Chefs all have their favourite piece of catering equipment. For many top chefs, their knives are all important, for pastry cooks marble surfaces make all the difference in the fluffiness of their pastries. Because time is so precious in catering, when managers make a purchase of catering equipment they usually want it to be durable. For catering staff kitchen equipment is not just a purchase, it is an investment. Many caterers like cast iron because it conducts heat evenly, it retains heat, it can be transferred from hob to oven and it lasts a very long time before it needs to be replaced.
Stainless Steel and its advantages
The advantage of stainless steel is that it can be heated to a much higher temperature than non-stick pans although caterers do love their non-stick Teflon pans because they are so easy to clean. Some chefs season their stainless steel frying pans by heating them to a very high heat and then allowing them to cool down, before using them to cook in.
Advances in technology resulted in ceraflame cooking equipment. Ceraflame equipment retains heat thus saving on gas and electricity. There is no doubt that pizza pans, egg poachers, spice grinders, omelette pans and a host of other kitchen equipment facilitate good cooking and help caterers get the best from their ingredients, and deliver tasty food to their customers. Catering equipment suppliers have used science to produce the safest and most innovative products, but the bottom line is that good food makes people happy and quality kitchen equipment makes caterers happy.
