August 10, 2016, Samsung Electronics America today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dacor^®, a leading American brand in the luxury home appliance category.  The acquisition marks Samsung’s continued investment in the home appliance market and an expansion of its portfolio to include ultra-premium home appliances under the Dacor brand.

Founded by Stanley M. Joseph, the California-based company has been designing and manufacturing American-made luxury kitchen appliances since 1965 and has emerged as a trusted industry leader. Upon completion of the acquisition, Dacor will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics America. Dacor will maintain its corporate identity and brand, with no changes to its operations and US-based manufacturing.

“Dacor has been delivering innovative products to the luxury home appliance market for more than 50 years,” said Boo-Keun Yoon, CEO of Consumer Electronics at Samsung Electronics. “We welcome the Dacor team to the Samsung family and look forward to leveraging their expertise in the luxury home appliance market while scaling their continued success in North America.”

“Samsung is a world-renowned organization and we could not be more delighted to share our family company with them. We are thrilled to be a part of a truly great global company,” said Michael Joseph, Chairman of the Board.

“The entire Dacor family is very excited to be joining Samsung,” said Dacor President and CEO, Chuck Huebner. “We expect that, with Samsung’s global scale, financial strength and market leadership, we will be able to accelerate our growth as we better meet the needs of both our high-end consumers and our retail partners.”

As a leader in the ultra-premium kitchen appliance market, Dacor’s innovative, high-quality products have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards including GOOD DESIGN, Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) Best in Show, Digital Trends Best of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Home Award, and many more. Dacor is also the first and only major appliance brand to be recommended by the Master Chefs of Le Cordon Bleu, the premier culinary institute headquartered in Paris. Dacor products include ranges, cooktops, wall ovens, refrigeration, ventilation and wine preservation. To learn more about Dacor and its selection of ultra-premium kitchen appliances, visit www.dacor.com.

Samsung is America’s fastest growing home appliance brand and continues to deliver products with premium design and exemplary performance. With a deep understanding of the consumer marketplace, Samsung is redefining the appliance category with innovations that bring convenience into the modern lifestyle of consumers for a truly connected experience in the home.

About Dacor

Founded in 1965, Dacor is a leading manufacturer of ultra-premium kitchen appliances. Designed and built in Southern California, Dacor’s cooking appliances integrate function, technology and design to create high-performing, intuitive products that reflect the lifestyle and needs of the passionate cook. Dacor’s full suite of award-winning appliances includes ranges, cooktops, wall ovens, refrigeration, ventilation and wine preservation. Family-owned for three generations, the company is responsible for many of the innovations that have improved the way people cook in the modern kitchen. www.dacor.com. For additional information, please visit LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter @dacorkitchen.

In the last of three video tutorials, chef Michel Troisgros presents his Parmesan Soufflé Omelet, a modernized version of a traditional French meal. Chef Troisgros says the recipe is a family tradition because it is so light and elegant. A soufflé is a French word, which loosely means “puffed up.” It is a lightly baked cake of beaten egg whites mixed with custard. A properly prepared soufflé is light and fluffy. Chef Troisgros adds a special twist to the typical omelet by baking it, giving it a really pleasant texture. Samsung makes it easy with the Chef Collection kitchen appliances.

Meet the Chef

Chef Michel Troisgros comes from a lineage of culinary masters who have been significant to French cuisine for three generations. He now owns and operates the family business in Roanne. He has traveled the world to learn from master chefs in Paris, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, New York and Brussels. Together with his wife, he reinvented his family’s restaurant, La Maison Troisgros, to a cordial and modern environment of purified design, evoking modernity, Zen, elegance and refinement. The restaurant has been awarded three Michelin stars since 1968. In addition, La Maison Troisgros is rated the Best French Restaurant in the World by Gault Millau. The Troisgros family of restaurants also include three other restaurants in France, one in Moscow and one in Tokyo.

Troisgros remains true to simple but sophisticated flavors. He achieves his dishes using as few ingredients as possible, never using more than five or six per dish. He upholds the traditions of French cooking, while incorporating new styles learned from this worldwide travel.

Watch the video to see how you can create the perfect omelet soufflé.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9DS6elMaGU

Chef’s Home Cooking Secrets with Samsung Chef Collection

A naturally gifted artist can create masterpieces, despite using primitive tools. For the many who will never receive accolades as a Michelin chef, the expertly designed Samsung Chef Collection makes feeling like one a little bit easier.

Collaborating with chefs who are among the best in the world gave Samsung insights into practical ways to improve kitchen appliances. The result is the four-piece premium kitchen appliance set, which includes the four-door refrigerator with Precise Chef Cooling, Flex Duo oven range, over-the-range microwave-hood, and WaterWall dishwasher.

Chef Troisgros emphasizes the importance of using the freshest eggs. The Chef Collection refrigerator has Precise Chef Cooling with minimal temperature fluctuation within the range of 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit (or 0.5 degrees Celsius) to ensure freshness. It includes two different sections that cool at different temperatures for the crispest produce and the juiciest meats, fish and poultry. Also included is a 3-in-1 Chef Pan that marinates, cooks and cleans.

The Recipe

Ingredients:

Preparation:

First, prepare eggs by separating whites and yolks. In a pot, bring milk and 60g of butter to a boil. In a large bowl, whisk eight egg yolks with 60g of flour until the dough is still light but firm. Gradually add the boiling milk and butter, whisking into the dough. Bring back to heat and mix until it is thick like custard. Set aside. Next, whisk three egg whites until stiff. Mix in yolks with whites with a rubber spatula. Fold while using very wide gestures to add more air, keeping whites very firm.

Omelet:

Melt butter into a pan. Pour the omelet mix into the pan until edges begin to crisp. Put in the oven and bake for four minutes at 400F. Move omelet from pan to a piece of parchment paper. Grate Parmesan cheese. Gently fold omelet in half. Grate more Parmesan cheese and orange zest.

Plating:

Place omelet and parchment paper on a plate. Place another plate face down on top of the first plate. Flip the plate over to transfer the omelet to the new plate without parchment paper. Finish by garnishing with more grated Parmesan.

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In the second of three video tutorials, chef Daniel Boulud presents his take on a commonly simple breakfast dish, the omelet. For chef Boulud, the quintessential omelet is the omelet farcie. Farcie is a French word meaning stuffed. In this case, the omelet is stuffed with scrambled eggs, a preparation learned during apprenticeships in Lyon. What chef Boulud really loves about breakfast is the ability to create amazing dishes using just a few ingredients. In his version of the omelet farcie, he combines the smokiness of salmon with the sharpness of lemon zest.

Meet the Chef

Although born and trained in France, chef Daniel Boulud is now considered one of leading authorities on cuisine in America. He focuses on seasonal gastronomy, or the use of fine ingredients. Since coming to the United States in 1982, he made his name as the Executive Chef at Le Cirque, receiving many awards and making it one of the highest rated restaurants in the country. Today, he is the chef-owner of several restaurants around the world, and is renowned for his contemporary twist on traditional French cooking.

Chef Boulud’s namesake restaurant, DANIEL, in New York City, is rated one of the top 10 restaurants in the world by the International Herald Tribune. It also received Gourmet’s Top Table Award, a four-star rating from the New York Times and two Michelin stars. DANIEL has also been inducted into Culinary Hall of Fame and is an annual fixture on Restaurant Magazine’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Beyond Manhattan, chef Boulud has opened restaurants in Palm Beach, Miami, Las Vegas, Boston, and Washington D.C., as well as Singapore, London, and Montreal.

Watch the video to see how you can create the perfect omelet farcie, just like a classically-trained French chef.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmF5TWuaeE

Chef’s Home Cooking Secrets with Samsung Chef Collection

A naturally gifted artist can create masterpieces, despite using primitive tools. For the many who will never receive accolades as a Michelin chef, the expertly designed Samsung Chef Collection makes feeling like one a little bit easier.

Collaborating with chefs among the best in the world, gave Samsung insights into practical ways to improve kitchen appliances. The result is the four-piece premium kitchen appliance set, which includes the four-door refrigerator with Precise Chef Cooling, Flex Duo oven range, over-the-range microwave-hood, and WaterWall dishwasher.

Chef Boulud changes his menus based on seasonal ingredients, and that means keeping them as fresh as possible. The Chef Collection Refrigerator has Precise Chef Cooling with minimal temperature fluctuation within the range of 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit (or 0.5 degrees Celsius) to ensure freshness. It includes two different sections that cool at different temperatures for the crispest produce and the juiciest meats, fish and poultry. Also included is a 3-in-1 Chef Pan that marinates, cooks and cleans.

The Recipe

Ingredients:

Omelet Farcie:

First, prepare eggs in two separate bowls, five eggs for the outer omelet shell and three eggs for the scrambled egg stuffing. Season the omelet shell with salt and pepper. Using the Chef Collection range, set up a double boiler to make a scrambled egg stuffing. Sprinkle in the lemon zest and chopped chives while whisking. Set the egg scramble aside. Melt butter in a pan and add the omelet mixture. Chef Boulud’s tip for the best omelet is to stir the eggs until they begin to curdle, then let the omelet set. Once the omelet begins to set, add the chopped salmon. Spoon in the scrambled egg filling on one half of the omelet. Save a spoonful for plating. Using a rubber spatula, begin to fold one side of the omelet to the center. After folding one half, holding the handle of the pan, tap the pan at the handle with a fist to let the omelet roll to the other edge. Close the omelet using the rubber spatula.

Plating:

Slide the omelet from the pan to a plate. Slice a small opening in the center of the top side, filling with the remaining scrambled eggs. Top with caviar. Garnish with remaining sliced salmon and sprigs of chives.

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In the first of the three video tutorials, chef Kostow expertly steams his omelet using the Chef Collection Flex Duo^TM oven range. With perfectly blended influences from both French and Japanese cuisine, chef Kostow ties it all together using local, seasonal wild onions.

Meet the Chef

Chef Kostow is an American chef, known for his emphasis on farm-to-table cuisine, made from locally grown ingredients, some of which he grows himself. As the Executive Chef at The Restaurant at Meadowood in Napa Valley, California, since 2008, he has been awarded three Michelin stars every year since 2011. He is only the second American-born chef and the third-youngest chef to ever receive a three-star rating in the Michelin Guide. He has received accolades from many of the country’s top food publications, including Bon Appetit, Time Magazine, and Food & Wine Magazine. In 2013, chef Kostow received the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: West. Classically trained in France through apprenticeships, his dishes combine flavors from locally grown Californian, French and New American cuisine. He appeared on Iron Chef America in 2010, battling Iron Chef Cat Cora. Passionate about food in every part of the farm-to-table process, he believes the keys to great cooking are fresh ingredients and accentuating original flavors.

Watch the video to see how you can create the perfect steamed omelet, just like a pro.

https://youtu.be/pkJ-ekm7UGg

Chef’s Home Cooking Secrets with Samsung Chef Collection

A naturally gifted artist can create masterpieces, despite using primitive tools. For the many who will never receive the accolades of a Michelin-starred chef, the expertly designed Samsung Chef Collection makes feeling like one a little bit easier.

Collaborating with chefs who are among the best in the world gave Samsung insights into practical ways to improve kitchen appliances. The result is the four-piece premium kitchen appliance set, which includes the four-door refrigerator with Precise Chef Cooling^TM, the Flex Duo^TM oven range, the over-the-counter microwave-hood and the WaterWall^TM dishwasher.

Chef Kostow believes the best dishes come from the freshest ingredients. The Chef Collection refrigerator has Precise Chef Cooling^TM for maximum freshness with minimal temperature fluctuation within the range of 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit (or 0.5 degrees Celsius). It includes two different sections that cool at different temperatures for the crispest produce and the juiciest meats, fish and poultry. Also included is a 3-in-1 chef pan that marinates, cooks and cleans.

The Recipe

Ingredients:

Steamed Omelet:

Start with eggs, whole milk and white soy sauce in a large bowl. Add milk powder. This will thicken the egg mix, giving a nice density to the steamed omelet. Whisk until all of the milk powder is dissolved. Using a pan lined with parchment paper, pour in the eggs. Put that pan inside a larger pan of simmering water. This will keep your omelet from cooking too fast or hard, allowing it to set like a light custard. Using your Chef Collection oven, bake for 20 min at 325F.

Beurre Monte with Roe Sauce:

A beurre monte is a French preparation of sauce made from melted butter. First, on your Chef Collection range top, reduce white wine and cream together, then add butter. Next add your trout roe, or caviar. Delicately fold everything together, being careful not to break the fish eggs. After finishing the sauce, use a pan to sauté the wild onions in oil.

Plating:

Slice the steamed omelet and add 4-5 slices per plate. Use a spoon to add beurre monte. Finally, garnish with wild onion.

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New Products, Content and Services Reflect Home Cooks’ Growing Desire to Connect with Authentic Culinary Experiences

Samsung Electronics, a global home appliance innovator, today announced new home appliance products and experiences that inspire, educate and give consumers the tools they need to significantly up their cooking game. Innovations in the kitchen combine with new ways of connecting with some of the world’s most celebrated chefs to transform meal preparation into a true culinary experience. Samsung’s line of products – including a new dual door version of one of its most popular ovens, a kitchen range that finally makes induction heat a practical addition to any kitchen and a counter-depth refrigerator which makes breakthrough performance and design widely accessible – are on display at the 2015 International CES from Jan. 6-9, 2015.

“Consumers are more passionate about their homes than ever before. And that’s particularly true in the kitchen, where appliances are not just tools for meal preparation, but outlets to explore their culinary creativity and make a design statement,” said John Herrington, Senior Vice President, General Manager of Home Appliances, Samsung Electronics America. “With home cooks craving fresh ideas and inspiration, this year we are not only delivering incredible new product innovations, but forging ways to connect with chef-created content to make cooking more enjoyable and meaningful.”

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New Ways of Connecting with Samsung Chef Collection

In 2013, Samsung launched Club des Chefs, a first-of-its-kind global culinary initiative that brought together world class chefs to collaborate with Samsung on the development of next-generation products. The result was the Samsung Chef Collection, a suite of beautifully designed professional chef-level appliances that has re-defined performance and design in the kitchen.

The connection between chef insights, products and consumers has proven so strong that Samsung is taking a holistic look at the cooking process and has introduced new content and services to make Club des Chefs and the Samsung Chef Collection truly immersive at-home culinary experiences. The Chef Collection App is an online tablet publication that includes original home cooking content from Samsung MSCA (Media Solutions Center America), recipes from partners like BigOven, Bon Appétit, Chefs Feed, Saveur, and the Culinary Institute of America, and tips from the chefs themselves. Updated bi-weekly, the app also features tutorial videos that showcase the Chef Collection suite of appliances to inspire consumers to explore its differentiated features. It’s like having your own personal culinary advisor at your fingertips, whether you’re cooking an everyday meal or preparing for a special holiday or occasion. The app will be available for download in Spring 2015.

For a limited time, consumers who purchase a Chef Collection appliance package are eligible to receive an exclusive Chef Collection tablet, with pre-installed app. The tablet also comes with a custom butcher block and engraved tablet stand.

In addition, Samsung recently launched the Samsung Culinary Class at FERRANDI, the leading professional culinary school in Paris, France. Consumers are now able to work side-by-side with some of the most accomplished professional chefs in the world and see first-hand how chef insights are applied to next-generation Samsung products. FERRANDI is serving as a pilot program for expansion to consumer engagements throughout the world.

Heating up the Cooking Category

Last year marked an exciting one for Samsung’s cooking category, from successfully transitioning the entire freestanding gas line-up to a more premium design to offering clever advancements like Clean View Door, which offers the largest viewing window space of any major brand in its class. In 2015, Samsung will transition its electric range line to match the new premium design reflected in the gas category.

Cooking flexibility remains an area of interest for consumers, and Samsung addresses this head-on. This year, Samsung will evolve its popular Flex Duo^TM Oven Range with the introduction of Dual Door. Just like the Samsung Flex Duo range, it gives consumers the ability to simultaneously cook two different dishes in two separate compartments at different temperatures with little transfer of aroma and taste, all behind the streamlined look of one solid oven door. Samsung takes convenience and flexibility to a whole another level with two doors that have been integrated into one to provide three cooking configurations to tackle any meal demand. An upper door gives access to a small top compartment (which, according to Samsung research, 92 percent of Flex Duo users prefer); a full door opens to both the top and bottom compartments when the removable Smart Divider is in use, and offers access to the entire oven when the divider is not in use. The capacity of a full size oven with the flexibility to customize based on meal prep needs – it’s the best of both worlds.

The Samsung Flex Duo^TM Oven Range with Dual Door^TM will be available in Spring 2015.

Precision in Induction

Induction heating has become an increasingly popular option around the globe and while it has a superior ability to effectively transfer heat from the cooktop to cookware, it lacks the visual cues signaling the level of heat. The Samsung Chef Collection Slide-In Induction Range with Virtual Flame Technology^TM not only delivers the full benefits of induction cooking, but takes it a step further.

A CES Innovation Awards honoree, the induction range features LED lighting embedded beneath a glass cooktop to cast a reassuring flame-like glow onto pots and pans when in use. The intensity of the virtual flame increases as you turn up the power, with nine levels of heat ranging from simmer to boil.

On top of the power and precision of a 4-burner induction cooktop, the Samsung Chef Collection Slide-In Induction Range includes award-winning features like Flex Duo Technology. Wrapped in a sleek stainless exterior with thoughtfully-designed controls, the range is ready to slide into any home kitchen décor to create a seamless and professional look. The Samsung Chef Collection Slide-In Induction Range is available now.

Breakthrough Refrigerator Performance and Design in a Counter Depth Model

Since its introduction last year, the T9000 Refrigerator has quickly joined a long line of innovative Samsung refrigerators which have transformed food storage in the kitchen. And, its perfectly calibrated balance of technology, performance and design has catapulted the T9000 to the top of the category.

The new counter depth version of the T9000 makes it accessible to a much larger segment of the consumer market. Its slim design easily fits into standard kitchen cabinets, so it delivers a more harmonized look and feel for today’s modern kitchens. The 23 cu. ft. refrigerator features Triple Cooling System technology, which creates three separate airflows in the refrigerator and freezer, enabling optimal humidity and individual temperature control per each compartment for outstanding freshness.

Triple Cooling also enables the T9000 to feature the Cool Select Plus, a fridge-in-freezer compartment located in the lower right part which can be converted from a refrigerator to a freezer and back again, and serves a multitude of needs.  The Cool Select Plus features 4.43 cu. ft. of fresh-food storage and includes four customizable temperature settings:  Fridge (41 F), Chilled (30 F), Soft Freeze (23 F), and Frozen (-9 to 1 F).

Additionally, the interior includes such features as slide in/flip up shelves and two crisper drawers. The counter depth T9000 will be available in Spring 2015.

New Options in Food Storage Innovation

With innovative and smart storage solutions, the Samsung Food Showcase refrigerator line-up – introduced last year – has quickly become a hit with busy families searching for ways to get a leg up on organization in the kitchen.  The exterior door ShowCase compartments, divided into three family-friendly zones, and interior InnerCase compartments, perfect for storing larger, fresh food items, have proven to be the ideal combination of intuitive functionality, convenience and design. Now Samsung is adding new counter depth side by side and entry level models to the already robust line, insuring a wide breadth of options for all kitchen configurations and price points.

All Food Showcase refrigerator models feature a Metal Cooling guard on the inside of the front door to capture cold air and maintain the optimal temperature within the fridge, so food stays fresh, even if the refrigerator door is opened frequently. The refrigerators also feature elegant metal doors that add a premium feel to the modern lifestyle of families.

The new Samsung Food ShowCase refrigerator models are rolling out now, in addition to the already available side-by-side, four-door and three-door French Door models.

To see and experience Samsung’s appliances first-hand, visit the Samsung booth #11906 in the Central Hall. Samsung Electronics America’s press releases, product images and video content are available at www.samsung.com/newsroom and global.samsungtomorrow.com/CES2015.

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