8The Key Features of Your Appliance• Ceramic glass cooking surface: The appliance has a ceramic glass cooking sur−face and 4 rapid response cooking zones. The particularly powerful radiantheater elements significantly shorten the amount of time taken for the zonesto heat up.• Sensor fields: Your appliance is operated using Touch Control sensor fields.• Cleaning: The advantage of the ceramic glass cooking surface and the sensorfields is their accessibility for cleaning. The smooth, flat surface is easy to clean.• On/Off sensor field: The On/Off" sensor field provides the appliance with a se−parate mains switch. Touching this switches the power supply on or off com−pletely.• Control and function indicators: Digital indicators or control lamp provide in−formation about settings made, functions activated, as well as any residualheat of the corresponding cooking zone.• Safety cut−out: A safety cut−out ensures that all cooking zones switch off au−tomatically after a period of time if the setting has not been changed.• Keep Warm: this setting is used for keeping food warm.• Stop+Go sensor field: Touching this sensor field changes all cooking zonescurrently in use to the keep warm" function: touching the field again restoresthe zones to their former settings. This function can be useful in certain situa−tions, for example if you are suddenly called away from the cooker.• Residual heat indicator: An for residual heat is shown in the display if thecooking zone becomes so hot that there is a risk of burning.• Multipurpose cooking zone: The hob is equipped with a multipurpose/ casse−role cooking zone. Depending on the setting, it can be used as a round or ovalcooking zone, e.g. for oval casseroles or for keeping dishes or food warm.• Triple ring cooking zone: The hob features a triple−ring cooking zone. This zonecan be set to different sizes, for example to fit smaller pots. This will savepower.• Timer: All zones can be automatically switched off using the integrated timer.When the end of the cooking time has been reached, the cooking zone swit−ches off.