Commercial Catering Equipment Guide: What foods do you use with which appliance?
Unsure what catering equipment you need in your commercial kitchen? Well, let our commercial catering equipment guide help you.
In this commercial cooking guide, we’ll show you exactly which foods can be cooked with each appliance.
What can I cook with a combi oven?
The combi oven is a multifunctional cooking appliance. Whether you need to steam vegetables, cook meat with convection or combine both methods, a combi oven is the perfect appliance. It can even be used to regenerate pre-prepared dishes.
What can I cook with a fryer?
Deep fat fryers provide fast-turnaround cooking. Particularly ideal for chips, deep fat fryers are also great for cooking battered foods, such as fish or chicken strips.
What can I cook with a grill?
A commercial salamander grill allows a chef to cook, bake, brown, toast and grill. Due to this, it’s particularly well suited to places that serve snacks, sandwiches, full breakfasts and burgers.
What can I cook with a griddle?
A commercial griddle (also known as a plancha) is great for preparing a wide range of meals quickly. Offering hot plate cooking, it’s particularly great for cooking eggs, bacon, steaks, fish and vegetables.
What can I cook with a hob?
Commercial hobs are ideal in settings where high volume cooking is required. Hobs are great for boiling pasta, cooking vegetables, boiling soups and making sauces.
What can I cook with a bratt pan?
Commercial bratt pans are highly versatile pieces of catering equipment and they can be used to cook almost any food. This is because bratt pans can perform eight different cooking functions. A bratt pan allows you to shallow fry, deep fry, roast, stew, poach, steam, braise and boil.
What can I cook with a microwave?
Commercial microwaves are perfect for cooking, reheating, defrosting and steaming a wide range of foods. Plus, they can also help you save both time and space.
Unsure what cooking appliances you require in your kitchen? Talk to our catering experts today. Whether you’re running a restaurant, a pub, a café or a workplace canteen, we’d love to help you.
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