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THE STEAM COOKER
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  • Page 1 THE STEAM COOKER USER GUIDE...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of contents Introduction Tips for a perfect use Preservation The different cooking Beautiful Belgian history How to pasteurise the jars? techniques Fermentation Short description of the functions of your steam cookerr What is cooking? How to turn the steam cooker Safety and use into yogurt-maker? Steam cooking...
  • Page 3: Beautiful Belgian History

    Dejelin stands for craftmanship and expertise of more than 10 years. Each part You just purchased a Dejelin product! of the Dejelin steam cooker is selected You will now be able to enjoy healthy with care and attention. and tasty cooking with this extraordinary Finest materials which respect your appliance.
  • Page 4: Short Description Of The Functions

    SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF YOUR STEAM COOKER PROGRAMS KOOKTECHNIEKEN The Dejelin steam cooker features three The perfect management of the These different techniques are detailed programs: temperature and the accessories of your further in this document cooker allow you to: Express soft steam cooking at 100°C...
  • Page 5: Safety And Use Prescriptions

    FAILURE TO OBSERVE THESE SAFETY indication in the bowl in order to avoid PRESCRIPTIONS OR AN INADEQUATE overflowing. Place the Dejelin steam cooker on a USE OF THIS APPLIANCE WILL VOID horizontal and stable surface. THE WARRANTY. Always keep the appliance out of reach of children.
  • Page 6: Tips And Description Of The Included Accessories

    Tips and description of the included accessories CONTROL PANEL The control panel of your steam cooker is equipped with two knobs. The left know allows you to control the The right knob allows you to control time. the temperature. IMPORTANT Cooking at 100 and 80°C is only •...
  • Page 7: Smart Protect System

    SMART PROTECT SYSTEM The cooker is equipped with an absence of water sensor: if during the cooking session, the water tank is empty, the heating system stops automatically and a permanent sound signal will be heard. Your appliance is in safety mode. To stop the sound signal, turn the timer to 0.
  • Page 8: Included Parts And Accessories

    INCLUDED PARTS AND ACCESSORIES What a joy to unpack your brand new Dejelin steam cooker! Whatever the model, your Dejelin steam cooker is composed as follows:...
  • Page 9 A tempered glass lid, slightly A heating container. domed, in order for the condensed 5. Food separators steam to stream on the sides of the (in reversed ‘U’ shape), to divide containers and not on the food so the inside of the stainless steel that your dish doesn’t get denatured.
  • Page 10: Additional Accessories

    ADDITIONAL ACCESSORIES In order to optimise and diversify the steam cooking, Dejelin developed additional accessories. These are available at your reseller or on www.dejelin.com. The asparagus cooker insures the The egg boiler, for an easy and homogeneous cooking of minimum perfect preparation of your eggs.
  • Page 11 The storage lid, completely out of stainless steel, has a double function: Preserve before cooking Its unique design allows you to stack your containers in your fridge. Become a professional meal-prepper and make your life easier. Prepare your food in advance and place it on the steam cooker when you get home.
  • Page 12: Maintenance

    Maintenance Simply put the parts in your dishwasher, a quick wipe of the tank… And you’re ready to enjoy your evening with your family or your guests. THE FIRST CLEANING THE HEATING TANK THE ACCESSORIES It is highly recommended to clean Before the first use, thoroughly clean Before any handling, unplug the the containers, the collars, the lid and...
  • Page 13: User Manual For A Quick Start

    User manual for a quick start 1. ASSEMBLY 2. STARTING & PROGRAMMING • Plug in your appliance • Place the Dejelin steam cooker on a • Chose the desired cooking program horizontal and stable surface. • Pour water (from the tap, mineral of A.
  • Page 14 3. PREHEATING 4. KEEP WARM • IMPORTANT: the light takes about 30 • While the steam cooker is heating • Turn the right knob to 60°C. up, prepare your ingredients. to 60 seconds to switch on, because • Chose the continuous mode by the thermostat has to reach the right •...
  • Page 15: Tips For A Perfect Use

    Over time, the steam • Always place the porcelain terrine in Place the Dejelin steam cooker on a might damage the material of the the highest GastroNorm container. horizontal and stable surface. Make kitchen components right above.
  • Page 16: The Different Cooking Techniques

    However, the heat source must be Thawing moderated to avoid destructuring the food completely and lose all nutritional value. A right balance must be found and that is exactly what Dejelin proposes with a wide range of gentle cooking, below 100°C, which respects the food.
  • Page 17 Steam cooking Steam cooking has been used for more than 6000 years in China. For us, this ancestral method came back on the front stage in the beginning of the century. A general feeling of sick and tired of bad eating habits and above all a consciousness-raising led to a (re)adoption of healthier food! A VERY HEALTHY WAY OF COOKING THE DETOX EFFECT...
  • Page 18: How To Cook With Steam

    HOW TO COOK WITH STEAM? (FIG A) Pour water (mineral of filtered) up to Tips & Tricks the desired mark. Place one or more collar(s) with one • Place your fish and your meat in or more steam basket(s) (or bio- the inferior basket.
  • Page 19 HOW TO CHOOSE THE HOW TO SEASON? COOKING TEMPERATURE? Salt and pepper dilute when in contact SOFT STEAM LOW TEMPERATURE COOKING with steam and will not stay on the food. At 100°C, you get a production of At 80°C, the production of steam To preserve the seasoning of your •...
  • Page 20: How To Collect The Cooking Juice

    • Then place another collar with and add flavour to your dish. Collect the steam basket. this precious juice thanks to the Dejelin • Close with the glass lid. “bio-GastroNorm” container. • Start the cooking session following one of the recipes of the recipe booklet.
  • Page 21 HOW TO COLLECT THE COOKING JUICE OF A MIXT COOKING? When you cook meat or fish together with your vegetables, there are two possible options: 1. To collect the juice of one of your ingredients (fig. C) • Place the “bio-GastroNorm” container in between the two steam baskets and put the ingredient of which you wish to collect the juice in...
  • Page 22: To Simmer And To Pickle

    Stewing: to simmer and to pickle Stewing is a gentle cooking method in a closed container. The food cooks slowly so as to use as much as possible of their juice as cooking juice. We also use the word “steaming” to describe this type of cooking. Just as for other gentle cooking methods, stewing preserves the nutritive values of the food.
  • Page 23: Mixt Steam Cooking And Stewing

    MIXT STEAM COOKING AND STEWING (fig. D). To cook several ingredients simultaneously, always place the “bain- marie” container on top, under the lid. • Pour water in the container of your steam cooker up to the mark “steam max”. • Place a collar and the steam basket on the heating tank.
  • Page 24: Immersion Cooking : To Poach And To Blanch

    To blanch To blanch means to immerse food With its 1700 watt, the Dejelin steam cooker will save you time for the immersion for a few minutes in simmering water cooking. Your cooking water will boil faster and you will consume less water and energy...
  • Page 25: How To Cook By Immersion

    HOW TO COOK BY IMMERSION? (FIG. E) Tips & Tricks • Pour water in the container of your • In order to avoid the water to steam cooker up to the mark “steam boil too hard when you cook max”. pasta, change the temperature •...
  • Page 26: Preservation

    Preservation: to sterilise & to pasteurise The treatment of preservation with heat has a bad name, since it is widely used in the food industry. Cans and jars enclose food which has no real flavour or nutrients anymore… However, some techniques remain interesting from a nutritional point of view and allows us to enjoy our favourite dishes, even when it isn’t the season anymore.
  • Page 27: How To Pasteurise The Jars

    HOW TO STERILISE / SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS PASTEURISE JARS? • Make sure the ingredients you want to pasteurise are fresh: food which (FIG. G) is not perfectly fresh might already be fermenting and it is impossible You can pasteurise /sterilise up to 6 jars to guarantee the success of the of 250ml at once: preservation.
  • Page 28: Fermentation

    Healthy, natural, economical and so much tastier. The secret of a smooth and creamy yogurt • While the water is warming, prepare lies in the constant temperature. Your Dejelin your yogurt jars. steam cooker controls the temperature for • Place your jars in the steam basket.
  • Page 29: Heat Up & Keep Warm

    Heat up & keep warm HOW TO HEAT UP DISHES? Rehydrate dried dishes (fig. I) You can heat up your dishes different Most of the dishes lose part of their water ways with the steam function, depending once cooled and/or refrigerated. Steam on the type of food: will allow you to heat up your dishes, but also to rehydrate them.
  • Page 30 To heat up your dishes in sauce The dishes in sauce are by nature liquid and have no need to be rehydrated, a simple heating is enough! • In a closed circuit (fig J.) Place your dish in the “bain-marie” container on a collar on the heating tank and close with the glass lid.
  • Page 31 How to heat up a mixt dish? You would like to rehydrate your carbs and heat the sauce at once? Simply place the collars of your steam cooker as shown on the figure (fig. L) • Pasta or rice which should be rehydrated in the steam basket.
  • Page 32: How To Change The Steam

    CHAFING DISH? (FIG. M) You want to keep your scrambled eggs warm during your brunch, or maintain the temperature of your dish for the latecomers. Your Dejelin steam cooker transforms into professional and elegant In open circuit chafing dish •...
  • Page 33: Thawing

    Thawing Thawing with steam takes a bit more time than with the microwave oven, but the result is incomparable. Besides preserving the flavours and the nutritive values of the food, thawing with steam avoids precooking the food and doesn’t alter its texture. HOW TO THAW WITH STEAM For raw ingredients, full of water (fig.
  • Page 34: Warranty

    correctly operated by the buyer. The cannot be held responsible for damage Warranty warranty covers free repair, or exchange resulting from insufficient packaging. of one or more defective parts, or the The warranty then expires. The after Dalcq S.A. provides a special warranty exchange of the appliance for another sales service will inform you of the return on all parts of the appliance subject to...
  • Page 35 • Inappropriate mechanical influences on the appliance or on the parts of the appliance. • Defaults that are not caused by the finishing or production of the appliance, such as fall, collision, damage, fire, earthquake, damage by flood, lightning, etc. •...

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