Markings on the oven (icons)

Modern oven delight their mistresses abundance useful features and functions. But to understand them is not so easy, especially when it comes to read not handouts, and small icons on the control panel. Icons around the rotary knobs, the buttons and even on touch screens and numerous diverse - so the first time all of them do not remember, and especially do not understand that they represent. Of course, you should first read the instructions for your model ovenBut sometimes it may not be the answer to this simple question.

Designations often differ depending on the type of control coca implemented in a particular model. Therefore, we divide them into groups based on the same principle, to make it easier to navigate.

Manual control panel

Conventional rotary knobs are most often found on inexpensive oven with a small number of modes, as well as on gas models, since they are rich in functionality. The number of icons are usually small, and it will be easier to deal with them. The easiest way to orient indicators timer or thermostat, around which the manufacturer has prescribed heating temperature fairly straightforward. On the other icons have to meet.

The most popular symbols:

• "Lamp" - the inclusion of lighting in the oven for visual inspection of food preparation.
• "Snowflake" or "Snowflake with drops" - Defrosting.
• The horizontal line at the top of the icon, below or at the same time in two parts of a square -, respectively, heating the upper, lower TAN or both at once.
• If the dotted line plotted is the mode or the low-temperature cooking while sparing +70.. + 120 ° C.
• symbol indicates fan convection mode, i.e. blowing hot air chamber. Typically, the position of the working line is supplemented with PETN.
• Wavy line or teeth symbolize the grill. Additional horizontal bar above the icon - is the quick cooking on the grill, convection and the icon of the program, turbo grill.
• Bilateral horizontal arrow with a pair of handles - trochanter.

When using a convection oven is recommended to select the heating temperature at 20-40 ° C lower than with conventional regimens.

Sometimes panels ovens meet simple and recognizable symbols of specific modes of dishes, such as pizza baking, bread or confectionery. Here, you can guess the appointment of the selected option, but its characteristics (cooking time and the heating temperature) is better clarified in the instructions.

Electromechanics

This control panel allows you to better determine and control the operating modes of the oven. Therefore, here used their badges - in much larger quantities. Although from different manufacturers may have its own set of icons, the largest and most popular brands such as Siemens, Bosch, Electrolux Hotpoint-Ariston and prefer to simplify the problem to their customers and hold roughly the same system designations.

• The horizontal line from rising above the wavy "trickle pair" (one or three), - support temperature of ready meals at +60.. + 100 ° C.
• Cake in the form of three vertical wavy lines - the so-called Gratin mode, allowing you to create baked brown crust on the surface of the dishes.
• Those three waves, but on their own, or an icon "sun" refers to the drying mode.

In addition to the multi-function oven panels can be found icons corresponding to such modes as: heating plates before serving, yoghurt preparation and leaven ( "The cup"), proofing yeast dough, canned food sterilization.

Today there are quite a few additional icons for the various convection modes. Next to the fan can be the following notation:

• LTC - slow cooking, by which large pieces of baked meat obtained juicier.
• Three drops - additional treatment with superheated steam products.
• "Leaf" - the so-called eco mode with minimal energy costs.

Touch screen e PU

LED symbols appear on the display panel such lovely and intriguing. And all because there can be an unlimited number here, which is used by manufacturers, inventing new symbols introduced for cooking modes. Also features a sensor works allow to stand for individual programs additional options, which are also displayed as icons.

• "Clock" or two vertical strips with arrow directed to the right, - indicates that the selected mode, you can set the cooking time. If the needle deflects to the left, it means that you are required to select the finishing time of the oven.
• "Bell" - audio notification of completion of the program and the willingness dishes.

Number of various icons on the touch panel is really great, so that their transcript better clarified in the instructions for the specific model of the oven. The first time keep it close at hand, laying on the correct page, you will soon become familiar with the new technology and will be able to remove the "cheat sheet" to the rest of the documents.

We should also consider the icon oven with cooking function for a couple. Usually there are used four options:

• Cloud with three dashes - wet steam saturation of 100%.
• A hyphen and / or an inscription Low - little humidity in the chamber.
• Two stripes, «Med» - the average level of evaporation, ideal for baking.
• Three dashes, «High» - intensive evaporation.

Icons on the oven to help choose the right cooking mode for all meals. So do not ignore them, so as not to be disappointed in their kitchen appliances. Learn decoding pictograms and characteristics of the respective programs. And when you get acquainted with all the basic functions of a new furnace, any tips you no longer need.