VS3907 - Rice cooker TRISTAR - Free user manual and instructions

USER MANUAL VS3907 TRISTAR

Operating Instruction

Read the instruction carefully before using the appliance. Preserve this manual carefully for future reference.

Warnings for your safety

Any appliance you use, you must know the following precautions.

For the safety of you and your appliance, there are two directions in this instruction.

Warning: personal safety

Precautions: damage of appliance

Besides the above statements, we also provide the following suggestions of safety.

Safety:

• To avoid burns, do not touch the hot surface of the appliance, use oven gloves or a cloth when removing lid and hot food after steam escape gradually.
• To prevent fire, do not immerse the appliance, cord or plug into water or any other liquid.
• To prevent getting an electric shock or other dangers, do not wipe the plug with a damp cloth.
• Unplugging the appliance before you store the appliance, assemble, disassemble and clean the components of the appliance.
• Do not pour in water beyond the maximum mark, because the overflowing water when water boils may burn you.
• If the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the manufacture or its service agents or qualified electricians in order to avoid a hazard.

Position:

• Keep the appliance out of the reach of children.
• To avoid much steam spurt to cupboard, do not put the appliance under the cupboard.
• For household only.

Power cord :

• The main cord from socket to base body parts has not any deformed knot.
• Do not put the cord at the edges of table, position the appliance away from hot source

Children:

Never let children use the appliance, warn children that it is dangerous to touch the things that they can not get or can not see.

Other safety precautions:

• Never use any accessories or parts which have not been specifically advised by manufacturer, as it may cause fires or other dangers.
• Highly precaution: Do not remove the lid to touch the food, boiling water or any other liquid when the temperature is still high.
• When removing the lid which faces your body, be sure that the lid tilts towards your body.
• Do not place the appliance near a heated source or an oven.
• Do not use the appliance to cook acid food or alkaline food, and never position the appliance in a wet or corrosive place.
• When the water in water basin is less than a cup of water, please not use the appliance as it may be burned up.
• When in use, never be close to steam vent behind the transparent lid, otherwise you may get burned.

Requests for cord:

The voltage indicated on the appliance must correspond to the main voltage in your home before you connect the appliance.

Introduction for assembling the plug:

If you don't have the socket that fits the plug, have the socket replaced with the socket which is suitable for the plug of the appliance.

Precaution: When unplugging the appliance, to avoid getting an electric shock or other dangers, do not touch the metal and do not pull out strongly.

Before using the appliance, place it on floor.

components :

1. handle
2. lid handle
3. Lid
4. Upper steamer basket
5. Lock
6. Lower steamer basket
7. Drip tray
8. hole to add water
9. Gathering heat element
10. power Indicator lamp
11. Working Indicator lamp
12. Heating element
13. Water box
14. Water level window
15. 60 minutes timer with bell
16. Rice bowl
17. Base tray

Before the first use

Before first use, thoroughly clean all of the components of the appliance except the body.

Appliance for use:

• Fill the water box with pure water, do not add any soups or other liquid to the water box.
• The appliance is only suitable for cold water and never add warm water to the water box.
• Assemble the gathering heat element on the head of heating element.
• Assemble the drip tray which is used to collect all kinds of liquids e.g. gravies, sauces, soups and so on.
• Put food in the steamer basket, and according to the quantities of food you can use one layer or two layers or three layers.
• Assemble the lid.
• When plugged into the electrical outlet the indicator lamp will be on.
  Refer to the cooking guides, set the timer for the recommended time to cook your food.
• When the working light will go up, the appliance starts to work.
• When the recommended time has been reached, the working light will go out, the timer will give a ring, the appliance will stop working. The power indicator lamp is still on until the cord has been unplugged. Then remove the drip tray with oven gloves or a cloth after it is entirely cold.

Combination use:

One steamer basket: Use one steamer basket to cook the same food (e.g. peeled potatoes). While putting the food in the steamer basket, do not let the food stop up the holes at the bottom of the steamer basket to prevent the steamer from flowing.

Two steamer baskets: Place the larger quantities of food with more cooking time in the lower basket; put the easily cooking food in the upper basket. But the soups can drip from the upper basket so make sure that do not affect the flavors of the food.

Three steamer baskets: Always place the largest pieces of food with the longest cooking time in the lowest basket. Steaming time for food in the top basket is usually slightly longer than 3-5 minutes, because the food in the top basket need longer time to reach temperature. If you cook different kinds of food at the same time, you must put the food with the longest cooking time in the lower basket. e.g. if you cook meat, fish or poultry and vegetables together, always put the meat, fish or poultry in the lower basket so that the liquid form the meat, fish or poultry which are still raw or have been processed doesn't flow onto the other food.

Adding more water

Add more water if the appliance has been working for a long time.

Steam rice

The device which is used to steam rice specially can let you taste the delicious food.

• Place rice and water in the rice container.
• Put the rice container with the rice and water in the steam basket.
• Process the rice, according to the detailed processes.

Remove the steamer basket or put it in a microwave oven to heat food

• Overlap the first layer basket, the second layer basket and the third basket, and then put them on the base tray, assemble the lid. Lock among each basket, between basket and base tray, between lid and basket.
• Turn over the handle and carry the food to the place where you want to carry it to.
• Place cold food in the steamer (with tray and lid), and then place the steamer with cold food in the microwave oven to heat. If use the high temperature setting to process the food.

the processing time must be within 8 minutes.

Precaution: No matter how many baskets, make sure that the locks are closed firmly. Carrying it, the maximum weight is 4.5KG and the minimum weight is 1.5KG.

Special Precautions:

• Special attention: Place meat in the lowest layer.
• Steaming times stated in the charts and recipes are only a guide. Times may vary depending on the size of food pieces, space of the food in the steamer baskets, the quantities of the food, freshness of food and personal preference. As you become familiar with the steamer, adjust cooking times.
• It takes less time when you use a single basket than when you use two baskets or three baskets. So it needs more time when the quantity of the food is larger.
• For optimal results, be sure pieces of food are similar in size. If pieces vary in size and layering is required. Place smaller pieces on top.
• Do not fill the steamer basket or steamer bowl too full, and make the spacing between the different pieces of food as big as possible so plenty of steam can flow freely.
• To avoid water drops, always use drip tray.
• Never steam meat, poultry or seafood from frozen. Always thaw completely.

Cooking guides:

• The times stated in the following table are just a guide. They may vary depending on personal preference.
• The times in the following table are decided by the food in the lowest basket. It needs to add more water by the methods stated in the instruction if the processed time is long.
• When reaching the recommended time, the timer will go out automatically. It needs to reset again before use the appliance again.

Food kinds	weight	The lowest basket	The middle basket	The top basket
rice 400g	25-	30minutes	35-40 minutes
fish 400g	18-	22minutes	25-30 minutes
poultry 400g	25-	25-28minutes	28-32 minutes
beef 350g	25-	28minutes	25-32 minutes	28-35 minutes
vegetables 400g	15-	18-30 minutes	18-35 minutes
eggs 6PCS	12-	14-16 minutes	16-18 minutes

Safe cleaning:

Precaution: Before cleaning the appliance, let the food steamer cool down entirely, turn off the timer, unplug the appliance.

Steamer basket, lid, tray and drip tray: After washing them up with hot soapy water, rinse them with clean water and dry them thoroughly. It is better not to clean it in a dishwasher as the parts may be scraped.

The body of the food steamer: Wipe the base with a clean damp cloth, and then dry it with a soft dry cloth. Do not clean any parts with any wish-scrubber. To avoid ruining the base, do not put it in dishwasher.

Precaution: Do not immerse the body of the food steamer, cord and socket into water or any other liquid.

Dephosphorizing:

In some cases you need to clean the mineral of the surface of the appliance (dephosphorizing), this is caused by the water quality in your area. If you have found out that the working time of the appliance is getting longer, then you should dephosphorize the appliance via following methods:

• Pour a half base of white vinegar into the base.
• Post the drip tray, the lowest basket and lid in the base body of the appliance.
• Let the appliance, which has been set for 25minutes, cook until the timer ring.
• Let the food steamer cool down entirely.
• Pour the white vinegar out of the drip tray.
• Pour out the left white vinegar out of the water base.
• Give the water base several rinses in cold water.
• Dry all of the components before storing.

This appliance is not intended for use by persons (including children) with reduced physical or mental capabilities, or lack of experience and knowledge, unless they have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance by a person responsible for their safety.

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

Istruzioni d'uso

Guidelines for protection of the environment

This appliance should not be put into the domestic garbage at the end of its useful life, but must be disposed of at a central point for recycling of electric and electronic domestic appliances. This symbol on appliance, instruction manual and packaging puts your attention to this important issue. The materials used in this appliance can be recycled. By recycling used domestic appliances you contribute an important push to the protection of our environment. Ask your local authorities for information regarding the point of recollection..