User manual AEG-ELECTROLUX OEKOS.2273-4DT

[. . . ] Notes which are important for your safety or for the proper functioning of the appliance are stressed with a warning triangle and/or with signal words (Warning!, Caution!, Attention!). Supplementary information regarding operation and practical applications of the appliance appear after this symbol. Tips and notes concerning economical and environmentally sound use of the appliance are marked with the flower. The operating instructions contain instructions for the correction of possible malfunctions by the user in the section "What to do if . . . ". [. . . ] Please do the same in reverse to insert the shelf at a different height. D351 Adjusting the upper door rack Depending on the food stored, the upper door racks can be changed to other holders or removed. Take out the refrigerators food, press the door racks digonally upwards at their edges, reposition them, and press them back into pla PR270/1 38 Fresh food refrigeration To obtain the best performance: do not store warm food or evaporating liquide in the refrigeator do cover or wrap the food, particularly if it has a strong flavour. Position food so that air can circuiate freely round it. Useful hints: Meat (all types): wrap in polythene bags and place on the glass shelf above the vegetable drawer(s)For safety, store in this way only one or two days at the most. Cooked foods, cold dishes, etc: these should be covered and may be placed on any shelf. Fruit and vegetables: these should be thoroughly cleaned and placed in the special drawer(s) provided. Butter and cheese: these should be placed in special airtight containers or wapped in aluminium foil or polythene bags to exclude as much air as possible. Milk bootles: these should have a cap and should be stored in the bottle rack on the door. Bananas, potatoes, onions and garlic, if not packed, must not be kept in the refrigerator. Freezing and storing frozen food You can use your freezer for freezing fresh food yourself. Important! The temperature in the freezer compartment must be 18 C or colder before freezing food. Please observe the freezing capacity given on the rating plate. The freezing capacity is the maximum quantity of fresh food that can be frozen within a period of 24 hours. Fill the ice cube tray 3/4 full with cold water, place it in the freezer compartment and leave to freeze. To loosen the frozen cubes, either bend the ice cube tray or hold it under running water for a few seconds. Never try to free an ice tray that is frozen to the freezer compartment using pointed or sharp edged objects. Use the ice scraper supplied. Storage Goods Calendar Symbols/Freezing The symbols on the drawers show different types of frozen goods. The numbers indicate storage times in months for the appropriate types of frozen goods. Whether the upper or lower value of the indicated storage time is valid depends on the quality of the foods and pre-treating before freezing. The lower value applies to foods with high fat content. By attaching the included index-tabs to the drawers, they can be marked according to which type of foods the individual compartments contain. Defrosting Refrigerator Frost is automatically eliminated from the evaporator of the refrigerator compartment every time the motor compressor stops, during normal use. The defrost water drains out through a trough into a special container at the back of the appliance, over the motor compressor, where it evaporates. Freezer The freezer compartment, however, will become progrssively covered with frost. This should be removed with the special plastic scraper provided, whenever the tickness of the frost exceeds 4 mm. [. . . ] The appliance is near a heat Please look in the "Installasource. tion location" section. Interior lighting does not work. Light bulb is defective. Please look in the "Changing the Light Bulb" section. Carefully warm the leaking sections of the door seal with a hair dryer (not hotter than approx. At the same time shape the warmed door seal by hand such that it sits correctly. Heavy build up of frost, pos- Door seal is not air tight sibly also on the door seal. [. . . ]