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15

14

Scroll to your choice. Then press

ON

/

ENTER

to confirm your rating.

Your LCD will flash a confirming

SAVED

!” 

Recipe Master will go

back to the instruction menu list-

ing 

ASSEMBLY

PREPARATION

, etc.

Refer to page 9 to see how to

review your saved ratings.

Recipes will be categorized as 

NO

RATING

(for recipes you didn’t

like), 

OK

GOOD

or 

EXCELLENT

,

according to how much you indi-

cated you enjoyed the recipe. 

Level of Difficulty

After you have prepared a recipe,

you may want to record how easy

or difficult you found the prepara-

tion to be. Your rating of the diffi-

culty level will be saved so that

you can refer to it in the future. 
To assign a level of difficulty to a

recipe, first use one of the search

methods outlined in this manual

to select that recipe. Then use the

UP

or 

DOWN

key to scroll to 

DIFFI

-

CULT

, which you'll find listed on

the instruction menu, and press

ON

/

ENTER

to confirm your choice.

Next choose from the following

options, depending on the diffi-

culty of the recipe:

A

EASY

B

MODERATE

C

DIFFICULT

Scroll and then press

ON

/

ENTER

to

confirm your choice of the diffi-

culty level. 
The recipe will then be catego-

rized according to one of the three

levels of difficulty for your refer-

ence later. After you have pressed

ON

/

ENTER

to confirm the level,

your LCD will flash a confirming

SAVED

!

” Then Recipe Master

will automatically return to the

instruction menu listing 

ASSEM

-

BLY

PREPARATION

, etc. 

SHOPPING LIST

One of the great features of

Recipe Master is its 

SHOPPING LIST

function. You can add individual

grocery items to the list as you

notice you need them, as well as

save all the ingredients from

recipes of your choice to that list.
To save an individual grocery

item, select 

SHOPPING LIST

from

the home menu, and then select

ADD

. Your LCD will then display:

then press 

ON

/

ENTER

to select

PREPARATION

. You’ll want to

review the procedure to be fol-

lowed in preparing a recipe. The

preparation will be displayed in

steps, and the beginning of each

step is displayed on its own line,

showing the first 11 characters of

each step. Press 

UP

or 

DOWN

to

scroll to one of the steps, and then

press 

ON

/

ENTER

to confirm. Six

lines of information about that

particular step will then be dis-

played. At this point, each time

you press the 

UP

or 

DOWN

key,

you will see another six lines of

information. (Pressing 

NEXT

will

take you into the next step in turn.

Press 

PREVIOUS

to return to the

list of steps. Hold the 

UP

key and

then press the 

NEXT

key to return

to the last step.) 

Notes

If a recipe’s instruction menu

also contains a note, 

NOTE

will be

indicated on the menu after you

have chosen a recipe. In that case,

to read the note, simply scroll to

NOTE

by pressing 

UP

or 

DOWN

, and

then press 

ON

/

ENTER

to view the

details. While you are reading the

note, each additional press of the

UP

or 

DOWN

key will display

another six lines of text until you

have reached the end of the note.

Or you may press 

NEXT

to

advance through the text as well.

To return to the instruction menu,

press

PREVIOUS

Rating a recipe

After you have prepared a recipe,

you may want to record how

much you liked the results of your

effort. Your rating will be saved

so that you can refer to it later.
To rate a recipe, first use one of

the search methods outlined in

this manual to select that recipe.

Then use the 

UP

or 

DOWN

key to

scroll to 

RATE

, which is listed on

the instruction menu, and press

ON

/

ENTER

to confirm your choice.

Next choose from the following

options to indicate the likelihood

of your making the recipe again

based on how much you enjoyed

it the first time:  

A

NO

B

MAYBE

C

PROBABLY

... 

IT

S GOOD

D

.  

ABSOLUTELY

... 

I LOVED IT

.

More Options from

the Home Menu

Summary of Contents for 457

Page 1: ...Model No 457 Operating Manual www ExcaliburElectronics com Recipe Master Excalibur Electronics ...

Page 2: ... For high quality and convenience Recipe Master is unmatched 3 The legendary King Arthur brandished a magic sword Excalibur from which we take our company name With this unique weapon in his hands he could not be vanquished 2003 The New York Times Company The New York Times logo is a registered trademark of The New York Times Company Although Excalibur Electronics can t claim the magical secrets o...

Page 3: ... recipe to favorites You can store up to 25 recipe names in memory Also press this key to save the ingredients of a recipe to your shopping list ABC Press this key to scroll through a list quickly using the UP or DOWN buttons jumping from one alphabetical first letter to the next An ABC icon will appear on the upper right of the screen Press ABC a second time to turn this feature off UP Press this...

Page 4: ...KED Press UP or DOWN to scroll through this subindex and press ON ENTER to make a selection If you choose RED COOKED the LCD will then show the following 7 6 After inserting new batteries press the RESET on the back of Recipe Master and then press ON ENTER to turn the unit on Your LCD will display the icon NEW YORK TIMES RECIPE MAS TER Press any key to proceed to the home menu An icon of a house w...

Page 5: ...ther than searching through the INDEX Press the UP or DOWN keys to scroll to CATEGORY and press ON ENTER The cate gories will then be displayed in alphabetical order 9 8 65 APPETIZERS BREADS DESSERTS EGGS LU FISH AND SH V MEATS In the diagram above the arrow is shown marking APPETIZERS The number 65 at the top indicates that you will find 65 entries if you select APPETIZERS Press UP or DOWN to scr...

Page 6: ...al order If you select one of the recipes from that list you will then move to the instruction menu presenting some or all of the following ANECDOTE ASSEMBLY INGREDI ENTS PREPARATION NOTE RATE or DIFFICULTY See Following an Instruction Menu below Searching for a recipe by level of difficulty In addition to searching for a recipe by using INDEX CATEGORY or RATING you can also choose to view recipes...

Page 7: ...ter first viewing any steps of ASSEMBLY listed for a recipe see above press UP or DOWN to scroll through an instruction menu and Remember to look at the ASSEM BLY information before starting to prepare a recipe because you ll find essential information includ ed here For example the recipe for Visidantine Almond Tart lists the ingredients and steps to follow for making the tart s pastry shell unde...

Page 8: ...e home menu and then select ADD Your LCD will then display then press ON ENTER to select PREPARATION You ll want to review the procedure to be fol lowed in preparing a recipe The preparation will be displayed in steps and the beginning of each step is displayed on its own line showing the first 11 characters of each step Press UP or DOWN to scroll to one of the steps and then press ON ENTER to con...

Page 9: ...ces BY NAME and BY CATEGO RY If you select BY NAME you will then see an alphabetical list of grocery items to choose from Use the ABC key to scroll through the list quickly Move your cur sor to the desired item and then press SAVE The screen will flash SAVED TO INDIVIDUAL ITEMS and then return to the list Or you may prefer to search for grocery items organized BY CATE GORY First select BY CATEGORY...

Page 10: ...pe of your choice and again press ON ENTER The instruction menu for that recipe will appear Next press Conversion If you d like to find out how to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius or check the metric equivalent of a US measurement or vice versa select CONVERSION and press ON ENTER Then press the UP or DOWN key to scroll through the following choices TEMPERATURE U S TO METRIC and METRIC TO U ...

Page 11: ...he home menu The message SAVED NONE or SAVED X will be shown The number in brackets shows how many recipes you have saved If no recipes are saved and you press ON ENTER NO DATA will appear on the LCD If recipes have been saved use the UP or DOWN key to scroll to a recipe and press ON ENTER to confirm The instruction menu for that recipe will then appear on screen with choices such as ANEC DOTE ING...

Page 12: ...t shipped postage prepaid and insured to the factory address shown at right The warranty covers normal con sumer use and does not cover damage that occurs in shipment or failure that results from alterations accident misuse abuse neglect wear and tear inadequate maintenance commercial use or unreasonable use of the unit Removal of the top panel voids all warranties This warranty does not cover cos...

Page 13: ...Excalibur Electronics Inc 13755 SW 119th Ave Miami Florida 33186 U S A Phone 305 477 8080 Fax 305 477 9516 www ExcaliburElectronics com ...

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