I was pleasantly surprised about the size, I had in fact concern that the device takes away too much space. But no, it is compact, with 6,6kg not exactly easy, but one also stands out not break when you have to carry the Prep & Cook from A to B. Where she got a permanent place in the kitchen with me and I do not Nutty big, I can recommend every buyer. My Bosch Mum I quickly cleared in the closet, here is the not worthwhile because my Prep & Cook is in daily use. It also looks really chic but from stainless steel in combination with black and white - which shows you that does not hide it!
What can the Krups Prep and Cook because really and what they perhaps may not be as well?
Krups Prep & Cook advertises the with the slogan: "The whole kitchen in a single device." But that is perhaps a bit exaggerated but and could also provide for disappointment.
The Prep & Cook, for example:
Dough (also heavy bread dough) perfectly knead dough can go at 30 ° C in the same container
Cooking sauces, which makes them wonderful, nothing burns on
Cooking soups, cream soups are so great
Prepare desserts, such as pudding (without lumps), chocolate mousse, etc.
Cook jam, so simple, so good
Cooking and steaming (eg dumplings, fish, vegetables, potatoes, Kaßler)
You chop and mashed, she cuts, strikes and emulsified, it mixes and grinds, it stirred and kneaded, she cooks and cooks - so really a magic Kesselchen?
Yes and no! All above work they coped wonderfully.
She has 4 attachments (utility knife, shock / a mixer, mixing / a mixer, kneading / Mahlmesser) and the steamer.
One should really familiarize yourself with the individual functions. To learn suited the supplied cookbook, since many good recipes are already included. Divided into pre-, main courses and desserts, you can cook here complete menu, every meal is a very good picture, a detailed description of the preparation and also which essays are required. Actually, you should get a coupon code yet another cookbook with 100 German courts, unfortunately, it is to not yet arrived with me now.
I admit I do not always read the manual and it therefore failed even every meal perfect. So I have changed eg mashed potatoes with the wrong program in a viscous mass and ground onions and cabbage to Mus. But these were exceptions. As the saying goes: Learning by doing! or even: Mistakes are a learning!
The Krups Prep & Cook has several automatic programs:
Sauces
Soups (2 programs P1 finely pureed, mashed coarsely P2)
Cooking (3 programs) stewed dishes (P1), stews (P2), risotto and similar preparations (P3).
Steam cooking
Dough (3 channels) bread (P1), yeast dough (P2) and sponge (P3). If P1 and P2 there is the function let you go to the dough.
Dessert for cream desserts (chocolate, lemon cream, etc.), for example pudding or panna cotta
It also has a manual mode. Here you can adjust speed, temperature and time according to personal needs. Then there's the pulse button (here the machine works at intervals) and the Turbo button, where it runs at full speed (step 12), as long as you hold down the button. With the start / stop button, you can start the program in progress and pause, press the button a long time, you ended the program prematurely and can then, for example, select another.
As soon as one tries to open the lid, the machine will stop, this is really perfect for your own safety and also for the children in the household. If you close the lid, you can run the program on the Start button on.
The lid has a fill hole, so you can, while the machine is running, even add ingredients. Otherwise, almost all operations of the lid is closed with the stopper, the steam regulation you can turn this on minimum to maximum.
I'll first time to the disadvantages that are noticed:
Cleaning is sometimes a bit annoying. It has (let water into the container, paper run purely and at 90 ° C for one minute, I use it like if I did, for example, chocolate ice cream or pudding, even with remaining pastry) while a cleaning function. Most then goes off well, but just on the blades and at the lower opening, where they are placed, like what settles. Since the knives are not allowed in the dishwasher, it must be washed by hand. Please only use the small included brush or use a washing-up brush, the knives are so damn hot, the risk of injury is great.
The container and the lid can in the dishwasher. For this purpose, the lid is broken down into 2 parts (so I am at the beginning done something awkward, now I can do it in your sleep) and the seal ring is removed, which must be cleaned by hand. (Between us, I've already done it at least 2x a mistake in the dishwasher, because am really a bowl - yet everything is close)
The container may also have almost completely in the dishwasher, only in the ground, an attachment bracket using the lower wing nut (is that right?) Are solved, which is very fast. Both are cleaned by hand, even here there are grooves and holes where gladly settle dough or other food particles, as also helps most the supplied brush. At the top holder is also a sealing ring which is removed for cleaning. One must not forget then to install it again.
The steamer could be larger. I have prepared as salmon therein, for 3 persons it is sufficient, in 4 there is already tight. I bought on the recommendation of an additional steaming attachment made of silicone of a foreign company. It is placed on the lid up until now I have only once made sausages in hot, while in the pot of pea soup cooked (which worked well). Quite firm and secure but does not sit on the use, so I can not give no recommendation, especially when children are in the household. I hope Krups is because even retrofit a good fit part!
Yes, what is not quite optimal?
Whip the cream is a game of patience. I do not know if I still lack the right gimmick, but between "still fluid" and "already Butter" are only a few seconds ;-) but I think I'm missing there is the experience. Butter can, however perfect and delicious buttermilk it provides the same time.
Cutting vegetables uniformly small, does not work particularly well. You really have to watch out for. Somehow that's understandable. The Krups Prep & Cook happens to have no extra-Schnitzel essay. The utility knife chops the vegetables and that has more of a cutting or a hash function. By the time I'll be there as well as safer, no matter never gets you the pieces, but for cutting onions and diced vegetables for soups or salads fast the Prep & Cook is often used.
The Prep & Cook can not fry. She has a cooking function with several stages, one of which is the Schmorfunktion, but again you can not expect that you can roast the meat or the diced onions. I was aware that, so I'm not disappointed about it. Despite this, many middle Rochester have for example been prepared Goulash and rave about the very delicate flesh, I admit, this test is still out with me.
So and that was it but also already with the disadvantages that are noticed.
Now, to the many, many benefits of Krups Prep & Cook!
Cake and bread dough
Never have so much to have bread or cakes baked. Combine all ingredients in the Krups Prep & Cook and wildfire stirred me the machine the dough together. It does not matter whether it is heavy yeast, stirring or Biscuitteig. All my breads and cakes were really perfect. Ingredients that formerly still grind or grate had (eg almonds for Apple Crumble or carrots for my carrot cake, are equally crushed in the machine pudding for my fried cake of course I cooked in the Prep & Cook -. As simple as quickly, without any lumps and without that I had to stir constantly - super!
Soups
Unbeatable! I have potatoes, carrots and Bärlauchsuppe cooked within 30 minutes. I had the creamy soups finished, the potato soup even relatively large pieces of frozen soup vegetables were there, which overcomes the Krups really perfect. The pea soup needed 60min. (With shelled peas) Again a really great result, the soup program P2 is extra for roughly pureed soups made.
Jam
Again, I can not imagine a better device. It is mashed and cooked, you do not watch out, it can not splash out and the result is outstanding. I'm looking forward to the summer with its many fruits ;-)
Desserts
I have for example a cream from cottage cheese, cream and Raffaello served with raspberries, apple sauce and milk rice. Ice has made in a very short time, even pudding we cooked several times, quickly and easily with the best result.
Spreads, savory or sweet
When selecting wild garlic butter, bruschetta and Toffitella, especially if you make larger quantities for a party or as a gift, the Krups Prep & Cook is really very! The wild garlic butter I eg partially frozen, the Toffitella away (here has hacked my machine without a murmur the contents of 2 packages frozen Toffifee) When bruschetta ingredients are crushed not entirely uniform, but still the result was satisfactory, you have to watch that it always works only in short intervals (or work better can :-)
other dishes, side dishes, sauces
Of course I also have other dishes cooked in the Krups Prep & Cook. Fricassee example is great, even curry chicken and chicken tikka masala (yes, we love chicken ;-) I perfectly manage it. The sauces are thick, the sauces program is really great, I'm looking forward to cook for my hollandaise sauce in Prep & Cook. The salmon, prepared in Garkörbchen was so tender and juicy, the there soon, also to the Transferred wild garlic I have prepared my magic Kesselchen. Yesterday was grilling the sausages were there with the world's best curry sauce, cooked in the Krups Prep & Cook! And cabbage cooking I now also own that was so damn tasty (although there again comes the downer, the crushing was not here so simple but I got the hang of it ;-)
My Conclusion:
I no longer give my Krups Prep & Cook ago. Some little things there would still improve, but overall I'm so happy with this food processor. It facilitates my work very much and it's fun, always to try something new.
The whole kitchen in a device that can not afford even the Krups Prep & Cook! I will continue to keep my blender and my hand mixer, my (actually I greatly beloved) Bosch Mum may move to my daughter), but that only because of the nonexistent place. Dispense I have now on my SoupMaker my Moulinette, another small SmoothieMaker and the chef of Tupper.
The stove does not replace me, I must continue to use the oven and stir-fries I do not want to miss.
I can recommend the Krups Prep & Cook anyone who likes cooking and baking, but this is also not afraid to experiment. The price is of course very high (800.00) but still well below that of the Thermomix.
