Blast chillers: Essential to Batch Cooking Operations
If you are looking to boost your takeaway or delivery options without creating a stressful and pressured kitchen environment, batch preparation is going to be a key part of your arsenal.
But to create dishes to serve later it is vital to ensure the quality of those dishes and safety of your customers. You do that through using a specialist piece of catering equipment, a blast chiller.
What do blast chillers do?
Blast chillers are made for one purpose – to bring hot food down in temperature quickly and efficiently. They do this by using strong compressors and directed jets of air to chill food and remove moisture from them.
By reducing the temperature of food quickly, blast chillers give harmful bacteria less time to grow inside the food – in the ‘danger zone’ between 65 degrees Celsius and 8 degrees. This helps to keep the food you produce safe for your customers, in turn protecting your business from the problems associated with food poisoning incident.
Removing moisture from the food is another vital part of a blast chiller’s role. Moisture within food that is chilled both increases the chance of bacteria growth and affects the taste and texture of the food after it is stored. This means that food chilled in a regular refrigerator or freezer can have a mushy texture and taste significantly different to when it was prepared.
Finally, using a blast chiller can speed up your batch cooking efforts, as it takes 90 minutes to chill food safely, rather than 2-3 hours.
Why rent a blast chiller?
Using a blast chiller, as we have outlined above, can protect your business reputation twice: by protecting you from food poisoning problems and maintaining the quality of the food you produce after chilling.
Their complexity makes them both expensive to buy and vitally important to your business.
This makes renting a great option in the short term for many businesses.
The cost of a new unit can be prohibitive, which is a challenge if your business has never employed one before. Renting can help to set up the processes and production methods needed without too much financial risk.
Rental contracts, such as those offered by PKL, offer 24hour maintenance cover which can give you peace of mind, and will mean any issues with a unit can be fixed quickly and easily, with no financial penalty to you, and little disruption to your day-to-day operation.
Conclusion
Blast chillers are incredibly important to the safe and speedy operation of many professional catering operations. It can protect your business from food poisoning scandals and protect the quality of your food from the perils of freezing and refrigeration, whilst also allowing you to increase productivity by batch cooking food so that it can be stored ready to serve for a later date.
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