en Safety4and pillows filled with grain or cereal maycatch fire, even several hours later.▶ Never dry food or clothing with the appli-ance.▶ Never heat up slippers, pillows filled withgrain or cereal, sponges, damp cleaningcloths or similar with the appliance.▶ The appliance must only be used to pre-pare food and drink.Food may catch fire.▶ Never heat food contained in heat-retainingpackaging.▶ Do not leave food heating unattended incontainers made of plastic, paper or othercombustible materials.▶ Never set the microwave power too high orthe cooking time too long. Follow the in-structions provided in this instructionmanual.▶ Never use the microwave to dry food.▶ Never defrost or heat food with a low watercontent, such as bread, at too high a mi-crowave power or for too long.Cooking oil may catch fire.▶ Never use the microwave to heat cookingoil on its own.WARNING ‒ Risk of explosion!Liquids and other food may explode when incontainers that have been tightly sealed.▶ Never heat liquids or other food in contain-ers that have been tightly sealed.WARNING ‒ Risk of burns!Foods with peel or skin may burst or explodeduring heating, or even afterwards.▶ Never cook eggs in their shells or reheathard-boiled eggs.▶ Never cook shellfish or crustaceans.▶ Always prick the yoke when baking orpoaching eggs.▶ The skin of foods that have a peel or skin,such as apples, tomatoes, potatoes andsausages, may burst. Always prick the peelor skin before heating.Heat is not distributed evenly through babyfood.▶ Never heat baby food in closed containers.▶ Always remove the lid or teat.▶ Stir or shake well after heating.▶ Check the temperature before giving thefood or drink to a child.Heated food gives off heat. The cookwaremay become hot.▶ Always use oven gloves to remove cook-ware or accessories from the cooking com-partment.Airtight packaging may burst when food isheated.▶ Always follow the instructions on the pack-aging.▶ Always use oven gloves to remove dishesfrom the cooking compartment.The accessible parts of the appliance becomehot during operation.▶ Never touch these hot parts.▶ Keep children at a safe distance.Using the appliance for anything other than itsintended purpose is dangerous. This is be-cause, for instance, overheated slippers, pil-lows filled with grain or cereal, sponges anddamp cleaning cloths, etc., may cause burnsto the skin.▶ Never dry food or clothing with the appli-ance.▶ Never heat up slippers, pillows filled withgrain or cereal, sponges, damp cleaningcloths or similar with the appliance.▶ The appliance must only be used to pre-pare food and drink.WARNING ‒ Risk of scalding!There is a possibility of delayed boiling whena liquid is heated. This means that the liquidreaches boiling temperature without the usualsteam bubbles rising to the surface. Even ifthe container only vibrates a little, the hot li-quid may suddenly boil over and spatter.▶ Always place a spoon in the containerwhen heating liquids. This will preventdelayed boiling.WARNING ‒ Risk of injury!Unsuitable cookware may crack. Porcelain orceramic cookware can have small perfora-tions in the handles and lid. These perfora-tions conceal a cavity below. If moisture pen-