setting.

Switching the light on and off:

• Press the light key to switch the light on at maximum strength.

• To turn the light off, press the key again.

• Press and hold the light key to set the lighting intensity.

Changing the colour lighting temperature:

• Press the light key together with the – key to make the light ‘colder’ or with the + key to make it ‘warmer’.

Preparation:

1. Know your Wi-Fi network name (SSID) and password (only 2.4Ghz networks are supported).

2. Have the label with the QR code of the appliance’s unique ID (AUID) accessible.

3. Ensure Wi-Fi is activated on the hob (Wi-Fi key is visible).

4. Install the ConnectLife-app on your mobile device, register, and log in.

Connection Setup on the hob:

1. Switch on the hob.

2. Touch the Wi-Fi key for 3 seconds to enter the Wi-Fi menu (only possible when not cooking).

3. When ‘C’ (connection) is shown, touch the Wi-Fi key to activate Connection setup. ‘C’ will flash.

Follow instructions in the ConnectLife-app to add the appliance, scan the QR code, and connect your mobile device to the hob’s Wi-Fi network to complete the setup.

To receive firmware updates, your hob must be connected to the cloud via the ConnectLife app with a registered user account.

1. When a new firmware is available, a notification is sent to the ConnectLife app. Follow the instructions on the mobile app.

2. To start the update process, go to the hob’s settings menu and set the ‘FoA’ (Firmware over Air) setting to ON. This confirms your presence at the hob. After 90 minutes, this setting automatically resets to OFF.

3. After setting FoA to ON, start the update process on your mobile app.

The cooking hob will switch off, and the Wi-Fi symbol will flash during the process, which can take up to 60 minutes. The hob cannot be used during the update. Do not terminate the power supply or Wi-Fi connection.

1. While there are no pans on any zone, touch any slider with two fingers and keep it pressed for 3 seconds.

2. Different settings can now be toggled through using the slider.

3. To view or change a particular setting, touch the slider element with one finger and keep it pressed for 3 seconds.

4. Now you can choose to change or disable that setting. Toggle to the desired value.

5. After 3 seconds of inactivity, the new setting will be confirmed.

To exit the menu, press with two fingers anywhere on the slider for 3 seconds.

Set the locking function (Child Lock) before you start cleaning. It is recommended to clean the appliance after each use to prevent over-cooked food from damaging the glass surface.

Daily cleaning:

1. Use a damp cloth and a mild cleaning agent (washing-up liquid) to clean the appliance.

2. Dry the appliance with a paper towel or a cloth.

Heavily polluted glass:

1. Immediately remove any food remains, burned grease, sugar or stubborn stains using a scraper, even if the hob is still hot.

2. Hold the scraper at a 45° to 60° angle to the glass. Gently press it against the glass and slide it over the surface to remove the dirt.

3. After removing stubborn stains, use the daily cleaning steps to clean the hob.

4. If necessary, a special intensive cleaner for ceran/induction hobs can be used.

Do not use abrasive cleaning agents, steelwool, scourers, or any type of sharp objects to clean the appliance.

If the appliance does not work properly, try to deal with the problem by checking the points mentioned below.

In case of other error codes: please write down the error code and contact the service department.