Excalibur
Electronics
Recipe Master
Operating Manual
www.ExcaliburElectronics.com
Model No. 457
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Recipe Master TABLE OF CONTENTS
Layout of Recipe Master ..........................page 4
Functions of Buttons...............................page 4
Installing or Changing Batteries.....................page 5
Getting Started with Recipe Master..................page 6
Searching for a recipe
Using the ABC button
Following an Instruction Menu......................page 11
Anecdote; Assembly; Ingredients; Preparation;
Notes; Rating how much you like a recipe;
Rating a recipe by level of difficulty
More Options from the Home Menu.................page 15
Shopping list; Measuring; Timer; Glossary & Tips;
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Set up; Saving a recipe to “Favorites”
Special Care...................................... page 22
Battery Information............................... p age 22
Limited 90-day Warranty...........................page 23
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Layout of Recipe Master
REMOVE
button
ABC
button
Scroll
UP
PREVIOUS
button
Functions of Buttons
Recipe Master’s buttons are easy
to use.
ON/ENTER: Press this key to turn
on Recipe Master or to confirm a
selection after you have scrolled
to it.
SAVE: Press this key to save a
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
DOWN: Press this key to scroll
down.
SAVE
button
NEXT: Press this key to page down
through text. If you are at the
home screen and place the cursor
DISPLAY
(LCD)
next to “
will take you to your saved list of
RECIPE,” pressing NEXT
favorite recipes.
ON/ENTER
button
PREVIOUS: Pressing this button
usually returns you to the previous screen. Press this key also to
ABC
NEXT
button
exit a current mode such as
mode. (Recipe Master shuts off
automatically if no button is
pushed for 10 minutes. When you
Scroll
DOWN
Installing or Changing Batteries
The New York Times Recipe
Master requires 2 AAA batteries.
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 key to scroll up.
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Be sure to review “Battery
Information” on page 22.
Carefully turn the unit over so
that the top side is face-down on a
soft surface, such as a towel or
magazine. You’ll find the battery
compartment on the unit’s back.
Use a small Phillips screwdriver
to remove the screw. Lift off the
battery compartment lid. Install 2
AAA batteries, making sure to
match the polarity (+ and -) with
turn Recipe Master back on, it
will return you to the point where
you last left off. To start a new
search, simply hold down
OUS for two seconds to return to
PREVI-
the home menu. An icon of a
house will appear in the upper
right corner of your display.)
REMOVE: Press this key to erase
information you have saved.
RESET: If Recipe Master locks up
or malfunctions, use a ballpoint
pen to press
back. Also press
RESET, located on the
RESET after
inserting new batteries.
the diagram inside the battery
compartment. (See diagram
below.) Place the battery compartment lid’s tabs in their slots
and snap the compartment door
back on. Replace the screw and
gently tighten it.
To change batteries without losing information you have
stored, see
page 21.
Getting Started with Recipe Master
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 will appear in the top right
corner of your screen.)
The home menu gives you seven
choices, but Recipe Master can
show only six lines of text at a
time on the LCD. The home menu
looks like this:
RECIPE
SHOPPING LIST
MEASURING
TIMER
GLOSSARY AND TIPS
SET UP
SAVED [NONE]
Press the UP or DOWN key to scroll
through all of the choices. As you
scroll, an arrow on the left marks
your position in the list. Press the
UP or DOWN key repeatedly if you
want to scroll one line at a time,
or hold one of those keys down if
you prefer to move through the
entire list quickly. After scrolling
to a desired item, simply press
ON/ENTER to confirm your choice.
Then use the
UP or DOWN arrow
keys to page down or up through
the text.
SEARCHING FOR A RECIPE—
—
To search for a recipe, select
RECIPE from the home menu by
scrolling to it and then pressing
ON/ENTER. The LCD will display
a new menu:
INDEX
CATEGORY
RATING
DIFFICULTY
This menu shows you that there
are four ways to search for a
recipe—by index, category, rating
or level of difficulty. See below
for more information on each of
these methods.
Searching by index
The first way to find a recipe is to
search the main index. To do this,
press the
UP or DOWN key to place
the arrow next to
ON/ENTER to confirm your
press
INDEX, and then
choice.
Next, Recipe Master's main
index, including names of recipes
as well as subitems, will appear in
alphabetical order as shown
below:
11
ACORN SQUASH WITH
AIOLI
...
> DUCK
Note: Only 11 characters per line
can appear on the LCD at one
time. Therefore “
WITH PEAS
ACORN SQUASH
” will not all appear on
the LCD at once. Instead the line
of text will automatically scroll
right to left when you place the
marking arrow next to that line.
To control the speed with which
the line scrolls, see SET UP on
page 19.
Press the
UP or DOWN key repeat-
edly to scroll through the index
one line at a time, or hold either of
these keys down to scroll more
quickly. If you'd like to scroll
alphabetically by first letter
through the index, first press the
ABC button. The “ABC” icon will
then appear on the screen. (See
Using the ABC Button, page 8)
Then press
UP or DOWN to move
alphabetically by first letter
through the index. When you
reach the initial letter you want,
press
ABC again to exit that mode.
Then resume using the
DOWN keys to scroll through the
list item by item.
In the previous diagram, the left
arrow is positioned so that “
will be selected if you press the
ON/ENTER key. The number 11 at
the top of the diagram indicates to
you that Recipe Master includes
11 different entries for preparing
duck. If you press
ON/ENTER to
confirm your choice of duck, the
LCD will display the subindex
under “
DUCK,” indicating all 11
entries. For example, you’ll see
the following:
BRAISED, WI
CHARCOAL-GR
IN RED WINE
RED-COOKED
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
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UP or
DUCK”
instruction menu:
YIELDS 2-4 SERVINGS
RED-COOKED DUCK
ANECDOTE
ASSEMBLY
INGREDIENTS
PREPARATION
V NOTE
(A downward arrow at the bottom
left of the screen or an upward
pointing arrow at the top left indicates there is more information
not showing. The number of
choices on this submenu will vary
depending on which recipe you
choose. “
INGREDIENTS, PREPARATION, NOTE,
RATE or YIELD INFORMATION” will
ANECDOTE, ASSEMBLY,
not all be displayed if a particular
recipe does not contain this type
of data.)
Note that after you have selected
a recipe and confirmed your
choice by pressing
recipe's “
YIELD INFORMATION”
ON/ENTER, the
appears at the top of the screen if
applicable. (See
Instruction Menu,
—
USING THE ABC BUTTON—
Following an
page 11.)
If you'd like to jump through an
alphabetical list quickly by first
letter, press
ABC. The “ABC” icon
will appear at the top right of the
screen. Then use the
UP or DOWN
buttons to proceed through the list
by alphabetical first letter—A, B,
C, etc. (Note that the list begins
again with the letter “A” after you
have scrolled through the “Z” listings. You can also use the
UP key
to scroll backwards through the
alphabet, from “Z” to “A.”)
When you reach the desired initial
letter, press
ABC again to turn this
mode off. Then press the UP or
DOWN key to scroll one line at a
time, or hold either of these keys
down to scroll quickly. Press
ON/ENTER to confirm your choice.
Searching for a recipe by
category
After selecting RECIPE from the
home menu, you can choose to
use the list of
CATEGORIES for find-
ing a recipe rather than searching
through the
DOWN keys to scroll to CATEGORY,
INDEX. Press the UP or
and press ON/ENTER. The categories will then be displayed in
alphabetical order.
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 scroll through the cate-
gories, and press
ON/ENTER to
confirm your choice.)
If you select
APPETIZERS, the LCD
will display, in alphabetical order,
all the recipes categorized as
appetizers. For example, the following screen may appear:
>
BAGNA CAODA
BAKED STUFF
BEEHIVE DUM
BEEHIVE STU
BRANDADE DE
V BREADED MUS
Scroll through the recipe choices
by using the
UP or DOWN key.
Then make your selection by
pressing
ON/ENTER. The LCD will
next display an instruction menu
indicating some or all of the following choices: “
ASSEMBLY, INGREDIENTS, PREPA-
RATION, NOTE, RATE or DIFFICUL-
TY.” (See Following an
Instruction Menu,
ANECDOTE,
page 11.)
Searching for a recipe by rating
In addition to choosing a recipe
by using
INDEX or CATEGORY, you
can instead choose to view
recipes you have previously
assigned a rating to. The ratings
are based on how much you
enjoyed the recipe you made—
ok, good or excellent. (See page
14 for information on how to rate
recipes.) Of course, if you are just
beginning to use your Recipe
Master, you will not yet have
saved any recipe by
that case, if you select
RATING. In
RATING, the
LCD will simply display “
” for two seconds and then
DATA
return to the previous screen.
To search for a recipe by rating,
first select
menu, and then choose
RECIPE on the home
RATING.
The LCD might display the following, for example:
150
NO RATING
98
NO
OK
> GOOD
EXCELLENT
(In this example, the arrow is
marking the “
GOOD” category, and
the number 150 indicates you
have already assigned 150 recipes
the rating of
DOWN to move through the ratings
and then press
GOOD.) Press UP or
ON/ENTER to con-
firm your choice of rating. The
recipes you had previously
assigned that particular rating to
will next be displayed on the LCD
in alphabetical 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 you have previously
saved according to the level of
difficulty you assigned each of
them. The ratings are based on
how difficult you found the recipe
to be when you made it before—
easy, moderate or difficult. (See
page 15 for assigning recipes a
level of difficulty.)
Of course, if you are just beginning to use your Recipe Master,
you will not yet have saved any
recipe according to
DIFFICULTY
level. In that case, if you select
DIFFICULTY, the LCD will simply
display
“NO DATA” for two sec-
onds and then return to the previous screen.
To search for a recipe by level of
difficulty, first select
RECIPE on
the home menu, and then choose
DIFFICULTY. The LCD will display
the following:
150
EASY
MODERATE
> DIFFICULT
(In this example, the arrow is
marking the
“DIFFICULT” category,
and the number 150 indicates you
have already assigned 150 recipes
to the level of
DIFFICULT.) Press UP
or DOWN to move through the
remaining levels of difficulty and
press ON/ENTER to confirm your
choice. The recipes you previously assigned that difficulty level to
will next be displayed on the LCD
in alphabetical order.
If you select one of the recipes
Following an Instruction Menu
Regardless which of the four
available methods above you used
to search for a recipe, once you
have chosen a recipe you will see
an “instruction menu” on the
LCD. That menu varies according
to recipe, but may contain some
or all of the following for you to
select from:
INGREDIENTS, PREPARATION, NOTE,
RATE or DIFFICULTY. Use the UP or
DOWN key to scroll through this
list of choices, and press
ON/ENTER to make your selection.
Anecdote
If the recipe you have chosen contains an
ANECDOTE to have it displayed on
the LCD, six lines of text at a
time. For example, you might see
the following six lines of information:
ANECDOTE, ASSEMBLY,
ANECDOTE, you can select
from that list, you will then move
to the instruction menu showing
some or all of the following:
ANECDOTE, ASSEMBLY, INGREDI-
ENTS, PREPARATION, NOTE, RATE or
DIFFICULTY. (See Following an
Instruction Menu
below.)
RED-COOKED
FOODS IN
CHINESE
CUISINE ARE
SIMMERED IN
DARK SOY
Then, each time you press the UP
or DOWN key, six more lines of
text will be displayed until you
come to the end of the anecdote.
PREVIOUS to return to the
Press
instruction menu.
Assembly
If a recipe contains ASSEMBLY
information, you will see ASSEM-
BLY listed on your menu after
you've selected the recipe. (Be
sure to read the details of
BLY first. They contain important
information) Use the
UP or DOWN
keys to scroll to ASSEMBLY, and
then press
1110
ON/ENTER.
ASSEM-
Remember to look at the ASSEM-
BLY information before starting to
prepare a recipe, because you’ll
find essential information included here. For example, the recipe
for Visidantine Almond Tart lists
the ingredients and steps to follow
for making the tart's pastry shell
under
ASSEMBLY. (You will need
to have made the pastry shell
before continuing with the rest of
the recipe.)
After you select
ASSEMBLY and
confirm your choice by pressing
ON/ENTER, a submenu will appear
on your LCD. Press the UP or
DOWN key to scroll to INGREDI-
ENTS and press ON/ENTER to con-
firm your choice. This will let you
see what ingredients are needed
for this part of the overall recipe.
If you are scrolling through the
ASSEMBLY menu of the Visidantine
Almond Tart recipe as in the
example above, you can also
select
PREPARATION to scroll
through the steps of preparation
for the tart shell. (Each line on
the screen will show the beginning of a step. Use the
DOWN key to place your arrow
UP or
next to a step, and then press
ON/ENTER to read the details of
the step. Press the
DOWN key to
advance through a step six lines at
a time. Note: if you press
NEXT,
you will go to the next step, and if
you hold down the
then press
NEXT, you will return
UP key and
to the previous step.)
Ingredients
From an instruction menu, to
view the list of
INGREDIENTS for a
recipe you have selected, use the
UP or DOWN key to scroll to
INGREDIENTS and then press
ON/ENTER to confirm. For exam-
ple, you might see the following
list of ingredients (but keep in
mind that only 11 characters can
actually appear per line at one
time):
2 5- TO 6-POUND
DUCK
2 TBS PLUS 1/2 CUP
DARK SOY SAUCE
4 CUPS LIGHT SOY
SAUCE
1/4 CUP COLD
WATER
1/4 CUP DRY SHERRY
2 OZ CHINESE ROCK
SUGAR
Six lines of information about
ingredients can be shown at one
time on Recipe Master's LCD.
Each ingredient is given a line of
its own, and units of measurement
have been abbreviated. (See
MEASURING for measurement
abbreviations.)
Use the
UP or DOWN keys to place
the arrow next to a line of text,
and then read the information as it
scrolls from right to left. (See
SET UP to adjust the scrolling
speed.)
Note: If you'd like to save the
ingredients for a recipe to your
Recipe Master’s shopping list,
when you have the ingredients on
screen, press
ingredients to “
under “
SAVE to save all the
ENTIRE RECIPES”
SHOPPING LIST.” (See page
15.) The LCD will then display:
SAVED TO
SHOPPING LIST!
After you save ingredients to your
shopping list, Recipe Master will
return you to the list of ingredients. (If you'd like to return to the
If you have selected a recipe for
which the ingredients are divided
into two or more parts, such as the
recipe “
SAUCE
INGREDIENTS, the LCD presents
BEAN SOUP WITH BASIL
,” after you first select
you with an additional choice. For
this example, the LCD will display:
THE PISTOU
THE SOUP
Use UP or DOWN to scroll, and
then press
TOU if you want to view the ingre-
ON/ENTER to select PIS-
dients necessary for the pistou,
and select
SOUP to see which
ingredients are needed for the
soup. If you are saving the ingredients to your shopping list, you
don't need to save both lists. Just
save either list of ingredients and
the other list of ingredients will
then also be saved. (However, be
sure to save any additional ingredients which might be listed for a
recipe under
ASSEMBLY if a recipe
includes an assembly.)
Preparation
After first viewing any steps of
ASSEMBLY listed for a recipe (see
above), press UP or DOWN to scroll
through an instruction menu, and
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then press ON/ENTER to select
PREPARATION. You’ll want to
review the procedure to be followed 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
ON/ENTER to confirm. Six
press
lines of information about that
particular step will then be displayed. 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.
PREVIOUS to return to the
Press
list of steps. Hold the
then press the
NEXT key to return
UP key and
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
scroll to
UP or DOWN key 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
. MAYBE
B
. PROBABLY ... IT’S GOOD
C
D
. ABSOLUTELY ... I LOVED IT.
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 listing
ASSEMBLY, PREPARATION, etc.
Refer to page 9 to see how to
review your saved ratings.
Recipes will be categorized as
RATING
like),
(for recipes you didn’t
OK, GOOD or EXCELLENT,
NO
according to how much you indicated 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 preparation to be. Your rating of the difficulty 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 difficulty of the recipe:
A. EASY
B
. MODERATE
C
. DIFFICULT
Scroll and then press ON/ENTER to
confirm your choice of the difficulty level.
The recipe will then be categorized according to one of the three
levels of difficulty for your reference 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.
More Options from
the Home Menu
—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:
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BY NAME
BY CATEGORY
Selecting ADD will result in two
choices,
RY. If you select BY NAME, you
BY NAME and BY CATEGO-
will then see an alphabetical list
of grocery items to choose from.
(Use the
ABC key to scroll through
the list quickly.) Move your cursor to the desired item, and then
SAVE. The screen will flash
press
SAVED TO INDIVIDUAL ITEMS!” and
“
then return to the list.
Or you may prefer to search for
grocery items organized
GORY. First select BY CATEGORY,
BY CATE-
followed by the desired category,
BAKING SUPPLIES, for example.
Then scroll through the items listed under that category until your
cursor is next to the desired item,
and press
flash “
ITEMS
SAVE. The screen will
SAVED TO INDIVIDUAL
!” and then return to the list
of items in that category. Pressing
PREVIOUS will return you to the
previous screen. Press
PREVIOUS
repeatedly to return to the home
menu.
If you'd like to save the ingredi-
ents of a recipe to your shopping
list, simply press
SAVE when you
have the list of ingredients on the
screen in the
RECIPE mode. All the
ingredients for that recipe will
then be saved under
, ENTIRE RECIPES. (See note
LIST
SHOPPING
below for the exception of ingredients listed in
ASSEMBLY.)
And remember, if there are two or
more parts to a recipe's ingredients, (see page 13), such as the
ingredients of the recipe “
SOUP WITH BASIL SAUCE
select
INGREDIENTS, the LCD indi-
BEAN
,” after you
cates both parts of the recipe:
THE PISTOU
THE SOUP
In this case, if you select PISTOU
you will see the ingredients for
the pistou, and if you select
SOUP
you'll see the ingredients for the
soup. When viewing either of the
lists of ingredients, press save to
save all ingredients to
RECIPES
under SHOPPING LIST. The
ENTIRE
other list of ingredients will also
be saved for you.
NOTE: one additional, very
important point. Some recipes
also have an
ASSEMBLY indicated
on the instruction menu. If this is
the case, don't forget to save any
ingredients listed under
ASSEMBLY
to your shopping list as well!
—MEASURING—
From the Home Menu you can
also choose
MEASURING. The LCD
will then display:
ABBREVIATIONS
EQUIVALENTS
ROUGH EQUIVALENTS
OVEN TEMPERATURES
CONVERSION
Abbreviations
Select ABBREVIATIONS to see the
common abbreviations used in
cooking. “
ABBR” will appear at
the top of the screen. Only one
abbreviation is displayed on the
screen at a time. Press the
DOWN key to see more abbrevia-
UP or
tions.
Equivalents
If you'd like to see a listing of
equivalencies, scroll to
LENTS and press ON/ENTER.
EQUIVALENTS will then appear at
EQUIVA-
the top of the screen, along with
the first equivalent, 1 TSP = 1/6 FL
. Press the UP or DOWN key to
OZ
view the remaining list of equiva-
lents.
Rough Equivalents
Recipe Master also offers a listing
ROUGH EQUIVALENTS to help
of
you. If you select
LENTS, the following appears on
ROUGH EQUIVA-
your screen:
1 LB
ALMONDS
(SHELLED)
EQUALS 1 TO
1-1/4 C
NUTS.
If an item needs two or more
entire screens to be displayed,
each time you push the
DOWN keys, another six lines of
text will appear. Pressing
will go to the next item. Hold the
UP key and then press NEXT to
return to the previous item.
Oven Temperatures
You also have the option of
selecting
OVEN TEMPERATURES.
This option lists for you the
Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures which correspond to baking
terms such as “very slow oven.”
Press the
UP or DOWN key to scroll
through the list.
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UP or
NEXT
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.S. Press ON/ENTER to
confirm your choice.
If you choose
TEMPERATURE, the
screen will display the formula
for converting
SIUS. Press the DOWN key to dis-
play the formula for
FAHRENHEIT. (Press the UP key to
FAHRENHEIT to CEL-
CELSIUS to
page upward.)
If you select
METRIC TO U.S. you can scroll
U.S. TO METRIC or
through a list of conversions by
using the
PREVIOUS to return to the CONVER-
SION menu, or continue to press
PREVIOUS to return to an earlier
UP or DOWN key. Press
screen or home menu.
—
TIMER—
You can set Recipe Master to
remind you to do something at a
later time, such as check on some-
thing in the oven. Select
TIMER
from the home menu to set up a
countdown time. The icon of
“00:00”(hh:mm) will show on
the LCD, and the cursor under the
first digit of the hours will flash.
Press the UP or DOWN key to
choose a number between 0 and 9,
and then press NEXT. The cursor
appears under the next hour digit
and will then flash, and again you
should use the
UP or DOWN key to
choose a number between 0 and 9.
Then the cursor appears under the
first digit of the minutes and will
flash. Use the UP or DOWN arrow
to select a number between 0 and
9 and press NEXT. Do the same for
the remaining digit. After you
press ON/ENTER, the countdown
time will start immediately. The
screen will return to the home
menu and “TIMER ON” will appear
at the top of the screen to the
right.
To turn the timer off, choose
TIMER from the home menu and
press ON/ENTER. Then press
REMOVE to turn the function off.
The screen will return to the home
menu and “TIMER ON” will no
longer be displayed.
When the countdown time is over,
the four digits will show again as
00:00, the LCD will display
OUT
” and Recipe Master will beep
“TIME
for 30 seconds. Press any key to
turn off the beep. If no key is
pressed, the alarm will sound
every five minutes for up to an
hour and the words “
TIME OUT”
will reappear each time on the
screen.
—GLOSSARY & TIPS—
Select GLOSSARY & TIPS from the
home menu to view a definition
or explanation of a cooking term.
Scroll through the alphabetical
list of words by pressing the
DOWN key. (Hold down the UP or
DOWN key to move quickly
UP or
through the list of terms alphabetically, or use the
ABC function to
move more quickly through the
list by alphabetical first letter.)
When you find the word you'd
like to have defined, press the
ON/ENTER key to confirm your
choice. Six lines of explanation
will be shown. Press the
DOWN key or NEXT to advance
UP or
through the text six lines at a time.
Press PREVIOUS to return to the
alphabetical list of terms.
—SET UP—
Select SET UP from the home
menu to make choices about the
sound and scrolling speed. Press
the
UP or DOWN key to scroll to
SOUND or SCROLL SPEED and
then press the
ON/ENTER key to
confirm. If you choose SOUND,
press the
UP or DOWN key to scroll
to either SOUND ON or SOUND
OFF. Press
ON/ENTER to confirm
your choice and return to the previous screen. If you choose
SCROLL SPEED, press the
DOWN key to place the cursor next
to the speed (1-6) at which the
text will scroll. Press
ON/ENTER to
confirm your selection and to
return to the previous screen.
—SAVING A RECIPE TO
FAVORITES
—
You can also store from one to 25
recipes in a list of favorites for
easy reference. From the home
menu, select
ON/ENTER. Find the recipe of your
choice and again press
RECIPE and press
ON/ENTER.
(The instruction menu for that
recipe will appear.) Next press
1918
UP or
SAVE.“SAVED TO FAVORITES” will
appear on the screen, and then the
LCD will return to the instruction
menu with the icon “
upper left corner under
MEM” at the
YIELDS. (If
you change your mind about saving that recipe at this time, press
SAVE a second time to remove it
from your list of favorites. The
icon “
MEM” will disappear.)
Please note that the recipe which
you have saved as a favorite will
always be displayed with the icon
“
MEM” on the instruction screen.
To view your list of favorites,
select
SAVED [XX] from the home
menu. The message “
[
NONE] or “SAVED”[X] will be
SAVED”
shown. (The number in brackets
shows how many recipes you
have saved.) If no recipes are
saved and you press
“
NO DATA” will appear on the
ON/ENTER,
LCD. If recipes have been saved,
use the
to a recipe and press
confirm. The instruction menu for
that recipe will then appear on
screen with choices such as
DOTE, INGREDIENTS, PREPARATION
and NOTE, as explained above.
Alternatively, you can also go to
your list of favorites by placing
the cursor next to
home menu and then pressing
NEXT. The LCD will show you
how many recipes are saved.
Press
ON/ENTER again to select a recipe
you’ve scrolled to.
If you save more than 25 recipes
to
ously saved will be replaced in
turn by the ones saved later.
—
Use the
saved recipe from
UP or DOWN key to scroll
RECIPE on the
ON/ENTER to see the list, and
FAVORITES, the recipes previ-
USING THE REMOVE BUTTON—
REMOVE button to delete a
SAVED [XX] or
Recipe Master may lock up due to static
discharge or other electrical disturbances.
If this should happen, use a slim,
pointed object to press the button
marked “
RESET” on the back of the unit.
ON/ENTER to
ANEC-
If you save more than 25 recipes
to FAVORITES, the recipes previously
saved will be replaced in turn
by the ones saved later.
a recipe saved to RATING or DIFFI-
CULTY in the RECIPE mode. Also
use the
REMOVE key to delete all
ingredients of a recipe saved to
ENTIRE RECIPES, or to delete an
individual grocery item from
INDIVIDUAL ITEMS.
To remove an item, when viewing
the alphabetical list of saved
recipes or the list of grocery
items, place the cursor next to the
recipe or the grocery item you
want to delete and then press
REMOVE. The saved recipe or gro-
You don’t have to lose saved information
when you change batteries!
Simply wait 10 minutes after pushing a button.
(Recipe Master will shut off automatically.)
Then follow the instructions for changing batteries
on page 5, installing the new batteries within 20
seconds of removing the old ones.
cery item will be deleted from the
corresponding list, and the mes-
DELETED” will appear for
sage “
two seconds on the screen. Then
the LCD will return to the previous screen.
AUTO POWER OFF—
—
If no key is pressed for 10 minutes, the unit will automatically
turn off in order to spare your batteries. Simply press
ON/ENTER
and Recipe Master will return to
the point where it was before it
was turned off.
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If no button is pushed for ten minutes,
your Recipe Master will switch
off to save your batteries.
Just push the
ON/ENTER button
to continue where you left off.
Special Care & Handling
• Avoid rough handling such as bumping or dropping.
• Be careful not to place Recipe Master on top of the heated oven.
• Avoid moisture and extreme temperatures. For best results, use between the
temperatures of 39ºF and 100ºF (4º C and 38º C.)
• Clean using only a slightly damp cloth. Do not use cleaners with chemical
agents.
Battery Information
• Batteries should be installed or replaced only by an adult.
• The New York Times Recipe Master uses 2 AAA batteries, not
included.
• Do not mix alkaline, standard (carbon-zinc) or rechargeable (nickel-cadmi-
um) batteries.
• Do not mix old and new batteries.
• Do not use rechargeable batteries.
• Remove exhausted batteries from the unit.
• Do not short circuit battery terminals.
• Remove batteries and store them in a cool, dry place when not in use.
• To avoid explosion or leakage, do not dispose of batteries in a fire or attempt
to recharge alkaline or other non-rechargeable batteries.
90-Day Limited Warranty
EXCALIBUR ELECTRONICS,
INC., warrants to the original consumer that its products are free from
any electrical or mechanical defects
for a period of 90 DAYS from the
date of purchase. If any such defect is
discovered within the warranty period, EXCALIBUR ELECTRONICS,
INC., will repair or replace the unit
free of charge upon receipt of the
unit, shipped postage prepaid and
insured to the factory address shown
at right.
The warranty covers normal consumer 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 cost of repairs made or attempted outside of the factory.
Any applicable implied warranties,
including warranties of merchantability and fitness, are hereby limited to
90 DAYS from the date of purchase.
Consequential or incidental damages
resulting from a breach of any applicable express or implied warranties
are hereby excluded. Some states do
not allow limitations on the duration
of implied warranties and do not
allow exclusion of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations and exclusions in these
instances may not apply.
The only authorized service center in
the United States is:
Excalibur Electronics, Inc.
13755 SW 119th Ave
Miami, Florida 33186 U.S.A.
Phone: 305.477.8080
Fax: 305.477.9516
www.ExcaliburElectronics.com
Ship the unit carefully packed, preferably in the original carton, and send it
prepaid, and adequately insured.
Include a letter, detailing the complaint and including your daytime
telephone number, inside the shipping
carton.
If your warranty has expired and you
want an estimated fee for service,
write to the above address, specifying
the model and the problem.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND
YOUR UNIT WITHOUT
RECEIVING AN ESTIMATE FOR
SERVICING. WE CANNOT
STORE YOUR UNIT!
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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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