DeLonghi DCP707 Stainless-Steel Programmable 5-Quart Slow Cooker
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: DelonghiBrand: DeLonghi
Model: DCP707
Color: Silver
Product features:
- Just set it and go with the 10-hr digital countdown timer; perfect for long work days or busy days running around with the kids at sports practice
- Enjoy the ease of the servable ceramic bowl, take it straight to the table, so there is less to clean!
- You can take pleasure in the ample counterspace you'll still enjoy with the sleek compact design
- Feed the family or even a whole dinner party with the 5-qt capacity
- Be sure that you will always cook food at the perfect temperature with high and low settings and a 2-hr keep warm function
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of DeLonghi DCP707 Stainless-Steel Programmable 5-Quart Slow Cooker
Customer Review: BEST CROCKPOT/SLOW-COOKER ON THE MARKET!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with everything in the Dec. 2009 review written by That Was Cool. "TDurden1937." THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL, HIGH-QUALITY, REASONABLY PRICED SLOW-COOKER, made out of top-quality materials (e.g., the tempered glass lid with real stainless steel handle; removeable, heavy-duty white crockery insert that you actually cook in--cleans effortlessly!; and the stainless steel cooking shell with stainless steel handles).
I read all the reviews for this and many, many other slow cookers, and I cannot imagine ever having any of the problems with this cooker that the others have (e.g., one slow cooker actually started shedding black flecks from the coated surface after 5 or 6 uses--that won't happen with the beautiful white crockery cooking insert in the DeLonghi slow-cooker). I cannot recommend the DeLonghi slow-cooker highly enough!
Anyway, I won't repeat the excellent details in TDurden1937's review--please go to his review for those details. I wanted to write about the two successfully scrumptious meals (a pork and a beef dish) I've made with this slow-cooker in the one week we've had it to give you some details about how it works, in my experience.
I hadn't received the crockpot cookbooks I'd ordered, so I used recipes from the Web. In each case, I browned the meat thoroughly in some extra-virgin olive oil in a stainless steel saute pan, deglazed the pan with whatever liquid the recipe called for (to spatula up the precious meat browns from the pan), transferred the meat and browns/liquid to the slow-cooker--the crockery insert, I mean--cooked on high for two hours, followed by three hours cooking on the low setting--stirring occasionally. In each case, the meat came out salivatingly fork-tender, and the sauce was delectable! I felt like a real cook for the first time in my 60 years! Now the details.
The first dish I made was Alton Brown's pepper pork chops: [...]. As I said above, I started out with cooking on high for 2 hours, instead of the one hour I think the recipe calls for, then cooked on low for 3 more hours. Incomparable results!
The second dish was Anthony Bourdain's beef burgundy (boeuf bourgignon) recipe--not the complicated one from his "Les Halles" cookbook, but the super-simple one shown on his recent "Cooking Techniques" show on the "No Reservations" series. You can often view this on YouTube (the recipe is spread out among 5 segments of the episode), but periodically, I notice it seems to get yanked for copyright reasons, I guess, and I can't seem to find it on the Website for Bourdain's show. But it's simple: the cheapest cut of meat--I used stewing beef. Brown it in a saute skillet in some extra-virgin olive oil 'til it's good and brown (not grey) in small batches--don't crowd the pan and don't add more meat 'til each batch is done--stabilizes the heat of the pan. Set aside the meat, or put it in the unheated crockpot crockery insert. Saute chopped onions in the browns for a few minutes in the skillet. Add burgundy wine (the cheaper the better--we used Carlo Rossi) to the saute pan and spatula up all the browns along with the onions. With your browned meat in the crockpot, pour the deglazed wine and onions from the saute pan over the meat. Add enough additional burgundy wine to cover the meat and then a little. Cook on high for 2 hours; low for 3 hours after that (Bourdain's recipe calls for peeled, sliced carrots--I added them when changing to the low setting). Get ready to be blissed out by your dinner!
I brought the beef burgundy to our neighborhood potluck the other night, and they slurped it up so fast that lamentably, we had no left-overs to bring home and savor all over again!
Anyhow, no matter what the recipes recommend, for starters, I think I'm going to stick with to the forumula of cooking the first 2 hours on high/and whatever remaining hours the recipe calls for on low for whatever I cook--it seems to have worked so well with this particular slow-cooker--especially, the fork-tender results we love so well with the meat! Anyway, we'll see how that works for other recipes. Yum!
My husband and I are ecstatically happy with this slow-cooker! The food doesn't stick to the crockery insert, so it cleans up super-easily (in fact, you can put the crockery cooking insert and the glass lid--NOT the stainless steel cooking shell, mind you--in the dishwasher). And, I'm so glad that, not being much of a cook, I can finally make delicious dishes that both of us just absolutely savor!
Description of DeLonghi DCP707 Stainless-Steel Programmable 5-Quart Slow Cooker
Designed for busy people, the De'Longhi 5-Qt Slow Cooker not only cooks to perfection, but looks good while doing so; just set it and go. The sleek, compact stainless steel design is accompanied by a white servable ceramic bowl, so you have less to clean up. You can be confident knowing that your meal will end up exactly as planned, no over cooking or undercooking with the 10-hr digital countdown timer; perfect for long work days or busy days running the kids around to after school activities. The compact design is small enough to still allow for ample counter space, so there is no sacrifice there. If the kids like to help with cooking there's no need to worry about them burning themselves, the cool touch stainless handles provide you some piece of mind. Cleanup will be a breeze with the dishwasher safe servable bowl and tempered glass lid.Categories
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