Sunbeam LC8000 User Manual

MASTER
SERIES

Big Slice Food Processor

User Guide

LC8000

Contents

Sunbeam’s Safety Precautions 3

Features of your Food Processor 4

Attachments for your Food Processor 6

Using your Food Processor 7

Fitting/using the tools on your Food Processor 9

Storing your Food Processor 11

Handy hints for processing 13

Care and cleaning 15

Recipes 16

Important instructions –
retain for future use.

Sunbeam’s Safety Precautions

SAFETY PRECAUTIONS FOR YOUR SUNBEAM

FOOD PROCESSOR LC8000.

• Always use extreme care when handling blades and
cutting discs. These are extremely sharp and may
cause injury if handled incorrectly. Always store
blades and cutting discs in their respective covers
or processing containers.

• Unplug from power outlet when not in use, before
putting on or taking off attachments, and before
cleaning.

• Do not put hot liquids into the processing bowl.
Cool to room temperature before placing in
processing bowl.

Sunbeam is very safety conscious when designing and

manufacturing consumer products, but it is essential
that the product user also exercise care when using
an electrical appliance. Listed below are precautions
which are essential for the safe use of an electrical
appliance:

• Read carefully and save all the instructions provided
with an appliance.

• Always turn the power off at the power outlet before
you insert or remove a plug. Remove by grasping the
plug - do not pull on the cord.

• Turn the power off and remove the plug when the
appliance is not in use and before cleaning.

• Do not use your appliance with an extension cord
unless this cord has been checked and tested by a
qualified technician or service person.

• Always use your appliance from a power outlet of the
voltage (A.C. only) marked on the appliance.

• This appliance is not intended for use by persons
(including children) with reduced physical, sensory
or mental capabilities, or lack of experience and
knowledge, unless they have been given supervision
or instruction concerning use of the appliance by a
person responsible for their safety.

• Children should be supervised to ensure that they do
not play with the appliance.

• The temperature of accessible surfaces may be high
when the appliance is operating.

• Never leave an appliance unattended while in use.

• Avoid contacting moving parts at all times.

• Place the processing bowl onto the base of the
processor before fitting any attachments.

• All blades and attachments should be removed
with care before cleaning.

• Do not over fill the processor.

• Do not process for longer than the time periods
recommended in the operating chart.

• Always remove the blade before emptying the
processing bowl of its contents.

• Take care when removing the bowl from the base,
emptying the bowl or during fitting and removal of
blade system, as blades are extremely sharp.

• Do not use an appliance for any purpose
other than its intended use.

• Do not place an appliance on or near a hot gas
flame, electric element or on a heated oven.

• Do not place on top of any other appliance.

• Do not let the power cord of an appliance hang over
the edge of a table or bench top or touch any hot
surface.

• Do not operate any electrical appliance with a
damaged cord or after the appliance has been
damaged in any manner. If damage is suspected,
return the appliance to the nearest Sunbeam
Appointed Service Centre for examination, repair
or adjustment.

• For additional protection, Sunbeam recommend the
use of a residual current device (RCD) with a tripping
current not exceeding 30mA in the electrical circuit
supplying power to your appliances.

• Do not immerse the appliance in water or any other
liquid unless recommended.

• Appliances are not intended to be operated
by means of an external timer or separate remote
control system.

• This appliance is intended to be used in household
and similar applications such as: staff kitchen areas
in shops, offices and other working environments;
farm houses; by clients in hotels, motels and other
residential type environments; bed and breakfast
type environments.

If you have any concerns regarding the performance and use of your appliance,

please visit www.sunbeam.com.au or contact the Sunbeam Consumer Service Line.

Ensure the above safety precautions are understood.

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Features of your Food Processor

Processing cover

The processing cover or lid of bowl provides a
safety feature to the appliance. The appliance
will not operate unless the bowl, cover and large
feed pusher are correctly positioned and locked
into place.

1,100 watt induction motor

The heavy base houses a powerful 1,100
watt motor. This motor is ideal for high load
applications during processing, and provides a
greater starting strength whilst maintaining speed
throughout.

START/STOP button

For easy use the START/STOP button starts
and stops the operation of the food processor.

Pulse

The control panel includes a Pulse function.

Storage drawer

The unique drawer design enables attachments
to be stored conveniently, and safely, within the
appliance when not in use.

Non-slip feet

Keeps the food processor secure on the
bench top during use.

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Food Pushers

The food pushers assist in guiding the food
through the chute to ensure ingredients hit
the blade vertically for best processing results.
Three food pushers are included, depending on
the size of the chute being used and the size
of foods. For thinner foods, use the smaller
internal pusher for consistent even slicing.
This pusher also doubles as a measuring cup.

Wide Chute

At 14cm’s wide, the extra wide chute
eliminates the need to cut most ingredients,
to fit into the chute. Guide ingredients through
the chute into the selected blades. Additional
ingredients can be added during other
processing tasks.

Chute Safety Feature

The wide chute pusher provides a safety
interlock feature to the appliance. The motor
will not operate unless the bowl and lid are
correctly locked in position, and the large feed
pusher is inserted.

Spindle

Drives all the food processing attachments.
The spindle must be in place to operate the
food processor.

Processing bowl with handle

Large 2 litre capacity processing bowl.
The handle of the processing bowl includes a
patent-pending robust stainless steel interlock
that prevents food catching and building up,
ensuring easy cleaning.

Cord storage facility

For added convenience the unused cord length
can easily be pushed into the base of the
processor for storage.

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Attachments for your
Food Processor

1. Universal 's' blade

Stainless steel smooth edged processing blade
is designed for cutting, kneading, whisking and
emulsifying.

2. Variable slicing blade

The variable stainless steel slicing blade
allows foods to be sliced to a variety of
thicknesses, up to 7mm.

4. Reversible shredding disc - fine and coarse

Ideal control, the reversible stainless steel
shredding blades allow for the choice of fine
or coarse results.

5. Reversible grating and shaving disc

Unique to processing is the shaving blade.
It does lovely thin flakes, great for parmesan
and sweet potato crisps. The alternate side is
ideal for hard cheeses and chocolate.

3. Julienne disc

The stainless steel julienne blade is perfect
for achieving consistent julienne cut food,
perfect for salad, stir fry or garnishing.

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Using your Food Processor

• Before using your food processor,
familiarise yourself with all parts, remove
all promotional and packaging materials.
Use caution when handling blades, as
blades are sharp.

• Wash the processing bowl, processing cover
and all attachments in warm water using a
mild detergent. Dry each part thoroughly
before use.

• Before you assemble the food processor,
ensure that the power cord is unplugged.

1. Place the motor base facing you on a dry,
level surface.

2. Place the processing bowl onto the motor
base, the bowl will only sit correctly on the
base when the handle is positioned to the
right, see figure 1.

3. Rotate the handle clockwise to lock, as
indicated by the graphics on the left side
of the motorbase, see figure 2.

4.

Position the lid onto the processing bowl
You will notice a marking on the holding lip
on the lid, when placing the lid onto the
bowl this marking needs to align with the
marking on the handle of the bowl. To lock,
turn the lid clockwise, as indicated by the
arrow, see figure 3.

Fig 2

.

Fig 1

Fig 3

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Using your Food Processor continued

Important: If the processing bowl, processing
cover and large pusher are not correctly
assembled, the food processor will not
operate. This is a safety feature.

Using your Food Processor

1. Plug the power cord into a 230-240V AC
power outlet and turn the power ‘ON’.

2. Using the START/STOP button on the control
panel, press once to start processing.

The Pulse function remains on as long as the
Pulse button is pressed down.

Further ingredients can be added whilst the
appliance is running by pouring through the
medium or small feed tube once the food
pusher/s have been removed. Removing the
large pusher will stop the motor running.

3. After you have completed processing, press
the START/STOP button to stop processing.

Note: For maximum control, load the feed
tube before turning on your food processor.
Always use the food pusher for more evenly
processed foods and never push with your
fingers.

Important: The food processor is fitted with
a safety thermal cut-out device and will
shut off in the event of overload. If this
occurs, switch the appliance off and it will
automatically reset when cool.

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Fitting/Using the tools on your
Food Processor

Note: All attachments must be firmly
attached to the spindle. Always adjust the
attachments until you are sure that they are
correctly fitted.

Placing the spindle

1. Fit the spindle onto the drive shaft,
see figure 4.

Fig 4

Universal 's' Blade

1. Fit the processing bowl and spindle as
detailed previously in figures 1, 2 & 4.

2. Fit the universal 's' blade over the spindle
and press firmly into place, see figure 5.

Warning: Use caution, as blades are sharp.
Always handle the processing blade by its
central plastic section.

3. Place food into the processing bowl.

4. Fit the processing cover to the processing
bowl, see figure 3 and place the food
pusher in the feed chute.

5. Plug the power cord into a 230-240V AC
power outlet and turn the power ‘ON’.

6. Start processing using the START/STOP
or Pulse buttons.

7. When processing is complete, remove the
spindle and blade from the processing bowl
before removing the processed food.

Fig 5

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Fitting/Using the tools on your Food Processor continued

Reversible grating/shaving, shredding and
julienne discs

1. Fit the processing bowl and spindle as
detailed previously, in figures 1, 2 and 4.

2. Select the 'reversible' disc of your choice –
shredding (fine or coarse), grating/shaving or
the dedicated julienne disc.

3. Fit the disc over the spindle and press
firmly into place, see figure 6.

Warning: Use caution as the blades are sharp.

Fig 6

4. Fit the processing cover to the processing
bowl as previously shown in figure 3 and
place the food pusher in the feed chute.

5. Plug the power cord into a 230-240V AC
power outlet and turn the power ‘ON’.

6. Start processing using the START/STOP
button.

7. When processing is complete, remove the
disc and spindle from the processing bowl
before removing the processed food.

Variable slicing blade

1. Fit the processing bowl and spindle as
detailed previously in figures 1, 2 and 4.

2. Fit the slicing disc over the spindle and
press firmly into place, see figure 7.

Fig 7

Warning: Use caution as the blades are sharp.

3. Fit the processing cover to the processing
bowl as previously shown in figure 3 and
place the food pusher in the feed tube.

4. Plug the power cord into 230-240V AC
power outlet and turn the power 'ON'.

5. Start processing using the START/STOP
button.

6. When processing is complete, remove the
disc and spindle from the processing bowl
before removing the processed food.

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