Table of cooking times
These cooking times are approximate and may need slight adjustment according to personal taste.
Vegetables
Artichoke
Asparagus
Beetroot, red
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage, green
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Courgettes
Endives
Green beans
Green lentils
(dried pulses)
Leek
Mushrooms
Peas
Potatoes (such as King
Edwards)
Pumpkin (mashed)
Rice
(Long grain white)
Spinach
Split peas
(dried pulses)
Turnips
Meat - Fish
Weight
Beef
1 kg (topside)
Chicken
1.2 kg (whole)
Lamb
1.3 kg (half leg)
Monkfish
0.6 kg (fillets)
Pork
1 kg (leg joint)
Salmon
0.6 kg (4 steaks)
Tuna
0.6 kg (4 steaks)
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Preparation
Cooking
- steam
Whole
- immersion
- immersion
Peel after cooking - steam
Florets
- steam
- steam
sliced
- steam
leaves
- steam
sliced
- steam
Florets
- immersion
- steam
5-cm pieces
- immersion
- steam
2.5-cm slices
- immersion
- steam
Whole or sliced
- steam
- immersion
5-cm slices
- steam
sliced
- steam
whole
- immersion
- steam
- steam
quartered
- immersion
pieces
- immersion
- immersion
see note below
- steam
- immersion
- immersion
- steam
2.5-cm cubes
- immersion
Steam = cooked in the steam basket
Immersion = cooked directly in water
RICE : never fill more than half full including liquid as rice froths and boils up during
cooking. Use 225 g rice and 1.75 litre water from a boiling kettle.
FRESH PRODUCE
Valve position 2
40 min (medium)*
27 min
50 min (medium)*
4 min
35 min
6 min
7 min
* Cook for an additional 5 minutes for well done meat.
FRESH PRODUCE
FROZEN PRODUCE
Valve position
Valve position
1
18 min.
15 min.
5 min.
20-30 min
dependingonsize
3 min.
7 min.
5 min. - immersion
6 min.
7 min.
7 min.
3 min.
6 min.
10 min.
6
min.
1/2
2 min.
12 min.
8 min.
10 min.
2
1/2
min.
1 min.
1
1/2
min.
1
min.
1/2
12 min.
6 min.
8 min.
7 min.
5 min.
3 min.
14 min.
7 min.
6 min.
FROZEN PRODUCE
Valve position 2
1 hr (medium)*
Do not cook from frozen
1hr 10 min (1kghalfleg-medium)*
6 min
Do not cook from frozen
8 min
9 min
2
3 min.
5 min.
4 min.
9 min
9 min.
5 min.
4 min.
8 min.