Choosing Your Kitchen Appliances

Commercial kitchens are basically designed for the production of food and its safety. It does not matter if your kitchen is in your home or in a separate location, like a separate restaurant for business; you need to design it first.

Knowing the type of your commercial kitchen appliances, you would know how to design it and know what appliances you would need to prepare, cook and store your food.  Likewise, you would also need to meet a list of requirements for cleanliness and safe food handling.

With different restaurant formats, you would have varied requirements of commercial kitchen appliances, depending on the food that need to be prepared. However, there are some kitchen equipment pieces that are basic and have to be purchased in preparing your food.

Refs and freezers

Both of these are integral part of the kitchen equipment for its refrigeration systems. This is the first restaurant kitchen equipment that you will require for your restaurant kitchen.

These appliances are essential for maximum kitchen efficiency, both in energy and ease of food preparation.

Restaurant refrigeration ranges from small coolers to large walk-in refrigerators and freezers. Choosing the size of the unit will be dependent on the size and the nature of the restaurant.

Ovens

Every commercial kitchen appliances has different cooking requirements. Choosing an oven according to your needs is very important. The commercial oven you will decide on will perform a wide range of functions, from heating a simple soup to preparing different dishes according to the theme or your specialized menu.

There are so many things happening in your restaurant. The place could become chaotic if your kitchen is difficult to use. The unique characteristic of your commercial oven is that there is no need for an expert to operate. It works regardless of who is using it. They need also to be easy to clean and maintain.

Slicers

After the refrigerators, the slicer is another important restaurant kitchen equipment that you need in the kitchen. Primarily the main task of the slicer is to cut the meat and other foods quickly and efficiently.

Another benefit is that the slicer machine does the cutting with consistency and the slicing is uniform. This is important for QSRs because consistency is food needed. There are many slicers – food slicer, slicers for vegetables and those for slicing meat.

Ranges

The commercial range in your restaurant has a wide number of uses. As cooking equipment, it can be powered by gas, electricity or induction. This will let you to use several methods of cooking in a single piece of restaurant kitchen equipment. The parts include the range top and the range base.

Cooking ranges to be used in a restaurant kitchen should be purchased new. Some second-hand cooking range is not suggested because they might  look like new on the outside, but could be rusted internally because of continued use. Iron gets rusted rather fast because of continued heat from use.

Your other kitchen appliances and devices will all be dependent on the type of food you are preparing for your clientele.