Guidance Care & Use
Pans
1. Select the pan that is right for you.
2. Avoid overheating the pan.
- If you use moderate heat, aroma and taste have more opportunity to develop. So your food will be more enjoyable and your pan will last longer.
- NEVER heat the pan when it is empty.
- Select the cooker ring with the correct diameter for the pot and never use a ring which is too small. Please also follow your cooker or hob instructions.
- Distribute the oil or fat evenly over the base of the pan and heat in stages. NEVER start at the highest setting. Heat thin-based pans particularly slowly and carefully.
- The correct temperature has been reached with the fat or oil shows ripples as it moves around the pan.
- Turn down the temperature immediately if the oil begins to steam or smoke. Depending on the type of oil used, the optimum temperature should be around 200 °C.
- When cooking on induction hobs, please check that your pan is suitable for induction. If so, never use the boost function, as this is intended for rapid heating of large quantities of liquid and not for frying.
3. Always watch the pan when frying food.
- Oil can catch fire.*)
- The pan can overheat.
- The food can burn.
- *) Caution: if the oil catches fire, never try to extinguish with water. Close the pan with the lid in order to cut off the supply of oxygen.
4. Clean your pan in the right way.
- Remove food residues with a paper towel.
- Remove any remaining residues with a soft sponge or cloth and mild detergents.
- Avoid abrasive scrubbers and cleaners, steel wool, hard brushes etc. and also aggressive and abrasive cleaning agents and detergents.
- If crusts form that are hard to remove, soak for some time in water and detergent. If material has burnt on hard, bring briefly to the boil.
- You can wash the pan in the dishwasher – but this shortens the life of the non-stick coating. Washing by hand helps to protect the pan.
5. Store carefully.
- Dry carefully, then hang up or stack.
- If pans are stacked, lay kitchen paper or pan protectors between the individual pans in order to avoid scratching.