PHILCO PHGR 9000 Contact Grill User Manual
- June 3, 2024
- PHILCO
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PHILCO PHGR 9000 Contact Grill
Dear customer
Thank you for buying a PHILCO brand product. So that your appliance serves you well, please read all the instructions in this user’s manual.
IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please read the manual carefully before operating your product. Retain it for future reference.
Please refer to different parts of this manual or corresponding icons before operation, maintenance, and installation of products.
When using electrical appliances, basic safety precautions should always be followed:
- Read all instructions before using the machine.
- This appliance can be used by children aged from 8 years and above and persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities or lack of experience and knowledge if they have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance in a safe way and understand the hazards involved.
- Children shall not play with the appliance. Children shall not play with the appliance. Cleaning anduser maintenance shall not be made by children unless they are older than 8 and supervised.
- This appliance is intended to be used in household and similar applications such as:
- Staff kitchen areas in shops, office and other working environments;
- farm houses;
- by clients in hotels, motels and other residential type environments;
- bed and breakfast type environments;
- lf the supply cord is damaged, it must be replaced by the manufacturer, its service agent or similarly qualified persons in order to avoid a hazard.
- 6. Please turn off and unplug the appliance before cleaning, maintenance or relocation and whenever it is not in use.
- 7. This appliance as well as the cooking utensils used and the surface of the appliance can become very hot, do not touch the hot surface of the hob.
- 8. That appliances are not intended to be operated by means of an external timer or separate remote-control system.
- 9. In order to prevent electric shock, please do not immerse the power cord and plug or part of them in water or other liquids.
- 10. Power supply should be cut off when it is not in use or before cleaning. Please clean the baking tray after it cools down.
- Please do not put it on hot coal gas or electric stoves, or in a heated oven.
- Care should be taken when moving appliances containing hot oil or other hot liquid.
- Do not heat or preheat without two cooking trays in the grill.
- To disconnect, turn any control to „off,“ then remove plug from the wall outlet.
- A short power-supply cord is to be provided to reduce the risk resulting from becoming entangled in or tripping over a longer cord.
- Longer extension cords are available and may be used if care is exercised in their use.
- lf a long extension cord is used:
- The marked electrical rating of the extension cord should be at least as great as the electrical rating of the appliance;
- The longer cord should be arranged so that it does not drape over the countertop or tabletop where it can be pulled on by children or tripped over unintentionally.
HOUSEHOLD USE ONLY SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS
PRODUCT DISPLAY
CONTROL PANEL
- Automatic programs (this is not a touch area)
- Touch control buttons for setting temperature/time and for turning the machine off
- Rotating knob for setting temperature/time or selecting programs including their launching
- Roast level indicator
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Product model| Rated voltage| Rated frequency|
Rated power
---|---|---|---
PHGR 9000| 220-240V-| 50/60HZ| 1750-2100W
BEFORE USE
The first use of the product will have a small amount of lampblack, is a
normal phenomenon. Place the grill on a clean, flat surface. The grill can be
positioned in
three ways:
CLOSED POSITION
Place the upper housing on the base This position is used to start and heat when using a contact grill.
OPEN POSITION
- Open the upper housing at 100°. To adjust the grill to this position, you need to lift the rocker by hand until you feel that the upper housing is locked in this position.
- Release your hands and keep the upper housing in this position until you close it.
HORIZONTAL PLACEMENT
The upper and lower baking trays can be placed horizontally, and the upper and lower trays are arranged in a row to form a large cooking area as a grill.
- Adjust grill to open position.
- Put your left hand on the rocker bar and push it gently in your direction and press the spring button at the same time. Push the rocker bar back until the upper housing is level. If the grill is in an open position and you want to adjust to a closed position, you need to gently pull the handle toward yourself until the upper housing is level.
REMOVE THE BAKING TRAY
- When the baked machine is in the cooling state, adjust it to the open position. Press the ON/OFF button for the baking tray.
- The lower baking tray‘s switch button is on the right side of the base.
- The upper baking tray switch button is located in the middle of the upper housing.
- Grasp the baking tray with both hands and gently pull it out of the reflector.
REMOVE OIL-RECEIVING BOX
Make sure the oil tray slides into the center of the rear of the base before use. Oil stains on the baking tray can flow into the oil-receiving box through the oil-receiving port. When the baked machine is completely cooled down, it can be removed and cleaned in the dishwasher.
SPECIFIC OPERATION STEPS
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Plug in the power supply and touch the „ “ button, the products will get into a standby state and the nixie tube indicator light displays “—-“.
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Place frozen food to the BBQ and close the upper cover. To defrost the food, select the drop and snowflake program.
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Select the required program and press the „ “. button. The appliance will start to preheat. When selecting the pork, beef or fish program, the doneness
indicator will start flashing and you will be able to select the level of doneness (Rare/Medium/Well-done). The level of doneness can be selected by rotating the knob. The indicator light “ Preheat ” flickers indicating that the machine is in the preheating state, and the indicator light up all the time indicating that the preheating progress is finished. -
Open the upper housing after preheating and put the food on the baking tray, then close the upper housing and start cooking. Indicator light „Cooking“ is on.
Note- lf the machine is on for a long time, the safety system will automatically shut down the machine.
- The machine can automatically identify the thickness of food and automatically adjust the cooking time and temperature. The degree of cooking can be shown by a display light.
- To achieve the best results, refrain from opening the appliance while cooking.
- Food higher than 50 mm should be set manually. The BBQ is not able to set the preparation time optimally.
- lt is normal to have smoke when cooking.
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When the food meets your need (Rare/Medium/Well-done), open the upper housing and take out the food.
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When the cooking is over, return to step 1. If you continue cooking, repeat steps 2, 3, 4, and 5.
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When the lid is opened, only DIY function is available to operate. Please do not open the lid when it is preheating. It will turn to a DIY function after 10 seconds when the lid is opened.
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For manual DIY preparation after the BBQ has been switched on, press the TIME/TEMPERATURE button. First select time using the rotating knob. After you press the TIME/TEMPERATURE button again, you will be able to use the rotating knob to set the temperature. Then simply confirm your choice using the “(play)” button and the BBQ will start to heat up.
AUTOMATIC GEAR RECIPE
For the best grilling results always wait for the food to reach the ambient temperature after seasoning. It will lose less juice during grilling and the resulting dish will be juicier and tastier.
| Item | Doneness | How to operate | Results |
|---|
Beef
|
Rare
|
1. Make your steak dry with kitchen paper in 2-5°C.
2. Seasoned well and broached with some butter melted or olive oil Extra virgin.
| This doneness is making the steak’s fat melt and cause the butter with great flavor effect, with a lot of moisture and very juicy texture. A rare steak is red at the very center, following by a pink ring around the center and then comes a brown crust on the outside.
Medium
| The steak will not have a red center anymore and the red color will be replaced by a pink throughout color. At this doneness level, the steak will retain the buttery and flavorful taste, just like the rare level, but will have less juice and will be less tender due to more moisture evaporating.
Well
| When your steak reaches this level, it will retain just a little bit of pink color inside and will still be tender but not as much as other doneness levels. This temperature level will make the steak become drier and less tender than most people like.
Pork
| Rare| 1. Make your steak dry with kitchen paper in 2-5°C.
2. Seasoned well and broached with some butter melted or olive oil Extra virgin
| Pinkish overall color with outer brow portion, juicy and tender. Perfect
doneness for cooking pork loin or tenderloin.
Medium| Mostly brown color, with little pink color inside.
This cooking doneness is recommended to cook fatty meats like top loin.
Well| Brown-grey color throughout, firm to touch. Is recommended to the ones can’t see any pink part on the meet, but we still keep light moisture without completely overcook the meet.
Chicken
| Rare|
1. Make your steak dry with kitchen paper in 2-5°C.
2. Seasoned well and broached with some butter melted or olive oil Extra virgin.
| Pinkish overall color with outer white portion, juicy and tender. Perfect
doneness for cooking Breast without skin.
Medium| Mostly brown color, with little pink color inside.
This cooking doneness is recommended to cook meats with skin like boneless drumsticks.
Well
| Brown-grey color throughout, firm to touch. This cooking doneness is recommended to cook the foods with bones, but still keeping light moisture without completely overcooking the meat. Perfect for chicken wings, or whole drumsticks.
Fish
|
Rare
|
1. Make your steak dry with kitchen paper in 2-5°C.
2. Seasoned well and broached with some butter melted or olive oil Extra virgin.
| Surface is well-sealed and brown and the inner part keep juicy, completely
tender and easy to melt in the mouth. Perfect for any type of fish has been
frozen before to cook, to prevent parasites issues of this cooking doneness.
Medium| Surface is well sealed and brown and the inner part keep less juice,
almost completely cook and perfect for people like fish well cook.
Well| Well browned and completely cook, It’s dry and not much moisture on the
inner part. People who really can accept moisture on their fish will accept
this doneness.
Shrimp
| Rare| 1. Make your steak dry with kitchen paper in 2-5°C.
2. Seasoned well and broached with or olive oil Extra virgin.
| Keep juicy and part of it is raw, best to the one like their seafood less
cooked.
Medium| Almost all cooked, keeping moisture but no raw parts.
Well
|
Browned and flavored, well-cooked to the ones don’t like the felling of no cook seafood.
| Item | Doneness | How to operate | Results |
|---|
Sandwich
| ****
Cook
| 1. Buttered your bread to get better results and good flavors.| ****
Get good and even brown in all your sized sandwiches and get well-tempered in the inner part, without burning the outside part.
Sausage
| ****
Rare
| ****
1. Make your steak dry with kitchen paper in 2-5°C.
2. Seasoned well and broached with some butter melted or olive oil Extra virgin.
| Pinkish overall color with outer white portion, juicy and tender. Perfect doneness for cooking pre Boiled sausages.
Medium
| Mostly brown color, with little pink color inside. Cooking doneness is recommended to cooking Breakfast sausages like Chipolata or merguez.
Well
| Brown-grey color throughout, firm to touch. Is recommended for raw sausages that don‘t have any precook process.
Bacon
| Rare| ****
1. Preheat the appliance and just add your bacon on it.
| Light cook, Just tempered your bacon without burned parts. Perfect for cured
bacons.
Medium| Well cook but keeping moisture on it. Best choice for parboiled
bacons.
Well| Well-cooked and crispy, to the one likes his bacon well toasted.
- Chicken/Shrimp/Bacon/Sausage/Sandwich“ programs will only available for chosen by well-done.
CARE AND CLEANING
- Please remove the baking tray to avoid damaging the surface of the baking tray before cleaning. Oil trays and baking trays are safe in the dishwasher. If you don‘t want to put them in the dishwasher, you can use a small amount of detergent to clean the baking tray, then rinse thoroughly and remove the residues and wipe thoroughly with a paper towel.
- Appliances and power cord cannot be put into the dishwasher after removing the baking tray. If the machine is dirty, it needs to wait until it is completely cooled before cleaning with a dry cloth. Note:
- Please do not try to clean any part of the grill with metal wash pads, steel wire cotton, etc. Use only nylon or non-metal cleaning pads.
- Do not immerse the grill in water or other liquids. Make sure the grill is dry before storage. Any other servicing should be performed by an authorized service representative.
FAULT EXPLANATION
Nixie tube display| Cause| Fault Analysis and Phenomena|
Checkpoints and exclusions
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E1| Open circuit of lower baking tray sensor| Unplugged lower baking tray
sensor or broken connection wire|
Deliver the appliance to the authorized Maintenance Department
E2| Short circuit of lower baking tray sensor| Lower baking tray sensor
breakdown or connection wire melting adhesion
E3| Open circuit of upper baking tray sensor| Unplugged upper baking tray
sensor or broken connection wire
E4| Short circuit of upper baking tray sensor| Upper baking tray sensor
breakdown or connection wire melting adhesion
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