Commercial Cooking Equipment

When you go to a restaurant for a meal you might think that the equipment that is used to prepare your meal is the same as the ones that you use in your kitchen. While many of the items are the same, commercial cooking equipment is made for the use of large amounts of food.

Take for the instance the use of a refrigerator. This useful item differs in the home environment and that of a restaurant. The refrigerators that we use are generally two door freezer refrigerators. Our meats, fish and poultry products as well as ice are stored in the freezer compartment. The other products like eggs, vegetables, dairy products and drinks will be stored in the refrigerator section.

In a restaurant the freezer may be a special room that is kept at a frozen temperature to store the meat products. The refrigerator will be large enough so that a great variety and amount can be placed there until it is needed. These commercial refrigerators are built this way so that the day’s food stores can be kept fresh, without the need for restocking throughout the day.

Other Commercial Cooking Equipment

Other commercial cooking equipment like stovetop ovens are quite different from the ones in our kitchen. These cookers tops sometimes will have 6 to 8 cooking rings and you could find that there are two to three cooking ranges near each other. This feature means that more than one stove top can be utilized at the same moment to produce vast quantities of hot food. The ovens in these places are made to accommodate at least 2 or more types of food.

Our cooker ovens generally have 4 burners that you will find atop of an oven. These ovens can be radiant ovens or convection ovens. They are divided into about three sections by wire trays. They also can hold about one large turkey sized food product. As you see there is a vast difference between the commercial cooking equipment in restaurants and our kitchens.

The other difference that you can find in home cooking versus restaurant cooking is that we may use a hot plate to keep the food warm or we will just reheat the food straight off the range top. Commercial establishments on the other hand would keep their food in hot food cabinets or insulated drawers. This type of commercial cooking equipment is ideal as the food must reach the customer as if it just left the range top or the oven.

Commercial cooking equipment is very useful in establishments that cater for many people. There are many different varieties that can be seen and bought depending upon their usefulness to that establishment. These goods properly selected will increase their value as the work that they turn out gives the satisfaction that is required of them.