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Refrigeration

Blast chillers, a cooling solution with a lot of benefits

Blast chillers, a cooling solution with a lot of benefits

 

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What is a blast chiller?

A blast chiller is a particular type of freezer that is specifically designed to reduce the temperature of food quickly and efficiently. The food can either be pre-cooked or fresh. A blast chiller preserves the nutritional properties of the food, because the freezing process is very fast. This ensures that the food you will serve will always be of the best quality. A blast chiller freezes food up to twenty times faster than standard refrigerators.

Benefits

The major advantage of using a blast chiller is that it maintains food quality. Using a blast chiller is essential if you want to preserve the appearance and taste of the food, but also its flavor, aroma, texture and nutrients. This feature makes a blast chiller the perfect solution for professional kitchens. Moreover, a blast chiller has the ability to prevent food shrinkage, because this particular cooling method reduces the extent of dehydration by preventing natural evaporation. A blast chiller is essential in professional kitchens as it saves time and money. As a matter of fact, food can be prepared and stored in advance, when the staff is less busy.

What is the ideal blast chiller?

Frecciainox offers two types of blast chillers, Shock Freezer 3 Trays and Shock Freezer 5 Trays. Depending on your needs, you can either chose the Shock Freezer 3 Trays, which has less capacity and occupies less room space, or the Shock Freezer 5 Trays, which has a greater capacity. Frecciainox’s blast chillers are made of stainless steel and can reduce the temperature of food from +70 °C to +3°C in 90 minutes. More information about the blast chillers can be found at Frecciainox’s website.

Catering equipment (Pizzeria)

Pizza gas ovens: how to choose the best one for your business

Pizza gas ovens: how to choose the best one for your business

 

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The importance of the pizza oven

There are few foods that are as famous as pizza. It is found in virtually every eatery and some businesses, known as pizzerias, specialize in making a variety of pizzas. The popularity of the dish means that an eatery that makes high quality pizzas will always have many customers. The pizza oven is the most important equipment in a restaurant. One can have the perfect ingredients but it is the oven that makes the pizza either so good that people will come back for more or so bad that it will soon destroy one’s pizza business. In essence, a pizza oven is the cornerstone of any pizza business. Thus, choosing the right oven is one of the most important tasks for any restaurant or eatery.

Choosing pizza gas ovens

The most common pizza ovens are pizza gas ovens, like those made by Frecciainox, but electric pizza ovens are also available on the market. Commercial ovens usually have larger capacity in order to cook several pizzas. This enables the business to sell many pizzas at the same time. The main advantage of pizza gas ovens over electric ovens is on operating costs. Gas is relatively cheaper than electricity, especially in the UK, and the business can make huge savings by investing in a pizza gas oven rather than in an electric one.

What to look for when shopping for a pizza oven

When shopping for a pizza gas oven, one of the most important things to look out for is the baking stone. Traditionally, pizzas were baked on a baking stone that allowed heat distribution and played a major role in giving flavor and crispness to the pizza. Frecciainox’s pizza gas ovens have a honeycombed refractory stone that replicates the traditional way of heat distribution in a modern appliance. Thus, the pizza has the same taste and texture as a traditionally made pizza. The interior of the oven must be made of a material that is easy to clean because the frequent use of the pizza oven means that it will require frequent cleaning. This includes the baking stone which must be easy to remove from the oven for cleaning. Finally, the structure must be made of heat resistant material in order to reduce heat wastage and save on costs.

Convection ovens

Choosing the best pizza electric oven for your commercial business

Choosing the best pizza electric oven for your commercial business

 

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The oven – the essential ingredient for a perfect pizza

It once was a delicacy that only the natives of Naples could enjoy, but in a short time Pizza has become one of the most popular dishes in the world. In the UK, pizza is found in virtually every eating establishment and it comes with a wide variety of toppings ranging from vegetables to bacon, beef, cheese, French fries and much more. However, the perfect pizza is not just about the ingredients: the oven in which it is baked is essential, too. As a matter of fact, the oven can either bake delicious pizzas or be the responsible for very bad results. This is why one of the most important decisions that a food business owner has to take is what kind of pizza oven to buy.

The advantages of electric ovens

There are three types of pizza ovens: gas-fired pizza ovens, electric pizza ovens and wood-fired ovens. Today, wood-fired ovens are less and less used by commercial establishments. Gas-fired ovens are the most common, but pizza electric ovens, such as those manufactured by Frecciainox, are rapidly gaining popularity. Electric ovens have several advantages that make them a suitable choice for commercial enterprises. Unlike gas ovens, electric ovens require little supervision when cooking pizzas. Furthermore, they also have an intuitive interface that makes them very easy to use. Electric pizza ovens have large capacities, too. Depending on the model, they can bake between six and eighteen pizzas at a time, making it possible for catering businesses with a large number of customers to fulfill orders quickly and efficiently. The combined advantages of ease of use and the ability to bake a large number of pizzas at once is what is driving the popularity of pizza electric ovens.

What to look for when shopping for an oven

If you are planning to buy a new electric pizza oven, one thing you need to figure out is how fast it heats up. Most electric pizza ovens heat up very quickly, especially if compared to gas ovens. This makes it possible for the business owner to save time and start baking pizzas shortly after the oven is turned on. The number of customers is another important aspect you have to take into consideration. A commercial establishment with many customers should opt for an oven that can cook 18 pizzas at a time, like the Frecciainox 9X9 gold series, which enables the business to take advantage of the economies of scale. The oven should also be made of an easy-to-clean material, as it will require a lot of cleaning due to its frequent use. Finally, the oven should have dual regulators. These controls enable the chef to regulate the temperature of both the upper and lower heating element. This allows the chef to customize pizzas according to what the customer wants.