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®
PowerPrep Plus Food Processor
Instruction Booklet DLC-2014
For your safety and continued enjoyment of this product, always read the instruction book before using.
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Recommended work bowl capacity for various foods FOOD CAPACITY Chopped and Puréed 14 cups Fruits and Vegetables Chopped or Puréed 2-1/4 pounds Meat, Poultry, Fish or Seafood Bread Dough 3 pounds (6 cups flour, yielding two 1-1/2 pound loaves) Nuts for Nut Butters 3 cups Sliced or Shredded 14 cups Fruit, Cheese, or Vegetables Cake Batter batter for 5 8-inch layers Cookie Dough dough for 90 cookies
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6. The Slicing disc (D) 11. Remove the base IMPORTANT is on the edge of one and bowl together UNPACKING of the long sides of by grasping the plastic the foam block; the bowl at the top with INSTRUCTIONS Shredding disc (E) both hands and lifting This package contains a is on the other side. the bowl straight up. ® ™ Cuisinart Premier Series Slide them out of their Do not rotate the bowl food processor, and the grooves WITH GREAT clockwise on the base. standard parts for it: CARE; THE BLADES
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PRACTICING SLICING TABLE OF CONTENTS AND SHREDDING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 REMOVING SLICED OR SHREDDED FOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 IMPORTANT SAFEGUARDS. . . . . . . . . 5 TECHNIQUES FOR SLICING INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 AND SHREDDING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . 7 SMALL, ROUND FRUITS AND THE MACHINE FUNCTIONS . . . . . . . . 8 VEGETABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. . . . . . .
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Carefully Read All These down by hand when 4. The use of attachments slicing or shredding. not recommended or sold Instructions Before Using Always use pusher, or by Cuisinart may cause This Appliance. fire, electrical shock or injury could occur. personal injury, or IMPORTANT 3. Make sure motor has damage to your food completely stopped processor. SAFEGUARDS before removing cover. 5. To avoid possible (If machine does not stop Always follow these malfunction of work bowl within 4 seconds a
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INTRODUCTION Congratulations on your ® PowerPrep ® purchase of the Cuisinart Metal Dough ® PowerPrep Plus Food Blade and Hub Processor. This product is the ultimate food Chopping/Mixing preparation tool, and it Blade comes from the originator of the American food processor, Cuisinart. 4mm Slicing Disc ® The Cuisinart PowerPrep ® Plus has all the elements Medium of quality that Cuisinart is Shredding Disc known for, including a powerful motor, the largest work bowl, and the longest warranty
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The slicing disc makes 2. CAREFULLY lift and THE MACHINE beautiful whole slices place the chosen blade INCLUDES: without torn edges. over the work bowl It slices whole fruits and center hub. Line up the vegetables, cooked meat, 1. Housing base with a markings on the blade semi-frozen raw meat and vertically projecting hub with the motor shaft. loaves of bread. shaft and convenient It should fit snugly and touchpad control panel. The shredding disc rest on the bottom of processes most firm
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4. With the stem facing 4. Press the Pusher firmly pusher and the pusher’s down, place the down until all ingredi- activating rod with the assembly over the ents have passed into corresponding openings center hub. It should fit the work bowl. Remove on the feed tube, and snugly and rest on the the Pusher and refill push all the way down. bottom of the work bowl. ingredients as needed. • Press and release the When you engage the 5. Place Work Bowl Cover PULSE button two or Pusher again, the on
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clockwise to unlock and You get a more even faster and smoother without remove by lifting it off. chop when all pieces are liquid. Then add just enough about the same size. liquid to make the purée Never try to remove the pourable, return to the soup pusher, lid and work bowl Put no more than the liquid and stir to combine. together; as a safety recommended amount of feature, the pusher food into the work bowl To dislodge food assembly must be removed (see table inside front Occasionally, a pi
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To chop parsley and To chop meat, poultry, clumping together in a nut other fresh herbs: fish and seafood: butter. When a recipe calls for flour or sugar, add some The food should be very The herbs, the work bowl to the nuts before you chop, cold, but not frozen. Cut and the metal chopping about 1/2 cup for each cup it into 1-inch (2.5cm) pieces blade must all be thoroughly of nuts. This allows you to to ensure an even chop. clean and dry. Remove chop the nuts as fine as you Using the ON button
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Add any liquid ingredients To whip cream: cornmeal. Sprinkle evenly last, while the processor is with the minimum amount Processor whipped cream running, and process just of cold liquid in the recipe. holds its shape very well. It long enough to blend. PULSE 5 or 6 times. The is good for decoration or as Process ingredients for dough should begin to hold a topping; however, it will not spreads and dips the same together when pressed. If it whip to the light, fluffy way. They should be at room i
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spices, cocoa, etc. Process Cabbage and PREPARING FOOD until mixed. Add the dry iceberg lettuce FOR SLICING AND ingredients to the work bowl. Turn the head on its side SHREDDING Process by pulsing, and slice off the top and For disc assembly inspecting after each pulse. bottom, leaving a center instructions, refer to Stop pulsing as soon as section about 3 inches (8cm) Assembly Instructions. the dry ingredients have deep. Remove the core, almost disappeared into the then cut in wedges to fit
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Never push down hard spinning. When it does, solidly packed and cannot on the pusher. Use light remove the pusher first. tilt sideways as they are pressure for soft fruits and Unplug the unit, then hold sliced or shredded. vegetables like bananas, the work bowl handle and Small amounts of food mushrooms, strawberries turn it clockwise. Then lift; Use the small feed tube and and tomatoes, and for all the work bowl and cover will the small pusher. Remove cheese. Use medium come off together. Turn
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pressing the PULSE button rolls as possible. This Frankfurters, salami and until the food is sliced. You technique works better with other sausages will get long slices. square or rectangular pieces If the sausage is soft, than with round ones. freeze it until hard to the Remove the slices from the touch but easily pierced work bowl and reassemble. Uncooked meat with the tip of a sharp knife. Reinsert them in the feed and poultry Hard sausages need not be tube, wedging them in Cut the food int
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IMPORTANT: Never try It always cleans the inside Measuring the flour to slice soft cheese like of the work bowl complete- It’s best to weigh it. If you mozzarella or hard cheese ly when properly kneaded. don’t have a scale, or the like Parmesan. You may recipe does not specify Typical sweet dough damage the slicing disc or weight, measure by the stir, contains a higher propor- the food processor itself. scoop and sweep method. tion of sugar, butter and/or You can successfully shred Use a st
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Processing dry Kneading bread dough (26C). The rising time is ingredients usually about 1-1/2 hours Do not try to use the but will vary from 45 Put the flour in the machine to knead dough minutes to several hours, work bowl with all the other that is too stiff to knead depending on the type of dry ingredients. If the comfortably by hand. Doing flour and the humidity of recipe calls for herbs, oil or so can strain the machine. the air. To test if the dough solid fats like butter, add has risen e
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machine. Instead, wait until 3-1/2 cups of flour (17-1/2 dough into 2 batches and ingredients in work bowl ounces) (496 gm). If your complete processing. Pinch have mixed, then add recipe calls for less flour, dough to make sure that it remaining liquid slowly. remove metal dough blade is not too stiff to knead Pour liquid onto dough as it and insert metal chopping comfortably by hand. If it is, passes under feed tube; do blade. Always use metal add liquid, 1 teaspoon (5 not pour liquid directly
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The work bowl is made of PROBLEMS CLEANING AND ® Lexan (plastic), which is AND SOLUTIONS STORAGE shatter resistant and heat resistant. It should not be WITH TYPICAL Keep your Food Processor placed in a microwave SWEET DOUGHS ready to use on a kitchen oven, as the aperture at counter. When not in use, Motor slows down: the front of the pusher leave it unplugged. Don’t houses the metal rod that • Amount of dough may leave it with the pusher activates the motor. exceed maximum assembly in the loc
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To clean the inside of the Always wait for the blade or SOME TECHNICAL detachable stem, slide the disc to stop spinning before DATA stem release button on the you remove the pusher side up as far as it will go assembly or cover from The motor in your food and hold it there as you run the work bowl. processor operates on water through the stem. standard line operating Always unplug the unit current. The appropriate before removing food, IMPORTANT: Never store voltage and frequency for cleaning,
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return of the warranty the consumer may then TEN YEAR FULL registration card is not a take the product to an WARRANTY ON condition of this warranty. independent repair facility In the event that you do if service or repair can MOTOR not have proof of purchase be economically This warranty supersedes date, the purchase date accomplished. Cuisinart all previous warranties on for purposes of this and not the consumer will ® ™ Cuisinart Premier Series warranty will be the date be responsible fo
