14. ENERGY EFFICIENCY..................... 54 FOR PERFECT RESULTS Thank you for choosing this AEG product. We have created it to give you impeccable performance for many years, with innovative technologies that help make life simpler features you might not find on ordinary appliances. Please spend a few minutes reading to get the very best from it.
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ENGLISH manufacturer is not responsible for any injuries or damages that are the result of incorrect installation or usage. Always keep the instructions in a safe and accessible location for future reference. 1.1 Children and vulnerable people safety This appliance can be used by children aged from 8 •...
Ensure that the appliance is switched off before • replacing the lamp to avoid the possibility of electric shock. Do not use a steam cleaner to clean the appliance. • Do not use harsh abrasive cleaners or sharp metal •...
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ENGLISH such a way that it cannot be removed • Do not let sparks or open flames to without tools. come in contact with the appliance • Connect the mains plug to the mains when you open the door. socket only at the end of the •...
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2.6 Internal light – Be careful when you open the appliance door when the function • The type of light bulb or halogen is activated. Steam can release. lamp used for this appliance is only – Open the appliance door with for household appliances.
ENGLISH 3. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 3.1 General overview Control panel Electronic programmer Water drawer Socket for the core temperature sensor Heating element Lamp Descaling pipe outlet Shelf support, removable Shelf positions 3.2 Accessories To bake and roast or as a pan to collect fat.
The set is not suitable for food that needs to soak in the water e.g. rice, polenta, pasta. 4. CONTROL PANEL 4.1 Electronic programmer Use the sensor fields to operate the appliance. Sensor Function Comment field Display Shows the current settings of the appliance.
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ENGLISH Sensor Function Comment field To confirm the selection or setting. Back key To go back one level in the menu. To show the main menu, touch the field for 3 seconds. Time and addi- To set different functions. When a heating func- tional functions tion operates, touch the sensor field to set the timer or the functions: Function Lock, Favourites,...
Symbol Function Fast Heat Up Indicator The function is active. It decreases the heat up time. Weight Automatic The display shows that the automatic weight system is active or that weight can be changed. Heat + Hold The function is active.
ENGLISH Do not put the strip into the running water! Test strip Hardness of the 3. Shake the strip to remove the excess water of the water. 4. After 1 minute check the hardness of the water according to the table below.
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Sym- Menu item Application VarioGuide Contains recommended oven settings for a wide choice of dishes. Select a dish and start the cook- ing process. The temperature and time are only guidelines for a better result and can be adjusted.
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ENGLISH Sym- Submenu Description Factory Settings Resets all settings to factory settings. 6.3 Submenu for: Cleaning Symbol Menu item Description Tank Emptying Procedure for removing the residual water from the water drawer after use of the steam functions. Steam Cleaning Plus Procedure for cleaning stubborn dirt with the support of an oven cleaner.
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Heating function Application Turbo Grilling To roast larger meat joints or poultry with bones on one shelf position. Also to make gratins and to brown. Bottom Heat To bake cakes with crispy bottom and to preserve food. Moist Fan Baking To bake breads, cakes and cookies.
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ENGLISH Heating function Application Dough Proving Steam humidifying action improves and speeds up the dough proving, prevents surface drying and keeps the dough elastic. Slow Cooking To prepare tender, succulent roasts. Bread Baking Use this function to prepare bread and bread rolls with a very good professional-like result in terms of crispiness, colour and crust gloss.
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ENGLISH Dish Dish Hare Quiche Lorraine • Leg of Hare Savory Flan • Saddle of Hare • Saddle of Hare Food Category: Cake/Pastry Dish Venison Ring Cake Game • Haunch of Veni- Apple Cake, cov- • Saddle of Veni- ered Sponge Cake Roast Game Apple Pie...
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Dish Dish Yeast Cake Broccoli, whole Crumble Cake Cauliflower, Florets Sugar Cake Cauliflower, whole Short Pastry Flan Carrots Base Courgette Slices Flan Base Sponge Mixture Asparagus, green Flan Base Asparagus, white Short Pastry Fruit Flan Pepper Stripes Fruit Flan...
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ENGLISH WARNING! Dish Use only cold tap water. Do not use filtered Croquettes (demineralised) or distilled water. Do not use other Wedges liquids. Do not put Hash Browns flammable or alcoholic liquids into the water Boiled Potatoes, drawer. quartered 1. Press the cover of the water drawer Boiled Potatoes to open it.
Let the appliance dry fully When temperature is reached the buzzer with the door open. To sounds 3 times and the bar flashes and speed up the drying you can then disappears. close the door and heat up the appliance with True Fan 6.10 Fast Heat Up Indicator...
ENGLISH 7.2 Setting the clock functions • The function: Duration is set. The function: Heat + Hold keeps Before you use the prepared food warm at 80 °C for 30 functions: Duration, End minutes. It activates after the baking or Time, you must set a heating roasting procedure ends.
9. USING THE ACCESSORIES WARNING! Refer to Safety chapters. 9.1 Food sensor The food sensor measures temperature inside the food. When the food is at the set temperature, the appliance deactivates. There are two temperatures to be set: • the oven temperature (minimum 120 °C),...
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ENGLISH Food category: casserole 7. Set a heating function and, if necessary, the oven temperature. 1. Activate the appliance. 8. To change the food core 2. Place half of the ingredients in a temperature, press baking dish. When the dish is at the set temperature, 3.
Push the baking tray / deep pan between Small indentation at the top the guide bars of the shelf support and increase safety. The the wire shelf on the guide bars above. indentations are also anti-tip devices. The high rim...
ENGLISH When you deactivate the Temperature (°C) Switch-off time (h) appliance, the function also deactivates. 120 - 195 10.4 Set + Go 200 - 230 The function lets you set a heating The Automatic switch-off function (or a programme) and use it does not work with the later with one press of any symbol.
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11.1 Inner side of the door Defrost In some models, on the inner side of the door you can find: Remove the food packaging and put the • the numbers of the shelf positions. food on a plate. Do not cover the food •...
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Food Temperature (°C) Time (min) Shelf position Dried beans, 55 - 65 soaked (water / beans ratio 2:1) Snow peas (kai- 20 - 30 ser peppers) Cabbage white 40 - 45 or red, stripes Pumpkin, cubes 15 - 25...
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ENGLISH Food Temperature (°C) Time (min) Shelf position Fragrant rice (wa- 30 - 35 ter / rice ratio 1:1) Lentils, red (wa- 20 - 30 ter / lentils ratio 1:1) Lentils, brown 55 - 60 and green (wa- ter / lentils ratio 2:1) Rice pudding 40 - 55...
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Meat Food Temperature (°C) Time (min) Shelf position Cooked ham 1000 g 55 - 65 Chicken breast, poach- 25 - 35 Chicken, poached, 60 - 70 1000 - 1200 g Veal / pork loin with- 80 - 90 out leg, 800 - 1000 g...
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ENGLISH Food Turbo Grilling (first step: cook Full Steam (second step: add vege- meat) tables) Tempera- Time (min) Shelf posi- Tempera- Time (min) Shelf posi- ture (°C) tion ture (°C) tion Roast beef 60 - 70 meat: 1 40 - 50 meat: 1 1 kg vegeta-...
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Food Temperature (°C) Time (min) Shelf position Roast beef 1000 g 180 - 200 60 - 90 Roast veal 1000 g 80 - 90 Meat loaf, uncooked, 30 - 40 500 g Smoked loin of pork 160 - 180...
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ENGLISH • Cakes and pastries at different • Trays in the oven can twist during heights do not always brown equally baking. When the trays become cold at first. If this occurs, do not change again, the distortions disappear. the temperature setting. The differences equalize during the baking procedure.
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Food Function Temperature Time (min) Shelf position (°C) Fatless sponge True Fan Cook- 140 - 150 35 - 50 cake / Fatless sponge cake Fatless sponge Conventional 35 - 50 cake / Fatless Cooking sponge cake Flan base - short...
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ENGLISH Food Function Temperature Time (min) Shelf position (°C) Swiss roll Conventional 10 - 20 180 - 200 Cooking Cake with crum- True Fan Cook- 150 - 160 20 - 40 ble topping (dry) Buttered al- Conventional 20 - 30 190 - 210 mond cake / Cooking...
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Food Function Temperature Time (min) Shelf position (°C) Pastries made True Fan Cook- 80 - 100 120 - 150 with egg white / Meringues Macaroons True Fan Cook- 100 - 120 30 - 50 Biscuits made True Fan Cook-...
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ENGLISH Food Function Temperature Time (min) Shelf position (°C) Stuffed vegeta- True Fan Cook- 160 - 170 30 - 60 bles 1) Preheat the oven. 11.12 Moist Fan Baking Food Temperature Time (min) Shelf position (°C) Pasta gratin 200 - 220 45 - 55 Potato gratin 180 - 200...
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Food Temperature Time (min) Shelf position (°C) 2 positions 3 positions Short bread / 25 - 45 1 / 4 1 / 3 / 5 Short bread / Pastry Stripes Biscuits made 160 - 170 25 - 40 1 / 4...
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ENGLISH Food Temperature (°C) Time (min) Shelf position Flammekuchen (Piz- 15 - 25 210 - 230 za-like dish from Al- sace) Piroggen (Russian 15 - 25 180 - 200 version of calzone) 1) Preheat the oven. 2) Use a deep pan. 11.15 Roasting •...
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Food Quantity Function Tempera- Time (min) Shelf posi- ture (°C) tion Chop / Spare 1 - 1.5 kg Turbo Grill- 170 - 190 30 - 60 Meatloaf 750 g - 1 kg Turbo Grill- 160 - 170 50 - 60...
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ENGLISH Food Quantity Function Temperature Time (min) Shelf posi- (°C) tion Half chicken 400 - 500 g Turbo Grill- 190 - 210 40 - 50 each Chicken, 1 - 1.5 kg Turbo Grill- 190 - 210 50 - 70 poulard Duck 1.5 - 2 kg Turbo Grill-...
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Fast Grilling Food Time (min) Shelf position 1st side 2nd side Burgers / Burgers 8 - 10 6 - 8 Pork fillet 10 - 12 6 - 10 Sausages 10 - 12 6 - 8 Fillet / Veal steaks...
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ENGLISH Food Function Temperature Time (min) Shelf position (°C) Conventional 200 - 220 as per manufac- French fries Cooking or Tur- turer’s instruc- (300 - 600 g) bo Grilling tions Baguettes Conventional as per manufac- as per manufac- Cooking turer’s instruc- turer’s instruc- tions tions...
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• When the liquid in the jars starts to oven or decrease the temperature to simmer (after approximately 35 - 60 100 °C (see the table). minutes with one-litre jars), stop the Soft fruit Food Temperature (°C) Cooking time until...
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ENGLISH Food Temperature Time (h) Shelf position (°C) 1 position 2 positions Herbs 40 - 50 2 - 3 1 / 4 Fruit Food Temperature Time (h) Shelf position (°C) 1 position 2 positions Plums 60 - 70 8 - 10 1 / 4 Apricots 60 - 70...
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Pork Food core temperature (°C) Less Medium More Ham, Roast Chop (saddle), Smoked pork loin, Smoked loin poached Veal Food core temperature (°C) Less Medium More Roast veal Knuckle of veal Mutton / lamb Food core temperature (°C) Less...
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ENGLISH Fish (salmon, trout, zander) Food core temperature (°C) Less Medium More Fish (whole / large / steamed), Fish (whole / large / roasted) Casseroles - Precooked vegeta- Food core temperature (°C) bles Less Medium More Zucchini Casserole, Broccoli Casserole, Fennel Casserole Casseroles - Savoury Food core temperature (°C)
WARNING! steel parts. Refer to Safety chapters. You can buy our products at www.aeg.com/shop and at the best 12.1 Notes on cleaning retailer shops. • Clean the front of the appliance with a 12.3 Removing the shelf soft cloth with warm water and a cleaning agent.
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ENGLISH 12.4 Steam Cleaning This is not the end of the cleaning Remove as much dirt as possible procedure. Follow manually. the message in the Remove the accessories and the shelf display to complete the cleaning. support to clean the side walls. d) Wipe the internal surface of the The steam cleaning functions support appliance with a non-abrasive...
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12.7 Descaling reminder Select the function from the menu: Cleaning. The user interface will guide There are two descaling reminders which you through the procedure. remind you to perform the function: The duration of the complete procedure Descaling. These reminders activate is about 2 hours.
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ENGLISH The duration of the function is around 6 5. Put the door with the outer side minutes. down on a soft cloth on a stable surface. This is to prevent scratches. The light in this function is off. 6. Hold the door trim (B) on the top 1.
2. Remove the metal ring and clean the WARNING! glass cover. Danger of electrocution! 3. Replace the lamp with a suitable 300 Disconnect the fuse before °C heat-resistant lamp. you replace the lamp. 4. Attach the metal ring to the glass The lamp and the lamp glass cover.
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ENGLISH Problem Possible cause Remedy The oven does not heat up. The fuse is blown. Make sure that the fuse is the cause of the malfunction. If the fuse is blown again and again, contact a quali- fied electrician. The lamp does not operate. The lamp is defective.
We recommend that you write the data here: Model (MOD.) ......... Product number (PNC) ......... Serial number (S.N.) ......... 14. ENERGY EFFICIENCY 14.1 Product Fiche and information according to EU 65-66/2014 Supplier's name Model identification BD740S Energy Efficiency Index 81.0...
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ENGLISH Energy efficiency class Energy consumption with a standard load, conven- 1.09 kWh/cycle tional mode Energy consumption with a standard load, fan-forced 0.68 kWh/cycle mode Number of cavities Heat source Electricity Volume 70 l Type of oven Built-In Oven Mass 39.0 kg EN 60350-1 - Household electric cooking Residual heat...
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15. ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS marked with the symbol with the Recycle the materials with the symbol household waste. Return the product to Put the packaging in applicable your local recycling facility or contact containers to recycle it. Help protect the your municipal office.